Two years ago, Noda Tetsuya worked as a doctor. He was a medical intern trained by cardiac surgeon Terashima Koichi. One day, Koichi and his wife were murdered. At that time, Tetsuya lost his right hand. Koichi and his wife left behind their 8-year-old daughter Terashima Yui. Now, Noda teams up with Yui to lead an illegal secret surgery team, whose ultimate purpose is to find the truth behind the death of her parents. To hire the black market surgery team, a fee of 100 million yen in cash is required as well as an NDA requirement and chocolate. The team are able to save the lives of patients no matter the circumstances, but a newspaper reporter begins to chase after them.
Japanese study overview
Dr Chocolate is a Japanese drama of 78,191 characters, with 4,134 unique words and 1,242 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,134 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.
- 私I×181
- 言うto say×165
- 俺I×138
- 思うto think×100
- 前in front (of)×91
- 今now×87
- 知るto know×86
- 殺すto kill×84
- 年year×78
- 人person×77
- 会うto meet×75
- 聞くto hear×74
- 寺島Terashima×72
- 野田Nota×70
- 奥泉Okuizumi×50
- 沢入Sawairi×49
- め組fire brigade (in Edo)×48
- 秘密保持confidentiality×21
- 腫瘍tumor×21
- 残高(bank) balance×20