Oyaji
Manga
親父
2000/06/30
Character count15,834
Word count6,537
Unique words1,667
Words (1-occurrence)1,027
Unique kanji682
Kanji (1-occurrence)255
Difficulty beta
Easy
Volumes3

Living in poor neighborhoods of Osaka, Kumada watch over his wife and two young children. He is huge and riddled with scars and he works hard, smokes and drinks of sake as if it were mere water, gruff and scary, he talks little. But Kumada deeply loves his family and will protect it at the peril of his life when members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction.Jailed for the murder of those who failed to burn his people alive, Kumada was released fifteen years later and found his family. He will have to face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them. But he is determined to regain control of their education, starting with his son, a urchin abused by the tough guys of the district.

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Volume 1
Character count4,433
Word count1,757
Unique words758
Words (1-occurrence)513
Unique kanji383
Kanji (1-occurrence)215
Difficulty beta
Easy
Volume 2
Character count5,411
Word count2,238
Unique words906
Words (1-occurrence)603
Unique kanji432
Kanji (1-occurrence)233
Difficulty beta
Easy
Volume 3
Character count5,990
Word count2,542
Unique words914
Words (1-occurrence)595
Unique kanji447
Kanji (1-occurrence)211
Difficulty beta
Easy