Title: Innocent Future
Circle: Hachimitsu-Lemon
Vocal: バル (baru)
Lyrics: 海兎 (kaito), 青時 (seiji)
Arrangement: CleanTears
Album: Light Night Beat DX
Release Date: Dec 29, 2014 (C87)
Requested By: Alexej Koltchanov
Title: Innocent Future
Circle: Hachimitsu-Lemon
Vocal: バル (baru)
Lyrics: 海兎 (kaito), 青時 (seiji)
Arrangement: CleanTears
Album: Light Night Beat DX
Release Date: Dec 29, 2014 (C87)
Requested By: Alexej Koltchanov
Title: thaumaturge
Circle: Hachimitsu-Lemon
Vocal: バル (baru)
Lyrics: 海兎 (kaito)
Arrangement: CleanTears
Album: Light Night Beat 4
Release Date: Aug 14, 2015 (C88)
Requested By: Alexej Koltchanov
Title: Hop-o’-My-Thumb
Circle: Hachimitsu-Lemon
Vocal: ゆーな (yuuna)
Lyrics: 海兎(Kaito), 黒岩サトシ (Satoshi Kuroiwa)
Arrangement: あいざわ(Aizawa), CleanTears
Album: Light Night Beat 3
Release Date: Dec 30, 2013 (C85)
Requested By: Alexej Koltchanov
It’s been a long time since I’ve received a request to do a Touhou doujin translation. Here’s a short but good one from 2013 inspiring you to change the world no matter how small you are.
Title: オズネイ・ハマンはもういらない (I Don’t Need Any Oznei Haman Anymore/No More Hamantaschen)
Circle: ShibayanRecords
Vocal: yana
Lyrics: 深水チエ
Arrangement: Shibayan
Release Date: October 30, 2011 (M3 28)
When this song first came out in 2011, I had absolutely no command of the Japanese language but I knew this song was a keeper. I spend a lot more time by driving alone listening to all of my old Touhou albums and the words of this song (I was listening to the CYTOKINE remix) started to become clearer and clearer. Now that I’ve come back to it after more than a decade, I realized how much this song fits Shou Toramaru. Touhou music is truly the gift that keeps giving.
Title: Eternal Knowledge
Circle: T. Piacere/Eternal Melody
Vocal: 黒崎朔夜 (Sakuya Kurosaki)
Lyrics: 葵 (Aoi)
Arrangement: 葵 (Aoi)
Release Date: Aug 11, 2012 (C82)
Requested By: JULIOCESAR
A Locked Girl vocal arrange from 2012 that got lost in time. IT was originally released under by T. Piacere in the golden age (2009-2014) when Touhou Project was the #1 doujin series with over 2,000 circles every Comiket. T. Piacere disbanded in 2014 and the singer created a new circle, Eternal Melody. This song was released again in 2017 under the circle Eternal Melody. It would be their last Touhou album.
This is a simpler song from a simpler time. The song is about Patchouli Knowledge describing how she feels when she reads her books, locking herself away from the outside world and diving into the colorful ocean of knowledge found in ancient history.
During my recent trip to Japan, I went to purchase a bunch of Touhou vocal albums like I usually do. I own more albums than I can possibly translate in my spare time, but I figured that I should keep tabs on what albums I own just in case others want the lyrics sheets or to request translations.
Artist | Album | Event |
Unlucky Morpheus | Hypothetical Box ACT3 | C96 |
FELT | Star piece | C96 |
Alstroemeria Records | OVERRIDE DANCEHALL | C96 |
Hatsunetsumiko’s | Fairyness | C96 |
Shoujo Fractal | 夢色プレリュード | C96 |
TAMAONSEN | TOSX TOKYO at clubasia | C96 |
IRON ATTACK! | BLUE faith | C96 |
IRON ATTACK! | RED justice | C96 |
TAMUSIC | 東方四重奏 Holy | C96 |
Amateras Records | Shining Destiny the instrumental | C96 |
BUTAOTOME | 獄 | C96 |
Amateras Records | Farewell Flower the instrumental | RTS16 |
Yuuhei Satellite | ゼロへ旅立てるのなら | RTS16 |
Hatsunetsumiko’s | SLOW | RTS16 |
Unlucky Morpheus | 並行時空の音楽会 | RTS16 |
Yonder Voice | 蛍標 | RTS16 |
~xi-on~ | FREESIA -フリージア- | RTS16 |
Shibayan Records | TOHO BOSSA NOVA 8 | M3-43 |
ZYTOKINE | CRYMEARIVER | C95 |
N+ | spill over | C95 |
Pizuya’s Cell | イベント・ホライゾン | RTS15 |
Karento | 妄信に淫す | RTS15 |
Artist | Album | Event |
Artist | Album | Event |
Title: 終焉の太陽 (The Sun of Demise)
Circle: 帝國交響楽団 (Empire Ensemble)
Vocal: 青砥雫 (℃iel)
Lyrics: kyrie
Arrangement: 羽鳥風画 (Fuuga Hatori)
Release Date: Aug 10, 2018 (C94)
Requested By: Crossy Aidae
An deceptively long song, probably the most sections (18) I’ve ever done a translation for. This song is an arrange for the battle against the Abyssal Jellyfish Princess, possibly known to be the abyssal form of USS Saratoga. Saratoga and several other American ships (who I believed to be the ghostly chorus in this song) were sunk during the Abel and Baker nuclear bomb tests after the end of WW2, despite being decorated and celebrated warships. The song also makes references to voices lines during the encounter with Abyssal Jellyfish Princess. The Sun of Demise is quite assuredly a references to a nuclear explosion.
Title: 極光の迎撃戦線 (The Aurora’s Counter-Offensive Front)
Circle: 帝國交響楽団 (Empire Ensemble)
Vocal: 青砥雫 (Shizuka Aoto)
Lyrics: kyrie
Arrangement: Hull
Release Date: Aug 13, 2016 (C90)
Requested By: Eriq Affandi
Overshadowed by Chata’s powerful performance on this album’s “燃え落ちる誇り (Pride That Burns Away) – Counter raid another D” are 7 other unfortunate songs that will never get as much recognition. Further making matters worse, the album doesn’t contain a lyric book like most albums do. As usual per request, I tried my best to transcribe the lyrics, but hopefully someone will correct any errors. The song appears to be about nobody in particular, but Kancolle in general.
Title: ワタシケンシ (I am Kenshi)
Circle: 森羅万象 (ShinRa-Bansho)
Vocal: あやぽんず* (Ayaponzu*)
Lyrics: azuki
Arrangement: kaztora
Release Date: Dec 30, 2018
It took 7 years for me to find a Youmu arrange that I like, and it turned out to be one of the longest and most lyrically advanced song I’ve ever come across. This song relies a lot on wordplay like homophones in order to drive the story’s narrative. I don’t think I’ve figured it all out yet, but I gave it a shot and I’ll come revisit this translation down the line later once I’m more fluent. The song appears to be about Youmu’s journey to finding out her true self. She started by waiting for others to tell her what she is, but discovered that it was up to her to determine her own identity out of other things that sound similar.
Title: Twosome
Circle: はちみつれもん (Hachimitsu-Lemon)
Vocal: ゆーな (Yuuna)
Lyrics: あいざわ (Aizawa)
Arrangement: CleanTears
Release Date: October 14, 2018
There haven’t been too many arranges recently where I get the urge to translate it myself. That’s not to say Touhou music quality or quantity has dropped recently, I think arranges in general have been getting more creative and 2018 has been a pretty good year. However, my exposure to Touhou music in my daily life has dropped since the heydays of 2012. My shelves are lined with untouched albums that I just don’t have the time to listen to due to life and work, and all of my translation requests lately have come from my viewers. But every now and then, I come across something posted by Nitori, Alice, or Mayumi and I know exactly what album to buy next time I’m in Japan. I have to admit my latest guilty pleasure of the Yorigami Sister’s theme, Egoist Flowers (and I love Shion’s character too), so Light Night Beat 8 is definitely going on that list. Thanks to Mr. Deagle for supplying me with the lyrics.
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