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[honestcop]

I've hit a rough patch on a case I'm investigating. Does anyone know how to read this?

Comments

[majorhacker]

Good thinking, using the community to help in your research. Have you come up with any ideas yet?

[honestcop]

Thanks, but I'm not sure how much use it'll be. Even if it means something on someone else's world, it won't necessarily mean the same thing on ours. It would be a place to start, I guess.

Nothing yet. We're checking historical sources, which will take a while. The digitization is bad on a lot of the older records.

[majorhacker]

Sometimes a fresh perspective is what you need to look at things outside the box.

As can be expected of older materials.

[honestcop]

We're doing a public service by cleaning that stuff up, but it's really using a lot of time and computer resources.

How are things on your end?

[gonnabe1st]

Maybe the point of writing it like this is not to be found out about that easily. And then, you wouldn't want people to be able to read it. Though I can't help but wonder what they plan on taking revenge on.

Other than that, I'm not an expert in Japanese so I can't really help you. Sorry.

[honestcop]

If you're trying to keep a low profile, you don't sign your death threats with your logo.

[gonnabe1st]

Now, I didn't say anything about keeping a low profile. But if you can just find them by the way their logo is spelled out, that would make things pretty easy for you, right?

[honestcop]

I wouldn't object to my job being that easy once in a while.

Even if we figure out what it means, I doubt it'll lead us straight to them. My job never is that easy.

[last5secondswin]

It's an angry owl.

ffffff lol

[honestcop]

I really don't think that's it.

Oh yes.

[last5secondswin]

Oh really...Well, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS!

brb dying xD

[honestcop]

[There is a very long pause before the reply.]

I'll look into the possibility.

[icequeencometh]

Maybe it's the Samurai's Infinite Vengeance? Sounds like a bad comic book.

[honestcop]

That's not how kanji work.

I will check Western sources to see if somebody used the symbols, though. That's not a bad idea. Thank you, Miss.

[maraihi]

Could be an underground code. Maybe they're not trying to get a message across to you or normal people, but to someone who'll know what it means.

[honestcop]

That's a possibility. It's appeared in the same format several times, so I don't think it's a code, but it may be a new formulation and only significant to the people inside the organization that uses it.

I wish they'd spell it out for us so I could stop thinking of them as "those idiots who can't write their own name."

[maraihi]

It could just be a symbol. A symbol isn't any different than signing a name.

[honestcop]

No Japanese-speaker would use kanji like that. They might be foreigners, but the death threats have all been perfectly literate.