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 …
Since I only had one song left to do from The Only Garden, I figured this would be a fitting time to do it and once again give thanks to Silphion for showing me the liner notes from his physical copy of this great EP. I wouldn't have been able to do this anytime soon …
Continue reading exist†trace – POWER OF “ONE” (vocal retake ver.)
Happy November Igu Day! Well, I missed it by an hour in my time zone, but close enough. I have only one note for this song, the fourth track from The Only Garden, and as I don't feel like writing footnotes, I'll say it here. In the lyrics we find the English phrase "Nobody can't …
Happy Sweetest Day and early October Igu Day! I actually did most of this translation in early September, but then I got swamped with work and life again. Mostly life. It's been rough, some things are better while others might be worse, but... I wanted to have at least a few hours wherein my life …
I missed Igu Day this month, but I, too, am still not dead. Just dealing with a lot of time-consuming stuff, such as having to buy a new car and figure out how to use it (it's crazy going from an '04 to a '21), making major rearrangements around & repairs to the house because …
I originally posted this translation in August of 2020. At the time, I knew that miko had done a series of blog posts explaining each track on the album VIRGIN. I didn't know that she had done the same thing for the tracks on the EP THE LAST DAYBREAK—even though she literally mentioned reader comments …
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 …
Warped Frost 