Taniguchi Takao was a good baseball player when he was in junior high. But he broke his finger and couldn’t play baseball anymore. When he became a high school student, he always stood alone after school looking sadly at the baseball ground. Looking at him, Aiki, a captain of a soccer club invited him to his team. He hadn’t played soccer, but he was a good athlete and diligent, soon, he become so a good player as to be chosen a regular member. However, Aiki noticed that Takao couldn’t give up baseball and he made Takao join the baseball club. At first, he couldn’t adapt himself to the surroundings. Their easy-going attitude was far from what he used to do. However, being influenced by Takao’s earnestness, gradually, their attitude began to change. (from AniDB)
Japanese study overview
Play Ball is a Japanese anime of 55,858 characters, with 2,988 unique words and 884 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,988 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.
- 谷口Tanikuchi×361
- 俺I×138
- お前you×130
- 頑張るto persevere×115
- 高quantity×98
- 打つto hit×95
- 言うto say×89
- 墨sumi×81
- 投げるto throw×80
- 奴fellow×68
- 東実Azumi×63
- 試合match×62
- 墨谷Sumitani×56
- 中山Uchiyama×39
- もう一丁one more try×27
- 田所Tatokoro×25
- 京成Keisei (train line Tokyo-Narita)×25
- 送球throw×20
- かっ飛ばすto knock out (e.g. a homer)×11
- 内角interior angle×10