私の生きた証拠

Third song translation to date.

TVアニメ　「ガンパレード・オーケストラ」　エンディングテーマ
ふたりが忘れない

歌：美郷あき
作詞：畑　亜貴
作編曲：飯塚昌明

TV anime [Gunparade Orchestra] Ending Theme
Futari ga Wasurenai (We Won’t Forget)

Vocal: Misato Aki
Lyrics: Hata Aki
　
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I bring to you my second translation work: ED2, “Koibito Doushi”, from “Ah My Goddess! Sorezore no Tsubasa”.
　
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I am back. And I bring you my first translation work, the tv version of the ED of the anime ‘Tale of Saiunkoku’ or ‘Saiunkoku Monogatari’. Vocals, lyrics and composition are by Tainaka Sachi of Fate/stay night fame.

TVアニメ　「彩雲国物語」　エンディングテーマ
最高の片想い　（TV-size）

歌：　タイナカ　サチ
作詞：　タイナカ　サチ
作曲：　 タイナカ　サチ
編曲：　 藤井　丈司、　小山　晃平

いつもすごく自由なあなたは今
この雨の中どんな夢を追いかけているの
どこかで孤独と戦いながら
涙も我慢してるんだろう

一人でも大丈夫と　あなたも私と同じ
遠回りばかりだけど　なぜかこの道が好きで

幸せだとか嬉しいときは
あなたの事を思い出すから
色鮮やかな季節はきっと
この思い届けてくれる

Itsumo sugoku jiyuu na anata wa ima
Kono ame no naka donna yume wo oikakete iruno
Dokoka de kodoku to tatakai nagara
Namida mo gamanshiterun darou

Hitori de daijoubu to anata mo watashi to onaji
Toomawari bakari dakedo nazeka kono michi ga suki de

Shiawase da toka ureshii toki wa
Anata no koto wo omoidasu kara
Iro azayaka na kisetsu wa kitto
Kono omoi todokete kureru

Normally you were so free in spirit –
What dream might you be chasing after now in this rain?
No matter where you might be battling with loneliness,
You were always holding back your tears, right?

“I’ll be all right even when alone.” You too, are like me
Despite detours everywhere, for some reason, we have taken to this path

In times of happiness or joy,
I’ll remember of you
And I am sure that this season, with its vivid colours,
Will convey these feelings of mine to you

That’s something I’m doing more than a little of these days. In fact, I spend most of my waking hours daydreaming. I even find myself wishing lessons would end quickly so I could get back to daydreaming in peace - and naturally I barely absorb anything from the lesson.

On a slightly separate note, I’m currently in the midst of a little translation project for Hashimoto Miyuki’s 秋色 (Shuushoku), and good lord it’s no joke. 95% of the difficulty comes from deciding where to split a line in terms of meaning, and how to order the words around so the ideas are expressed clearly in English.

Nothing much else is going on, actually. Back to daydreaming for me now, I guess…

Well, school starts in a little more than 3 hours’ time (when I started writing this post). Instead of saying that I am getting end-of-holidays blues, it would be more correct to say that I haven’t quite recovered from the shock of my very lifestyle this whole period we call ‘holidays’.

The first week wasn’t much. Just slacking around and wowing a little, with the rude surprise of having realized (almost way too late) that the UN thingy was on the second week. The second week was spent preparing for the thingy and trying not to fall asleep in the midst of insanely boring debates, though there were several distractions. When the dream really began was when I stepped through the automatic glass doors into Terminal One of Singapore’s Changi International Airport on early Friday morning, the second week.

The ten/eleven days that followed, were quite likely the happiest continuous stretch of time I have ever spent in my life. Going on holiday is good enough, but to go specifically on a shopping trip in the birthplace of the Otaku and the center of the Japanese and anome world, that was unmatched. Come to think of it, I got more of a kick out of LOOKING AT, CHOOSING, and BUYING CDs instead of actually listening to them. Same goes for the kazillion tons of merchandise I lugged across the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean back here.

Well it wouldn’t have been quite as fun if not for the fact that I was travelling with Changxing, a two-time veteran of the Imperial Capital (forgive me, I just watched Sakura Taisen 「サクラ大戦」), and the fact that we went to see things that were actually interesting to otakus and their apprentices. Sure Hakone (箱根) is kind of a detour but an outdoor hot spring (a little like, but still different from the Love Hina version) was still an interesting experience. And I learnt that Japanese ice cream vendors/vending machines/mechas LOVE to advertise the temperature of their propellant ice cream (eg. -10C, -25C).

Seems quite irrelevant at this hour, especially since I have barely done any holiday homework, and havent started packing something resembling a schoolbag.

But never mind.

I suppose I have to pick up the pieces this semester like I always did, but it does seem that with each advancing year I stumble more, as well as START AND END with more baggage, physical and emotional.

The time I spent in Japan was perhaps the longest continuous period of emotional and psychological peace I have had in three years. Now that it has ended, I revert more or less back to my former self. I’ll ultimately end up crying over some scene in some anime rather than over my undone homework and failed tests. And I’m already in high school. Brilliant.

Of late, I often think about a certain female. I would suppose that’s normal given my age and gender, especially if she does seem attractive (at least to me). Well as to my actual feelings I am not quite sure yet, but she (or at least the thought of her) has inspired me in no small way. Perhaps when I am calmer and better prepared I’ll convert that inspiration into something. And I’ll continue to hope that I’ll someday be able to meet her and have something resembling a normal conversation in private. But at this moment, I am harboring no illusions. Well, only in daydreams (and on one occasion an actual dream).

If I ever put the inspiration her existence has granted to use, perhaps I’ll be able to discern my true feelings for her then.

Actually I am feeling utterly confused right now, as my post title suggests. The reasons are multiple in number, and I’ll explain a little.

As everyone knows by now, I am not longer within the borders of the Empire of the Rising Sun, and more specifically, not within the boundaries of human-paradise-on-Earth-provided-you-have-money AKA World-class-A-super-uber-metropolis TOKYO. The trip was way more than I bargained for. Changxing didn’t even seem irritating at all except maybe on two occasions (which was really really strange but I guess good Japanese air, food and loot make everyone saints), and the loot was… well loot lists speak for themselves. (by the way I haven’t opened more than I think 6 or 7 CDs out of all those I bought :3).

Anyway that’s the ‘coming-home-blues’ part of the post. Moving on, in chronological order.

For some unknown reason, or at the very least incapable of description, I SEEM to have developed a little of Horie Yui (堀江由衣) mania. Bearing in mind that I have BARELY heard any of her songs, watched only a FEW anime she voiced, and that it’s a rather sudden thing, I am quite in a bit of a mess fix. Bearing in mind that I am suddenly a bit of a Yui-sama-stalker, I rewatched parts of Love Hina.

For those who do not yet know Naru’s my favorite character. And that’s hardly ever going to change, EVER, since I rewatched parts of Love Hina EXPLICITLY for Yui-sama’s voice. (by the way I am typing this post in between Love Hina episodes). Well, I don’t quite know what to say, but I am in the middle of an effort to collect as many songs of hers as I can.

Well, lastly for now, I am also a little perturbed. I’m practically looping ‘God knows…’ from 涼宮ハルヒの詰合, some sort of insert album.

that’s it for now…

Yeah i’ve been slow getting to this. Not that anyone’s reading, but just for my own reference.

Honestly, I bought too many things. Guess I’ll slowly update this page over some days…

First, categories…

1. CDs/DVDs
2. Comics
3. Novels/ other types of books
4. Character goods
5. Miscellaneous/weird/crazy/whatever stuff

Let’s go!

CDs/DVDs

(singles) - prices listed beside secondhand ones are the original list prices
1. Gundam SEED OP 2 (moment) single by Vivian or Kazuma - secondhand (105 yen / 1223)
2. Gundam SEED OP 4 (Realize) single by Tamaki Nami (玉置成実) - secondhand (300 yen with a promo card with Tamaki Nami’s picture attached / 1223)
3. Gundam SEED ED 3 (FIND THE WAY) single by Nakashima Mika (中島美嘉) - secondhand (400 yen / 1223)
4. TWO COPIES OF Gundam SEED DESTINY ED 1 Single (Reason) by Tamaki Nami (玉置成実) - secondhand (one for 80 yen and the other 420 yen / 1223)
5. Gundam SEED DESTINY OP 2 (Pride) single by High and Mighty Color - secondhand (200 yen / 1223)
6. Gundam SEED DESTINY ED 2 (Life Goes On) by Arisaka Mika (有坂美香) - secondhand (180 yen / 1200)
7. Gundam SEED DESTINY OP 3 (Bokutachi no Yukue 僕たちの行方) by Takahashi Hitomi (高橋瞳) coupled with original first press release Athrun Zala ZAFT service card - secondhand (525 yen / 1223)
8. Gundam SEED DESTINY ED 3 (I Wanna Go To A Place…) by Rie fu coupled with original first press release Stellar Loussier OMNI service card - secondhand (525 yen / 1223)
9. Gundam SEED Destiny OP 4 (Wings of Words) by CHEMISTRY coupled with original first press release Kira Yamato Archangel Security Card - secondhand (525 yen / 1223)
10. TWO COPIES OF Gundam SEED DESTINY ED 4 (Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru 君は僕に似ている) by See-Saw - secondhand (one for 525 yen the other 80 yen / 1200)
11. Gundam SEED DESTINY insert song (Honoo no Tobira 焔の扉) by FictionJunction YUUKA - secondhand (525 yen / 1000)

That rounds up my Gundam SEED/Gundam SEED DESTINY CD purchases. Moving on…
12. TWO COPIES OF ガンパレード．マーチ～新たなる行軍歌～ (Gunparade March: The Series) OP and ED single (Shinjitsu no Tobira 真実の扉) by Ishida Youko (石田曜子) but what I really bought it for is Harada Masumi’s (原田真純) Yami wo Koete (闇を越えて) - secondhand (one for 200 yen the other for 420 yen / 1260) BY THE WAY I WOULD HAVE KILLED TO GET THIS CD BUT I DIDN’T HAVE TO!!!
13. 神無月の巫女 (Kannaduki no Miko) OP and ED single (Re-Sublimity) by KOTOKO (I bought it for the ED ‘agony’)- secondhand (630 yen)
14. 星界の戦旗III OVA ED single (Tenohira no Yume 手のひらの夢) by Shiratori Emiko (白鳥英美子) - NEW for list price of 1260 yen
15. Fate/stay night OP 2 single (Kirameku Namida wa Hoshi ni きらめく涙は星に) by Tainaka Sachi (タイナカ　サチ)　FIRST PRESS coupled with a Fate/stay night card - NEW for list price of 1260 yen
16. 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu) OP Single (Bouken Desho Desho? 冒険でしょでしょ？) by Hirano Aya (平野綾) coupled with a photograph of Aya herself - NEW for list price for 1200 yen)
17. 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu) ED Single (Hare Hare Yukai ハレ晴レユカイ) by Hirano Aya, Chihara Minori and Gotou Yuuko (平野綾、茅原実里、後藤邑子) coupled with a postcard depicting the same pic as the CD cover - NEW for list price of 1200 yen)
18. Strawberry Panic OP single (Shoujo Meiro de Tsukamaete 少女迷路でつかまえて) by Misato Aki (美郷あき) - NEW for list price of 1200 yen
19. Strawberry Panic ED single (Himitsu Dolls 秘密ドールズ) by Nakahara Mai and Shimizu Ai (中原麻衣、清水愛) coupled with DVD music clip - secondhand (1480 yen / 1800)
20. 舞ー乙HiME (Mai-Otome) OP single (Crystal Energy) by Kuribayashi Minami (栗林みな実) - secondhand (735 yen / 1200) - for Yuankang
21. 十二国記 (The Twelve Kingdoms) OP single (Getsumeifuuei 月迷風影) by Arisaka Mika (有坂美香) - secondhand (maybe 500 yen / 1155)
22. 無限のリヴァイアス (Infinite Ryvius) song single (dis- (English version) by Arisaka Mika (有坂美香) - secondhand (714 yen / 1050)
23. Da Capo II OP and ED Single (Da Capo II ～Asakiyumemishi Kimi to～    ダ．カーポII～あさきゆめみし君と～) by yozuca* coupled with ED (Spring has come) by rino - secondhand (840 yen / 1200)
24. 蒼穹のファフナー (Dead Agressor or Fafner) OP and ED 1 single (Shangri-La) by angela - secondhand (400 yen / 1050)
25. 高機動幻想ガンパレード．マーチ (Gunparade March: The Game) Main and Opening Theme single (突撃行軍歌) First press with attached promo material - secondhand (680 yen / 1200)

That’s 28 singles (3 repeats).

Now for albums!!!

1. 魔法先生ネギま！ (Magister Negi Magi) vocal album (May: Konoe Konoka ５月：近衛木乃香) by Konoe Konoka (Nonaka Ai) [近衛木乃香 (野中藍)] coupled with Konoka’s card!!! <3<3<3 - secondhand (2500 yen / 1050)
2. 魔法先生ネギま！ (Magister Negi Magi) vocal album (December: Yukihiro Ayaka １２月：雪広あやか) by Yukihiro Ayaka (Minagawa Junko) [雪広あやか (皆川純子)] coupled with Ayaka's card! - secondhand (1500 yen / 1050)
3. 魔法先生ネギま！ (Magister Negi Magi) vocal album (August: Hasegawa Chisame ８月：長谷川千雨) by Hasegawa Chisame (Shimura Yumi) [長谷川千雨 (志村由美)] coupled with Chisame's card! - secondhand (1500 yen / 1050)
4. School Rumble Vocal Album (Tsukamoto Yakumo 塚本八雲) by Tsukamoto Yakumo (Noto Mamiko) [塚本八雲　(能登麻美子)] coupled with a Yakumo keychain - secondhand (525 yen/ 1575)
5. School Rumble Vocal Album (Sawachika Eri 沢近愛理) by Sawachika Eri (Horie Yui) [沢近愛理　(堀江由衣)] coupled with an Eri keychain and some funny clothy material - secondhand (1050 yen / 2100)
6. School Rumble Vocal Album (Suou Mikoto 周防美琴) by Suou Mikoto (Nabatame Hitomi) [周防美琴　(生天目仁美)] coupled with a Mikoto keychain - secondhand (600 yen / 1575)
7. ガンパレード．マーチ～新たなる行軍歌～ (Gunparade March: The Series) OST coupled with a box for all the related CDs (which I didn't buy) - secondhand (2100 yen / maybe 3000?)
8. Over The Dream (mostly songs from and songs inspired by Infinite Ryvius) by Arisaka Mika (有坂美香) - secondhand but UNOPENED (1449 yen / 2100)
9. sky by Horie Yui (堀江由衣) FIRST PRESS coupled with photo album - secondhand but UNOPENED (1480 yen / 3000)
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion Decade (I bought it for 魂のルフラン by 高橋洋子, of course… :3) - secondhand (maybe 500-800 yen / 2800)
11. overture (Best Album I) by Kuribayashi Minami (栗林みな実) - NEW for list price of 3000 yen
12. passage (Best Album II) by Kuribayashi Minami (栗林みな実) - NEW for list price of 3000 yen

That’s it for albums, and the CD section. A total of 28 singles and 12 albums making a total of 40 separate items.

OMG.

I found 石田曜子’s 「真実の扉」 “single” CD second-hand in a shop, which contains the OP for Gunparade March (something I am kind of crazy about).

But who cares. I don’t like that bitch, nor that song particularly much anyway.

BUT…

IT COMES WITH THE SONG THAT REFLECTS MY SOUL.

If you don’t know what it is, then you’re probably new to me, my blog or just a loser, in which case screw off.

「闇を越えて」。　歌： 原田真純。

Ok I feel like crying. Probably would have if Changxing isn’t around, lol.

If I should die right now listening to the song, it would have been a good life.

I’m seriously not kidding.

On a side note, I bought the bedsheet featuring 朝倉音姫　(Asakura Otome) from Da Capo 2!!!

If you might be interested, do check out Changxing’s blog, which contains many pictures of the trip, including my bedsheet. :3

Oh well.

 Back to playing DC 2.

And by the way, 高橋洋子 sounds REALLY sexy in 「魂のルフラン」, which in case you didn’t know came from the Evangelion series… And, she’s only the second singer on my ’sexy voice’ list, which contains only her and 中原めいこ.

Ok I went a little berserk over the past 2 days. Let’s recap what I did in brief detail…

1. Attended an ero-game (basically what is commonly called Hentai or adult game) promotion event, with a brief scene shown during it… And of course no one noticed that I was obviously under 18. :3

2. Bought 8000+ yen worth of manga in one go in ONE SHOP in Akihabara (the center of the anime world in Tokyo city…), and lugged that bag around for like 4+ hours…

3. Visited a maid cafe and a cosplay cafe (that also features waitresses dressed in maid costumes during certain times of the day), and for the cosplay one, they were then having the ’schoolgirl’ theme, so various school uniforms were worn and paraded around in… Including the one from To Heart 2. And apparently for no reason, there was one waitress wearing a long blonde wig and walking around in the male ZAFT uniform from Gundam SEED DESTINY, looking (or trying to) like that super gay dude from the show. I forgot his name, so don’t ask me. Anyway the melon soda was nice… sort of.

3. Blew (today, the same day as the uber manga buying spree) over 6000 yen on a computer game… that is 2 years old but is new, in a sense. It’s D.C.P.C, or Da Capo Plus Communication. For the uninitated who do not know what that is, stay ignorant and innocent. ^_^

4. Bought the new fate/stay night OP single, 「きらめく涙の星に」 by タイナカ　サチ. Maybe I’ll just buy the D.C. 2 one as well…

5. Bought an Arika figurine (a tiny one) for Yuankang. He’d better like it. Cost me 500 yen, grrr.

6. Went to Cospa and bought a NERV t-shirt. Was uber tempted to buy a towel with a picture of Konoka and Asuna (from Magister Negi Magi, or Negima) printed on it… And of course a bedsheet with a lovely picture of Otome (from D.C. 2) on it!!! >.< Didn’t have money, or rather, not daring to spend it, I resisted the temptation…

Oh well. Must go play D.C. 2, so sianz to blog. Have fun back at home, people!

 Jya!

Despite my vast knowledge, occasions in which I lack knowledge of a specific concept arise frequently. Out of curiosity, I hit up a search on Google for ‘melancholy’, and the Princeton web dictionary gave the following answer: