Miyo Sasaki is an energetic high school girl who comes from a broken family consisting of her unconfident father and an overly invested stepmother, whose attempts at connecting with Miyo come across as bothersome. Seeing Kento Hinode as a refuge from all her personal issues, she can't help herself from forcing her unorthodox demonstrations of love onto her crush. While Miyo is unable to get Kento's attention as herself, she manages to succeed by interacting with him in the form of a white cat, affectionately nicknamed ""Tarou"" by Kento. But Miyo soon realizes that she can't help Kento with the various problems she overhears in her cat form and is now caught between two tough choices. Will she continue her relationship with him as a cat, or will she reveal her identity and risk what they have, in order to help him as her human self? [Written by MAL Rewrite] Note: The film was slated to open in theaters in Japan on June 5, but was postponed due to COVID-19 and received an exclusive streaming on Netflix beginning on June 18.
Japanese study overview
Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu is a Japanese anime of 16,573 characters, with 1,337 unique words and 511 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,337 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.
- 日之出Hinode×122
- 猫cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus)×57
- 言うto say×54
- 美代Haruyo×44
- 待つto wait×37
- 俺I×37
- 太郎first son×31
- 帰るto return×30
- 人間human being×25
- 私I×24
- 戻るto turn back (e.g. half-way)×23
- 知るto know×22
- 薫Isao×22
- 貴和子Kinako×21
- 面屋Omoya×16
- 深瀬Fukase×6
- 賢人wise person×4
- 煮っころがしroot vegetables boiled in broth×4
- 陶芸ceramic art×4
- 酢豚sweet-and-sour pork (oft. with vegetables)×3