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 …
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 …
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 …
¡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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Happy July Igu Day! It's July 20th in Japan, so the new mini album The Only Garden should be out now. I'm seeing a single called "Existence" available on the US iTunes store that has the same cover art. Wonder if we'll get the mini album tomorrow. Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Unlike …
This is the song that made me an exist†trace fan. Like "Unforgive You" from Twin Gate, this song's lyrics seem so specific to me. I thought it had to be about some specific event, or perhaps some particular law or practice within society. Who are the hypocrites and the good people who stand by and do …
This song reminds me of the character image songs from Gundam Wing. Though given miko's love for Sailor Moon, maybe that's the "senshi" (soldier) she was thinking of. I've opted not to do a full translation of miko's blog post for this song, because a lot of it is about a show they were preparing …
Warped Frost 