In a town with no baseball team, young Bungo spends his days throwing the ball he received as a gift against a wall until Yukio Noda, Japanese representative youth baseball player, appears before him and an unexpected showdown ensues! After a chance meeting in middle school, these two enroll in Seio Senior where they struggle to make it to Koshien with everything they have. Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.
Japanese study overview
BUNGO is a Japanese manga of 346,604 characters, with 12,063 unique words and 1,883 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,063 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.
- 俺I×935
- 事thing×929
- 静央Shizuo×749
- 石浜Ishihama×687
- 投げるto throw×593
- お前you×538
- 直球straight ball (pitch)×476
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×423
- 吉見Kichimi×402
- 投手pitcher×379
- 試合match×361
- 言うto say×360
- 瑛太Eita×255
- 野田Nota×251
- 投球pitching×234
- 袴田Erita×233
- 上本Agemoto×224
- 打者batter×211
- 捕手catcher×192
- 変化球breaking ball (pitch)×164