#kanji time

[hysyartmaskstudio]

That last meta I reblogged [x] reminded me of the made up Oggai kanji.

which is explicitly half the kanji for death mirrored. But as it’s depicted on the cover, it’s not exactly a mirroring. One fills in parts of the other. Compliments as much as opposites.

A black and a white half-death, if you will, twisted up together.

(There’s mirrored Kanji on the 101 cover page, a funeral portrait, as well.)

[hysyartmaskstudio]

This is probably reaching but --

Furuta’s Birthday is the Leap Year, written

Leap Year: 閏年

Which has the kanji for King 王 underneath the Kanji for gate/door 門. That’s been covered [x]

But here’s Amon’s name in Kanji

Amon: 亜門

That first Kanji, 亜, is used for the prefix “sub-”. So “Amon” written as 亜門 can be read as “under the gate/door” which is where the leap year’s King kanji is.

Does this mean the King that Furuta has been looking for is Amon? Furuta seems not to have considered Kaneki, so perhaps he is looking for someone else, though he claims not to care anymore. 

Seeing as the One-Eyed King isn’t actually some mystically appointed title, but a figure that people must believe in and follow and thus choose themselves, perhaps despite Kaneki’s claim of the throne, there may be another (or several other) Kings at play.

Does this crazy word game imply that Furuta and Amon will be together in this? Opposed?

Considering Furuta’s involvement with Kanou and his willing participation in the deaths of hundreds, I doubt Amon, at least as we knew him, would consider him a willing ally.

But things are quite a mess right now, and the Clowns including Donato are on the move, a group that now unifies both of them.

Or this could be me, someone who knows basically no Japanese and is a little bit loopy right now, having too much fun with Kanji. Who knows?

Only Ishida. Only Ishida knows...

[hysyartmaskstudio]

It’s time for “Higemaru Touma is a dork” posting. I know I said I wasn’t gonna fall in love with these kids, because Ishida is just gonna break my heart, but this boy and his dumb pink hair have won me over and I hate it.

(translations curtesy of @makyun [x])

Case 01 - His Quinque name.

You don’t even have to be able to read Kanji for this one. I sure can’t. The first red box is his last name - Higemaru. It’s made up of two Kanji. The first one is read “hige” the second “maru”. The second red box is his quinque’s name. It has three Kanji. The first and the last are the same as that of his name. The one in the middle is 鬼, which is the Kanji for “oni,” the word for “demon.”

Hence the reading of it as Hige Onimaru.

So it looks like, Like Kuroiwa senior, young Hige has gotten into the habit of naming his quinque’s after himself.

But I’m also pretty sure it’s a pun? Onimaru is the name of a sword in a bunch of different video games. And we’ve seen Hige playing video games with Saiko-senpai before.

A cursory google tells me that some final fantasy wiki is under the impression the name comes from an actual historical Japanese sword -

But wikipedia seems to disagree with this claim

So idk whose right there. It might be a  historical pun, it might be a video game pun. 

Either way, Hige’s quinque is literally made up of him splitting his last name in two and inserting the word “demon” in the middle. 

All I can think about is him being like “oh yeah? ‘Demon’ is my middle name.”

What a dork.

If anyone has more info on what this dork’s dorky quinque name is referring too, please feel free to correct me or add to this.