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At the end of the translated version of the first chapter of Sakamoto Desu
Ga?, Sakamoto agrees to write a report, provided he can write it "in cursive":

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/A7s3R.png)

Given that the manga is set in Japan, I assume the report will be in Japanese.
However, I'm not exactly sure what is meant by cursive Japanese. According to
[wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Cursive_Chinese), cursive
(sōsho, 草書) is rare in Japanese, though it's more common in Chinese. Of
course, cursive is a particular style of
[calligraphy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy), but
calligraphy includes more than just cursive, and clerical script (reisho, 隸書)
would seem more appropriate for a report like this (though perhaps less
awesome).

In the original Japanese text, was Sakamoto really saying that he was going to
write in Japanese cursive, or just with handwritten calligraphy (or maybe even
English cursive)?


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Did Sakamoto really write in cursive?


In the manga, he says "筆記体" which literally means "note-taking style," which
is typically used to describe [cursive
writing](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%86%E8%A8%98%E4%BD%93)... in
English. So he's implying that the report will be in cursive English.

![It's cursive!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ksTrt.png)


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