Suikyuu Yankees
Drama
水球ヤンキース 2014/07/12
Character count50,963
Word count22,499
Unique words2,618
Words (1-occurrence)1,342
Unique kanji893
Kanji (1-occurrence)236
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 count5,647
Word count2,559
Unique words770
Words (1-occurrence)462
Unique kanji401
Kanji (1-occurrence)198
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 2
Character count6,118
Word count2,774
Unique words778
Words (1-occurrence)459
Unique kanji392
Kanji (1-occurrence)177
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 3
Character count4,891
Word count2,141
Unique words576
Words (1-occurrence)314
Unique kanji291
Kanji (1-occurrence)144
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 4
Character count5,307
Word count2,363
Unique words716
Words (1-occurrence)406
Unique kanji354
Kanji (1-occurrence)156
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 5
Character count5,159
Word count2,241
Unique words729
Words (1-occurrence)439
Unique kanji355
Kanji (1-occurrence)165
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 6
Character count5,404
Word count2,333
Unique words697
Words (1-occurrence)405
Unique kanji342
Kanji (1-occurrence)149
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 7
Character count5,962
Word count2,590
Unique words703
Words (1-occurrence)400
Unique kanji369
Kanji (1-occurrence)177
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 8
Character count4,721
Word count2,082
Unique words692
Words (1-occurrence)434
Unique kanji334
Kanji (1-occurrence)156
Difficulty beta Beginner
Episode 9
Character count3,928
Word count1,731
Unique words504
Words (1-occurrence)288
Unique kanji263
Kanji (1-occurrence)131
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 10
Character count3,826
Word count1,685
Unique words563
Words (1-occurrence)327
Unique kanji325
Kanji (1-occurrence)140
Difficulty beta Beginner