Suikyuu Yankees
Drama
水球ヤンキース 2014/07/12
Character count50,933
Word count21,879
Unique words2,595
Unique words used once1,337
Unique kanji879
Unique kanji used once229
Difficulty beta Easy
Episodes10

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.

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Episode 1
Character count5,642
Word count2,490
Unique words765
Unique words used once463
Unique kanji401
Unique kanji used once198
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 2
Character count6,114
Word count2,657
Unique words765
Unique words used once453
Unique kanji392
Unique kanji used once177
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 3
Character count4,888
Word count2,081
Unique words569
Unique words used once307
Unique kanji291
Unique kanji used once144
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 4
Character count5,304
Word count2,297
Unique words711
Unique words used once407
Unique kanji354
Unique kanji used once156
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 5
Character count5,154
Word count2,158
Unique words721
Unique words used once434
Unique kanji355
Unique kanji used once165
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 6
Character count5,402
Word count2,285
Unique words697
Unique words used once405
Unique kanji342
Unique kanji used once149
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 7
Character count5,957
Word count2,540
Unique words704
Unique words used once399
Unique kanji369
Unique kanji used once177
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 8
Character count4,719
Word count2,038
Unique words684
Unique words used once430
Unique kanji334
Unique kanji used once156
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 9
Character count3,927
Word count1,695
Unique words492
Unique words used once282
Unique kanji263
Unique kanji used once131
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 10
Character count3,826
Word count1,638
Unique words558
Unique words used once322
Unique kanji325
Unique kanji used once140
Difficulty beta Beginner