Maaya’s latest album You can’t catch me was just released a few days ago. The best song in the new album is by far Utsukushii Hito, a collaboration with Yoko Kanno for the Kentoushi Fune Saigen Project at last year’s Shanghai World Expo. The exhibition itself was basically a replica of a ship used during the Tang Dynasty to bring Japanese envoys to China and Utsukushii Hito was the official theme song for the project. Maaya performed it live at the ship’s departure ceremony from Osaka but didn’t actually show up at the Expo.

Lyrics and translation after the break.

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Macross Frontier has become one of the few joys left in my life, that and Team Fortress 2. Exams are just around the corner and I don’t have time to do much else. How I miss the carefree days of WoWing away the weekends. Anyway, the new OP/ED single is finally here! It’s awesome! And episode 20 was awesome too! Diamond Crevasse has received a sentimental power up. Sheryl is back. <3

Also, lyrics transliteration/translation for Lion and Northern Cross are up.

P.S. Tony Taka’s C74 release “Nanto Iu Deculture!” is a Macross F release. It’s a bit Ranka-heavy due to his preference for lolis, but the art is really nice. I can’t show you the rest of it because this blog is self-rated NC-16.

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I hereby declare Macross Frontier OST 1 to be the animé soundtrack of the year, and all upcoming titles for the remaining half of the year shall have to live in shame knowing that they will never live up to the greatness that is this collection of pure awesome. It’s so good that I translated half the songs on it already.

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Oh my god! It’s finally here! The Holy Grail! The first song that Maaya and her former mentor Yoko Kanno have worked together on in almost half a decade!

Triangler is the first opening song for Macross Frontier. Lyrics translation and fanboying after the break.

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Dancing in the velvet moon is one of the songs on Nana Mizuki’s new mini album STARCAMP EP, and it also happens to be the ED theme to Rosario + Vampire‘s unbearably fanservicy anime adaptation, which, I shall once again take the opportunity to remind everyone, is a travesty to the awesome page-turner that is the original manga.

Lyrics translation and more fanboying after the break.

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Ash Like Snow is the second OP theme to Gundam 00. I was never a fan of the brilliant green and I still think that this song doesn’t feel OP-ish, but the lyrics are great and the booklet art has Tomoko sitting on Kaneda’s bike while holding an orange Haro, and that’s pretty awesome in my book.

Lyrics translation and more after the break.

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So anyway, I translated the full lyrics of Stephanie’s latest song Friends, which also happens to be the ending theme to a certain super robot anime that shall remain unnamed. I like this song.

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I’m sorry I said all those mean things to you. I thought you lost your way, but after watching episode 2 and 3, I realized that you were just holding back your true powers in order to give us a pleasant surprise. I hope you will find it in your heart to forgive my foolish impudence. I swear that you will forever remain awesome in my book from this day on.

Love,
DM

P.S. As part of my apology, I translated your awesomerific opening theme song, “disarm dreamer” by Aki Misato. Please see the attachments. (Virus-free I promise.)

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Utada Hikaru – Beautiful World

Beautiful World by Utada Hikaru is the theme song of the new Rebuild of Evangelion movie. I personally think that it’s her best and most awesome song ever, but maybe the relationship to Evangelion is clouding my judgement. I fell in love with this song after watching the movie trailer on YouTube. Hikki performed this song live on yesterday’s Music Station. I translated the lyrics, available here. Why do I always start translating things when my exams draw close? Sigh.

YouTube video embedded after the break.

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Because the whole database and PHP interface for the lyrics section were thrown together haphazardly by me some time ago, I now have absolutely zero idea what all the original code does. So instead of modifying existing functions, the PHP backend for the RSS feed is almost completely new and full of redundant code. Yay!

On another note, the latest song added was Inori～You Raise Me Up by Lena Park. I have yet to translate the song, but the romaji is done. Translation is done.

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