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 …
This is a bit of a deviation from my usual fan translation fare, but I see it when I'm scrolling down my iTunes Music Library on my way to exist†trace, so I figured I could translate this too. As passionate as this song is, my main memory of it is not being able to get …
I missed Igu day, but March 20th is Omi's birthday, so I thought it appropriate to do an exist†trace translation anyway. I picked "Requiem," which unbeknownst to me when I picked it, was written by Omi. Not that it's particularly appropriate for a birthday, but... (苦笑) The lyrics in Japanese are on Rock Lyric. Now, …
This song may sound like a slightly dark fairy tale if you're only listening to it, and to the album version at that, where miko's ultra nasal high-pitched singing makes you think of a little 8-year-old girl. But if you read the lyrics as written in the liner notes, it turns into a tale fit …
Continue reading exist†trace — Ritoru Mearii to Utsukushiki Nikushimi no Donau
A super-belated Happy New Year, O Readers! ^_^; Below are the lyrics, romanization, and my English translation of this beautiful track from Vanguard - Of the Muses. At the very bottom is a translation of part of a miko blog entry where she talks about this song. ☆ Lost in Helix 水面に浮かぶ満月を 見上げる身体の無い意思よ 巡る周期をただ待ち焦がれ 何度天を仰いだだろう 月は満ち繰り返す 生と死を永遠に 私は今 再び生まれる …
This track is actually harder to translate because of the way it mixes Japanese and English. After reading miko's blog about it, I've chosen to interpret it as for the most part the English words are about the unnamed "you" confronting the woman (the singers). There are places where the subject is really unclear, however. …
Perhaps the only thing I like more than art is making fun of art. It comes from a place of love. ♡ When I was looking for skeleton keys for a piece (which ended up in this exhibit </shameless plug>), I bought a pack of keys with two designs. One had a crown, and the …
This post picks up where the previous one left off in the retelling of the 2002 live house tour, continuing on to the stops in Hiroshima, Osaka, and Tokyo. If you have yet to read the earlier portions, please go to the Table of Contents. I must confess that I'm translating reading only about 5 …
If you haven't read Chapter 1 yet, you can find it here. Chapter 2 is fairly long at 70+ pages. The book splits the chapter contents by date, but as that would create too many short posts, I've decided to instead create several parts that each cover two or three dates. This part will cover …
The Air Moon 〜Hakuchū no Tsuki〜 is a book published by Sony Magazines in 2004 detailing GACKT's MOON PROJECT from 2001-2003; in other words, covering the time of the albums MOON and Crescent, as well as the movie MOON CHILD. The book was written by HIROSE Mitsuru (広瀬充) who had been writing about GACKT since …
Warped Frost 