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Is Shikigami another word for Tsukaima, or do they mean different things?

>> No.1105532

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C

>> No.1105556

They both basically mean familiar, but shikigami are what onmyouji (look it up) use and tsukaima are what other, especially more Western, magic users use.

..is what I think. I've only come across tsukaima in light novels and stuff - which admittedly may be telling in itself - so I'm not entirely sure about it. But anyway, I don't know how to make the distinction in English without using the Japanese words, so they are the same kind of thing in essence, just different styles. Something like that.

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>>1105556
Thank you. I had a feeling the distinction was subtle.

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