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Learning Japanese with The Rising of the Shield Hero

Difficulty: Hard

Harder than 62 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 7.

From the Japanese subtitles of 25 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

62% of the words in The Rising of the Shield Hero 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: 77%
  4. 10,000 words: 83%

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
2,037
About average among the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.3
About average. About 380 subtitle lines an episode.

5,567 different words across the 25 episodes analyzed.

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