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 …
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 …
"ROUGE" is the second track on VANGUARD - Of the Muses - and the last track I have left to translate from that release! Woo! Unfortunately, miko hasn't written anything about this song on her blog; I only found posts that mentioned it in set lists. So I won't be able to share any officially …
Happy early June Igu Day! It's now time for the last song that is solely on Ambivalent Symphony, "Wrath." It's not the last track on the EP; that would be "'Owari no Nai Sekai'," which was also on Twin Gate, so I'd posted the translation for it already. As far as I could find, there …
Kinda wish I had this done in time for Earth Day even though it's not particularly about the environment. If anything, we can probably put this into the "Songs based on fairy tales" category along with "GINGER." This song has been in my head for like a whole week now. (Before that it was Matthew …
Happy April Igu Day! Well, I'll probably go ahead and post this on the 18th. We can celebrate a little early. LOL Anyway, with this song in particular, I think it helps to keep the title in mind. The lyrics are contradictory, but they're supposed to be. Lyrics in Japanese can be found here on …
I posted a translation of this song yesterday based on the lyrics as I heard them only, since official lyrics haven't been published online and my digital copy of The Only Garden and the "Existence" single didn't come with liner notes. Reader Silphion was gracious enough to show me the liner notes from his physical …
UPDATE (4/11/2021) A million thanks to Silphion for showing me the liner notes! I wasn't too far off, but there are several things that I can correct now so I've made a separate post for the updated translation. I'm leaving this here because it's fun to see what I got right, wrong, and why. I'm …
Warped Frost 