Humanity, in its hubris, has precipitated a devastating environmental disaster. Flourishing industrial civilizations have been swallowed up by the Sea of Corruption, an enormous forest of fungi releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. Nausicaa, a compassionate young princess, and her allies battle to heal a wounded world and its inhabitants... (Source: Viz Media) Note: Won the 26th Seiun Award for Best Comic (1995).
Japanese study overview
Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä is a Japanese manga of 125,841 characters, with 8,040 unique words and 1,601 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,040 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.
- 蟲insect×177
- 海sea×175
- 王蟲Ohmu (gigantic insect from the anime "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind")×161
- 土earth×160
- 谷valley×146
- 私I×145
- 鬼ogre×143
- 森forest×134
- 姫さまprincess×130
- 者person×125
- 船ship×122
- お前you×119
- 粘菌myxomycete×54
- 僧正high Buddhist priest×45
- 巨神兵God Warrior (fictional beings in Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)×43
- 皇弟younger brother of an Emperor×40
- 墓所graveyard×38
- 徳間書店Tokuma Shoten (publisher)×37
- 海嘯tsunami×28
- 胞子spore×26