Suikyuu Yankees
Drama
水球ヤンキース
2014/07/12
Character count50,898
Word count22,923
Unique words2,626
Words (1-occurrence)1,352
Unique kanji895
Kanji (1-occurrence)238
Difficulty beta
Moderate
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 count5,638
Word count2,594
Unique words777
Words (1-occurrence)465
Unique kanji401
Kanji (1-occurrence)198
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 2
Character count6,108
Word count2,820
Unique words759
Words (1-occurrence)446
Unique kanji392
Kanji (1-occurrence)177
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 3
Character count4,888
Word count2,200
Unique words586
Words (1-occurrence)328
Unique kanji291
Kanji (1-occurrence)144
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 4
Character count5,300
Word count2,400
Unique words706
Words (1-occurrence)401
Unique kanji354
Kanji (1-occurrence)156
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 5
Character count5,150
Word count2,291
Unique words726
Words (1-occurrence)442
Unique kanji355
Kanji (1-occurrence)165
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 6
Character count5,397
Word count2,373
Unique words695
Words (1-occurrence)412
Unique kanji342
Kanji (1-occurrence)149
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 7
Character count5,954
Word count2,644
Unique words700
Words (1-occurrence)399
Unique kanji369
Kanji (1-occurrence)177
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 8
Character count4,715
Word count2,135
Unique words687
Words (1-occurrence)433
Unique kanji334
Kanji (1-occurrence)156
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 9
Character count3,926
Word count1,760
Unique words500
Words (1-occurrence)290
Unique kanji263
Kanji (1-occurrence)131
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episode 10
Character count3,822
Word count1,706
Unique words556
Words (1-occurrence)327
Unique kanji325
Kanji (1-occurrence)140
Difficulty beta
Hard