Anime Japanese reading statistics
How hard is serial experiments lain to read in Japanese?
Aggregate vocabulary, kanji, length, and reading-profile data from the DokiDokiDict recommender corpus.
Japanese reading profile
This indexed edition contains 30,911 Japanese characters across 2,376 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 9th percentile of the 335 indexed anime. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 10th 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: シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン, Wirtualna Lain
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.
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