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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Happy April Igu Day! Well, I'll probably go ahead and post this on the 18th. We can celebrate a little early. LOL Anyway, with this song in particular, I think it helps to keep the title in mind. The lyrics are contradictory, but they're supposed to be. Lyrics in Japanese can be found here on …
I posted a translation of this song yesterday based on the lyrics as I heard them only, since official lyrics haven't been published online and my digital copy of The Only Garden and the "Existence" single didn't come with liner notes. Reader Silphion was gracious enough to show me the liner notes from his physical …
UPDATE (4/11/2021) A million thanks to Silphion for showing me the liner notes! I wasn't too far off, but there are several things that I can correct now so I've made a separate post for the updated translation. I'm leaving this here because it's fun to see what I got right, wrong, and why. I'm …
Warped Frost 