My translation of the lyrics to "Rokutousei" by Zarame
A NOTE ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION: The lyrics in Japanese are ambiguous about the pronouns on purpose so that they can apply to so many characters in multiple ways (AND THEY SHOULD). As with many English translations of songs and poetry, I took creative license to translate these lyrics in the way that hits me hardest and you know what way that is.
Also I need you to understand before you read this that a "sixth-magnitude star" is the faintest brightness of a star detectable to the human eye. That makes the chorus something of an oxymoron, where the singer is singing about a bright light being swallowed by a dim one.
Kanji:
涙の跡が消えない横顔
瞼に残る
戸惑うことも許さない刹那
怒りに震えた
帰る場所にも似ていたこと
失うために
出会ったわけじゃないんだ
声を 言葉を
優しい熱さを
心に灯して
消えちゃいそうなほど
命が足りないんだ
君を照らせない
光に意味はない
消えちゃいたいくらいの
六等星の瞬き
一番星を掻き消すような
君の声を探してる
消えちゃいそうなほど
小さな命でも
一番星を掻き消すような
君の声を探してる
君の声を探してる
Romaji:
namida no ato ga kienai yokogao
mabuta ni nokoru
tomadou koto mo yurusanai setsuna
ikari ni furueta
kaeru basho ni mo niteita koto
ushinau tame ni
deatta wake ja nainda
koe wo kotoba wo
yasashii atsusa wo
kokoro ni tomoshite
kiechai sou na hodo
inochi ga tarinainda
kimi wo terasenai
hikari ni imi wa nai
kiechaitai kurai no
rokutousei no matataki
ichiban-boshi wo kakikesu you na
kimi no koe wo sagashiteru
kiechai sou na hodo
chiisana inochi demo
ichiban-boshi wo kakikesu you na
kimi no koe wo sagashiteru
kimi no koe wo sagashiteru
Translation:
The profile of a face with traces of tears that won't disappear
lingers in my memory*
In a brief moment when I wouldn't let my guard down to even be confused
I trembled with anger
It's like a place I return home to
That doesn't mean I met you just to lose you
With your voice, your words,
Light up my heart with gentle warmth
I guess this is where I disappear**
My life is running out***
I can't shine on you
My light is useless****
I just want to disappear
Like the twinkling of a sixth-magnitude star
drowns out the first evening star
I'm searching for your voice
I guess this is where I disappear**
Like how even the smallest life
drowns out the first evening star
I'm searching for your voice
I'm searching for your voice
*This phrase is an idiom that reads literally as "to remain in one's eyelids" but means "to live on in one's mind, to remain in memory."
**Literally, "It seems like the point at which I disappear."
***Literally, "Life is lacking."
***Literally, "There's no meaning in my light."
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Battle Cries by the Amazing Devil. Holy high heavens. What the heck. Humanity must have done something right if this masterpiece gets to exist.
The minute the song starts I am freaking sobbing. Its not a sad song, but it makes me explode with emotion. Yes everything will be okay! We're going to win! And all that laughing and loving and sighing and sobbing will all be worth it! You're gonna be that person 15 you would be proud to know! The triumph and pure happiness and raw excitement for whatever comes next that bleeds from that song? This song makes me excited to live. It makes me excited to love.
And the happy little chords? Madeleine's little laugh?? The overlapping lyrics??? Hrishskhroskshrilfljk find me on a floor in pieces after this song plays ever single freaking time but I love it with all my heart and soul
Battle Cries by the Amazing Devil. That's all. (Screams into a pillow)
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show me a pathetic sniveling self-pitying whining keening crying blubbering incoherent wretched contemptible villain and I will instantly sympathize with them over the proud righteously-angry self-composed well-spoken hero who they have abused and tortured their whole life because I am constantly threading the needle of having media opinions that annoy the most different people as much as possible
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I've been substituting as the delivery coordinator for the last week because both our delivery people are out and there's not a damn manager in the store who's willing to help out with anything in the back office so they just pushed that shit off on me and what I've learned so far is that I'd literally rather be in the seasonal department during Christmas season than this. Yes people will throw pressure washers at your head for your unforgivable crime of being out of the specific olaf inflatable they want but I'd rather take the odds of physical violence against me once a week for about three months of the year than a fifty percent chance of getting verbally abused every time I pick up the phone.
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Okay I just watched the latest episode and I am in TEARS over how beautiful the OP and ED were. Those...those soft, pastel colours did something to me, okay?
The ED especially just did something special to me. The season started off with the backstory of the ADA, so it was so....beautiful to see the ending theme have a little omake of a lazy day at a fully peopled agency. It was nice to see an organisation started by ordinary people with extraordinary talents have a peaceful day where their extraordinary people are doing ordinary things.
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