Do the symbols that appear in the OP of Sasami-san@Ganbaranai mean anything?


The OP starts out with this list of symbols that look like a table of kanas,
except that some of those symbols are used more than once:

[![Symbols used in the OP that resemble kana/kanji
characters](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s3ntF.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s3ntF.jpg)

Many later scenes in the opening sequence can also be found to have a single,
repeated symbol accompanying them:

[![OP thumbnails
1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPN3P.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPN3P.jpg)
[![OP thumbnails
2](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmTnW.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmTnW.jpg)

Does the first image spell out an intelligible sentence in any language? And
do the single, repeated symbols accompanying the later scenes signify
anything?




The characters look very similar to Jindai moji [(Encyclopedia of Shinto
link)](http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1225)
[(Japanese Wikipedia
link)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E4%BB%A3%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97).

![Woshite base
table](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Japanese_Wosite_Base_48_table.svg)
(Image taken from [Talk:Jindai
moji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jindai_moji) page on Wikipedia)

These characters are theorized to have been Japan's character system before
Chinese characters were introduced.

If I go through that table for the first image you show and match the
characters (with help from the matching done by the article that @senshin
posted), that gives me

[code]

    ツ(tsu) ヰ(wi)  ヲ(wo)  ソ(so) マ(ma) ？     カ(ka) 〜      エ(e)
    ノ(no)  ゴ(go)  ト(to)  ハ(ha) ア(a)  ク(ku) テ(te) ロ(ro)  コ(ko)
    エ(r)   タ(ta)  ナ(na)  ソ(so) ル(ru) イ(i)  ア(a)  シ(shi) サ(sa)
    サ(sa)  メ(me)  ゴ(go)  ハ(ha) ク(ku) ロ(ro) フ(fu) ツ(tsu) ヲ(wo)
    リ(ri)  ヰ(wi)  ソ(so)  ？     〜     ミ(mi) ス(su) ウ(u)   ガ(gu)
    
[/code]

My Japanese is not very strong, but I don't get any relevant results when
looking any consecutive substrings of those characters up on
[Jisho](http://jisho.org/) (a Japanese-English online dictionary) or Google
Translate.

I don't believe that the characters have any special meaning here.




The characters look very similar to Jindai moji [(Encyclopedia of Shinto
link)](http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1225)
[(Japanese Wikipedia
link)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E4%BB%A3%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97).

![Woshite base
table](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Japanese_Wosite_Base_48_table.svg)
(Image taken from [Talk:Jindai
moji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jindai_moji) page on Wikipedia)

These characters are theorized to have been Japan's character system before
Chinese characters were introduced.

If I go through that table for the first image you show and match the
characters (with help from the matching done by the article that @senshin
posted), that gives me

[code]

    ツ(tsu) ヰ(wi)  ヲ(wo)  ソ(so) マ(ma) ？     カ(ka) 〜      エ(e)
    ノ(no)  ゴ(go)  ト(to)  ハ(ha) ア(a)  ク(ku) テ(te) ロ(ro)  コ(ko)
    エ(r)   タ(ta)  ナ(na)  ソ(so) ル(ru) イ(i)  ア(a)  シ(shi) サ(sa)
    サ(sa)  メ(me)  ゴ(go)  ハ(ha) ク(ku) ロ(ro) フ(fu) ツ(tsu) ヲ(wo)
    リ(ri)  ヰ(wi)  ソ(so)  ？     〜     ミ(mi) ス(su) ウ(u)   ガ(gu)
    
[/code]

My Japanese is not very strong, but I don't get any relevant results when
looking any consecutive substrings of those characters up on
[Jisho](http://jisho.org/) (a Japanese-English online dictionary) or Google
Translate.

I don't believe that the characters have any special meaning here.

