#kokoro bosoi na

[marimuraa]

Kokoro bosoi na from urusei yatsura is sooo muritaka listen to it NOW.. i wanna animate that ending with them sometime but the intro redraw is alr taking years of my life so whathever SOMEDAY!

[greatstudentjurit]

Fuck Lum No Love Song

Me and my bois like Kokoro Bosoi Na

[lovegintoke]

Duty Friend

Duty Friend - Dever de um amigo

Dare datte kowaku nai Hitori ja chotto kokoro bosoi shi Nakayoku naritai Shizen to daku futsu no koto

Todo mundo fica assustado,

ficar sozinho deixar o coração abalado.

Mas eu quero ser melhor

naturalmente, abraçando coisas comuns.

Atashi ga dare to Doko de nani o shite taka nante Shiraseta tokoro de Kimi no kimochi sukuenai deshou

Quem é você

Onde você vai

Deixe-me saber onde você está

Apenas Seus sentimentos não podem me salvar.

Motto jiyuu ni naru hazu datta Kimi ga Atashi nashi ja Miugoki torenai nara

Mais independente

Você deveria ter sido

Será que sem mim

Você não pode fazer nada

Yasashikushite kureru tabi Atashi wa tsurai Uchiakete shimaeru hodo Kirai demo nai

Tratar as pessoas com tanta gentileza

É tão doloroso

É difícil deixar passar seus sentimentos

Mas, honestamente, eu não odeio isto.

Kirei na koto igai Gakkou ja oshiete kurenai Atashi no sonzai Kanashii kurai kitanaku omoeta

Todos falam sobre coisas bonitas

Já as coisas feias a escola nunca me contou

Minha existência agora é

tão frustrante, tudo que penso é sem dúvida triste e imundo

Motto egao ni naru hazu datta Kimi wo Atashi ga sore to naku kizutsuketa nara

Sorria muito

Este é seu dever

Mesmo quando você acidentalmente me machuca.

“Suki da yo” to iwareru hodo Tsukihanashitai Tsukihanasete shimaeru hodo Kirei demo nai

Mesmo se eu fizesse você dizer "eu te amo",

Não poderia aceitá-lo.

Rejeição é deixar você ir

Deveria ser uma coisa bonita, mas não é.

Motto jiyuu ni naru hazu datta Kimi to Motto egao ni naru hazu datta Kimi ga Atashi nashi ja Miugoki torenai nara Nandaka kanashii

Eu deveria ter mais liberdade

Junto com Você

Eu deveria ter mais sorrisos

Juntos com você

mas sem mim

Você não pode fazer nada

De alguma forma isto é tão triste

Yasashikushite kureru tabi Atashi wa tsurai Kirawareru yuuki no nai Atashi ga kirai “Suki da yo” to iwareru hodo Tsukihanashitai Tsukihanasete shimaeru hodo Atashi kirei ja nai

Tratar as pessoas com tanta gentileza

É tão doloroso

Mas odeio ser covarde

odeio tanto

Mesmo se eu fizesse você dizer "eu te amo",

Não poderia aceitá-lo.

Rejeição; é ser bela o suficiente para deixar você ir;

mas não sei por que não consigo ser bela assim.

[ccborrega]

OK, here goes.

The thing is, Lum leaves for like- what a day or two? And he immediately assumes 'Shit. This is it. She's gone. She's never coming back. I'll never see her again.' and it's like he's to some degree always had it in the back of his mind that she's going to eventually leave him.

To be fair, in both the manga and the anime they'd just had an argument regarding how much he wished she'd just leave (The anime is, as it's usually the case, a little bit worse because there he ruined a party the troopers threw for her with his attitude.) and Ten isn't in the house either, but there's really not a real reason one should jump to the conclusion that she's left for good, unless you're Ataru Moroboshi and failure and misfortune are things that follow you and you've mentalized yourself for the idea that anything good that happens to you is not going to last.

So, working back from this, you get: if she's gonna leave eventually, what's even the point of getting attached, right? Better to keep the options open, better to not actually feel anything for her.

Except he DOES.

There's a moment in the anime episode I absolutely love because it conveys so much without a word. As he finds the doll and is starting to entertain the thought that it's over, he looks at the stars from his room and it's like the vastness of space occurs to him for the first time. How unlikely it was that they even MET in the first place when she comes from out there. And now, has she gone back there? Has she really gone back to her planet? Which one of those thousands upon thousands of stars is hers? How would he be able to even find her again if he tried, in such a big universe? Could it be that he really is never going to see her again? Was she just a shooting star, never meant to stay in his life for more than an instant before soaring away? He just calls her name twice, softly, but it's almost like he's realized she's not going to be able to hear him anymore even if he calls louder. And confronted with a thought that's terrifying to him, he falls in denial. He makes up elaborate scenarios in his mind so that it's not Lum left because she was sick of him, but something bigger keeps her.

(Which. My brother in Christ. You're terrified of the possibility that she might just be done with you while also very much self-sabotaging yourself to get there sooner.)

He's just... utterly miserable. When other girls leave, sure, he's bummed, but he's quick to jump to the next infatuation as soon as he's able. Here, he doesn't even flirt with other girls, he's that miserable. There's even a moment in the anime where he and Shinobu meet and you would think they're gonna retake where they left off when Lum arrived, right? But actually, Shinobu is just genuinely worried about him because she's known him since they were kids and can see he's hurting. There's no judgment, no reproaches, she just asks him 'Is there anything I can do for you?' because, shit, this must be KILLING him. Followed by the actual musical number, Kokoro Bosoi Na- and I could rant for a while about how this song seems to represent Ataru's thoughts on how Lum sees him rather than Lum's actual thoughts, but this is long enough as it is, MOVING ON.

Finally, he spends the second night of her absence holding the doll to him crying his eyes out and cursing out Lum for leaving him because how dare she worm her way under his skin when he tries SO HARD to not set his heart on anything in order to avoid it getting broken when he inevitably fails at getting it, and then just leave him? The series very rarely does emotional moments that aren't played for laughs, specially regarding Ataru, I actually think this is the very FIRST moment where we see him genuinely care for something deeply (It's either this or the caterpillar, but I'm not sure about the order.)

And of course, it turns out she was just out doing something and the plan always was to just come back to him when she was done, but there's a moment right before he sees her again where he's just walking to school, looking like he cried himself to sleep and carrying her doll close to his heart, sighing. His attitude is all 'She's really not coming back. This is life now. I'll never see her again.'

And I KNOW that him seeing her again and immediately putting up a front like he's annoyed by it is just- Takahashi tsundere boy for ya. But it's also him trying to protect himself again. 'See, she's here. Take your distance, otherwise when she does actually leave for good, it'll kill you.', (And it really ALMOST does when she does in the final arc, boy was just ready to kill himself trying to prove he loved her without uttering the phrase because he knows his words are worth near to nothing by now.)

Ataru is just desperate to not be hurt and as it often happens in these cases, he in turn ends up bringing the hurt upon himself for it. And it's, you know, comedic, but also amazingly deep when you dig a bit.

And I'll leave it here because brain is brrr. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of points I wanted to make too but what's a girl to do.

[rararibbon]

Urusei yatsura’s intros and outros are the only things keeping me going 

[koholint]

today’s playlist. urusei yatsura music is good:

Yuuko Matsutani - Lum no Love Song

Izumi Kobayashi - Lame-iro Dream

Kanako Narikiyo - Sweet Dream

Helen Sasano - Margarita

Yuuko Matsutani - Neboke Manako

Kayoko Matsunaga - Monotone no Natsu

Helen Sasano - Kokoro Bosoi Na

Fumi Hirano - Koi ni Dance! Dance! Dance!

Kanako Narikiyo - Pajama Jama da!

Fumitaka Anzai - Soratobu Lum

Cindy - Open Invitation

Maruko Matsushita - Triangle Love Letter

Rittsu - Koi no Moebius

Fumi Hirano - Fushigi Kirei

Izumi Kobayashi - Dancing Star

Fumi Hirano - Dancing Star

Yuuko Matsutani - Lum’s Love Song (Lum’s Dub Song - Doping Mode Mix)

Yuuko Matsutani - Ai wa Boomerang

[captainakimoto]

Aida Rikako - ME From her album “Curtain raise”

Kanji lyrics from: https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/

Lyrics

忙しない朝 動き出す街 Sewashi nai asa ugokidasu machi The town started moving on the busy morning

どこまで行っても 追いつけない Doko made itte mo oitsuke nai I still can’t catch up to it, no matter where I go

慣れない世界に まだ戸惑うけれど Narenai sekai ni mada tomadou keredo I’m still perplexed in this world I’m still not used to, but

寂しさに浸ってられない Sabishisa ni hitatterare nai I can’t stay immersed in loneliness

いつからか私 変わったみたい Itsu kara ka watashi kawatta mitai It seems I have changed one day 

こんなにも 笑えるなんて Konna ni mo waraeru nante I never thought I could laugh like this

置いてきたもの 沢山あるけど Oitekita mono takusan aru kedo There are still many things that I left behind, but

いま手を振るよ Ima te wo furu yo I’m waving my hand now

これまでの道のりが決して嘘ではないと Kore made no michi nori ga keshite uso de wa nai to The path I have traveled until now will never lie

これからは少しずつ証明するよ Kore kara wa sukoshi zutsu shoumei suru yo From now on, I will prove myself little by little

でも心細いから Demo kokoro bosoi kara But I am faint-hearted

そばで見守っていてね Soba de mimamotteite ne So, please watch over me closely

私らしい私が 見えてきたの Watashi rashii watashi ga mietekita no So that I can always be myself

都会の海は 果てしなくて Tokai no umi wa hateshinakute The sea in the city is endless

どこまで行っても 揺らいでいた Doko made ittemo yuraideita It wavers no matter where I go

だって　正しいとか　間違いなのかは Datte tadashii toka machigai na no ka wa Because even until the very last moment

最後の最後でもわからない Saigo no saigo demo wakaranai I still don’t know which is right and which is wrong

それでも私　変わったみたい Sore demo watashi kawatta mitai But even so, it seems I have changed

手探りで　楽しんでるよ Tesaguri de tanoshinderu yo I’m having fun fumbling around

確かなものも　まだ少ないけど Tashika na mono mo mada sukunai kedo The certain things are still few, but

今日も挑むよ Kyou mo idomu yo I will challenge today too

少し不思議な夢も どこか惹かれてるなら Sukoshi fushigi na yume mo doko ka hikareteru nara If I were attracted to a slightly weird dream somewhere

触れてみても良いよね？一度きりだし Furetemite mo ii yo ne? Ichido kiri dashi It’s fine to experience it, right? Because it’s only once for a life time 

不安が無いと言えば 強がりになるからね Fuan ga nai to ieba tsuyogari ni naru kara ne If I said I have no worry, it means I’m pretending to be strong

私らしい私で　生きていくよ Watashi rashii watashi de ikiteiku yo I will live my life the way I am

キミとした約束を ありきたりな言葉を Kimi to shita yakusoku wo ari kitari na kotoba mo The promise I made with you, and our usual words

不器用に言い聞かせて 笑ってみる Bukiyou ni iikikasete waratte miru Tell me my awkwardness, and I’ll try to laugh at it

本当は怖いけれど 前を向いていたいから Hontou wa kowai keredo mae wo muite itai kara The truth is I’m afraid, but I want to keep on facing forward

今日も歩み出すだけ Kyou mo ayumi dasu dake I will only keep on walking today too

これまでの道のりが決して嘘ではないと Kore made no michi nori ga keshite uso de wa nai to The path I have traveled until now will never lie

これからは少しずつ証明するよ Kore kara wa sukoshi zutsu shoumei suru yo From now on, I will prove myself little by little

でも心細いから Demo kokoro bosoi kara But I am faint-hearted

そばで見守っていてね Soba de mimamotteite ne So, please watch over me closely

私らしい私で  愛おしい毎日を生きていくよ Watashi rashii watashi de itooshii mainichi wo ikiteiku yo So I can live the precious everyday the way I am

[koronseika]

An orchestral version of Kokoro Bosoi na exclusive to the Dear My Friends soundtrack.

[ian-ime]

Kokoro bosoi na - Helen Sasano, Urusei Yatsura ED2

[ccborrega]

I wanna do a rant about how the 'Kokoro Bosoi na' segment highlights my point that Ataru's actually incredibly sensitive and fragile and protects his heart from ache by trying not to genuinely care for others to no avail but the WORDS

[lumnolovesong]

“Kokoro bosoi na” from Digital Trip 1800 Urusei Yatsura Synthesizer Fantasy, arranged and performed by Jun Fukamachi (original composition by Izumi Kobayashi)