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Word list · ノーゲーム・ノーライフ · Updated October 2026

No Game No Life Japanese vocabulary: 60 words from the first episodes

Two gamer siblings who rarely leave home are drawn into a world where games settle every conflict. Conversations move quickly and get wordy, with lots of gaming and strategy terms.

About 67% of the words below are JLPT N5–N4, so No Game No Life 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 30 words · the first words any course teaches

JLPT N4 10 words · still beginner territory

JLPT N3 13 words · intermediate

JLPT N2–N1 2 words · advanced

Show and story words 5 words · not on the JLPT lists, but this series leans on them

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