Oyaji
Manga
親父 2000/06/30
Character count16,039
Word count6,521
Unique words1,676
Words (1-occurrence)1,010
Unique kanji678
Kanji (1-occurrence)254
Difficulty beta Beginner
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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Subdecks
Volume 1
Character count4,493
Word count1,769
Unique words783
Words (1-occurrence)534
Unique kanji383
Kanji (1-occurrence)215
Difficulty beta Beginner
Volume 2
Character count5,483
Word count2,220
Unique words925
Words (1-occurrence)602
Unique kanji432
Kanji (1-occurrence)233
Difficulty beta Beginner
Volume 3
Character count6,063
Word count2,532
Unique words930
Words (1-occurrence)584
Unique kanji447
Kanji (1-occurrence)211
Difficulty beta Beginner