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How hard is 86─エイティシックス─ to read?
86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1
By 安里アサト · In Japanese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 20,883
- Sentence length
- 14.0 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 146 per 1,000
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The first volume of Eighty-Six is an advanced read in Japanese. Its vocabulary reaches the highest JLPT level and runs past its list: this is military science fiction, and the narration, which is most of the text, is dense with the kanji compounds of war (squadrons, armour, ranks, the fallen) and with the setting's own terms, often a kanji compound glossed with a katakana reading, while a whole squadron of names and call signs crowds the list of frequent words. Sentences are of ordinary length, so the difficulty is the vocabulary rather than the syntax; it suits readers already at ease with modern Japanese fiction, and knowing the story from the anime makes the terms easier to place.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 63% of our Japanese books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 20,883
- Sentence length
- 14.0 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 29 words
- Length
- Novella
- 80,374 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 146 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 27%
- Kanji among the characters
- 32%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 56.8% |
| 250 | 63.5% |
| 500 | 68.7% |
| 1,000 | 73.1% |
| 2,000 | 78.8% |
| 3,000 | 81.9% |
| 5,000 | 85.4% |
| 7,500 | 88.3% |
| 10,000 | 90.2% |
| 15,000 | 93.2% |
| 20,000 | 94.8% |
| 30,000 | 96.6% |
JLPT word lists
Share of the text each level's words cover, with the levels below it. N5 and N4 are the textbook lists; N3 to N1 are the words common in the novels learners grade at that level. No list covers a whole novel: literary and rare words lie outside it. The book's vocabulary is rated at the first level that covers nearly all of what the whole list covers (98.5%).
JLPT kanji
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- 同調×155
- 共和×148
- 戦隊×107
- ハンドラー×102
- 戦場×81
- プロセッサー×67
- 装甲×50
- 収容×45
- 知覚×45
- 戦死×44
- 少佐×42
- 指揮×42
- 亡霊×39
- 白系×39
- ファイド×36
- 気配×36
- 沈黙×34
- 砲撃×33
- 微か×31
- 死神×31
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