On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou, is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to his death, he moves forward, and upon finally reaching the top, Mori experiences a sense of fulfillment. That feeling, which seems to be telling him, "You're alive!" gives birth to an adrenaline for rock-climbing.
Japanese study overview
Kokou no Hito is a Japanese manga of 224,799 characters, with 13,004 unique words and 2,012 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,004 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.
- 年year×585
- 俺I×558
- 山mountain×457
- 人person×395
- 登るto ascend×365
- お前you×277
- 孤高aloof×262
- 森forest×259
- 事thing×237
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×215
- 登Tosaki×202
- 登山mountain climbing×181
- 登頂climbing to the summit×139
- 文太郎Ayatarō×129
- 東壁east wall×100
- 大西Ounishi×89
- 宮本Miyamoto×80
- 縦走stretching out (in a longitudinal direction)×74
- 新美Arami×71
- 登攀scaling×67