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So Miku's speech bubble in the upper left has the same pattern of text that I assumed was mojibake in the commentary of post #7739202, with odd kanji like 縺 蜉 繧 interspersed with half-width kana and other symbols. Following the reply to my comment there, I tried a mojibake decoder to no avail, and looking for similar text, I see it in a bunch of Vocaloid song titles, wiki-pages, etc, but no clear explanation for how they work.

Does anyone who's used Vocaloid and knows what this is have any pointers to decoding this sort of thing?

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    縺ヲ縺ィ蜉ゥ縺代※繧

    てと助けて�
    Teto, help me

    Note that some of the mojibake kana are not only half-width but the small form as well. It's harder to see in the image so you have to play around a bit with things like that.

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    luntoer said:

    Note that some of the mojibake kana are not only half-width but the small form as well. It's harder to see in the image so you have to play around a bit with things like that.

    Ah, I see. I tried it again and noted that I needed to put in the encodings manually (Shift-JIS to UTF-8). I was previously using the "guess encodings" feature and getting garbled output which lead me to believe that it wasn't normal mojibake. Thanks for the help!

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