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Originally Posted by DreamSword

I mean, translate all those symbols for me and I'll have no problem reading the runes on Growing, Mighty, Rising Mighty, and Amazing Mighty for you.

I think the way it works, those bits are actually consistent across all the Mighty variations? As for translations, I swear I remember seeing a scene flash up subtitles for all of them in Shout's subs, but I can't remember where for the life of me, and there is *a lot* of footage of Sakurako's computer screen in that show to sort through.

The phrases themselves are easy enough for me to figure out now that I understand where they all come from, fortunately, since the show did that work for me. They basically just describe Kuuga's function in whatever form. According to this very handy page I found, since the text in that screencap is hard to read, the one for Mighty Form is something like "The warrior (Kuuga) who wears the stone of hope to strike down evil like flame".

Or something, anyway. It's also worth noting that even though the show provides translations to Japanese, each individual Linto character represents a concept by itself, broadly like kanji, but it's not a direct, 1:1 thing. The bit about flame is part of a sort of elemental association shtick between all the forms, and the characters representing those (the sixth in each phrase, for referenece) are also what's written on the hand pads of the Rising forms. Mighty is flame, Dragon is water, Pegasus is wind, Titan is ground (technically more like an earthquake), and Amazing Mighty seems to get the character for lightning, straight out of the prophetic warning about Ultimate Form (it's the one right after the four-horned Kuuga/warrior mark).

I'm basically learning most of this as I'm typing it, by the way. It's seriously crazy I wrote as much about Kuuga as I did and there's still all these layers to unpack.

Feel free to dig around those pages I linked with Google Translate turned on or something, by the way. I'm sure the results will be rough in spots, but it's chock-full of everything you could ever want to know about the Linto writing system, from a full list of both the kana-equivalent phonetic characters and the kanji-esque ideographic ones I've been talking about, to even a page dedicated to explaining how the shapes signify the concepts they represent. Very informative stuff! I was not aware the Linto character for "god" was a person with beetle horns until seeing that page! I'll have to look over it in more detail myself sometime.