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I was reading the wikia of an anime and I found this,

Red Riot Unbreakable 烈怒頼雄斗安無嶺過武瑠 (レッドライオットアンブレイカブル) (Reddo Raiotto
Anbureikaburu)

The name of a technique "Reddo Raiotto Anbureikaburu" based in the english
words "Red Riot Unbreakable" are written with the kanjis 烈怒頼雄斗安無嶺過武瑠. I
thought foreign words were always written with katakana but this isnt the
case. When are foreign language words written into japanese using kanjis?
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kanji katakana loanwords
When are foreign language based words written with kanjis?
That is _Ateji_. Foreign words are usually written with katakana, but
sometimes are written with phonetic equivalent kanjis.

Names of foreign countries are often written with kanjis in newspaper. For
example, the phonetic equivalent of アメリカ (America) is 亜米利加 (A-mei-ri-ka). When
newspapers are writing about America, they just take the second letter and
write 米国 (米-country) or just 米 when there is no worry about confusion with
米(rice). You can see similar expressions in the headlines of Yahoo! news
(<https://news.yahoo.co.jp/list/?c=world>).

Let's go on to the given example 烈怒頼雄斗安無嶺過武瑠. "Red Riot Unbreakable" is almost
always written with katakana. However, this is written with kanjis because
this looks cooler and stronger. Many of the kanjis used in this word is not
only phonetic equivalents but also has meanings related with strength. 烈 means
intense, 怒 means angry, 雄 means brave, and so on. Another example is 夜露死苦
(yoroshiku) which literally means night-dew-death-suffer but the meaning of
よろしく is just "Nice to meet you".
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This is something that can be called a 暴走族風当て字, which is explained in this
question: [Origin of 夜露死苦?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/15138/5010)

You can see more examples here:

  * [【夜露死苦】ヤンキー漢字クイズ10連発！ 全部読めたらエリートヤンキーに認定ッ!!](https://rocketnews24.com/2017/08/02/935899/)
  * [「魔苦怒奈流怒」読めます？昭和ヤンキーは漢字で書く！](https://woman.mynavi.jp/article/141118-26/)
  * [暴走族文字変換](http://vxvxv.net/tool/conv_zok.php) (online converter, _Stack Exchange_ is 棲汰苦獲苦棲血炎慈)

They often wore coats full of difficult kanji [like
this](https://search.yahoo.co.jp/image/search?p=%E7%89%B9%E6%94%BB%E6%9C%8D+%E6%9A%B4%E8%B5%B0%E6%97%8F&aq=-1&oq=&ei=UTF-8).
This type of creative ateji is basically unique to the 暴走族/ヤンキー culture in the
Showa era. Today, almost no young people do this seriously any more, but you
may still see this type of ateji in fiction. The [user of
安無嶺過武瑠](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E5%88%87%E5%B3%B6%E9%8B%AD%E5%85%90%E9%83%8E)
is not directly related to 暴走族, but this ateji seems to symbolize his rough
but mannish and upright character.
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