Upon getting thrown out of his girlfriend Fujiko's apartment, Hiromi decides to head for the ocean. En route, he crosses paths with Kaito, an elite employee of a large multinational trading company in Tokyo who is running away from his problems at work after losing a key client. The two stumble into a quiet B&B on the beach run by the aging surfer Masaru and his high-school-aged granddaughter Makoto. Hiromi immediately applies to work there for the summer, and Kaito is forced to join him after he loses his wallet. The two share a room, with Hiromi trying to make friends, and Kaito at first resisting, unimpressed by Hiromi's devil-may-care attitude. Slowly over the ensuing episodes, Kaito becomes more and more at home in this sleepy rural town, and begins to wonder if he should give up his pursuit of success in the big city, and try to relax, and enjoy himself more. When he returns to Tokyo to finish his work, Hiromi and Makoto come to lure him back, but when he returns to the B&B, his boss and girlfriend Sakura likewise come looking for him.
Japanese study overview
Beach Boys is a Japanese drama of 77,566 characters, with 3,124 unique words and 943 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,124 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.
- 俺I×307
- 言うto say×289
- 真琴Kotomi×178
- お前you×155
- 思うto think×139
- 社長company president×132
- 海sea×100
- 待つto wait×89
- 春子Chunzu×84
- 夏summer×80
- 何what×67
- 桜cherry tree×62
- 民宿guest house×46
- 広海Kōkai×44
- 海都Kaito×38
- 祐介Yūsuke×25
- 慶子Kyōko×25
- 渚water's edge×10
- 信用金庫credit union×6
- お待ち遠さまI'm sorry to have kept you waiting×5