Hello, I just started reading this manga and I found this character that I couldn’t read.
Only later I saw this character again and realized it is と after trying my best to make sense of the sentence.
A picture of the word: https://ibb.co/SJMZqs1
It kind of looks like と, but the stroke is a bit different, it feels like the word was written with 1 stroke while と if written like how we type it, requires 2 stroke.
Just wondering, are と always written like this in real life? Or only in certain type of literature? Is there a specific way of calling writing like this, and is there other hiragana/katakana that have a different writing?
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Just emulating connecting the strokes when you write a bit fast. You can see the first two strokes of 私 are connected too
[Might help if you see how と is written in 崩し字](http://codh.rois.ac.jp/char-shape/unicode/U+3068/) (which are sometimes not too far off from practical native handwriting) as well.
It is written that “和也と外にいたから連れて来たの” I brought her in because she was outside with Kazuya.
In manga, the author’s own handwritten text is used for small lines that do not fit in the speech balloons or that do not need to be in speech balloons. If you search for “マンガ” and “手書き文字” in an image search, you can see many examples.
youll often see そ written a bit different here and there. Sometimes し will be just a straight line with no curve. but in general handwriting will often cut corners and do multiple strokes without lifting the writing utensil. Hiragana and katakana arent so bad but every once in a while i see some handwritten kanji that are nearly unrecognizable
It’s just a japanese handwriting. People often can’t read doctor’s notes, but somehow assume all japanese write well and legible 🙂
That’s how you’d write it in 1 stroke when you’re too lazy to pick up your pen.