Hirai Taro is a writer, who admires detective novels by Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, and Edgar Allan Poe. He tries to get his own novels published, but newspapers and publishing companies show no interest towards his stories. The only person who reads his novels is Murayama Ryuko. They communicate with each other through letters. While writing his novels, Hirai Taro works low paying jobs and lives in poverty. He meets elderly Private Detective Shirai Saburo. Shirai Saburo teams up with Hirai Taro and they do private detective jobs together.
Japanese study overview
Tantei Romance is a Japanese drama of 25,357 characters, with 2,062 unique words and 842 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,062 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 僕I×98
- 先生teacher×63
- 知るto know×55
- 俺I×53
- 思うto think×48
- 人person×48
- 白井Shirai×44
- 何でwhy?×44
- 三郎third son×42
- 百hundred×42
- 言うto say×39
- 世界the world×38
- 太郎Tarō×25
- 廻戸Kaido×20
- 隆子Takako×20
- 三郎Kazuo×18
- 南無阿弥陀仏Namu Amida Butsu×10
- 勢force×9
- 一寸法師dwarf×6
- 天誅heaven's punishment×5