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Learning Japanese with Chainsaw Man

Difficulty: Easy

Harder than 17 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 52.

From the Japanese subtitles of 12 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

67% of the words in Chainsaw Man are among the 1,000 most common anime words.

Most common anime words you know Words you’d recognize
  1. 1,000 words: 67%
  2. 3,000 words: 79%
  3. 5,000 words: 84%
  4. 10,000 words: 88%

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
1,793
Less talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.3
About average. About 340 subtitle lines an episode.

2,993 different words across the 12 episodes analyzed.

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