#bless milgram wiki for having screenshots of the songs in their gallery

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so a while back, i wrote a post about shidou and mahiru's names and how, if you remove the wood kanji, each word reflects their character. the person who discovered this deleted their socials (sob sob) so i figured i'd post it here for archiving!

thank you so much to @doctorbunny for their corrections and additions!!

01. Haruka 櫻 -> 嬰 Sharp Music Note, Infant * infant used in words as infanticide as opposed to regular baby stuff

02. Yuno 樫 -> 堅 Strong, Resolute

03. Fuuta 梶 -> 尾 Tail, End *potentially a reference to his cowardly nature. in backdraft there's a pun where fuuta sings, "hey mouse, say cheese!"

04. Mu 楠 -> 南 South *mu is often represented by the number four (her number code, four friends, four desks, four lockers, etc)

05. Shidou 桐 -> 同 Same *appears in the lyrics: 同じ 重さにはなれない -> “Throw down”, someone’s value cannot be the same as another

06. Mahiru 椎-> 隹 Old Bird *hinako's name is spelt 雛子 with the same radical and means chick/duckling and child

05. Kazui 椋 -> 京 Capital (City) *gonna be honest i have no clue what this means in relation to kazui

08. Amane 桃 -> 兆 Omen

09. Mikoto 榧 -> 匪 Negation, Wicked Person *to quote doctorbunny "[this] is used in many bandit words as well as 匪躬 which means 'self sacrificing service' which means 'to be loyal to one's lord or nation without regards for oneself' This could describe Mikoto's experience with work but Interestingly the name kanji in 'Mikoto' 尊 means lord/highness

010. Kotoko 杠 -> 工 Labour, Work