Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … …
Japanese study overview
Beginners! is a Japanese drama of 62,840 characters, with 3,568 unique words and 1,079 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,568 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.
- お前you×189
- 徹平Teppei×188
- 君Mr×160
- 俺I×151
- 志村Shimura×123
- 言うto say×121
- 思うto think×111
- 警察官police officer×103
- 私I×95
- 僕I×93
- 山根Sanne×86
- 教場classroom×77
- 杉山Sukiyama×72
- 立花Tachihana×65
- 桜庭Ouniwa×62
- 補欠filling a vacancy×56
- 石岡Ishioka×53
- 警察学校police academy×20
- 助教assistant professor×19
- 入校admission (to a school)×14