A young man named Nanba Masato is an aspiring writer. One day, he feels sharp pain in his stomach and rushes into a hospital. There, Okouchi Yoko, a doctor in a white lab coat, comes in to treat him. Despite the severe pain, it helps Masato to feel a little better since Yoko cares for him like a sweet Venus. After successful surgery, Masato is hospitalized for a while. He is actually glad to be looked after by Yoko. But he never knew this was just the very beginning of the road to despair and destruction. Various strange things happen one after another at the hospital. A mysterious note is found in a back of a drawer in a sickroom. A medical accident of an elderly woman with dementia occurs. A girl is in near-death condition by an unknown allergy. A patient's condition worsens by a false medical records… You can't help but wonder, are these really just accidents?
Japanese study overview
Mahiru no Akuma is a Japanese drama of 51,964 characters, with 3,073 unique words and 1,066 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,073 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×269
- 先生teacher×185
- 言うto say×144
- 僕I×110
- 人person×101
- 大河内Oukouchi×93
- 葉子Kamio×92
- 思うto think×89
- 患者patient×84
- 俺I×81
- 病院hospital×79
- お父さんfather×72
- 大塚Ootsuka×59
- 難波Inashio×56
- 難波Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)×24
- 京子Atsuko×22
- 芳賀Iga×20
- 渡来visit (from abroad)×14
- 悪魔的demonic×10
- 善いgood×8