Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru's life as he knows it...and with it, comes a "Revival" that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past! In the body of his boyhood self, Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again--the smile of his mother, alive and well, his old friends, and Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place, Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki's fate...But up against the clock and a faceless evil, does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance? (Source: Yen Press) Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016. Also nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016. Volume 9 contains the 5-chapter “Boku Dake ga Inai Machi:Re” side story.
Japanese study overview
Boku dake ga Inai Machi is a Japanese manga of 140,896 characters, with 8,256 unique words and 1,573 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,256 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.
- 事thing×545
- 悟Sato×468
- 僕I×436
- 俺I×409
- 思うto think×263
- 年year×221
- 言うto say×198
- 自分myself×193
- 君you×179
- 加代Kashiro×174
- 時time×165
- 今now×134
- 八代Hachiyo×83
- 藤沼Fujinuma×78
- 愛梨Airi×66
- 久美Kyūmi×62
- 再上映rescreening (of a movie)×42
- 三部three parts×29
- 荘counter for games of mahjong×19
- 女児girl×16