Anime Japanese reading statistics

How hard is Howl no Ugoku Shiro to read in Japanese?

ハウルの動く城

Aggregate vocabulary, kanji, length, and reading-profile data from the DokiDokiDict recommender corpus.

Anime2004Studio GhibliAdventureDramaFantasyRomance
Howl no Ugoku Shiro cover
29pages at 600 Japanese characters each
887unique vocabulary identities
565unique kanji
9.0Japanese characters per indexed sentence

Japanese reading profile

This indexed edition contains 17,719 Japanese characters across 1,960 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 4th percentile of the 335 indexed anime. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 3rd percentile within the same group.

Those numbers describe the text, not your personal comprehension. A long work can contain more unique vocabulary while still becoming comfortable through repetition. DokiDokiDict's recommender uses your own known words and simulates the work sentence by sentence instead of assigning one universal level.

Also known as: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro, Das wandelnde Schloss, El Castillo Ambulante, Il castello errante di Howl, Le Château Ambulant

View title information on AniList

Works with a similar aggregate profile

These are nearby works of the same type by indexed length, vocabulary breadth, and kanji breadth. Similar statistics do not necessarily mean similar prose or subject matter.

See whether it fits your vocabulary

Import your DokiDokiDict history, Anki cards, built-in SRS deck, or manually known words, then simulate this work against what you actually know.