Kaji Ritsuko, an author of short stories, finds herself unable to write. On a certain day, a remnant from Ritsuko’s past reemerges. Aoi, a male friend she used to completely confide in, appears in a dream and asks her, “Your life… is that really it?”. The next morning, Ritsuko is awakened by a phone call. Aoi has committed suicide. The glimmer of a forgotten dream, the day-to-day of a modern couple, the death of someone irreplaceable… A life of “loss” that she had always averted her eyes from begins to move…
Japanese study overview
Saturn Return is a Japanese manga of 196,457 characters, with 10,336 unique words and 1,876 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 10,336 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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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×703
- 理津子Ritsuko×480
- 加治Kaji×472
- 女woman×439
- 死ぬto die×408
- 俺I×319
- 小出Oide×283
- 発売中on sale×272
- 言うto say×214
- 死death×188
- 前in front (of)×186
- 中島island in a pond or river×184
- 中島Nakashima×142
- 野田Nota×109
- 鳥飼Ukai×106
- 文芸literature×88
- りつ子Ritsuko×71
- 一発屋one-hit wonder×61
- 午睡nap×38
- 春秋spring and autumn×34