i’ve almost finished what i have of 2 JLPT N1-level anime now (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure; From the New World) and i’m a bit disappointed. while i’ve improved my understanding of various “grammar points”, i feel like i haven’t learnt many words at all from either of them because the new vocabulary repeats itself too little. i mean, when a word like, i don’t know, “molotov cocktail” only shows up twice in two series, i just don’t end up learning it. and that’s the problem with most of the unknown vocabulary i’m seeing here.

all the JLPT levels up until now were easy: watch around 60 episodes in a given level on animelon and you'll have gotten to the point where you can move on to the next level. but N1 isn't working that way so far. it might be time to move on to series specifically entrenched in certain themes i don’t have much vocabulary in, ex. doctor series for medical vocabulary, and to ignore the overall level of the series as long as i still have a good vocabulary gap...

anyway, i really have a lot of respect for people who make it to N1 level: considering how infrequent some of these words / grammar pieces appear, that's a LOT of language use!