Japanese

Japanese is the main language of Japan. It has Three alphabets: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. The following are the Two main alphabets names written in Hiragana and Katakana:

Hiragana: ひらがな

Katakana: カタカナ

The term "Japanese" also refers to people who live in Japan and their ethnicity, where Japanese is spoken as the main language.

People who speak this language use 39 as slang for thank you (3=san, 9=kyuu), as opposed to in Afghanistan, where it is thought of as a number of prostitution.

Also, Kaomoji is popular amongst Japanese speakers who have access to the internet. It is comprised of making faces and pictures using Unicode characters. Its name is a combination of the Japanese "kao", meaning face, and "moji", meaning character. The term "emoji" is also derived from Japanese, and it is made up of "e", meaning picture, and "moji". Japan is a very expressive country, which is why things like Kaomoji and emoji exist.

Speaking of Japanese etymologies, the term "anime" originally came from the English word "animation". It had to be borrowed by the Japanese speakers first.

1. English - animation
2. Japanese - アニメーション (animeeshon)
3. Japanese - アニメー (animee)
4. English - anime

Speaking of anime, it was inspired by Disney animation studios.

On the topic of Disney and its relationship with Japanese culture, and Nintendo being a large Japanese company...in 1958, Nintendo Karuta made a deal with Disney to allow Disney characters to make appearances on their cards.

Why >>that<< early, you may ask? Well, Nintendo started out in 1889 as a playing card company; it was not until the late 1970s when they started making videogames. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were making toys, not videogames.

One of my (Super's) favourite games by Nintendo is Animal Crossing. Not for the relaxing aspect, but rather, the characters. Some of them are weird looking, such as Coco, but others are cute, such as Bluebear or Nana. Some of them are kinda ugly, such as Rodney, but I (Super) don't usually admit it when playing the game; I personally think Rodney's ugliness kinda makes him better! There are over 500 characters that have been in the entire game series, and all of them are cool in their own way. ...Except for one.

It was the characters appearances that inspired me to make original characters and come up with game ideas and stories with those characters. I don't know how many characters I made so far...

But anyway, back to the topic of Animal Crossing. There was once a glitch in New Horizons, titled the "I've Moved Out" glitch, and whenever a villager (such as Raymond) moves out and is replaced by Sasha, he (Raymond) could be sent to "the void", where the game would never pick Raymond again to appear anywhere in the game except for the "open" plot. It's kinda complicated...

I also discovered a glitch where a villager could float up a cliff to sit on something up there. There was a GIF on Nookipedia showing Raymond performing the glitch as an example.

There was also a glitch *villager* in the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing, named Blazel by the community (whose real name is Shaki). She had similar features to Sally (named Hazel at that time) and Caroline (named Bliss at the time), and earned the title Blazel due to looking like a mix between both. She is classified as an NPC, though she is still technically a villager. She was not just One character, but Two! The first one, under the index 0xD06C, has the exact same dialogue as Kapp'n, and has the name 🔑ù«–•B¡¡, which is Mojibake for ジョニー・B (Johnny B), which is Kapp'n's Japanese name (uncertain). The other one, 0xE15A, is named Jambette (which is the same name as the frog villager with the giant lips)--but she is identified as and will have the dialogue of a male villager (possibly Static?). She is quite a weird character indeed.

If you don't know what mojibake is, it is the appearance of Unicode text being translated into an unintended character encoding, turning the text into garbled, corrupted, gibberish garbage. The English term is derived from the Japanese mojibake (文字化け), meaning garbled characters. It happens in many writing systems, such as Thai, Arabic, Cyrillic, and even Latin!

Speaking of weird text, there's this thing called asemic writing, and it's a kind of writing that resembles characters and words, but they don't actually form coherent sentences. The meaning is left for the reader to interpret. It could be any form of writing, from an alphabet to an abugida to a syllabary, et cetera. They can be created by animals or machines. If you'd like, you could create a script that looks like it could be real but cannot be understood.