Dragon Zakura
Drama
ドラゴン桜
2005/07/08
Speech duration
12h 7min
Word count87,780
Unique words8,326
Words (1-occurrence)3,958
Unique kanji1,552
Kanji (1-occurrence)268
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
331
Episodes21
External Rating
77 %

A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!

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Genres
Comedy
Drama
Subdecks
Episode 1
Speech duration
33min
Word count4,015
Unique words1,272
Words (1-occurrence)791
Unique kanji612
Kanji (1-occurrence)235
Difficulty beta
Hard
Speech speed
347
Episode 2
Speech duration
31min
Word count3,513
Unique words1,115
Words (1-occurrence)679
Unique kanji519
Kanji (1-occurrence)211
Difficulty beta
Hard
Speech speed
315
Episode 3
Speech duration
32min
Word count3,794
Unique words1,085
Words (1-occurrence)624
Unique kanji493
Kanji (1-occurrence)176
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
325
Episode 4
Speech duration
30min
Word count3,312
Unique words1,047
Words (1-occurrence)652
Unique kanji508
Kanji (1-occurrence)206
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
298
Episode 5
Speech duration
35min
Word count4,358
Unique words1,220
Words (1-occurrence)743
Unique kanji556
Kanji (1-occurrence)184
Difficulty beta
Hard
Speech speed
341
Episode 6
Speech duration
34min
Word count4,290
Unique words1,243
Words (1-occurrence)757
Unique kanji559
Kanji (1-occurrence)208
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
343
Episode 7
Speech duration
33min
Word count3,987
Unique words1,216
Words (1-occurrence)731
Unique kanji576
Kanji (1-occurrence)214
Difficulty beta
Hard
Speech speed
334
Episode 8
Speech duration
28min
Word count3,374
Unique words1,036
Words (1-occurrence)640
Unique kanji508
Kanji (1-occurrence)200
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
319
Episode 9
Speech duration
33min
Word count4,099
Unique words1,185
Words (1-occurrence)718
Unique kanji556
Kanji (1-occurrence)232
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
332
Episode 10
Speech duration
26min
Word count3,154
Unique words1,021
Words (1-occurrence)633
Unique kanji493
Kanji (1-occurrence)204
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
316
Episode 11
Speech duration
26min
Word count2,576
Unique words899
Words (1-occurrence)547
Unique kanji471
Kanji (1-occurrence)211
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
283
Episode 12
Speech duration
50min
Word count6,121
Unique words1,666
Words (1-occurrence)1,007
Unique kanji738
Kanji (1-occurrence)271
Difficulty beta
Hard
Speech speed
343
Episode 13
Speech duration
40min
Word count4,449
Unique words1,258
Words (1-occurrence)766
Unique kanji578
Kanji (1-occurrence)234
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
305
Episode 14
Speech duration
33min
Word count4,175
Unique words1,160
Words (1-occurrence)650
Unique kanji540
Kanji (1-occurrence)192
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
333
Episode 15
Speech duration
33min
Word count4,087
Unique words1,181
Words (1-occurrence)711
Unique kanji570
Kanji (1-occurrence)222
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
345
Episode 16
Speech duration
36min
Word count4,616
Unique words1,274
Words (1-occurrence)756
Unique kanji609
Kanji (1-occurrence)236
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
345
Episode 17
Speech duration
36min
Word count4,556
Unique words1,221
Words (1-occurrence)675
Unique kanji553
Kanji (1-occurrence)179
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
346
Episode 18
Speech duration
33min
Word count4,172
Unique words1,076
Words (1-occurrence)587
Unique kanji495
Kanji (1-occurrence)178
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
339
Episode 19
Speech duration
35min
Word count4,584
Unique words1,265
Words (1-occurrence)723
Unique kanji572
Kanji (1-occurrence)203
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
357
Episode 20
Speech duration
38min
Word count5,196
Unique words1,443
Words (1-occurrence)851
Unique kanji651
Kanji (1-occurrence)217
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
361
Episode 21
Speech duration
43min
Word count5,352
Unique words1,408
Words (1-occurrence)810
Unique kanji620
Kanji (1-occurrence)221
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
326