A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled in perplexing local crimes and mysteries, including murder! Ryo is a self-avowed super detective, but tends to get lost in the maze of clues at critical junctures of a case. But never fear; there are plenty of people to come to get her back on track, including the biology teacher, Hiromi Ishizaki. Take part in an intricately-constructed, hardcore mystery every week.
Japanese study overview
Houkago wa Mystery to Tomo ni is a Japanese drama of 55,497 characters, with 3,904 unique words and 1,171 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,904 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.
- 先生teacher×181
- 犯人offender×160
- 僕I×152
- 私I×145
- 君Mr×132
- 霧ヶ峰Kirigamine×111
- 事件event×90
- 君you×86
- 涼cool breeze×66
- 言うto say×60
- 思うto think×57
- 加藤Kaiu×56
- 荒木田Arakita×51
- 足立Ashitate×39
- 栄子Eiko×39
- 安藤Anzou×33
- 美術室art room (e.g. in a school)×27
- 学ランboy's school uniform (usu. a black jacket with a stand-up collar and loose trousers)×21
- 窪hollow×13
- 副部長deputy director×11