For this song, there are several places where the lyrics as presented on Rock Lyric differ from what’s actually sung. However, due to the nature of the differences, I don’t believe these to be typos (save for maybe the extra “wa” in the first line); these are probably cases of the the sung & written … Continue reading
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exist†trace — Just One
This track is actually harder to translate because of the way it mixes Japanese and English. After reading miko’s blog about it, I’ve chosen to interpret it as for the most part the English words are about the unnamed “you” confronting the woman (the singers). There are places where the subject is really unclear, however. … Continue reading
exist†trace—DIAMOND
I love how Jyou is almost doing the GACKT “Mizerable” dance in this video. Anyway, I’ve been relying on the website Rock Lyric for the Japanese lyrics to exist†trace songs, as VIRGIN is the only album I have a physical copy (and thus the liner notes) of. By default, copying & printing is blocked on … Continue reading
exist†trace — Spiral Daisakusen
Perhaps the only thing I like more than art is making fun of art. It comes from a place of love. ♡ When I was looking for skeleton keys for a piece (which ended up in this exhibit </shameless plug>), I bought a pack of keys with two designs. One had a crown, and the … Continue reading
A Request
I have some text in the side bar to the right there that says “A Request”. It reads: “So far I’ve tackled some really long translation projects, and given how much work I put into them, I want these translations to stay exclusively on Warped Frost. Especially GACKT’s Air Moon! I’m glad if people read … Continue reading
exist†trace — ANTIQUE DOLL
Just taking a little break from my usual translation work to bring you what is perhaps my favorite track from exist†trace’s album World Maker. One long term project of mine is to translate every exist†trace song I have, which is to say over 40 songs. Unfortunately, I only have a hard copy of one of … Continue reading
Writing Footnotes with HTML
When I decided to translate a really long GACKT interview, I was faced with the problem of how to add the notes & translation notes. The ideal solution was citations like those found on Wikipedia, e.g. numbers in the text that link directly to the footnote at the bottom of the page, and those notes … Continue reading
Frost Forming
I first started posting artwork online on a GeoCities site back in 1998. Ten years later I got my first WordPress blog. In the past few years, my Japanese ability has become such that I dared to post translations on WP. I’ve been thinking of gathering up the best of all this art & translation … Continue reading
