JoJo Stratton released 7 codes in the WoTD posts spanning from April 5 to April 11, 2016. These posts have a common theme, Japanese Animation.

April 5 – Weltschmerz
[1] 4 Eyes Hana no Ko Lunlun Haikara-san ga Tooru Tsurikichi Sanpei 3 Choume no Tama Uchi no Tama Shirimasenka? Yattodetaman Onegai! Samia Don Obake no Q-Tarou Asari-chan La Seine no Hoshi Hiatari Ryoukou! Ark Nine Hikari no Densetsu 009 Re:Cyborg Mahou Tsukai Chappy

April 6 – Declension
[2] GeronimoChangGreatIvanGreatAlbertGreatIvanGeronimoJetPyunmaJetChangJoeChangPyunmaPyunmaGeronimoChangGreatChangJoePyunmaFrancoiseGeronimoIvanGreatGeronimoGeronimoJetGreatAlbert

April 7 – Entoptic Phenomenon
[3] 兄さん Portgas D. Ace Ryohei Sasagawa Edward Elric Seita Yokokawa Sui Takishima Seita Yokokawa Lenalee Lee Illumi Zoldyck Komui Lee Rukia Kuchiki Rin Okumura Mokuba Kaiba Edward Elric Kyoko Sasagawa Ichigo Kurosaki Son Gohan Alphonse Elric Rukia Kuchik Sui Takishima Seto Kaiba Kei Takishima Komui Lee Sasuke Uchiha Son Goten Setsuko Yokokawa Yukio Okumura Rin Okumura Illumi Zoldyck Byakuya Kuchiki Son Gohan Seto Kaiba Rin Okumura Monkey D. Luffy Itachi Uchiha Alphonse Elric Edward Elric Ryohei Sasagawa Kei Takishima Ichigo Kurosaki Son Gohan Seto Kaiba Yukio Okumura Killua Zoldyck Karin Kurosaki Mokuba Kaiba

April 9 – Haidinger’s Brush
[4] amijarakat needier uopnar sretnuhtnemele adru norag oharubam inawegak suriv mrotserif nesuotikki arahagihcada onaccab naihtrae kcoldnal edisffo uoustuknag iugosu aruyamat rotisiv 2/1amnar akirpap ibias ihsaruguokkag ustakkag ieruhcu scitcat daerdnav nohpexhar

April 10 – Phosphene
[5] One Piece / Trigun / Bleach / Soul Eater / Naruto / Kljyan Revolutionary Girl Utena / Sailormoon / Natsume Yuujinchou / Peach Girl / Rose of Versailles / cvtidf Parasyte / Gantz / Black Lagoon / Fullmetal Panic! / Blood: The Last Vampire / yvmnrvswm Nana / Nodame Cantabile / Higashi no Eden / Chihayafuru / Kuragehime / ocmvz Mahou Tsukai Chappy / Tamagotchi! / Doraemon / Zenmai Zamurai / Daisuki! Hello Kitty / dvusqp

April 10 – Schreerer’s Phenomenon
[6] Kyū Uchiha Flame Formation Sexy Jutsu Vibrant Display of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms San 4VhbwT Grand Crimson Lotus Ice Ring Go Reduce All Creation to Ash San Earth Release: Earth and Stone Bamboo Shoot

April 11 – Prisoner’s Cinema
[7]Only_YesterdayNausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_WindPorco_RossoPrincess_MononokeWhisper_of_the_HeartPom_PokoPom_PokoKiki's_Delivery_ServiceOnly_YesterdayPorco_RossoPom_PokoGrave_of_the_FirefliesPorco_RossoOnly_YesterdayPom_PokoWhisper_of_the_HeartPom_PokoWhisper_of_the_HeartPorco_RossoOnly_YesterdayPom_PokoGrave_of_the_FirefliesPom_PokoNausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_WindOnly_YesterdayNausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_WindPom_PokoWhisper_of_the_HeartOnly_YesterdayCastle_in_the_SkyPorco_RossoOnly_Yesterday

Code #1

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4 Eyes Hana no Ko Lunlun Haikara-san ga Tooru Tsurikichi Sanpei 3 Choume no Tama Uchi no Tama Shirimasenka? Yattodetaman Onegai! Samia Don Obake no Q-Tarou Asari-chan La Seine no Hoshi Hiatari Ryoukou! Ark Nine Hikari no Densetsu 009 Re:Cyborg Mahou Tsukai Chappy

[hint]Numbers use a different cipher than the letters, perhaps for a reason.[/hint]

Assuming standard WoTD passcode format and each show representing one character in the passcode the numbers would be
4 Eyes 3 Choume no Tama Uchi no Tama Shirimasenka? Ark Nine 009 Re:Cyborg

All of which have numbers in the name, so just let those be the numbers themselves. There is no obvious way to pick letters from the rest of the shows, so perhaps letters use a different cipher than numbers. Also unusual is all these shows are old, nothing from the past 25 years. If we write out the year they came out in we get

79 78 80 81 85 65 82 75 87 86 72

And convert from DEC to ASCII we get

4ONP3QUARKW9V9H

Code #2

Observations

GeronimoChangGreatIvanGreatAlbertGreatIvanGeronimoJetPyunmaJetChangJoeChangPyunmaPyunmaGeronimoChangGreatChangJoePyunmaFrancoiseGeronimoIvanGreatGeronimoGeronimoJetGreatAlbert

[hint]If you don’t recognize it, Google will[/hint]

If you google ‘Geronimo Chang Great Ivan’ it will lead you to the list of Cyborg 009 characters. Each of the names matches one of the nine 00 cyborgs, replacing each name by their respective number gives

56717471528269688567698351755274

Pairs and DEC to ASCII

8GJG4REDUCES3K4J

Code #3

Observations

兄さん Portgas D. Ace Ryohei Sasagawa Edward Elric Seita Yokokawa Sui Takishima Seita Yokokawa Lenalee Lee Illumi Zoldyck Komui Lee Rukia Kuchiki Rin Okumura Mokuba Kaiba Edward Elric Kyoko Sasagawa Ichigo Kurosaki Son Gohan Alphonse Elric Rukia Kuchik Sui Takishima Seto Kaiba Kei Takishima Komui Lee Sasuke Uchiha Son Goten Setsuko Yokokawa Yukio Okumura Rin Okumura Illumi Zoldyck Byakuya Kuchiki Son Gohan Seto Kaiba Rin Okumura Monkey D. Luffy Itachi Uchiha Alphonse Elric Edward Elric Ryohei Sasagawa Kei Takishima Ichigo Kurosaki Son Gohan Seto Kaiba Yukio Okumura Killua Zoldyck Karin Kurosaki Mokuba Kaiba

Entering in 兄さん into google translate gives ‘Older brother’

[hint]Where the new lines are is important[/hint]

Each of the characters in the code have a sibling, with the hint ‘Older brother’ take the older siblings to be 1’s and the younger siblings to be 0’s.

1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

If we assume standard WoTD format the numbers are all 5 long and the letters are 4 or less. Looks very much like morse. Convert 1 to – and 0 to . then decrypt the morse we get

9YRY3NIW9Y9S

Code #4

Observations

amijarakat needier uopnar sretnuhtnemele adru norag oharubam inawegak suriv mrotserif nesuotikki arahagihcada onaccab naihtrae kcoldnal edisffo uoustuknag iugosu aruyamat rotisiv 2/1amnar akirpap ibias ihsaruguokkag ustakkag ieruhcu scitcat daerdnav nohpexhar

These sound weird and Google hasn’t heard of any of them, maybe the names are encrypted.

[hint]You do not need to Google anything, all the information is right here just with some extra letters attached.[/hint]

Reverse the code

rahxephon vandread tactics uchurei gakkatsu gakkougurashi saibi paprika ranma1/2 visitor tamayura usogui gankutsuou offside landlock earthian baccano adachigahara ikkitousen firestorm virus kagewani maburaho garon urda elementhunters ranpou reideen takarajima

There are 29 shows listed so it is likely that each show is one letter and numbers are spelt out. The most obvious would be the first letter of each show.

rvtuggsprvtugolebaifvkmguerrt

Maybe a cipher on top of it? Atbash? No. RotX? Yup, X=13.

eighttfceightbyronvsixzthreeg

8tfc8byronv6z3g

Code #5

Observations

One Piece / Trigun / Bleach / Soul Eater / Naruto / Kljyan Revolutionary Girl Utena / Sailormoon / Natsume Yuujinchou / Peach Girl / Rose of Versailles / cvtidf Parasyte / Gantz / Black Lagoon / Fullmetal Panic! / Blood: The Last Vampire / yvmnrvswm Nana / Nodame Cantabile / Higashi no Eden / Chihayafuru / Kuragehime / ocmvz Mahou Tsukai Chappy / Tamagotchi! / Doraemon / Zenmai Zamurai / Daisuki! Hello Kitty / dvusqp

The letters on the end are weird, they appear to be encrypted and are 32 of them. 32 letters fits well with spelt out numbers on standard WoTD format. It is likely that those letters are the code and have some encryption on them.

[hint]Similar shows are on the same rows[/hint]

Similar shows are on similar rows, taking the first row and spelling out some of the similarities we get things like

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fighting, Shounen

Vigenere is the most common cipher that works with letters being decrypted by a word. Decrypting the letters on the end with a Vigenere cipher using these words gives

kjqqma, kiounu, ixxuxp, fddrhf, sevenj

The last one fits exactly what we were expecting, using that we can figure that the rest of the vigeneres will be Shoujo, Seinen, Josei and Kodomo. Applying normal Vigenere to the letters we get

sevenj kofour greaniase fourr threeb

7jko4greaniase4r3b

Code #6

Observations

Kyū Uchiha Flame Formation Sexy Jutsu Vibrant Display of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms San 4VhbwT Grand Crimson Lotus Ice Ring Go Reduce All Creation to Ash San Earth Release: Earth and Stone Bamboo Shoot

Numbers are just standard numbers 9353.

[hint]

goo.gl/4VhbwT

Also why would numbers be a different cipher, maybe a hint?[/hint]

In what we assume to be the keyword spot we see 4VhbwT, going to goo.gl/4VhbwT we end up at ‘Calling Your Attacks’. Attack is a keyword and is probably the keyword for this code, if not we can come back to it.

Numbers are spelt out phonetically but assuming standard WoTD passcode format the letters are all attack names. First we try the first letters of each attack with no success. Next the users of the attack, no success either. Looking at the numbers, they are spelt out phonetically where as attacks were translated. How about we try spelling out the attacks phonetically instead of having them translated.

Uchiha Kaenjin / Oiroke no Jutsu / Senbonzakura / Daiguren Hyōrinmaru / banshō issai kaijin to nase / Doton: Dosekidake

Taking the first letters of those and putting them into the code we get

9uos3attackd5b3d

Code #7

Observations

Only_YesterdayNausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_WindPorco_RossoPrincess_MononokeWhisper_of_the_HeartPom_PokoPom_PokoKiki's_Delivery_ServiceOnly_YesterdayPorco_RossoPom_PokoGrave_of_the_FirefliesPorco_RossoOnly_YesterdayPom_PokoWhisper_of_the_HeartPom_PokoWhisper_of_the_HeartPorco_RossoOnly_YesterdayPom_PokoGrave_of_the_FirefliesPom_PokoNausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_WindOnly_YesterdayNausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_WindPom_PokoWhisper_of_the_HeartOnly_YesterdayCastle_in_the_SkyPorco_RossoOnly_Yesterday

32 total, 9 unique animated films fit well with DEC to ASCII.

[hint]Where did these films come from? Or more specifically who.[/hint]

All the films are made by Studio Ghibli.
In the list we see 8 of the 9 films inside the code, but not Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Reading above the table we see that Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was created before the studio was officially founded and can such attribute 0 to it.
Replacing film names with their respective numbers, we get:

50698774567265787865727050785165

Pairs and DEC to ASCII

2EWJ8HANNAHF2N3A

WoTD – Anime theme – April 5th – April 11 2016

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