An original medical murder mystery surrounds an unknown killer coccus (bacteria), that leaves no trace in the victim's body, which enables it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. Fujimaki Tatsuomi is a pathologist working at the Pathlogy department at Meikyo Medical University Hospital. He's looked down upon by the other staff around him, and his relationship with Maho his wife, a former nurse, has cooled down. After a patient's suspicious death, he makes a new discovery; when the deadly bacteria "Gift" invades the body, the patient soon dies, but the "Gift" leaves no trace thereafter, enabling it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. As a result of this discovery, Fujimaki's life dramatically changes. While searching for a way to treat his ailing wife's heart disease, he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy surrounding the killer bacteria "Gift."
Japanese study overview
Great Gift is a Japanese drama of 86,830 characters, with 4,528 unique words and 1,291 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,528 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.
- 先生teacher×356
- 事thing×293
- 理事長board chairman×273
- 私I×269
- 藤巻Toumaki×227
- 白鳥white bird×207
- 球菌coccus×125
- 殺すto kill×113
- 犯人offender×111
- 言うto say×110
- 久留米Kurume×105
- 郡司district governor (under the ritsuryō system)×92
- 愛宕Aitou×65
- 奥野Okuno×51
- 元総理former prime minister×37
- 琴葉Kin'you×37
- 杏梨Airi×36
- 心筋cardiac muscle×31
- 急性心不全acute heart failure×30
- 病理pathology×29