While I was in Japan, I was introduced to Hilcrhyme by a friend who said she'd seen a video with this singer who looked like Axel from Kingdom Hearts. The video in question was "Daijoubu." Much to my amusement, the similarity was certainly there, at least in terms of his build and hairstyle. Hilchryme consists …
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The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 4
It's Memorial Day weekend! While I physically did not go anywhere (unless you count repeatedly walking up and down the Detroit International Riverfront), I did take a break from all my usual duties. But enough about me. This post covers two stops, one in Sendai and one in Gunma. First-time visitors are encouraged to start …
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 …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 3
Slowly we inch closer to the halfway mark of The Air Moon. Very slowly, as I will most likely not have time for this again until May. For the earlier parts, please see the Table of Contents. I'm not sure if I've brought this up before, but the part of concerts where the artist stops …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 2
Well, I said I'd post the next chunk in late December and here we are on the last day of the month. The New Year has already reached some parts of the globe, but as the eastern United States is still six hours away from joining the party, I've kept my word. ^o^ Speaking of …
exist†trace – Yume ni Kisu wo
I have several notebooks labelled 歌詞ノート, (kashi nooto) "Lyric Notebook," in which I hand-write the lyrics to Japanese songs I like. Perhaps this isn't a popular opinion these days, but I'm a huge proponent of writing in order to learn how to read. It doesn't matter whether you write with a pencil on paper or …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 1
The first part of this Chapter was actually labelled "Part 0." Please check the Table of Contents for earlier parts. ☆ October 12, 2002 Toda City Culture Hall (Dress Rehearsal) In preparation for the show on the 14th, the staff had already gotten all the equipment set up inside the hall yesterday. Now, they awaited …
The Air Moon Ch. 4: Kagen no Tsuki, Part 0
We've arrived at the longest chapter of The Air Moon, Chapter 4: Kagen no Tsuki. This bad boy comes in at 84 pages! Given its length (and also the fact that I'm much busier now), I've decided to take this chapter at smaller chunks at a time than I did with the live house tour …
The Air Moon Chapter 3: Taiwan
While this chapter is titled "Taiwan," it mostly consists of an interview with Gackt about MOON CHILD. Of course, the topic of Taiwan and traveling abroad does come up, and the interview was conducted there. I had so far avoided putting hyperlinks to other sites (e.g. Wikipedia) directly into the translated text. On the one hand, …
The Air Moon Ch. 2: Live House Tour Part 5
Finally, we come to the last part of the story of the 2002 live house tour. As always, new readers are encouraged to start from the beginning. This time, we'll journey through Nagano, Toyama, Yamagata, and Sendai, and celebrate Gackt's 29th birthday! So, on with the show! ☆ July 2, 2002 Nagano CLUB JUNK BOX …
Warped Frost 