Deciphering handwritten phrase and its meaning In the series, we see sketches drawn by the director of the anime that are generally humorous rewrites of a scene in the previous episode. ! In the ninth sketch (image above), we see Satoru chasing after the car in the foreground after Kayo is taken away to protective custody with her grandmother. I can read the first two phrases, but the last one is hard to read: > Kayo's grandmother: > Kayo: > Yashiro-sensei: ()? Is this right? Even then, what does it mean? I can't seem to make sense of in this context.

That's not , that's . See, there's a single vertical line all the way through it, and the looks like a .

Fluent readers use context in reading, and can often read words even if a let_er is missing. The more words you learn, the more your brain will be able to match patterns accurately, regardless of how they're written. In this case, if you know the colloquial borrowing 'all right', then you should be able to recognize here as being the same word with emphatic lengthening.