Category Archives: Anime

Bright Stream

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Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Music: Yoshiki Eriko

3. Bright Stream

The you who is reflected in my eyes, what are you looking at?
Illuminating in the darkness I can’t wipe away, is a beam of light
Even my wounded heart returns to kindness
And a pure radiance unties everything

‘Don’t be afraid,
I am always by your side’
Your voice resounds in my sky

Pure white feathers search for tomorrow
They cross over many nights
Embracing the sadness I hid on my own
With just the number of stars (tears) that overflowed
I definitely believe I can become strong
Because you are here, I won’t cast my eyes down

The me who is reflected in your eyes, what is she thinking of?
In the first warmth I understood, anxiety struck
Before I knew it, the wish that disappeared time after time
Erased even the meaning of ‘honest’

‘I want to be here,
I want to be together forever’
I thought that if I spoke of it, we would lose it again

Pure white dreams seek for freedom
They compose an endless future
Breaking the clock that remains still
I want to convey it to you faster than to anyone else
Opening the door to the truth
I am here so I will protect you to the end

I want to see your smile more
When I realised, I laughed as well
You taught me
That the days we take for granted are so precious

Pure white feathers search for tomorrow
They cross over many nights
Embracing the sadness I hid on my own
With just the number of stars (tears) that overflowed
I definitely believe I can become strong
Because you are here, I won’t cast my eyes down
Let’s leap towards the place where it began

Metro Baroque

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Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Music: Yashikin

2. Metro Baroque

Who is it that’s calling me?
In this world delirious with a fever dancing in capriciousness
That person is luring me with jewel-like lies
And binding me with a sweet and lewd gaze

I can’t fight it…
This aching instinct to tie together the pieces of fate

In the truth that the deep crimson moon halo lights up
I thrust the fragilely breaking illusions violently towards darkness
Tell me… If there is something after eternity
I don’t need anything
You are my only guide

Who is it that you’re calling?
All alone, wandering, trapped in shapeless sins
It looks like you will drown, while you are bewildered by poured love
So much you can’t even blink your eyes

I am here…
Melting frozen time, that is the corridor of whispers

Scattering silver flowers, beautifully in the dim silence
The voice that’s not a choked voice plucks my heart
Answer me… If there is an unbroken favouritism
I will jump over the night and go to meet you now

I always keep my dazzling wish on file
I wound unfulfilled gaps and fill them up
I yearned for the limitless light
My anxiety longs for peace again and repeatedly anticipates

The moon dyed in deep crimson tears my sadness to pieces
The fragilely breaking phantom changes into determination
Tell me… If there is something after eternity
I don’t need anything
You are my only guide

Synchrogazer

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Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Music: Agematsu Noriyasu (Elements Garden)

1. Synchrogazer

Listen to my song, ooh…

Can you hear my voice? Please tell me…
Aiming at the fabricated sky without answers, fly far away…

Embrace my everything, because words aren’t enough
I can’t control it, I don’t want to…
The sensation I’m having for the first time
I will sing it to you, the beginning of infinity…

‘So smile…’
I embrace you warmer than anyone, stronger than anyone
Is it okay if my trembling heart is shaking? Something is moving…
Surely, from the day we were born to the day we would meet, we have been searching
I remember the nights where the wind was crying
The traces we played together dance in the heavens

Are you feelings reaching you? Truth or false?
Every time we touch each other, the irritation grows stronger, crying more crying…

Always just avoiding, it looks like I’ll lose sight of tomorrow
So that I can’t get hurt, so that I can’t hurt
It’s just the lies that are increasing

‘But smile…’
From a bit painful to the extent of suffocating… because it’s precious
I was afraid of my uncontrollable self and my yearning feelings
Finally, I realized the instinctive rhythm circling through my whole body
I’m not letting go of you again
A number of yesterdays illuminate the future

Even if this body will decay, there are things I want to convey to you
Resound, the song of life, flap your wings to the distance

‘So smile…’
I want to embrace you warmer than anyone, stronger than anyone
Is it okay if my trembling heart is shaking? Something is moving…
Surely, from the day we were born to the day we would meet, we have been searching
I remember the nights where the wind was crying
I draw the miracle we spun together in the heavens

Meikyuu Butterfly -diverse-

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Lyrics: PEACH-PIT (Saitou Megumi)
Music: dAicE

15. Meikyuu Butterfly –diverse-

Open your shiny eyes in the silent night
A mysterious night swept down upon us
It creeps up to us without the sound of footsteps
An enchanting black cat’s pose

A silhouette comes into view with the moonlight at its back
it smiles ‘come over here’ and beckons

A shadow of desire in a squirming city
wandering around aimlessly, pretending to be an angel
carrying around preciously
pieces of love that have nowhere to go

When it’s time to fall asleep, are you
having sweet dreams somewhere as well?
Kissing the starry sky, the good girl already said goodnight

Don’t look at it, don’t capture it
the butterfly that lost its way
Free, singing, with wings that no one can see
It’s hiding somewhere in the back of your chest

When the shape in the mirror
was a crybaby
However I am no longer a child
I untied my grown hair

The sweet fragrance that tightens my chest
It’s alluring, have you noticed?
I put a spell on the lips that lost their words

Don’t look at it, don’t capture it
the butterfly that lost its way
it loves too much, it’s too precious
the key to my chest is about to get destroyed

I will keep searching for my own story
Even if I might get blindfolded by fate
I will pierce through this cloud and flap my wings towards the distant tomorrow

Don’t look at it, don’t capture it
the butterfly that lost its way
Taking off with invisible wings clad in wishes
Hiding somewhere in the back of your chest

Seiyuu(Voice Actors)

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I’m a self-proclaimed seiyuu otaku, but not an extreme one!! In my case it means that I’m a big fan of Japanese voice actors and that I have favorites and that I check which people appear in new anime series that come out. There are very extreme categories, even ones that include people that get so obsessed over seiyuu (actual people and voices) that they start stalking them… I’m not like that, I swear.

My admiration for seiyuu has gone so far that I’m actually writing my theses about them xD I wrote my BA thesis on them and now I’ve chosen seiyuu as my MA thesis topic as well. My interest was sparked when I found out how different their status was as compared to how they are seen in my country! They are actual pop idols in Japan and here in The Netherlands no-one knows their names or faces, just their voices. Also, we link their voices to other voices rather than to people. (For example: ahh Shin-chan has the same voice as Mandy from Totally Spies!! rather than ‘Melise de Winter voices both Shin-chan and Mandy from Totally Spies’. Because people will be like… ‘who?’)

I want to introduce you to some of my favorite Japanese seiyuu and tell them what I like about them and in which parts/series I like them in particular.
(I have to add that I’m not really a mainstream person, so there are a lot of voice actors who are super mainstream atm and appear in almost everything nowadays and are super popular that I don’t really like xD I prefer people who can surprise me, who are able to do a lot of different kinds of voices and have amazing variety :3) (I also have to add that I have a thing for voices and I’m particularly weak against deep, beautiful male voices x3)

All these people are on my list for different reasons so please, if you’re interested, click on them and check out my story with each and every one of them!

Hanazawa Kana
Miyano Mamoru
Sugita Tomokazu
Sawashiro Miyuki
Sakurai Takahiro
Nakamura Yuuichi
Nakai Kazuya
Okamoto Nobuhiko
Suwabe Junichi
Tomatsu Haruka
Inoue Marina
Aoi Yuuki
Koyasu Takehito
Suzumura Kenichi
Hosoya Yoshimasa
Tanaka Rie

Zero Tokei

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Zero Tokei is Kaori Oda’s eighth single, which was released on February 10, 2016.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs of Zero Tokei. Because English is not my mother tongue, please kindly let me know if there are any grammatical errors: I am open for corrections and like to learn from my mistakes :)

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1. Zero Tokei (ending theme for anime series NORN9: Norn+Nonette)
2. Change
3. with you…

Tsuisou Kanon

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Tsuisou Kanon is Kaori Oda’s sixth single, which was released on June 25, 2014.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs of Tsuisou Kanon. Because English is not my mother tongue, please kindly let me know if there are any grammatical errors: I am open for corrections and like to learn from my mistakes :)

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1. Tsuisou Kanon (opening theme song for PS Vita game AMNESIA World)
2. Kokoro Atata (ending theme song for PS Vita game AMNESIA World)
3. I still lovin’ you

Hana ha Utsutsu ni

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Hana ha Utsutsu ni is Kaori Oda’s fifth single, which was released on January 29, 2014.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs of Hana ha Utsutsu ni. Because English is not my mother tongue, please kindly let me know if there are any grammatical errors: I am open for corrections and like to learn from my mistakes :)

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1. Hana ha Utsutsu ni (opening theme song for PSP game Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu)
2. Kimi to Yume Mite (ending theme song for PSP game Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu)
3. Ai ga Kikoeru (opening theme song for smartphone port of game AMNESIA LATER)

Reverberation

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Reverberation is Kaori Oda’s fourth single, which was released on November 27, 2013.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs of Reverberation. Because English is not my mother tongue, please kindly let me know if there are any grammatical errors: I am open for corrections and like to learn from my mistakes :)

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1. Reverberation (opening theme song for PS Vita game AMNESIA V Edition)
2. Shin’ai Naru Monogatari (ending theme song for PS Vita game AMNESIA V Edition)
3. Kirameki no Tobira (opening theme song for PS Vita game Moujuutsukai to Oujisama)

Akatsuki no Butterfly

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Akatsuki no Butterfly is Kaori Oda’s third single, which was released on April 24, 2013.

Underneath, you will find my translations of the songs of Akatsuki no Butterfly. Because English is not my mother tongue, please kindly let me know if there are any grammatical errors: I am open for corrections and like to learn from my mistakes :)

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1. Akatsuki no Butterfly (opening theme song for PSP game AMNESIA CROWD)
2. Kimi to Ai ni Naru (ending theme song for PSP game AMNESIA CROWD)
3. Kimi no Silhouette (opening theme song for the smartphone port of the PSP game AMNESIA)