The story begins in April 1986 and is set during the days of the bubble economy. Kaidou Akira comes from a wealthy background and is the heir of a large company Tokai Yuusen. On the other hand, his genius classmate from the University of Tokyo, Yamazaki Akira had a tough life due to the bankruptcy of his father's company and having to run away from creditors but overcomes the odds to graduatefrom the top-notch school. The two are employed at the same bank and get caught in a battle lasting over 10 years which causes upheavals in their lives.
Japanese study overview
Akira and Akira is a Japanese drama of 84,171 characters, with 4,336 unique words and 1,204 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,336 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 東海Tōkai region (of Honshu; incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures)×206
- 社長company president×191
- 思うto think×183
- お前you×161
- 会社company×146
- 言うto say×142
- 郵船mail boat×135
- 私I×129
- 融資financing×128
- 俺I×123
- 銀行bank×114
- 君Mr×111
- 階堂Kaidou×102
- 龍馬Ryūma×72
- 海旭Unaaki×72
- 彬Aki×71
- 大日Mahavairocana (Tathagata)×45
- 中央銀行central bank×39
- 銀行員bank employee×38
- 取り引き先customer×28