<p>The characters look very similar to Jindai moji <a href="http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1225" rel="nofollow noreferrer">(Encyclopedia of Shinto link)</a> <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E4%BB%A3%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">(Japanese Wikipedia link)</a>. </p>

<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Japanese_Wosite_Base_48_table.svg" alt="Woshite base table">
(Image taken from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jindai_moji" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Talk:Jindai moji</a> page on Wikipedia)</p>

<p>These characters are theorized to have been Japan's character system before Chinese characters were introduced.</p>

<p>If I go through that table for the first image you show and match the characters (with help from the matching done by the article that @senshin posted), that gives me</p>

<pre><code>ツ(tsu) ヰ(wi)  ヲ(wo)  ソ(so) マ(ma) ？     カ(ka) 〜      エ(e)
ノ(no)  ゴ(go)  ト(to)  ハ(ha) ア(a)  ク(ku) テ(te) ロ(ro)  コ(ko)
エ(r)   タ(ta)  ナ(na)  ソ(so) ル(ru) イ(i)  ア(a)  シ(shi) サ(sa)
サ(sa)  メ(me)  ゴ(go)  ハ(ha) ク(ku) ロ(ro) フ(fu) ツ(tsu) ヲ(wo)
リ(ri)  ヰ(wi)  ソ(so)  ？     〜     ミ(mi) ス(su) ウ(u)   ガ(gu)
</code></pre>

<p>My Japanese is not very strong, but I don't get any relevant results when looking any consecutive substrings of those characters up on <a href="http://jisho.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jisho</a> (a Japanese-English online dictionary) or Google Translate. </p>

<p>I don't believe that the characters have any special meaning here.</p>

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2017-08-02T14:43:27.760Z
Most of the pages I found online were in Japanese, so someone who can read well in Japanese could probably take this further than I have.
Zasha Faith
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Solid answer! [This Japanese blog post](http://mizuchin.hatenablog.jp/entry/20130113/1358098447) arrives at the same interpretation and also concludes that the text is meaningless.
senshin
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Should I get rid of the romanji, or edit it to be furigana? Or is it fine the way it is?
Zasha Faith
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2017-08-02T17:17:49.710Z
Seems fine to me either way, given that one would need to know Japanese to try and make sense of it, no matter whether you write it in kana or romaji.
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Zasha Faith
<p>The OP starts out with this list of symbols that look like a table of kanas, except that some of those symbols are used more than once:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/s3ntF.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/s3ntF.jpg" alt="Symbols used in the OP that resemble kana/kanji characters"></a></p>

<p>Many later scenes in the opening sequence can also be found to have a single, repeated symbol accompanying them:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/mPN3P.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/mPN3P.jpg" alt="OP thumbnails 1"></a>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/MmTnW.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/MmTnW.jpg" alt="OP thumbnails 2"></a></p>

<p>Does the first image spell out an intelligible sentence in any language? And do the single, repeated symbols accompanying the later scenes signify anything?</p>

<theme-song><sasami-san-ganbaranai>
Do the symbols that appear in the OP of Sasami-san@Ganbaranai mean anything?
# Do the symbols that appear in the OP of Sasami-san@Ganbaranai mean anything?
Posted by: username_0 on 2017-08-02
The OP starts out with this list of symbols that look like a table of kanas, except that some of those symbols are used more than once:

[![Symbols used in the OP that resemble kana/kanji characters](https://i.sstatic.net/s3ntF.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/s3ntF.jpg)

Many later scenes in the opening sequence can also be found to have a single, repeated symbol accompanying them:

[![OP thumbnails 1](https://i.sstatic.net/mPN3P.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/mPN3P.jpg)
[![OP thumbnails 2](https://i.sstatic.net/MmTnW.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/MmTnW.jpg)

Does the first image spell out an intelligible sentence in any language? And do the single, repeated symbols accompanying the later scenes signify anything?
**Tags:** theme-song sasami-san-ganbaranai
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## 1 answers
### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-02. Score: 8 | Accepted answer
The characters look very similar to Jindai moji (Encyclopedia of Shinto link) (Japanese Wikipedia link). 

(Image taken from Talk:Jindai moji page on Wikipedia)
These characters are theorized to have been Japan's character system before Chinese characters were introduced.
If I go through that table for the first image you show and match the characters (with help from the matching done by the article that @senshin posted), that gives me
ツ(tsu) ヰ(wi)  ヲ(wo)  ソ(so) マ(ma) ？     カ(ka) 〜      エ(e)
ノ(no)  ゴ(go)  ト(to)  ハ(ha) ア(a)  ク(ku) テ(te) ロ(ro)  コ(ko)
エ(r)   タ(ta)  ナ(na)  ソ(so) ル(ru) イ(i)  ア(a)  シ(shi) サ(sa)
サ(sa)  メ(me)  ゴ(go)  ハ(ha) ク(ku) ロ(ro) フ(fu) ツ(tsu) ヲ(wo)
リ(ri)  ヰ(wi)  ソ(so)  ？     〜     ミ(mi) ス(su) ウ(u)   ガ(gu)

My Japanese is not very strong, but I don't get any relevant results when looking any consecutive substrings of those characters up on Jisho (a Japanese-English online dictionary) or Google Translate. 
I don't believe that the characters have any special meaning here.
> **Comments:**
> **username_1** (2017-08-02): Most of the pages I found online were in Japanese, so someone who can read well in Japanese could probably take this further than I have.  
> **username_2** (2017-08-02): Solid answer! [This Japanese blog post](http://mizuchin.hatenablog.jp/entry/20130113/1358098447) arrives at the same interpretation and also concludes that the text is meaningless.  
> **username_1** (2017-08-02): Should I get rid of the romanji, or edit it to be furigana? Or is it fine the way it is?  
> **username_2** (2017-08-02): Seems fine to me either way, given that one would need to know Japanese to try and make sense of it, no matter whether you write it in kana or romaji.  
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