"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.
Japanese study overview
Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu is a Japanese drama of 51,059 characters, with 2,917 unique words and 926 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,917 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.
- 亜紀Aki×376
- 私I×157
- 廣瀬Ouse×153
- 思うto think×150
- 俺I×142
- 言うto say×136
- 僕I×115
- 松本Masamoto×95
- 人person×63
- お前you×59
- 好きliking×55
- 君Mr×54
- 朔太郎Sakutarō×40
- 一樹one tree×34
- 智世Chie×28
- 白血病leukemia×26
- 谷田部Tanitabe×26
- 中川Nakakawa×17
- 弔辞memorial address×6
- 学級委員class representative×6