fusenReading 時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん in Japanese
Alisa, a half-Russian honour student, mutters what she really thinks in Russian, sure that the idle boy at the next desk can't follow it; he understands every word. The Japanese is a modern school comedy with everyday vocabulary, but her Russian lines are printed in Cyrillic, with their meaning only in the small ruby beside them.
Estimated from the free sample of volume 1 (角川スニーカー文庫) and the official anime site. Checked on . How levels are judged
- Level
- Intermediate (estimated)Estimated level: this book’s text can’t be analysed here for copyright reasons, so the level is estimated with AI from the publisher’s free sample and other public information, not counted word by word.
- Furigana
- On names such as 九条 and 征嶺学園; each Russian line has its Japanese meaning as rubySeen in the publisher's free sample of volume 1
- Japanese
- Modern third-person narration; school and student-council words; Russian lines in Cyrillic
- Length
- Volume 1 is 264 pages; volume 12 came out in October 2026
- Read it in
- E-book stores, and a manga from 講談社
How hard it is
Set in a school, with no fantasy terms to learn, it is easier than the isekai titles here. The narration is third-person and plain; the vocabulary that keeps returning is the school's: classes, clubs and above all the student council, whose election drives the story. The jokes lean on anime and game culture, and the Russian lines need the ruby to be understood at all.
Other readers' ratings: Natively and jpdb.
| Title | Level | Known with 5,000 words |
|---|---|---|
| 葬送のフリーレン manga | — | |
| 魔女の宅急便 children's novel | — | |
| よつばと! manga | — | |
| 時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん light novel | — | |
| 本好きの下剋上 light novel | — | |
| 無職転生 light novel | — | |
| SPY×FAMILY manga | — | |
| 羅生門 short story, 1915 | 86.5% | |
| 薬屋のひとりごと light novel | — | |
| Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 light novel | — |
Words to know before you start
Chosen by hand from the free sample, the publisher's description of volume 1 and the official character pages, most of them student-council posts. The text can't be analysed here, so there are no counts.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生徒会 | せいとかい | student council |
| 生徒会長 | せいとかいちょう | head of the student council; president of the student council |
| 副会長 | ふくかいちょう | vice president (of a club, organization, etc.) |
| 会計 | かいけい | accountant; treasurer; paymaster |
| 書記 | しょき | clerk; secretary |
| 広報 | こうほう | public relations; PR; publicity |
| 庶務 | しょむ | general affairs |
| 選挙 | せんきょ | election |
| 優等生 | ゆうとうせい | honor student; honours student; model student |
| 劣等生 | れっとうせい | poor student |
| 孤高 | ここう | aloof; proudly independent; standing apart |
| 幼馴染み | おさななじみ | childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate |
Meanings from JMdict (EDRDG), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this list is shared under the same licence.
Names and their readings
Readings as the official anime site gives them in romaji; the free sample confirms 九条 and 征嶺学園 in ruby. For the two sisters, the reading is that of 九条; the katakana needs none.
| Name | Reading | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| アリサ・ミハイロヴナ・九条 | くじょう | a half-Russian honour student and the student council's treasurer, called アーリャ |
| 久世政近 | くぜ まさちか | the boy at the next desk, idle at school, who learned Russian as a child |
| 周防有希 | すおう ゆき | from an old noble family, the council's publicity officer, aiming to be its president |
| マリヤ・ミハイロヴナ・九条 | くじょう | アリサ's older sister, the council's secretary, called マーシャ |
| 君嶋綾乃 | きみしま あやの | 有希's silent attendant, in charge of general affairs on the council |
| 剣崎統也 | けんざき とうや | the student council's president |
| 更科茅咲 | さらしな ちさき | the council's vice-president, anchor of the girls' kendo team |
| 征嶺学園 | せいれいがくえん | their school, a private school running from junior high to university |
Things that trip readers up
- The Russian is printed in Cyrillic. Her Russian lines appear in 【 】 in Cyrillic letters, with what it means in Japanese as ruby beside it. A popup dictionary given the line gets the Cyrillic, which a Japanese dictionary can't look up, so read the ruby instead.
- Two names for each sister. The narration calls the heroine アリサ; 政近 is the only boy who calls her アーリャ, the Russian pet form, to her face. Her sister マリヤ is likewise マーシャ.
- Anime and game jokes. 政近 is a keen anime fan, and the first chapter's title already makes a joke about gacha draws in mobile games. The references come in dialogue; skipping one rarely loses the plot.
Where to read it on Android
| Version | Where | Looking words up |
|---|---|---|
| Light novel | E-book stores such as BOOK☆WALKER and Kindle (角川スニーカー文庫) | The store apps aren't tested yet; see reading apps compared |
| Manga | 講談社's マガジンポケット app and e-book stores | Read the screen with the Lookup button, in any app. How it works |
Reading it with Fusen
Make a collection for the series and save words with + as you read. The council's posts and the election's words recur in every volume; when one comes back, the popup marks it Saved 1×, and one tap shows the sentence you saved it from. More on reading this way is in the immersion reading guide.