Back in early February the world was blessed with what is, to me, the best remix of “One-Winged Angel” since “Advent: One-Winged Angel”: When “The Prelude” comes in tho!!! When I read the line “Sephiroth and his entire gang show up with a boombox” I knew I had to draw it. Originally I thought to …
I started rewatching Gundam Wing yesterday. I absolutely loved it when I first saw it on Cartoon Network twenty years ago. I had forgotten how absurd any lines mentioning Zechs Merquise by name sounded. Like “Zechs is in the atmosphere!” I was like, isn’t that a T-Pain lyric? LMAO But, this show was my introduction …
I became interested in Arabic geometry and zilij around the same time that the “Moroccan trellis” type of quatrefoil pattern started showing up everywhere. I’ve got a camera case, computer screen wipes box, and even a kitty litter mat with variations of this pattern on them. I’m both delighted by the availability of this design, …
The song that most caught my attention on Twin Gate when I first listened to it was “Unforgive You.” It’s such a haunting track, and the specificity of the person described made me wonder who it was written for. Actually, I think that’s how I came to find miko’s blog, as she explains there exactly …
I had bought issue #44 of Rock and Read back when it came out in 2012, solely for the GACKT article. In 2013 I learned of YOHIO through his collaboration with GACKT on the song “Sakura, falling.” It wasn’t until this year, when I sat down to translate the aforementioned GACKT interview, that I realized …
This interview comes from the November 2012 issue of Rock and Read (#44). The interviewer is Ayano NISHIMURA. If you want to share this translation, link directly to this post. Please don’t copy-paste this text, screenshot it, or otherwise take it to post elsewhere. よろしく〜 ☆ GACKT Profile Born July 4th, blood type A, went …
Happy Sweetest Day and early October Igu Day! I actually did most of this translation in early September, but then I got swamped with work and life again. Mostly life. It’s been rough, some things are better while others might be worse, but… I wanted to have at least a few hours wherein my life … Continue reading
I missed Igu Day this month, but I, too, am still not dead. Just dealing with a lot of time-consuming stuff, such as having to buy a new car and figure out how to use it (it’s crazy going from an ’04 to a ’21), making major rearrangements around & repairs to the house because … Continue reading
“ROUGE” is the second track on VANGUARD – Of the Muses – and the last track I have left to translate from that release! Woo! Unfortunately, miko hasn’t written anything about this song on her blog; I only found posts that mentioned it in set lists. So I won’t be able to share any officially … Continue reading
July 5th through 12th was AeriSeph Week. I had an idea for a 4-panel comic but between working on a different piece and dealing with repeated basement flooding—essentially we’ve lost a whole floor of utility & storage space, and are going without a water heater until the foundation can be inspected & repaired—I couldn’t participate … Continue reading
I originally posted this translation in August of 2020. At the time, I knew that miko had done a series of blog posts explaining each track on the album VIRGIN. I didn’t know that she had done the same thing for the tracks on the EP THE LAST DAYBREAK—even though she literally mentioned reader comments … Continue reading
Happy July Igu Day! As explained and cited in my post for “Wrath,” “Hana no Sakanai Machi” and “Wrath” tell the story of the same event from two different characters’ points of view. Here, we have the young man’s version. I searched miko’s blog for any further details on this song, but other than that … Continue reading
This past Memorial Day weekend, there was a flash event called “Local Sephiroth” on Twitter, started by users Kirie and Saku. The premise was to insert Sephiroth into famous places around the world, either where fans lived or had visited. If it hadn’t been for the three-day weekend (here in the States at least) I … Continue reading
Happy early June Igu Day! It’s now time for the last song that is solely on Ambivalent Symphony, “Wrath.” It’s not the last track on the EP; that would be “‘Owari no Nai Sekai’,” which was also on Twin Gate, so I’d posted the translation for it already. As far as I could find, there … Continue reading
Didn’t think I’d make it this Igu Day, but this song is relatively, uh…straightforward. The only thing I’m not 100% sure about is who the subject of the lines is. The pronoun “I” isn’t used anywhere in this song, but the line この手 (kono te, “this hand” or “these hands”) can only refer to an … Continue reading
Kinda wish I had this done in time for Earth Day even though it’s not particularly about the environment. If anything, we can probably put this into the “Songs based on fairy tales” category along with “GINGER.” This song has been in my head for like a whole week now. (Before that it was Matthew … Continue reading
