Nakagoshi Chikara is married and has two children. His family lives together at a complex in Tokyo. He introduces himself as a novelist, but he is actually a ghost writer and writes essays for famous people. He is usually busy with his writing and doing house chores, but, when he sees people who need help, he can't ignore them. He approaches those people and asks them if they are doing okay and if they have a problem.
Japanese study overview
Tonari no Chikara is a Japanese drama of 92,317 characters, with 3,881 unique words and 1,110 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,881 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×436
- 言うto say×366
- 私I×222
- 思うto think×206
- 僕I×165
- 人person×130
- 自分myself×116
- 今now×115
- 聞くto hear×109
- 時time×92
- 灯light×92
- 好美Kōbi×89
- 託也Takuya×76
- 清江Kiyoe×63
- 高太郎Kōtarō×61
- 頼子Noriko×59
- 中越Chūetsu (region in Niigata)×53
- 少年院reformatory×11
- 誤字脱字mistaken or missing characters×9
- 認知症dementia×9