Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... (Source: Viz Media)
Japanese study overview
Banana Fish is a Japanese manga of 353,580 characters, with 14,930 unique words and 1,827 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 14,930 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.
- 言うto say×482
- 思うto think×377
- 彼he×372
- 君you×314
- 知るto know×283
- 私I×262
- 殺すto kill×237
- 英二Eiji×212
- 今now×208
- 年year×207
- 奴fellow×179
- 時time×175
- 伊部Inabe×83
- 我われwe×74
- 奥村Okumura×63
- 財団foundation (institution)×46
- 李I×42
- 俊一Shuuichi×39
- 山猫wildcat (European wildcat, Iriomote cat, Tsushima cat, etc.)×33
- 申しわけありませんI'm sorry×25