A belated Happy New Year, O Readers! I can't remember why I decided to do this song next and it's not particularly happy, but it was in my drafts so I'm going with it. This song appeared on the 2011 EP True and is the "prequel" to Omi's "Yoake no Hikari." Her blog post about …
This song first appeared on Royal Straight Magic and was also included on the Western release Neo Japanese Heroine. Given the time of year and the title, I was thinking it would be fitting for Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. But I digress. On the occasion of that Western release, miko posted to her blog in English …
Thanksgiving heralds the (un?) official start of the Christmas season. It’s a bright time that can also be depressing depending on what’s going on in your life. So, I thought it fitting to reblog this song. Maybe I’m also thinking of Jason David Frank, AKA Tommy from Power Rangers. He was my first childhood TV crush.
The back of a shirt I have, with a quote by William James reading “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
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 what prompted her to write this song.
Normally, I post translations of miko’s blog posts after the lyrics, but for this song, I think it’s better to do it the other way around.
Right now a lot of people are posting the number to the Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) on social media and such given the passing of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. I’d like to share…
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When I first heard of Inktober, I thought the rules were that you had to draw straight in ink from the get-go, and that you didn't know what each day's prompt was going to be. I don't know why I thought this, but even years after finding out these weren't really the "rules," I still …
Happy September Igu Day! I've had this song in my drafts since July. (^_^;) I hadn't actually started working on it, I just transliterated the lyrics and copied links to the relevant blog posts. And then I went off to do other things. But, well, here we are now! As is written on Archangel Diamond's …
I originally posted these to Twitter, the first page going up in June and the second page in July. My inspiration was that I got a little tired of seeing everyone and their grandma's poodle redraw that one image of Young Sephiroth in the Flames this past summer when Square Enix had the special FFVII …
Today is GACKT's 49th Birthday, wooo! I've been too tired from work to be able to do anything new. But I could at least throw on his records and rock out while putting together a collage of my fanart of him! Happy 49th Birthday, GACKT! This isn't everything, though it is a lot of it. …
Back in 2017, a few months after the release of THIS IS NOW, miko and Jyou did some modeling for fashion brand Civarize. A pair of the garments they modeled featured black & white feather/wing motifs, which also feature in this song. Well, technically the feathers are black on both garments, it's the background that's …
With the release of the compilation album NEO JAPANESE HEROINE, I wanted to do more of the tracks that are on that album specifically. Hence why today I jump to "BLAST," the last track on THIS IS NOW. Songs like this that have a lot of English interspersed can actually be harder to translate, because …
As I was trying to come up with a new site logo that would display well on browser tabs, I came across an article in the Adobe Support Community about making snowflakes in Photoshop. You can read said article here. I ended up making twelve different designs in one sitting following the instructions in the article, …
Warped Frost 