
Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's all-male rowing team, she decides to form her own all-women team. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Ganbatte Ikimasshoi is a Japanese movie of 12,848 characters, with 1,202 unique words and 514 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,202 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.