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Word list · Angel Beats! · Updated October 2026

Angel Beats! Japanese vocabulary: 60 words from the first episodes

With no memories, Otonashi wakes up at an afterlife high school where students are fighting a girl they call Angel. The group jokes around in dialogue that includes vocabulary about school and the afterlife.

About 68% of the words below are JLPT N5–N4, so Angel Beats! is manageable once you have the basics down.

How this list was made: we went through the Japanese subtitles of the first 3 episodes, reduced every word to its dictionary form, dropped names, sound effects and grammar particles, and kept the words that come up most. Each word has one short line from the show.

JLPT N5 33 words · the first words any course teaches

JLPT N4 8 words · still beginner territory

JLPT N3 10 words · intermediate

JLPT N2–N1 1 words · advanced

Show and story words 8 words · not on the JLPT lists, but this series leans on them

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