But why would a monster be in heaven?
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I tried each individual name (because of the “first step of many” part) as well as the order from Wikipedia (“Leonardo Donatello Michelangelo Raphael”). I don’t have time to try the rest myself.
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I don’t think there actually will be one, I just said what I’d do if there was
But I’m secretly hoping there actually is one
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I wonder whether the difference between You and I is that you is second person and I is first person.
乙 is second both in meaning and in the placement in the clue.
It is also (as a kanji) level 57, which didn’t exist in the beginning when there were just 50 levels.
Maybe it’s the odd one out and then we’re left with
六泣競薬
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If we find the four keywords, the order should be obvious. I don’t think we’re supposed to try 24 different permutations.
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That’s good points.
All other kanjis in the clue (apart from 乙) are also pretty low level (less than 20), which makes it stand out even more.
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I think whatever the theme is, the words are all going to have some ordinal value such that they can be ordered ascending or descending. The time might be a clue to order chronologically.
It could still be something cyclical, so we’d have to figure out what the first one was. ex. four seasons - could start with any of them, but summer, winter, x, x is wrong.
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No, the monster was us all along.
I’m guessing you’ve never read the book I’m refering to. It’s a literature classic. 
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I just looked at these again and:
六乙泣競薬
乙 is the only one in the group that is a radical as well as being a Kanji. (“Different type”?) Just for kicks I tried using the other four values as-is for the password (六泣競薬) but it didn’t work.
whoo there are a lot. Off the top of my head,
four corner
wubi
SKIP…
well, I’ll jist link the wikipedia page Chinese input methods for computers - Wikipedia
A few of those have their codes listed in WWWJDIC. I’ll try to copy/paste them side by side for comparison in a bit. Edit: oh someone already did the hard part in the wiki. Thanks!
I really don’t think that’s it, but it’s a start. There’s nothing wrong with brainstorming, and it might trigger another idea.
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Oh, thank you for the reference, I didn’t have it.
I only know about Sesame Street from far away, so I’m missing many things I guess 
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Oh, I just added them (not side by side) to the wiki as reference (based on your suggestion, if I remember well?)
A side by side could be interesting, indeed.
That’s your problem, watching dubs *booooohissss
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Oh, don’t get me wrong, I normally watch subs. The dub just happened to be airing on free-to-air TV here.
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I jest 
I read they were converting Oracle Bone Script into Unicode though I don’t if this a reality or even helpful. Is there a Oracle Bone Script translator that could trace back each original kanji?
Here are some tidbits from a Etymological Dictionary of Han/Chinese Characters that might give some ideas:
六 (4) ロク;む;むい;む(つ)
A depiction of a tall mound that curves in stretching at length. Six is a borrowed meaning.
坴 was originally 六 (mound that stretches at length) doubled → a stretch of land. 陸 is 坴# + 阜
piled earth → land winding far, wide and high → plateau; winding; jump up
六 (originally, 入 enter)
乙 (1) オツ;イツ
乙 appears in dual-element characters such as 軋, 亂 and 札 in the form 乚.
(rise and hit a blocking element)
泣 (8) キュウ;な(かす・かせる・く)
As per 立# (exert continuous downward pressure) + 水 water → teardrops pressing on the cheeks → cry; sob; weep → moan; regret.
競 (20) キョウ;ケイ;きそ(う);せ(る)
The relevant seal inscription form is 誩# + 从. 誩 is 言 words (doubled) → verbal disputation. 从 is
a variant form of 従 (people in close formation). The combination of elements suggests verbal competition → compete → auction.
藥 (18) ヤク;くすり Shinjitai 薬 (16)
As per 樂# (acorns) + 艸 grass/plant → grind acorns into a paste-like consistency → medicine;
drug (← finely ground acorns, seeds, roots etc. used for medicinal purposes).
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Probably not relevant but I was looking up anything to do with times in those kanjis definitions.
Obviously six is six and implys June but there was also 六つ時 (archaism) (approximately) 6 o’clock (am or pm) and 乙夜 (archaism) second division of the night (approximately 9pm to 11pm. 乙 is also the second sign of the Chinese calendar apparently.
Oh, and I read a summary of a chapter from The sound and the fury since that’s what you get if you Google ‘June second’. So like, I don’t think I got anywhere useful but I’m learning indirectly lols.
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This is the solution… We convert from unicode, and set fire to everything and find the answer!
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That would strengthen your theory.
Combining with “…this is only the first step of many.”
And “ …I believe that this isn’t a place for Disciples of the Crabigator…”
If I’m not mistaken the reason Japan started to use writing was Zen Buddhism scripture, I might be wrong… probably am.
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Yeah I might have a look at them on Tuesday when I have day off and see if any of the languages fit the hints. The last hint used ‘shift’ to hint that what language we needed, shift-JIS so maybe something else fits.