It's been a few years since I saw the book, but the total number of glyphs seemed a lot closer to (for example) the number of hiragana + katakana than the numbe

It's been a few years since I saw the book, but the total number of glyphs seemed a lot closer to (for example) the number of hiragana + katakana than the number of kanji. (Also, I don't know if you picked just French at random, but Serafini is Italian.)