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It's the same word: 化け(る) bake(ru) means "change, transform, alter, corrupt". So a monster is ''o-bake'', "something which has been changed [into a monster]".
by rippercushions 4y ago
It's the same word: 化け(る) bake(ru) means "change, transform, alter, corrupt". So a monster is ''o-bake'', "something which has been changed [into a monster]".
That said, no, most Japanese would not associate ''mojibake'' with "character monsters", it's just "altered characters".
- franciscop 4y agoAh nice, thanks for the clarification! Does that "altered" have the connotation of "corrupt" here? Or it could be altered in any generic way?