
A mentally unhinged manga artist witnesses the beginning of a zombie outbreak in Tokyo, and he’s certain of only two things: he’s destined to be the city’s hero, and he possesses something quite rare in Japan—an actual firearm! (Source: Dark Horse) Notes: Nominated for the 3rd and 4th Manga Taisho Award (2010). Includes a new epilogue chapter that was released 4 years after the official end of the manga.
I Am a Hero is a Japanese manga of 239,686 characters, with 11,963 unique words and 1,921 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 11,963 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.