Long introduction. Jump to lyrics here. I've really been enjoying The Only Garden and was thinking of jumping to a few tracks from there, but it seems lyrics have not been officially released to online sites, and since I bought the EP from iTunes I don't have the liner notes. Assuming the physical copy came …
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Same Character
Or, How It Started How It's Going, 24 Years of Drawing Sephiroth And I guess I'm counting 2020 as being over given my math up there. ^o^; I'd change it here too if I could edit my tweet about it. Things I realized putting this collage together: I apparently became a Sephiroth fan before playing …
Dressed to SLAY
If this isn't done now, it's not gonna be. XD As with the preview post before this, the images contained here might be slightly NSFW, assuming your workplace wouldn't be too keen on you looking at muscular men only slightly less scantily clad than He-man. So don't scroll any further, O ye people at work! …
Preview -Ready to SLAY-
I've been working on this on and off for a whole week. Mostly off. I couldn't quite get into a groove. But then tonight, when I should be making my usual attempt to flip back to a daytime schedule before having to go back to work, I stayed up all night, coloring for six hours …
exist†trace – SORA
Happy August Igu Day! Finally, we come to the last song on VIRGIN, "SORA." Sound-wise, this song is very fitting to close out an album; it sounds like an ending theme. That, along with the soaring melody, remind me of "Calling" by Kyosuke Himuro, which was used as the ending theme to the original Advent …
exist†trace – I feel you
Edit, July 20, 2021: I've written an updated version of this post, which includes a translation of a miko blog I hadn't read when I initially posted this translation. The translation itself is almost entirely the same; the change I did make I had already written as a possible interpretation in the footnotes here. I'm …
Sephiroth Candidate Dresses 3/3
¡Spoiler Warning for the original Final Fantasy VII and Remake! To avoid writing spoilerific things right at the top, let me start with a slight tangent. When I was in elementary school, I asked my mother to buy me a three-book set of How to Draw books from the Scholastic catalog. While I don't remember …
exist†trace – KISS IN THE DARK
I happened to notice that this is my 100th post. ^o^ It's been a while since I said this, but I mostly don't post the lyrics in Japanese text anymore because technically you're supposed to have permission to do that; the sites I link to do. I request that people not copy-paste my translations into …
exist†trace – Anata
I don't know why I was thinking that The Only Garden was coming out on the 20th, it comes out today, the 29th. Of course. Anyway, I'm almost through all the songs on VIRGIN! Woo! One of the harder things for monolingual, native English speakers to grasp about the Japanese language is that subjects are …
Sephiroth’s Journey Through Fukuoka
One time for my 30th birthday my friends and I stepped out from dinner at the Fukuoka Hard Rock Café, which back then was across from Yahoo! Dome and next to Zepp Fukuoka and Hawks Town Mall, and saw a balloon artist with a sign that said he could make anything. A friend suggested I …
Warped Frost 