21-year-old Shinomiya Yuki has no friends and spends his days alone working part-time jobs. One day, when he returns home as usual after a night shift, a male stranger who has been stabbed in the abdomen with a knife is sitting in his room. The man wakes up at the hospital that he has been taken to and identifies himself as Shinomiya Yuki to detectives. Then he points to Yuki and states that he stabbed him. Yuki flees the hospital right away and becomes a fugitive in an instant. At that moment, a mysterious woman called Zoka appears right before Yuki and asks him to help her take revenge on her father’s killer. He decides to collaborate with her. Zoka is a “leech” who goes from one house to another while its occupants are away. The two of them eventually encounter Kara, a legendary leech who lives like an empty shell solely for the purpose of revenge.
Japanese study overview
Hiru is a Japanese drama of 37,798 characters, with 2,529 unique words and 937 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,529 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.
- 勇気courage×126
- 俺I×113
- 音sound×109
- 殺すto kill×98
- お前you×88
- 鈴木Susuki×82
- 私I×79
- 男man×74
- 四宮Shinomiya×69
- 女woman×63
- 佐藤Saiu×58
- 部屋room×56
- 村尾Murao×52
- 月沼Tsukinuma×38
- 安倍Abai×26
- 盗品stolen goods×13
- 杉並Suginami×9
- 小玉small ball×6
- 注射痕injection scar (e.g. injected drugs)×5
- 傷害事件incident resulting in injury×4