“Maou Gakuin” alphabet
Summer 2020 brought us the anime "Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha" with another funky on-screen alphabet. By episode 6 I'd seen enough samples to confirm that it is an actual Roman-style…
Attack of the JS redirections!
My WordPress was apparently hacked yesterday, and a couple hundred of my posts had their contents replaced or infected with a poorly obfuscated Javascript like < script type=text/javascript > eval(String.fromCharCode(…
Hamefura alphabet
The anime "Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta..." (Hamefura in short) uses an on-screen alphabet that at first looked like random scribbles, but by…
Kijk met de ogen van een kat
Meester Tony Thielemans deelde deze wijsheid van meester Abe Tadashi: Kijk met de ogen van een kat: in tegenstelling tot een hond die meteen op een bezoeker springt, zal een…
More Youjo Senki: anime uniforms
Given the overall attention to detail, I tried to figure out the uniforms in the anime, but they seem to be rather mix and match. For some reason, everyone has…
Aikido Ternat ledenhandboek
versie 1.0 – 2014 door Eli Steenput i.s.m. het college van lesgevers webificatie in 2019 WAT IS AIKIDO? Aikido is een moderne Japanse krijgskunst, ontwikkeld in Japan door Ueshiba Morihei…
Graden: innerlijke en uiterlijke motivatie
Over de zin en onzin van graden en gordels in de krijgskunsten heb ik in het verleden al mijn mening verkondigd, maar een onuitgegeven opstel "de gordels" van Eric H.…
Deciphering Youjo Senki – bonus: Zugspitse location
According to the anime, the 203rd candidates are at the Imperial Army Zugspitze training grounds - which makes sense in the main universe since the Zugspitze is the highest mountain…
Deciphering Youjo Senki – part 3: fonts
There has been no official character set released, not even in the art book, so I made my own mapping tables. There are two main fonts; the "print" style used…
Deciphering Youjo Senki – part 2: numerals
The Youjo Senki universe has at least 2 numeral systems, one "Roman" system where 10 is represented by "X" (though their "X" is different from the X in their alphabet)…