Learning Japanese with Dragon Ball Z
Difficulty: Easy
Harder than 21 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 48.
From the Japanese subtitles of 30 episodes.
How many words you need
of the words in Dragon Ball Z are among the 1,000 most common anime words.
- 1,000 words: 67%
- 3,000 words: 79%
- 5,000 words: 84%
- 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
- 1,460
- Less talk than most of the 70 shows.
- Words a line
- 5.1
- About average. About 280 subtitle lines an episode.
5,393 different words across the 30 episodes analyzed.