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howlgarnish | 5 years ago

The AI-generated characters remind me of hentaigana, which are the obsolete variant forms of kana used before 1900: they're clearly Japanese writing, but weird and basically illegible to the modern reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentaigana#Gallery

(That's hentai as in 変体 "variant form", not hentai as in 変態 "sexual perversion".)

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