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 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
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Code #1
Observations
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
[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.
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
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
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
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: