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Learning Japanese with Bungo Stray Dogs

Difficulty: Hard

Harder than 66 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 3.

From the Japanese subtitles of 12 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

62% of the words in Bungo Stray Dogs 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: 71%
  3. 5,000 words: 75%
  4. 10,000 words: 81%

What to expect from the dialogue

Everyday Japanese

Close to everyday Japanese, so a general word list serves you as well as an anime one.

Words an episode
2,240
More talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.8
Longer lines than most. About 390 subtitle lines an episode.

4,959 different words across the 12 episodes analyzed.

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