Sawako Kuronuma looks miserable on the outside, but is actually a positive-minded girl, who looks up to Shota Kazehaya, a sociable and friendly boy. Perceiving Sawako's good intentions, he secretly has feelings for her. Sawako meets Kazehaya and makes her first friends, Chizuru and Ayane but in comes Kurumi proclaiming her love for him... Will Sawako and Kazehaya ever find out about each other's feelings?
Japanese study overview
Kimi ni Todoke (2010) is a Japanese movie of 14,706 characters, with 1,291 unique words and 540 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,291 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
This title is too short to reliably find similar media.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 風早Kazahaya×95
- 私I×89
- 貞子Sazako×76
- 黒沼Kuronuma×59
- 爽子Akiko×57
- 俺I×40
- 思うto think×38
- 矢野Yano×36
- 言うto say×34
- 吉田Kichida×31
- 好きliking×27
- 君Mr×25
- 真田plait×11
- 千鶴Izuru×6
- 翔太Shouta×5
- 肝だめしtest of courage (by going to a frightening place, e.g. a graveyard)×4
- 楽団orchestra×3
- 座敷わらしprotective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair×3
- 徹Akira×3
- 何でwhy?×24