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by FalconSensei 974 days ago
> Even then, midori was considered a shade of ao. As you can imagine, this sudden switch-over had lasting effects in Japan. One of the most popular forms of Japanese wordplay is numeric substitution—writing numerals in place of words or letters with the same phonetic value.

Mad that they just add the numbers thing there, but never mention if there's a number play with green/blue