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Learning Japanese with Tokyo Ghoul

Difficulty: Easy

Harder than 11 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 58.

From the Japanese subtitles of 12 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

70% of the words in Tokyo Ghoul are among the 1,000 most common anime words.

Most common anime words you know Words you’d recognize
  1. 1,000 words: 70%
  2. 3,000 words: 80%
  3. 5,000 words: 84%
  4. 10,000 words: 88%

What to expect from the dialogue

Balanced

A general word list and anime vocabulary serve about equally well here.

Words an episode
1,569
Less talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
4.9
Shorter lines than most. About 320 subtitle lines an episode.

3,453 different words across the 12 episodes analyzed.

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