Tomoki Sakai is a first-year high school student. He has talent for diving and has been partaking in the sport for six years. He is also member of the dive club MDC, but the club is on the verge of shutting down due to budget deficits. Kayoko Asaki becomes the new coach of MDC and informs the team that they must produce an athlete on the national dive team for the next Olympics. Otherwise, their team will shut down forever. Tomoki Sakai has rival divers: Yōichi Fujitani and Shibuki Okitsu.
Japanese study overview
DIVE!! is a Japanese drama of 59,353 characters, with 3,409 unique words and 1,009 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,409 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.
- 俺I×332
- お前you×246
- 言うto say×173
- 要一Yōichi×126
- 飛ぶto fly×96
- 飛び込みjump×89
- 今now×87
- 思うto think×83
- 飛沫splash×82
- 私I×81
- 選手player (of a sport)×72
- 知季Tomoki×58
- 選考会screening meeting×44
- 未羽Miu×40
- 富士谷Fujitani×31
- 麻木Asaki×29
- 小宮Komiya×23
- 陵imperial mausoleum×21
- 津軽Tsugaru (western region of Aomori Prefecture)×20
- 入水suicide by drowning×13