# DanMachi Volume 1 Week 2

**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/danmachi-volume-1-week-2/42027
**Category:** Book Clubs
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/danmachi-volume-1-week-2/42027 "2020-02-17T09:06:46Z")
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### Author: ![Kurei\_0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kurei_0/32/308358_2.png) [@Kurei\_0](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kurei_0)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/danmachi-volume-1-week-2/42027/4 "2020-02-24T11:34:55Z")

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Didn’t know this week’s discussion even existed 😅

Anyway, found this while looking it up:  
[Reading does not match Kanji](https://community.wanikani.com/t/reading-does-not-match-kanji-but-is-not-ateji-either-i-think/28510)

As I thought, it’s just a new degree of freedom that Japanese people have. The kanji mean one thing and the voice/kana have another meaning. You can put the two together for a new, combined and unique meaning.

I am following a shounen anime currently airing ( Mairimashita ! Iruma-kun) and it’s full of kanji being replaced with other kanji that sound the same but are demonic/hellish. And then there’s villains having weird kanji that are related to death (死) etc. that I doubt anyone would choose for their own children.

As I said the Japanese language has one more degree of freedom than our poor phonetic languages, I think it’s something we should always keep in mind.

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