Second Love

Drama·セカンド・ラブ
Second Love
2015/02/06
Speech time
2h 45min
Word count17,316
Unique words
2,784
Unique kanji
968
Avg. sentence10.7
Speech speed
285
Difficulty Average
Episodes7
Rating
64 %

Taira Kei has a talent for contemporary dance since he was young and went to study in Germany to join a dance company in his teens. He has won several international competitions and was referred to as a “prodigy”. However, he encountered a setback in the middle and got frustrated. He returned to Tokyo and takes a part-time work while he tries to re-capture his dream. Nishihara Yui is a Chemisty teacher in her 30s, working at a prestigious high school. Even while continuing a love affair with a married colleague, she was still lonely until she meets Kei and gets swallowed in passion.

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Second Love is a Japanese drama of 41,490 characters, with 2,784 unique words and 968 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,784 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
20min
Word count2,180
Unique words
805
Unique kanji
435
Avg. sentence10.1
Speech speed
288
Difficulty Average

Episode 2

Speech time
19min
Word count1,939
Unique words
678
Unique kanji
358
Avg. sentence9.5
Speech speed
274
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
21min
Word count2,130
Unique words
685
Unique kanji
385
Avg. sentence10.1
Speech speed
276
Difficulty Average

Episode 4

Speech time
25min
Word count2,889
Unique words
885
Unique kanji
425
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
303
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
25min
Word count2,776
Unique words
850
Unique kanji
429
Avg. sentence11.4
Speech speed
286
Difficulty Average

Episode 6

Speech time
27min
Word count2,808
Unique words
809
Unique kanji
421
Avg. sentence11.8
Speech speed
272
Difficulty Average

Episode 7

Speech time
24min
Word count2,594
Unique words
823
Unique kanji
468
Avg. sentence11.5
Speech speed
291
Difficulty Hard

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