100% facts. Same kanji, five readings, so even native speakers are out here guessing names. And Yubaba yoinking 千尋 down to 千 so chi turns into Sen? Wild. Meanwhile Hangul is lowkey goated. See it, say it, done. No cap.
The worst writing system in the world is Japanese, and it's not close. Even the Japanese know this.
My childhood friend is a Japanese-to-English translator, who's worked in and out of Japan for 50 years and has many stories. He told me about a civil court case in Seattle, in which the attorney asked him how to pronounce a certain Japanese person's name. My friend said, "I don't know." The attorney began to mock his translation skills, and my friend explained that for much of Kanji, you CANNOT know the pronunciation till you hear it spoken.
Oddly enough, the best writing system in the world is just across the sea, in Korea.
In the GIF below, I am showing a short moment in the movie Spirited Away, in which the witch magically removes the second syllable in Chihiro's name. This changes Chihiro's name to "Sen" which of course makes absolutely no sense in any language but Japanese. And frankly, it's insane in Japanese too.