40/ 100
What a Japanese person actually thinksReads as dialogue, not as an inscription. Seven characters with four hiragana — it looks like a line from a script rather than something carved.
Meaning
- Literally
- never + will not give up
- Actually
- 'I will never give up.' Grammatically perfect and completely natural as speech.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Entirely natural Japanese. The problem is register, not correctness.
Coolness●●●●●
Long and script-mixed. Japanese has centuries of compressed four-character idioms for exactly this sentiment — using a spoken sentence instead wastes them.
Watch out
- lowSeven characters is a lot of real estate, and the hiragana will be the first thing to blur.
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On skin
決して諦めない
Orientation: vertical
Mincho if you keep it — but consider the four-character options first.