When her newly-built home is razed to the ground by an earthquake, low-achieving, clumsy, and troublesome third-year high school student Kotoko Aihara is forced to share a roof with the school's—and possibly Japan's—smartest student, Naoki Irie. Kotoko is not actually a complete stranger to Irie-kun; unfortunately, a single love letter that she tried to give him in the past has already sealed her fate as far as he is concerned. Throw in some quirky friends and a meddlesome mother, and Kotoko might not even have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the older Irie boy's heart. Yet Kotoko remains optimistic that, because she now lives in his house, her unattainable crush on the genius since the beginning of high school has never been more within reach.
Japanese study overview
Itazura na Kiss is a Japanese drama of 76,596 characters, with 3,573 unique words and 1,018 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,573 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.
- 君Mr×599
- 琴子Kinko×571
- 入江inlet×548
- 私I×335
- お前you×228
- 直樹Naoki×196
- 言うto say×179
- お兄ちゃん(one's) older brother×161
- 俺I×135
- 組class (of students)×97
- 金gold (metal)×97
- 頑張るto persevere×95
- 裕樹Hiroki×92
- 相原Aihara×54
- 麗子Akirako×25
- 秋田Akita (city, prefecture)×19
- 駅伝long-distance relay race×12
- 純一purity×10
- 入江Inoe×9
- 和泉Izumi (former province located in the southwest of present-day Osaka Prefecture)×8