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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?


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theme-song sasami-san-ganbaranai
Do the symbols that appear in the OP of Sasami-san@Ganbaranai mean 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.


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