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Hello everyone! I’m excited to share a 2,000‑card anime Anki deck I’ve been building since February 1, 2023, by watching a wide variety of anime. It supports both monolingual (Japanese‑only definitions) and bilingual (Japanese + English).
📦 What’s Inside Each Card
- Word & Kana
- Picture of the scene to reinforce the meaning
- Context sentence with the word in use
- Audio files (2 per card): one for the word, one for the full sentence
- Pitch accent information (if available)
- Meaning (日本語) – Japanese dictionary for monolingual use
- Meaning (English) – English definitions for bilingual use
- Reading (hiragana)
- Frequency (from jpdb)
🎯 About the Deck & Some Recommendations
The deck is structured so that it starts with simple, short sentences featuring high-frequency words. As you progress, the cards gradually increase in complexity, and more context is added when it’s useful or necessary.
My personal recommendation is to start using the deck once you know around 2,000–3,000 Japanese words—that’s when I began immersing with anime and started building this deck.
If you know fewer than 2,000 words, you can still use it as a vocab deck. Just focus on learning the target word, and don’t worry too much about understanding the full sentence. Looking up unfamiliar words/grammar in the sentence is highly recommended though.
More advanced learners can challenge themselves by turning off the English definitions and using the deck for full immersion or shadowing practice. The second half of the deck, in particular, offers longer, richer sentences from context that work well for this purpose.
📊 Stats at a Glance from all sentences
- Unique words: 7,141
- Unique kanji: 1,823
- Total characters: 109,857
- Average audio length: ~11 seconds (~367 minutes total)
Frequencies (from jpdb) are available for each word/card
- 1,022 cards are ranked under 10,000
- 629 cards are between 10,000–20,000
- 349 cards are above 20,000
What makes this deck especially effective is that while each card focuses on a single target word, you’ll naturally pick up many additional words from the context sentences. This helps you build a strong vocabulary foundation over time. The audio and images further reinforce memory and make the learning process more intuitive.
In my experience, once you understand the overall meaning of a sentence, unfamiliar words tend to become clear from context—you often don’t need to look them up again.
Although the deck contains 2,000 cards, the total number of unique words in the context sentences is 7,141—so if you go through the entire deck and understand each sentence, it’s fair to say you’ll come away with a solid grasp of several thousand words.
📷 Preview (front/back sample): Anime Deck Samples
The Deck .apkg file has a size of 814MB and since Ankiweb only allows uploads up to 250MB, I had to split it into 5 Parts. I also provided a Mega Link where you can download the whole Deck as one file if you prefer that:
📥 Get the deck from Ankiweb: Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5
📥 Get the deck from Mega: Mega Download Link
A bit about me: I’ve been learning Japanese by myself for about 4,5 years. In that time, I’ve watched a lot of anime, read 48 light novels, and played some visual novels. I’m aiming to take the JLPT N1 this winter, and if all goes well, I plan to move to Japan next year to study computer science.
Let me know what you think or if you have any questions—hope the deck helps you on your Japanese journey! 😊