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What language or writing system are the characters using in the anime Chillin' in Another World With Level 2 Super Cheat Powers?

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Is it just a made up language and writing system or is it based off of any existing language and writing system?

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    I named the tag according to the policy outlined in meta. There is neither official nor widely fan-accepted abbreviated name for the series that I could find, so I took some liberties in naming it.
    – Gao
    Commented Jul 21 at 18:53

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The writing system used is likely just rotated katakana, mixed with some similar looking shapes. The second line in the image looks like the katakana テナ二 (transliterated tenani), and the fourth line is almost a perfect match for 二ヒサ (nihisa). The other lines also contain some katakana characters, mixed in with some other plausible looking characters that don't correspond to actual kana.

As for the language itself, the katakana characters don't correspond to any phrase or word I could think of that would fit in this context. Likely, the animators just drew some random katakana and changed up the shapes of some of them to make it look like another world's script. I haven't seen the anime, so I can't vouch for whether any of the other scenes have meaningful phrases, but it's likely that there isn't any deeper meaning behind them.

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  • Come to think of it, it sure does look like the Japanese characters (or katakana) are actually rotated.
    – Henkyo
    Commented Aug 14 at 14:00
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    Yes, they are rotated katakana in a weird font. See the decoded words here: note.com/konkelspirturo/n/n350533531cae.
    – Gao
    Commented Aug 30 at 14:36
  • @Gao - Hmmmm.... Interesting!
    – Henkyo
    Commented Sep 3 at 1:36

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