Visual novel Japanese reading statistics

How hard is Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai to read in Japanese?

俺たちに翼はない

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

Visual novel2009NavelADVSchoolHigh SchoolRomance
Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai cover
3,268pages at 600 Japanese characters each
23,337unique vocabulary identities
2,770unique kanji
21.0Japanese characters per indexed sentence

Japanese reading profile

This indexed edition contains 1,961,197 Japanese characters across 93,392 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 93rd percentile of the 76 indexed visual novels. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 100th 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: 俺たちに翼はない ――under the innocent sky., おれつば, Oretsuba, We Don't Have Wings, We Without Wings

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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%
50059.2%82.9%
1,00068.1%83.0%
2,00076.7%83.7%
3,00081.2%84.9%
5,00086.4%87.5%
10,00092.7%92.6%
15,00095.6%95.5%
20,00097.3%97.2%

You would need to know roughly the 7,286 most frequent Default VN words to begin at 90% coverage, or roughly the top 13,656 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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