Kazama Naoki is a crack detective at the private investigation firm Nemesis in Yokohama. He has a brilliant mind like Sherlock Holmes and solves every difficult case. But the true detective is actually his talented assistant Mikami Anna. The two of them, who make quite an odd duo, are searching for Anna’s father Hajime. He is a scientist and went missing all of a sudden. Together with Kurita Kazuaki, the owner of Nemesis who is Hajime’s good friend, Anna and Kazama seek clues to his disappearance. As they take on one puzzling trick-ridden case after another, they seem to find a hint related to her father each time that brings about a new riddle. Then they learn that the key to solving the mystery of his disappearance is a 20-year-old incident that has been buried in darkness. What Anna does not yet realize is that both Kazama and Kurita are connected to this incident.
Japanese study overview
Nemesis is a Japanese drama of 79,449 characters, with 4,843 unique words and 1,314 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,843 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.
- 風wind×210
- 私I×168
- 俺I×148
- 先生teacher×123
- 真just×120
- お前you×104
- 言うto say×96
- 持つto hold (in one's hand)×80
- 子child×79
- 探偵detective×77
- 思うto think×77
- 社長company president×72
- 光莉Kirari×64
- 朋美Akemi×54
- 黒田Kurida×48
- 凪沙Nagisa×41
- 菅sedge (Cyperaceae spp., esp. members of genus Carex)×37
- 壱one×36
- 受精卵fertilized egg×21
- ゲノム編集genome editing×20