Shiina Tamai, an energetic sixth-grader, found a star-shaped creature on the seabed during her visit to her grandparents' house. She befriended it and found it has some supernatural powers, such as flying and incredible strength. However, what seemed like a dream may turn out to be her worst nightmare as she meets other kids who have similar creatures and dark, destructive desires... Note: Includes an extra chapter.
Japanese study overview
Narutaru is a Japanese manga of 119,837 characters, with 7,304 unique words and 1,587 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,304 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.
- 私I×196
- 子child×165
- 言うto say×160
- 竜dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon)×131
- 思うto think×128
- 玉依Tamayori×121
- 人person×117
- お父さんfather×113
- 鶴丸Kakumaru×99
- 年year×89
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×85
- 知るto know×77
- 須藤Sutō×56
- 小沢Osawa×55
- 京児Kyōko×45
- 佐倉Sakura×42
- 鬼頭decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp×30
- 郵便番号postal code×24
- 本木original stock×20
- 米軍US armed forces×17