Why don't they pay someone to make a very similar looking font? Font design is not protected by copyright, and most fonts are also not protected by design patents as far as I know.

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eloisant 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Because there are more than 2000 characters in Japanese, making a font is a huge work.

	▲	djmips an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Can it be done for $20,000? Or if that's too low then multiple game studios should team up.