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ManabiDojo

Learning Japanese with BLUE LOCK

Difficulty: Medium

Harder than 40 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 29.

From the Japanese subtitles of 24 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

62% of the words in BLUE LOCK are among the 1,000 most common anime words.

Most common anime words you know Words you’d recognize
  1. 1,000 words: 62%
  2. 3,000 words: 75%
  3. 5,000 words: 80%
  4. 10,000 words: 86%

What to expect from the dialogue

Heavily anime-leaning

Vocabulary from other anime carries over well here; a general word list gets you less far.

Words an episode
2,344
More talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.8
Longer lines than most. About 400 subtitle lines an episode.

5,334 different words across the 24 episodes analyzed.

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