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One of the more infamous titles in the Guilty Gear series is the oft-maligned four-player endeavour, Guilty Gear Isuka. There's a lot to say about this game - a lot of which I will not be covering. Sure, I have opinions on the game design, the overall package, etcetera, but that's well-worn territory. Maybe some other time.

Instead, I want to focus on the kanji that adorns various parts of the game's iconography: the eponymous 鶍 (isuka).


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Update: according to, uh, the Guilty Gear fandom wiki and a bunch of other unrelated “sources”, “isuka” is apparently the Japanese onomatopoeia for swords clashing. I don’t know how to verify that but hey, whatever you say


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Copied over from an addendum I made to this post without realising that it'd be harder to see next to the original post

Update: according to, uh, the Guilty Gear fandom wiki and a bunch of other unrelated “sources”, “isuka” is apparently the Japanese onomatopoeia for swords clashing. I don’t know how to verify that but hey, whatever you say