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 …
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 …
Comic Text For Accessibility Page One, "Forced Perspective" Panel 1 - (We see Sephiroth surrounded by flames.) Unknown speaker: Well, well...what have we here? Panel 2 Unknown speaker: The Demon of Wutai, stuffing his face with carbs. (Zoom out to reveal Young Sephiroth in a trattoria eating spaghetti. His face is stained with red sauce …
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, …
I originally did this in February, but today is a great day to post this here. 😁 Descriptive text follows comic. Enjoy! Panel 1 (Hojo is sitting on the stairs with an acoustic guitar as Lucrecia and Hojo's two fangirls from Costa del Sol, all in makeshift togas, look at him adoringly. Someone's approaching knee …
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Spring had been in the air in southeast Michigan for a few days before winter came back like he forgot something. Still, the spring cleaning bug had bitten me, and that extended to this blog. A few months ago I noticed that my site name wasn't displaying properly on desktop. Instead of saying warpedfrost at …
Back in January, exist†trace chose "Yoake no Hikari" for a performance they made available to all on YouTube for Igu Day, and I started doing this translation then. But then the moment passed and I continued on with tracks from THIS IS NOW. With Omi's birthday having just passed, I figured it was a good time to …
March 7th is miko's birthday, so I thought it appropriate to jump to this track to celebrate! Besides the lyrics, I've translated miko's blog about it, too. Lyrics can be found here on Rock Lyric. ☆ Neo japaniizu hiroin tomaranai kimi wa afuredasu kimi wa honto no kimi neo japaniizu hiroin togatta tsume wo kakushi …
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