Youkame no Semi

Drama·八日目の蝉·The Cicada's Eighth Day
Youkame no Semi
2010/03/30
Speech time
2h 39min
Word count12,951
Unique words
2,252
Unique kanji
848
Avg. sentence10.4
Speech speed
218
Difficulty Average
Episodes6

Kiwako Nonomiya is devastated after Takehiro Akiyama, the married man she has been having an affair with, manipulates her into getting an abortion by promising to marry her and then refusing to divorce his wife. Kiwako then learns of Takehiro's wife's pregnancy. One morning, while Takehiro and his wife Etsuko are away, Kiwako sneaks into their home to get a look at their six-month-old child. Without a thought for the consequences, she carries the baby away. Kiwako then raises the child as her own, while being a fugitive from the law.

Genres
Drama
Mystery
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Youkame no Semi is a Japanese drama of 30,173 characters, with 2,252 unique words and 848 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,252 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
21min
Word count1,698
Unique words
574
Unique kanji
306
Avg. sentence9.9
Speech speed
214
Difficulty Average

Episode 2

Speech time
25min
Word count1,990
Unique words
652
Unique kanji
359
Avg. sentence10.6
Speech speed
215
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
29min
Word count2,517
Unique words
823
Unique kanji
423
Avg. sentence10.0
Speech speed
233
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
29min
Word count2,439
Unique words
775
Unique kanji
422
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
219
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
29min
Word count2,469
Unique words
725
Unique kanji
354
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
222
Difficulty Average

Episode 6

Speech time
24min
Word count1,838
Unique words
625
Unique kanji
347
Avg. sentence12.3
Speech speed
199
Difficulty Average

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