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Trying to identify Japanese font on old game cartridge

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Hi! I'm trying to (narrow down my search) in order to identify an unusual typeface on a 1991 Japanese game cartridge.

 

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It's basically Maru Gothic, but with line weights on certain characters (ト く & に) for example.

Already looked in Adobe fonts, fontworks.co.jp and myfonts.com and not yet seen anything close.

Any ideas?

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Close...but no banana. The ku く character is very distinct. (Look at the top and bottom half in terms of line weight)

 

After going down a rabbit hole yesterday... I came up with:

Just because it was around thirty years ago doesn't automatically mean it'll still be around today.  =

It might still exist - but in a back catalog such as Shaken fonts which will take more time to compare and contrast.

 

I'll keep looking - just because

A) it's still bugging me ( and it needs to be found!)

B) it's very different.

 

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