My first anime was NGE. I knew all the words and still understand nothing.

> Coverage is the number most learning sites quote.

This person is visiting different learning sites then I do.

Also, I dont need to understand every word in sentence to understand it. Especially when coupled with visual show.

This ignores the fact that you can often figure out the meaning of the line from context even if you don't know the meaning of each word.

I watched Lain with the subtitles on and I still won't claim I understood all the lines.

I'm pretty sure many of the lines are _not understandable by intent_, even.

"Present day... present time... ahahaha!"

I spam Yare Yare to the extent that my friends had it on my birthday cake

> kochira wa yakusoku no houshuu desu

You blurred yakusoku, everybody knows that, but houshuu is much rarer word, should have blurred that

That's higher than what I would've expected.