Naoya Inaba (Yuto Nakajima) grew up abroad. From his childhood experience, he thought “yankees” were the strongest heroes (in Japan "yankee" refers to delinquent youths). He was also influenced by the Japanese yankee manga he read from abroad. Because of his own experiences and reading manga, he is full of chivalrous spirit. Naoya arrives in Japan to spend one year at a high school in Japan. He is transferred to a technical high school which is about to be closed down. Naoya admires the school because a yankee, who he admired as a child, went there, but he soon realizes that there are no real yankee like hero figures. There are only students who spends there days meaninglessly. Naoya is disappointed, but he happens to play water polo.
Japanese study overview
Suikyuu Yankees is a Japanese drama of 51,065 characters, with 2,855 unique words and 900 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,855 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.
- 龍二Tatsuji×198
- 尚弥Shun'ya×192
- 高quantity×184
- 俺I×171
- 水water (esp. cool or cold)×165
- 蘭orchid×151
- 水球water polo×139
- お前you×129
- 言うto say×126
- 部department (in an organization, company, etc.)×100
- 私I×87
- 渚water's edge×81
- 千秋Senshuu×51
- 虎雄Kōga×43
- 番長leader of a group of juvenile delinquents×42
- 稲葉Inaba×35
- 千春Chiha×35
- 廃校closing of a school×21
- 千秋thousand years×16
- 先公previous ruler×15