アaニniメmeのnoに日niほん本honご語goをo、デーdeeタtaでde。

Learn the Japanese anime actually uses.

I counted every word in 1,432 episodes of 120 anime. Just 40 of them make up half of everything said, so that's where to start.

halfof everything said in anime

words
The lit pixels are the share of the dialogue those words cover.
On YouTube

Start with 40 words

The first video goes through all 40, list by list, with a running total of how much anime they cover.

The books

Each one ranks a slice of anime's Japanese, so you learn the common ones first.

All books →

A few words carry most of anime

I counted every word spoken in 1,432 episodes of 120 anime, 3.3 million in all. Most of them are the same few hundred, over and over.

  1. 20 words40% of everything said
  2. 40 wordshalf of it
  3. 210 wordstwo thirds
How many words you need →
Share of every spoken word covered by the top N words · 1,432 episodes of 120 anime

Free on Yomikit

Tools and short guides from the same count.

All guides →
  1. 01Furoma Reader: kana above, romaji below, any lineOpen
  2. 02The anime quiz20 words
  3. 03How many words do you need to understand anime?210 → 67%
  4. 04The 50 most common words in anime50 → 52%
  5. 05Frieren, word by word29 → half
  6. 06Steins;Gate, word by word36 → half
Free word card

Pick your kind of anime. Get its word card.

One page, 24 words that kind of anime says far more often than any other. Print it or keep it open while you watch.

I studied data science at Georgia Tech and Japanese in Osaka, and Yomikit is where the two meet.Ashton · Learning Designer

ま魔maほう法hou
magic
ま魔maりょく力ryoku
magic power
ゆう勇yuuしゃ者sha
hero
けん剣ken
sword
ギgiルruドdo
guild
むら村mura
village

The first 6 of 24. The card has the rest.

Free. I'll also send a small Japanese lesson now and then, and you can unsubscribe any time.

つtsuづzuくku To be continued on YouTube →