Hello everyone, I’m on lvl 2５ and I just learned that 獣 ＝kemono, which i thoughtht sounded familiar then I realized that there was an anime this season titled Kemono Jihen. I was curious so I looked it up and saw that the kanji is 怪物事変. I looked up the 怪物 on Jisho and saw that the reading is かいぶつ which got me a little bit confused. Can someone with more advance knowledge explain to me why the title is not 獣事変?
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that is a non “standard” reading(not in a dictionary), it’s probably safe to assume that the author uses the spelling of another words while reading of another. it probably means that those beasts are monsters or something like that.
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ah I see there can be some flexibility with the language. I thought kanji had to be rigid in it’s reading.
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they generally don’t take that much liberty, but even on the Japanese cover they wrote down the furigana. they always do for “made up” words
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to add to that, け is a valid on reading of 怪, and もの is the kun reading of 物, so this isn’t completely out there…
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i’d reckon that on’yomi + mono is less likely than 獣
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nah there’s quite a few legitimate words that mix the two (although this clearly isn’t one of them)
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after all they are BESTS
With 物, though?
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本物 and 魔物 are all I can think of, but yeah I guess I was thinking of the more general on + kun case rather than with 物 specifically
edit: looking through the dictionary, there’s also 王物, 京物, 段物, 抄物 and probably others, but at this point I feel like I’m really scraping the barrel of kanji with no kun readings to prove a point no one really cares about 
edit 2: interestingly the reading of 獣 itself apparently comes from 毛 ＋ だ ＋ 物 which I guess maybe makes the pun more understandable?
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