A young Taiwanese assassin codenamed "Glass Heart" committed suicide by jumping off a building, and her heart was pierced by a metal fence. Miraculously, her life was saved by heart transplantation. During her recovery she began to experience strange dreams, which led her to Japan looking for the donor of her heart, who happens to be Kaori Makimura, former partner of City Hunter.
Japanese study overview
Angel Heart is a Japanese manga of 516,300 characters, with 18,180 unique words and 2,207 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 18,180 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×2,016
- 事thing×1,392
- 俺I×880
- 言うto say×745
- 香incense×726
- 思うto think×557
- 今now×486
- 君you×482
- 自分myself×466
- 話counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.×447
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×424
- 人person×410
- 芭Hana×285
- 信宏Shinkou×253
- 香堂Kōdou×249
- 冴clearness×235
- 冴子Saeko×224
- 姐older sister×214
- 海坊主umibōzu×156
- 螢firefly (Luciola cruciata)×143