Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.
Japanese study overview
Gekokujou Kyuuji is a Japanese drama of 113,107 characters, with 5,406 unique words and 1,317 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,406 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.
- 先生teacher×341
- 言うto say×292
- 君Mr×215
- 俺I×200
- 南雲Nakumo×197
- 越山Etsuzan×195
- 高校senior high school×194
- 勝つto win×179
- 監督supervision×176
- 思うto think×166
- 翔Kakeru×164
- 試合match×145
- 根室Nemuro×124
- 犬塚Inuzuka×123
- 星葉Seiha×99
- 山住Yamasumi×86
- 楡elm tree (esp. the Japanese elm, Ulmus davidiana var. japonica)×81
- １塁first base×51
- ２塁second base×40
- 伊賀Iga (former province located in the west of present-day Mie Prefecture)×38