<p>As I said in the comments, the writing from the series looks sufficiently different to that from the OVA to assume that they're not the same, and happily there's enough text in the second image to work out, through some basic cryptography and a few lucky guesses, that it's just a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune" rel="nofollow noreferrer">runic</a>-looking (or even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Futhark</a>-like) alphabet transliterating some English text. I've drawn up a listing of the correspondences here:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/md93eH5D.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/md93eH5D.png" alt="A table matching the letters from the OP's image to English letters." /></a></p>
<p>And if you apply that to the text in the image, you get the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>THE SAVER TO KNOCK DOWN IT BECAME<br />
CLEAR DEPENDING UPON POWER OF COERCION<br />
SIYSTEM INTERVENTION OF SECOND CLASS GOD<br />
MANAGEMENT LIMITED URUDO</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Note that &quot;Urudo&quot; lines up with the way Urd's name is written in Japanese, and the rest looks like pretty mangled Japanglish but otherwise it's fairly readable.</p>
<p>The image from the OVA doesn't follow the same pattern, and there's much less text in the image to draw any conclusions. It bears some very superficial resemblances to stylised kanji or early Chinese scripts but it could easily just be random shapes.</p>

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2024-08-30T11:42:38.873Z
So no info on the writing system in the first two screenshots?
Henkyo
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2024-08-30T12:43:12.947Z
In your [comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/69033/what-writing-system-are-they-using-in-ah-my-goddess#comment82126_69033) to the question, you mentioned [Futhark-like alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark), which I think is worth including and linking to in your answer because of the similarities.
Gao
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2024-09-02T00:16:00.787Z
I've made a couple of edits, including a brief comment on the OVA writing which I think looks more kanji-like but not in a way that I would be able to attempt to decrypt.
ConMan
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ConMan
<p>What language or writing system are the characters using in &quot;Ah My Goddess&quot; (TV Series) &amp; &quot;Oh My Goddess&quot; (OVA)?</p>
<p>For Example:</p>
<p>1.) Oh My Goddess OVA - Ep.2
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/BvYNJIzu.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/BvYNJIzu.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/eAOKQA8v.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/eAOKQA8v.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a>
2.) Ah My Goddess (Series) - Ep.8
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/FyGNlwFV.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/FyGNlwFV.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>Is it just a made up language and writing system or is it based off of any existing language and writing system?</p>

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What writing system are they using in "Ah My Goddess"?
# What writing system are they using in "Ah My Goddess"?
Posted by: username_0 on 2024-08-29
What language or writing system are the characters using in "Ah My Goddess" (TV Series) & "Oh My Goddess" (OVA)?

For Example:

1.) Oh My Goddess OVA - Ep.2
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/BvYNJIzu.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/BvYNJIzu.jpg)
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/eAOKQA8v.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/eAOKQA8v.jpg)
2.) Ah My Goddess (Series) - Ep.8
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/FyGNlwFV.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/FyGNlwFV.jpg)

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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## 1 answers
### Answer by username_1 on 2024-08-30. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
As I said in the comments, the writing from the series looks sufficiently different to that from the OVA to assume that they're not the same, and happily there's enough text in the second image to work out, through some basic cryptography and a few lucky guesses, that it's just a [runic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune)-looking (or even [Futhark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes)-like) alphabet transliterating some English text. I've drawn up a listing of the correspondences here:

[![A table matching the letters from the OP's image to English letters.](https://i.sstatic.net/md93eH5D.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/md93eH5D.png)

And if you apply that to the text in the image, you get the following:

> THE SAVER TO KNOCK DOWN IT BECAME  
> CLEAR DEPENDING UPON POWER OF COERCION  
> SIYSTEM INTERVENTION OF SECOND CLASS GOD  
> MANAGEMENT LIMITED URUDO

Note that "Urudo" lines up with the way Urd's name is written in Japanese, and the rest looks like pretty mangled Japanglish but otherwise it's fairly readable.

The image from the OVA doesn't follow the same pattern, and there's much less text in the image to draw any conclusions. It bears some very superficial resemblances to stylised kanji or early Chinese scripts but it could easily just be random shapes.
> **Comments:**
> **username_0** (2024-08-30): So no info on the writing system in the first two screenshots?  
> **username_2** (2024-08-30): In your [comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/69033/what-writing-system-are-they-using-in-ah-my-goddess#comment82126_69033) to the question, you mentioned [Futhark-like alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark), which I think is worth including and linking to in your answer because of the similarities.  
> **username_1** (2024-09-02): I've made a couple of edits, including a brief comment on the OVA writing which I think looks more kanji-like but not in a way that I would be able to attempt to decrypt.  
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