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I won’t be posting Japanese music lyric translations for a while. I sort of ended my run too. I planned to post 10 of these. I post every Friday until the there are 10. The feedback has been quite positive so far, but last week, I posted number 10.

So this week, there’s nothing. I decide to post some credits instead.

I listen to some Japanese songs, some of which have rather strange lyrics, so I posted them. I never did translations, I do not understand Japanese. I took lyric translations from fan pages etc. Sometimes, the web fails me and I ended up typing the lyrics out by copying the subtitles from the video clip.

The songs come from different sources, I shan’t talk much about it, lol. Some came from video clips. I use m&g Software’s AVI to WAV extractor 3.5 to extract out the sound from the video. [The software is free by the way.]

For song cropping, normalizing of volumes and fading in and out, I use either Ahead Nero Wave Editor or Sonic Foundry Sound Forge. Both are good programs, I use the latter more though.

Songs are encoded in Windows Media Audio 9 for smaller downloads at a quality loss. I use Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to encode all my music. [This is a free software too.] Windows Media Audio sounds best at lower bit rates as compared to other formats.

Some posts include still image captures, these are captured by Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series. [This is another free software.] Images are later cropped or edited by Macromedia Fireworks. [Photoshop committed suicide, great..]

These are the past postings [Most of the music are removed already, sorry.]

# music//ichi [Ayumi Hamasaki - Real Me]
# music//ni [Yukino Satsuki - Densetsu no Onsen GAME (Legendary Hot-Springs Turtle)]
# music//san [NICEGUYJIN - Hai, Irasshai! (Hello, Welcome!)]
# music//shi [Funta - Wake Up Angel ~ Negaimashite wa Mugen Nari ~ (Wake Up Angel ~ Wishing for this is unlimited ~)]
# music//go [Aoi Tada - Wo Qui Non Coin]
# music//roku [Yuuichirou Sakuraba - Hitoribocchi no Haburashi (Lonely Toothbrush)]
# music//shichi [Gackt - To build a fire (To feel a fire)]
# music//hachi [Judy and Mary - Kujira 12 gou (Whale #12)]
# music//ku [Maki Goto - Genshoku GAL Hadeni Ikube! (An Authentic GAL Should Be Bold)]
# music//ju [MiniMoni - Okashi Tsukutte Okassui (Making Sweets: Strange)]

I enjoyed posting these. I’ll do these weekly posting thingy in future too.

Yesterday, I posted a quote that has been posted a day before. I forgotten to change it to a new one in my template. Opps.

Last Friday, I posted something about Ayumi Hamasaki’s lyrics. The posting is titled “music//ichi“. If you’re wonder what “ichi” is, it means “one”. And today, this posting is titled “music//ni”, I don’t think it’ll take you long to figure it’s number two now.

I plan to write one of these posting every Friday until I reach “music//ju” with “ju” meaning “ten”. After blogging for 5 months, I am starting to run out of ideas on certain days. I simply have nothing in my mind. Focusing on a weekly subject gives a good start. Perhaps those who have writers block right now can try something like that.

Anyway, today, I’ll do the same. The song is titled “Densetsu no Onsen”, translated to be er.. “Legendary Hot Springs Turtle”. Sang by Yukino Satsuki, taken from the soundtracks of Love Hina, a Japanese cartoon.

Densetsu no Onsen GAME [Legendary Hot-Springs Turtle]

dete okure dete okure watashi no
negaigoto mo sono koora o hito kosureba kanau
[Come out! Come out! The things we
wish for, if we rub this shell once, they will come true.]
KAME yo!
[The turtle!]

tonde yuke tonde yuke miyutto nai te
sono ryote o PATAPATA sase asu no yume ni mukau
[Fly away! Fly away! Cry out and
make those two hands shake and head towards the dreams of tomorrow.]
KAME yo!
[The turtle!]

sachi okure sachi okure tsurai toki mo
sono tsuminaki mata egao ni namida ga dechaimasu
[Have fortune! Have fortune! Even times of pain,
that guilt becomes a smile again. The tears are coming out.]
KAME yo!
[The turtle!]

Sources: Hinastar.com

Okay, this got to be the craziest lyrics so far. Actually, so far there’s only two such postings, so there’s not much to compare. I mean even the title “Legendary Hot Springs Turtle” itself is amusing already. I like the “KAMA yo!” which means “The turtle!”.

This is how the song sounds like. The tune sounds like one of those I-love-my-motherland Chinese songs. Listening to it makes me want to join the Chinese wars to fight the Mongols off the border [that's a long time ago]. The singing reminds of sounds like Japanese folk singing. Just imagingYukino (the singer) singing in her silliest and most confused voice. Her singing pauses with a chunk of Japanese text will sounds “sexily silly”. With constant staccatos in her singing and slow rock background, I rate this song The Most Amusing Tune I heard.