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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Happy New Year, O Readers! is something I should've said yesterday (technically, earlier today), but it slipped my mind. So I'm saying it now. Ahaha... Speaking of "now," let's jump right in to it! The title track "THIS IS NOW" ended up having more to it than I had initially thought. I recommend reading straight …
I'm once again about to start another series of Igu translations, this time taking it back to 2016's THIS IS NOW. Since "DREAM RIDER" is being used to promote exist†trace's participation in the Gynophobia Festival—it's not what it sounds like—and because it's the lead single, I decided to start from this track rather than from …
Warped Frost 