Lemorion closed out a milestone announcement for Meccha Chameleon with a jumble of characters, tj9nbハmsに！, and it has left players trying to work out whether it is a hidden message or just noise. The string is real, it appears in official channels, and so far it has no published translation.
Quick answer: There is no confirmed meaning for tj9nbハmsに！. Lemorion has not released a translation or explanation, and no verified decode exists.
Where the tj9nbハmsに string came from
On August 12, Lemorion posted on X that Meccha Chameleon had passed 20 million copies sold. The message was a short thank-you note, and it ended with tj9nbハmsに！. The identical string also shows up in the official 20-million-sales announcement on Steam.
Because the exact same characters appear in two separate places, a typo is unlikely. Someone would have needed to accidentally hit the same unusual sequence of keys twice, in two different posts. A deliberate message is the more reasonable read.
What the characters in tj9nbハmsに actually are
The string mixes three different types of characters. It uses Latin letters, the number 9, and two Japanese kana. Knowing which is which helps explain the different spellings you may have seen, including searches for tj9nbhams and similar variants.
| Character | Type | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| ハ | Katakana | ha |
| に | Hiragana | ni |
If you romanize the two kana, the whole thing reads closer to tj9nbhamsni. That conversion does not produce a clear word or sentence on its own, so the plain reading is not the answer.
Is tj9nbハmsに a cipher?
It looks like one, but that is not confirmed. The deliberate mix of Latin letters, a digit, and two different Japanese scripts could itself be part of the puzzle. A keyboard-layout trick, a substitution cipher, or some other encoding are all plausible directions. None of them has produced a proven solution, so any specific decode is guesswork at this point.
What the message could be teasing
The most likely explanation is that it hints at something coming, though this remains a theory. Lemorion has folded future plans into a sales celebration before. When Meccha Chameleon hit 15 million sales, the Steam announcement told players to get ready for a collaboration with a well-known Japanese star the following week.
The 20-million post is far more cryptic than that, which is exactly why tj9nbハmsに！ reads like something players are meant to crack rather than a plain teaser. A new update or collaboration would fit the pattern, but nothing has been confirmed.
Note: You will only know the real meaning once Lemorion states it directly or a decode is clearly demonstrated against the exact string. Until then, treat any confident “translation” as unverified.
For now the code stands unsolved, and the safest position is to enjoy the guessing while waiting for Lemorion to say what, if anything, tj9nbハmsに！ is pointing to.
