(2016-01-03, 8:27 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Is there any good list/deck of high frenquency in anime/visual novels out there? Or is it possible to make one? I'd really like to learn more than these 2k-3k core words in advance, because I believe preparation pays off big time if done right.
I'm not aware of anything that's really anime or fiction specific. However, Nyar's (sp?) Core 5k deck is unrelated to core 1/3/6/10k decks (that were taken from smart.fm that took them from i forget where). The core 1/3/6/10k decks seem to use a standard frequency list that is taken from the newspapers exclusively (I've forgotten the name of the list, but it's often cited and easily found when searching for frequency lists). Nyar's 5k on the other hand is taken from general reading material including fiction. So that might be better.
Visual novels have pretty much the same vocabulary as any other fiction, so a list like that should be fine there. Manga and Anime are, of course, almost entirely dialogue and so you don't need to learn nearly as many adjectives and adverbs for that because (most) people don't describe things in ordinary speech nearly as colorfully as they do in prose. On the other hand, there will be a lot more colloquial terms that may not show up in any list taken from written material.
Personally I just started adding words as I went after the first few thousand anyway. 'Anime' and 'Visual Novels' are mediums, not genres, and as such there's a huge disparity in the necessary vocabulary. There's a ton of words that you'll find constantly used in a mobile-suit space opera that are completely different from the ton of words that you'll find in a swords & sorcery fantasy, which are again totally different from detective and police shows. (For what it's worth, the stuff you find in slice-of-life / romance / romantic comedy shows, tends to be the same stuff that is common to all fiction, and a lot of it is normal everyday vocabulary.)
Anyway, my point is that if you have very specific tastes then you pretty much will end up customizing your deck as you go. If you have very broad tastes, then a very general list should be fine because you'll end up using it all eventually anyway. Even the 'newspaper specific' vocabulary of Core10k is useful in watching Anime .... a lot of shows advance various plot points with a newscast in the background with all the standard 'news-speak'. (Although core10k's example sentence are normal sentences not news-speak, so even after completing the news-frequency 10k list it might be hard to understand without actually reading and watching a fair bit of real news.)