Iki mo Dekinai Natsu
Drama
息もできない夏
2012/07/10
Character count71,443
Word count30,166
Unique words2,942
Words (1-occurrence)1,364
Unique kanji927
Kanji (1-occurrence)200
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Episodes11
External Rating
80 %

A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. Breathless Summer is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain "herself", she happens to run into a former journalist who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.

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Genres
Drama
Subdecks
Episode 1
Character count8,283
Word count3,430
Unique words852
Words (1-occurrence)430
Unique kanji434
Kanji (1-occurrence)137
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 2
Character count5,603
Word count2,207
Unique words665
Words (1-occurrence)368
Unique kanji361
Kanji (1-occurrence)153
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 3
Character count6,253
Word count2,601
Unique words710
Words (1-occurrence)386
Unique kanji374
Kanji (1-occurrence)145
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 4
Character count6,756
Word count2,842
Unique words755
Words (1-occurrence)428
Unique kanji400
Kanji (1-occurrence)170
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 5
Character count7,824
Word count3,272
Unique words808
Words (1-occurrence)433
Unique kanji407
Kanji (1-occurrence)146
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 6
Character count6,886
Word count2,919
Unique words719
Words (1-occurrence)391
Unique kanji343
Kanji (1-occurrence)127
Difficulty beta
Hard
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 7
Character count5,940
Word count2,597
Unique words650
Words (1-occurrence)335
Unique kanji337
Kanji (1-occurrence)137
Difficulty beta
Easy
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 8
Character count6,395
Word count2,696
Unique words782
Words (1-occurrence)435
Unique kanji422
Kanji (1-occurrence)169
Difficulty beta
Hard
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 9
Character count6,514
Word count2,744
Unique words723
Words (1-occurrence)377
Unique kanji397
Kanji (1-occurrence)150
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 10
Character count5,091
Word count2,267
Unique words632
Words (1-occurrence)356
Unique kanji347
Kanji (1-occurrence)137
Difficulty beta
Easy
DetailsVocabulary
Episode 11
Character count5,898
Word count2,591
Unique words701
Words (1-occurrence)381
Unique kanji381
Kanji (1-occurrence)145
Difficulty beta
Moderate
DetailsVocabulary