Anime Japanese reading statistics
How hard is Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to read in Japanese?
さよなら絶望先生
Aggregate vocabulary, kanji, length, and reading-profile data from the DokiDokiDict recommender corpus.
Japanese reading profile
This indexed edition contains 68,995 Japanese characters across 6,321 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 42nd percentile of the 335 indexed anime. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 50th percentile within the same group.
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Also known as: Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei, Goodbye Teacher Despair, SZS
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