This is a story about a piano, pitifully abandoned in the woods, and a young boy, Kai, who grew up playing it as his favorite toy. While Kai cannot even read sheet music, one day, he meets Shuhei Amamiya, an aspiring child pianist who transfers schools from Tokyo, and their music teacher, Sosuke Ajino. Ajino was also once a gifted pianist, until a tragic accident stole his promising future from him forever. Each from a different background, the trio’s personalities gravitate to one another and rebound. All the while, the piano sits patiently, awaiting a hand to play it. (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Piano no Mori is a Japanese manga of 416,726 characters, with 13,167 unique words and 1,851 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,167 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.
- 僕I×947
- 俺I×880
- 言うto say×781
- 先生teacher×714
- 阿字野Ajino×527
- 森forest×508
- 雨宮Amanomiya×460
- 弾くto play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)×460
- 聴くto hear×455
- 思うto think×451
- 私I×444
- 弾くto flip×383
- 一の瀬Ichinose×334
- 修平Shuuhei×308
- 誉子Shigeko×169
- 冴clearness×128
- １次first×100
- 壮介Sousuke×98
- 楽章movement×87
- ２次second×85