How the anime pages are counted

Every figure on the anime pages comes from the Japanese subtitles in etoku's library. A program splits each line into dictionary words. Nobody checked the counts by hand, so a few words in every work are misread.

Words

A word is a dictionary entry, counted each time it appears. Particles and grammar endings are not counted as words. Character names are left out using each show's cast list, but a name that is also an ordinary word, such as 滝 ("waterfall") for Taki in Your Name, can still be counted.

The 2,000 most common words

Words are ranked by how much of each title's dialogue they make up, across 6,469 popular anime and live-action titles, with every title weighted the same however long it is. A work's figure is the share of its words, repeats included, that are among the first 2,000.

Whole lines

A line counts only when every word in it does. Lines the analysis could not fully read are left out of the whole-line figures, and each work's page says what share that was.

Words to learn

The number of a work's own words, learned from most to least frequent, before they make up a given share of its dialogue.

Episodes

Each episode is counted once, from one subtitle file. New words are the ones no earlier episode used.

Which anime are listed

Anime in the most-followed tenth on AniList among the titles etoku has, with at least 3,000 counted words, and with at least four in five of their episodes in the library.

What is not measured

Speaking speed, slang, dialect, how clearly lines are spoken, and grammar. A show of short lines in common words can still be hard to follow by ear.

Counted November 10, 2026.