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森羅万象 – ワタシケンシ

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.

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Hachimitsu-Lemon – Twosome

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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Crest – Sail Away

Title: Sail Away
Circle: Crest
Vocal: Lyn-A
Lyrics: Peko
Arrangement: JeetSingh
Release Date: Dec 30, 2013
Requested By: Yohanes Paulus

A very old KanColle arrange from the same year the game was released.  Most fans of KanColle music have heard this song from one place or another, and I’m frankly very surprised that nobody has translated it yet.  If I had to pick an arrange to be the most “2014-sounding” KanColle arrange, I would probably choose this one.  As for the lyrics, the message is pretty straightforward:  Press on, fight for the one you love, don’t give up.

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Pizuya’s Cell – ジキルの愛情実証実験

Title:  ジキルの愛情実証実験 (Jekyll’s Love Verification Test)
Circle: Pizuya’s Cell
Vocal: 普透明度 (Futoumeido)
Lyrics: 虎ヶ咲まなみ (Tora Saki Manami)
Arrangement: pizuya, yuta, hellnian
Release Date: Dec 29, 2016 (C91)
Requested By: Ihsan Bintang Ariaji

A very quick-paced, darker rendition of Hangover of Bedfellows Dreaming Differently.  It’s quite dense in terms of lyrics per bar and transforms the song quite liberally by only preserving the first note of each bar in the main riff and changing up how the song reaches the next bar.  I noticed this trend of transformation happens a lot more as Touhou Circles get older and feel the need to separate with the original composition which bothers some fans.  However, some of my favorite arranges significantly deviate from the original so I actually welcome the change (I feel Hangover of Bedfellows Dreaming Differently is a little harder to arrange in the first place).

The song itself is about someone who constantly fears that her lover doesn’t truly love her back and puts them through tests that she herself knows are cruel and terrible.  The lyrics of the song are joy to read like most songs from Pizuya, which is a bit of a shame due to how crowded they feel in the song.  I also started to mark syllable emphasis in the romaji.

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Touken Ranbu Katsugeki – 灯

Title:  灯 (Akari)
Vocal: 山下誠一郎 (Seiichirou Yamashita) as Yagen Toushirou, 櫻井トオル (Tooru Sakurai) as Tonbokiri
Lyrics: カヨコ (Kayoko)
Arrangement: 村田祐一 (Yuichi Murata)
Release Date:  Aug 23, 2017
Requested By: Crossy Aidae

This song is the duet song for two blades in Touken Ranbu, the Tantou Yagen Toushirou and the Spear Tonbokiri.  The song appears to be about a night after a battle, where the survivors mourn fallen comrades. A very popular BL ship, they are shown several times together in Hanamaru and Katsugeki.   I do not know of any exact historic precedence for the pairing, but the owners of the blades were allies; Yagen Toushirou was used by Oda Nobunaga and Tonbokiri was used by Honda Tadakatsu who served Tokugawa Ieyasu (who served Nobunaga).

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MOSAIC.WAV – ストレス Free Style

Title:  ストレス Free Style (Stress Free Style)
Circle: MOSAIC.WAV
Album: 七三値ぱすかはダイスを振らない!
Vocal:  み~こ
Release Date: Aug 20, 2012 (C82)
Requested By: Jessica H.

I received a request to translate this song from a pretty well known group, MOSIAC.WAV.  I don’t normally listen to denpa since isn’t one of my preferred genres, but this song presented plenty of good challenges in terms of slang terms and anime concepts.  The song itself is about growing up and not being able to find time for entertainment, as well as how media portrayal doesn’t even remotely prepare you for how the world actually is.

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C-CLAYS – 愛しき影法師

Title: 愛しき影法師
Circle: C-CLAYS
Vocal: 小峠 舞 (Mai Kotoge)
Lyrics: 天音未優 (Amane Myu)
Arrangement: あとぐる (Atoguru)
Release Date: Dec 30, 2017
Requested By: Joseph Clemenson

This is a song that I’ve heard a lot but never would have figured out that it was Bismarck’s Image song.  However, I definitely makes more sense once you understand the lyrics.  The song tells of a solemn tale of a girl born for war, departed to foreign seas and cannot go home.  Only the silhouette of something/someone beloved can comfort her as she is laid to rest.

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Touken Ranbu Hanamaru – 一対の火花、秘め事に触れ

Title: 一対の火花、秘め事に触れ (Touch With Your Secrets, Pair of Sparks)
Vocal: 諏訪部順一 (Junichi Suwabe), 山中真尋 (Masahiro Yamanaka)
Arrangement: 滝沢 章 (Akira Takizawa)
Release Date: Feb 2, 2018
Requested By:  Crossy Aidae

My first request for Touken Ranbu, a series about sword boys.  This song is a conversation between two swords who appear to be engaged in “battle”.  The first singer is Kikkou Sadamune, has somewhat of an masochistic personality.   Meanwhile, the second singer is Sengo Muramasa is known to have more of a sadistic personality.  The euphemistic language in strong in the song, with plenty of double meanings bold enough for an amateur like me to spot.

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幽閉サテライト&少女フラクタル – 私という好奇心

Title: 私という好奇心 (The Curiosity That Is Me)
Circle: 幽閉サテライト&少女フラクタル (Yuuhei Satellite & Shoujo Fractal)
Vocal: 天宮みや (Amamiya Miya), 柚木梨沙 (Yuzuki Risa)
Lyrics: かませ虎 (Kamase Tora)
Arrangement: HiZuMi
Release Date:  Dec 21, 2016
Requested By: Kiryu Sento
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A theme song from the game 永遠消失の幻想郷 (The Disappearing of Gensokyo), a very polished-looking fangame by MyACG Studio in collaboration with Yuuhei Satellite and Shoujo Fractal.  I’ll definitely need to pick a physical copy of this game up when I head to Japan in September.

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Kinema106 – ディープブルー

Title: ディープブルー (Deep Blue)
Circle: Kinema106
Vocal: lino
Lyrics: Tom
Arrangement: Tom, jun-jun
Release Date: Sep 9, 2017
Requested By: VocalC Google

My first KanColle request after my hiatus, it’s nice to return to a Kinema106 song (mostly because I know Tom and don’t need to ask permission to repost his videos on my channel).  This song devoted to the Abyssal Jellyfish Princess has all of the awesome hallmarks of a Kinema106 abyssal song:  Striking aggressive dark vocals, English-Japanese wordplay, usage of WW2 codes, and a secret encoded message for us to decipher.  If you want to see another earlier song like this, check out Kinema106 – Rend Ens (which I also translated).

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