[Naginoura]

Originally Posted by Sol Falling

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I am definitely curious whether anybody over in Japan managed to figure that riddle out. Zenkichi opened up with a rather minor/complicated thing in bringing up the kanji reading of the last character, but looking over the rest of the message I think all of the other kanji should have had their standard readings. The only real jump in logic, then, was the idea of matching the hiragana characters in the message up with the names of Medaka Box characters. With 42 hiragana syllables and 6 names total, that's on average about ~7 syllables per name. I don't think there's really any logical train of thought that would lead to someone guessing at that possibility; it would have to be just some random flash of insight leading to the correct identification of one name, leading up from there.

On the whole though, great stuff.

People did figure it out. At least up to the 6 names. The moon thing was mentioned, but I didn't see anyone saying "they are going to the moon". Here's an excerpt from a blog post commenting on chapter 151.

次号、31号ではついに暗号の答え発表。
んー。
結局分からんかったのですよねえ。
それっぽいものはネット中にばら撒かれていましたが。
特に全ての文字をアナグラムにして、

雲仙冥加
不知火半袖
鍋島猫美
阿久根高貴
志布志飛沫
飯塚食人

の六人を弾きだしたものには着目したいですね。
これが正しいのだとしたら･･･。