Satoko Tawada, a 30-year-old office worker at a sporting goods company, encounters Mashuu Hayami, a 12-year-old boy, playing soccer in a park at night. She was treated cruelly by a former lover, he is dealing with a high-handed and uninvolved family. Both are burdened with loneliness, and they sense that the other has something that they’re searching for... (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Watashi no Shounen is a Japanese manga of 122,916 characters, with 6,720 unique words and 1,427 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,720 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.
- 私I×445
- 聡子Akiko×298
- 俺I×250
- 思うto think×231
- 言うto say×225
- 今now×156
- 早見Hayami×138
- 聞くto hear×112
- 家house×109
- 時time×106
- 今日today×97
- 話すto talk×94
- 多和田Oowada×52
- 椎川Shiikawa×49
- 菜緒Nao×49
- 高野Kōno×37
- 回転寿司conveyor belt sushi×10
- 小６sixth year of elementary school×7
- 体温計(clinical) thermometer×6
- ビー玉marble×6