Visual novel Japanese reading statistics

How hard is Tokeijikake no Ley Line -Asagiri ni Chiru Hana- to read in Japanese?

時計仕掛けのレイライン -朝霧に散る花-

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

Visual novel2015Unison Shift: BlossomMysteryRomanceComedyProtagonist's Senpai as a Heroine
Tokeijikake no Ley Line -Asagiri ni Chiru Hana- cover
757pages at 600 Japanese characters each
6,571unique vocabulary identities
1,661unique kanji
18.4Japanese characters per indexed sentence

Japanese reading profile

This indexed edition contains 454,475 Japanese characters across 24,679 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 11th percentile of the 76 indexed visual novels. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 9th 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: Final Episode of Ley-line, Tokeijikake no Ley Line 3

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Vocabulary coverage by starting level

This table uses the same analysis scale as the VN staircase. The first percentage is coverage before starting. The second is coverage of the unread remainder after the first 30% has been treated as read.

Default VN words knownStarting coverageRemaining coverage after 30%
50070.6%83.0%
1,00079.5%86.2%
2,00087.9%90.6%
3,00091.6%93.4%
5,00095.2%96.2%
10,00098.3%98.7%
15,00099.3%99.5%
20,00099.7%99.8%

You would need to know roughly the 2,482 most frequent Default VN words to begin at 90% coverage, or roughly the top 4,845 for 95%.

How to read this: the vocabulary axis uses the Default VN frequency list. Grammar, punctuation, and proper names are excluded, while twenty frequent local words are treated as manageable. The 30% simulation counts a word as learned after four sightings separated by at least five pages. It models exposure and recognition, not guaranteed acquisition.

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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.

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