This story is about a young boy named who, after experiencing a traumatic accident, wakes up in the hospital with the ability to see lines and cracks in every surface and being. These lines, when traced with any sharp or blunt edge, will be permanently cut. As he is forced to see these lines everywhere, Shiki is distraught until he meets a mage girl who gives him glasses that allow him to live a normal life. Years later, after living in a relative's home, the death of his father has him summoned back to the mansion he left years ago. There he must learn to live with his younger sister and two maid girls. One day Shiki's life takes a turn for the worse when, on the way to school, he meets a blonde woman and he's overcome with the urge to kill her.
Japanese study overview
Tsukihime is a Japanese visual novel of 1,131,228 characters, with 17,226 unique words and 2,217 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 17,226 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×4,713
- 秋葉Akiha×3,929
- 志貴Shiki×2,890
- 翡翠Hisui×2,523
- 事thing×2,392
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×2,250
- 自分myself×1,896
- 遠野Enno×1,886
- 琥珀Ko×1,866
- 言うto say×1,839
- 体body×1,557
- 思うto think×1,269
- 弓塚Yumizuka×481
- 有彦Arihiko×334
- 槙久Makihisa×162
- 有間Arima×118
- 死徒apostle of death (in fiction)×94
- 真祖(in fiction) person changed into a vampire by magic×86
- 黒犬black dog×76
- 生殖器genital organ×59