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>>8356062

Actually, they use to (minus the spaces part), Then, China came along and Japan wanted to suck their cock for a bit, so they mashed Kanji into their sentences (once they had them) to be like China. Except, that it doesn't really work that well, so we get the mess that Kanji are (somewhat rectified when they simplified the kanji a few decades ago, but still messy)

If you happen to have Samurai Shamploo around, you'll notice that Fuu actually writes in hiragana exclusively, which was the custom of the time. If you want to see what Japanese was like before the Kanji, look for women's writing from that time.

Also, complicated sentences get hellva hard to read if they're all in hiragana.

Now, if you really want to shit bricks, look at Japanese when they first adopted Kanji. They simply wrote the sentence in straight Chinese, then 'earmarked' the sentence to indicate how to parse it in Japanese. So, one'd end up jumping around the sentence 6 or 7 times just to read it. It was a BITCH.

>>7562120

Which ending did you take? Some of them aren't AS bad, at least Kuchiki ends up living in one of them.

But I do agree, it's very well done.