Can You Guess the Anime with Just Emojis?

Have you ever tried to learn Japanese? I did a few rounds on Duolingo once, but I never got too far because it was pretty complex. Considering I have no intention to live in Japan and know no Japanese with people with which to practice, it seemed like a bit of a pointless task. Still, it was interesting to learn about the language. Japanese has three different writing systems – hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana and katakana use symbols to represent sounds – a bit like English! 

Kanji are symbols that originate in China, and each symbol stands for a different meaning rather than a sound. For example, the Japanese word for fish is represented by one specific symbol rather than different symbols used to represent the sounds that make up the pronunciation. Many of these Kanji are pictographic – meaning that they kind of look like the thing that they represent. They are a bit like Emojis in this way! 

If you'd like to test how good you are at garnering meaning from symbols, scroll down below to guess which anime are represented by the emojis. Answers at the end. 

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