Otome-san

Drama·おトメさん·Mother Strikes Back
Otome-san
2013/01/17
Speech time
4h 50min
Word count30,964
Unique words
4,195
Unique kanji
1,223
Avg. sentence11.2
Speech speed
297
Difficulty Hard
Episodes9

Asako Mizusawa is a fifty-year-old homemaker. She endured her mother-in-law's sarcasm and passive aggressive moves when her husband, Hiroyuki, decided to move in with his parents. And while she regained her freedom when her mother-in-law passed away, a life-changing event takes place two years later. It happens when her son Yuta marries a woman named Ririka. Asako has now become the mother-in-law! Asako did not approve of the marriage, but she was willing to accept it under one condition that they all live together under the same roof. Unexpectedly, Ririka agreed with a smile. Ririka invites Asako to share a bottle of wine on the first day they move in. They have a lively conversation about marital problems and Asako even mentions an affair her husband has had in the past. The two appear to be getting along, but it is all a ploy by Ririko to learn more about Asako... From the next day on, Asako notices Ririka doing suspicious things. Wanting to know more, she begins to snoop around. She learns that Ririka used to work at a bar and was more than friendly with her customers. Asako becomes determined to make her son see who Ririka really is, but her attempts only work to alienate herself from her son and her husband also takes Ririka's side. Meanwhile, a man in the neighborhood disappears. Detectives investigating the disappearance find that the evidence leads towards Ririka...

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Otome-san is a Japanese drama of 75,789 characters, with 4,195 unique words and 1,223 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,195 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
38min
Word count3,934
Unique words
1,142
Unique kanji
549
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
290
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
31min
Word count3,510
Unique words
1,085
Unique kanji
546
Avg. sentence10.8
Speech speed
308
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
32min
Word count3,620
Unique words
1,118
Unique kanji
566
Avg. sentence11.0
Speech speed
311
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
32min
Word count3,434
Unique words
1,058
Unique kanji
536
Avg. sentence11.1
Speech speed
294
Difficulty Hard

Episode 5

Speech time
33min
Word count3,898
Unique words
1,074
Unique kanji
517
Avg. sentence11.6
Speech speed
319
Difficulty Hard

Episode 6

Speech time
33min
Word count3,628
Unique words
1,036
Unique kanji
545
Avg. sentence12.2
Speech speed
301
Difficulty Hard

Episode 7

Speech time
28min
Word count3,065
Unique words
927
Unique kanji
482
Avg. sentence11.1
Speech speed
301
Difficulty Hard

Episode 8

Speech time
29min
Word count2,965
Unique words
951
Unique kanji
498
Avg. sentence11.2
Speech speed
275
Difficulty Hard

Episode 9

Speech time
29min
Word count2,910
Unique words
852
Unique kanji
435
Avg. sentence12.0
Speech speed
271
Difficulty Hard

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