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hiroki-moriuchi · 4 years

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MY FIRST STORY references to other songs

MY FIRST STORY has the fun habit of having certain motifs in their discography. Here, I’ll try to list all of them I can find. They can roughly be divided up into two parts: song titles and song lyrics. (There’s also some musical motifs going on, but that is just too difficult for me to work out.)

I want to reiterate that I am simply LISTING motifs; I am not offering an analysis. Also, some of the things I list may not be actual motifs, but mere coincidence.

Song titles:

Take it Back!! and Deserve!! (Both end with two exclamation marks, are thematically similar, and are album closers. Smash Out!! does not fit into this description.)

Last Call and Last Kiss

Calling you, Missing You and With You

One Light and One Step

Saishuukai STORY, Itsuwari NEUROSE and Shissou FLAME

LET IT DIE and REVIVER (opposites from each other)

Black Rail and Black Swan

START OVER and Starting Over

Underground and Underdog

Itazura Fiction, Shuuen Requiem, Fukagyaku Replays and Sarumane Dropout (all have Japanese in kanji, and English in katakana; Maboroshi Suspense might fit in, but Maboroshi is written in katakana, not kanji.)

Lyrics: Please note that I have probably missed some. Please send me a message if you notice anything missing! Or message me your theories...

Waiting for the time

Second Limit

Missing You

MONSTER

lonely

MINORS

The time is now

Calling You

Fukagyaku Replays

Starting now

Fukagyaku Replays

REVIVER

Time is up

M.A.D

Zettai Zetsumei

Breaking the silence

Bullet Radio

Still

Face my weakness

Calling you

Fukagyaku Replays

Brand new day

Second Limit

Calling you

(Going) my own way

Calling you

The Story Is My Life

Black Rail

Monochrome effector

REVIVER

WINNER

Make your/my way

Deserve!!

Drive me

Sing for you

The Reason

Someday

Final destination

Saishuukai STORY

Nothing In The Story

Fading away/out

Second Limit

Lose Your Mind

Monochrome effector

“Boom”

Missing You

Fukagyaku Replays

Achieving the aim in mind

Shissou FLAME

“Boom”

What’s wrong and what’s right?

Second Limit

“Boom”

Falling away/down

Zero Gravity

CHiLD-error-

Nothing In The Story

Itazura Fiction

Last Call

M.A.D

What’s my name?

What’s my name??

2 FACE

Weird scream that kind of sounds like “SHI” and is not written down in the official lyrics

ROOM

CHiLD-error-

Breaking it (down)

Sink Like A Stone (Swanky Dank feat. Hiro)

Smash Out!!

Zettai Zetsumei

Probably more but I don’t wanna go through them all right now

Saying goodbye

Smash Out!!

Zettai Zetsumei

Probably more

Concluding remarks:

These lists can be used as a point of reference for analyzing MY FIRST STORY’s songs. In any case, even without an analysis, one thing is clear: throughout their discography, the band focuses on writing your own story, walking or making your own way - all synonyms. This requires you to not give up. That’s what MY FIRST STORY stands for .

Lastly, I want to point out the similarities between MY FIRST STORY’s album covers once again. I did in this post.

#my first story #maifasu

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utagoe · 6 years

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Hatano Wataru: Asu no Kagaribi (明日の篝火) Lyrics

Kanji, romaji and English translation for Asu no Kagaribi (Tomorrow’s Bonfire) by Hatano Wataru

(kanji source)

さぁ今　翳せよ　焔(ひ)のかぎり (Wo Oh　散りゆけども)　(Wo Oh　果てまで) (Wo Oh　今を焦がせ)　(Wo Oh　疾走)

“よどみに浮かぶうたかた”(この世は) 誰かがそう詠んだ日々の成れの果て (ここは永遠　諸行無常か？　丁々発止の　戦場…上等！)

袈裟懸けに振り抜いて　誰も彼も散らそうか？阿修羅の血に　酔って候侭よと、もつれ込んで

交わす劇もまた　うつつの夢模様

乱れ散る灯火　曼珠沙華を咲かせて　燃え落ちる　その様を見せろ挑むなら　そのまま　塵屑につらなれこの道を塞ぐ者なかれ剣の舞う　祭囃子踊れ　踊れ　運まかせにいざや！　たけなわぞ浮世の宴

驕れる者の行く手は　(どちらか？) 気づいたときはもうすでに　是非もなし (ここは永遠　諸行無常か？　伸るか反るか…栄枯盛衰)

流れる水背にして　誰になにを乞うのか？欠けた刃がさらした抜き身の　脆さに泣け

それは紛れなく　狼煙に成る焔(ほむら)

運命にまみれて　浅ましく求めて　燃え盛る　その様を見せよう一途さを笑った　愚昧さをかみしめ這いずろう　無に変わるまで舞台上は　移ろえども凛と　凛と　ぶれぬものよやっと手にしたのは　心の在り処

風は吹き抜けて…

二の足を踏みしめ　目の前を見遣れば立ち込める雲　失せて消えるありのまま生き抜け　それこそが目映さそう君も　屹度　言うだろう

乱れ散る灯火　曼珠沙華を咲かせて　燃え落ちる　その様を見てろ挑むたび　灼かれて　星屑に近づくこの道を塞ぐ者なかれ剣の舞う　祭囃子踊れ　踊れ　何処まででも明日の篝火をいざ！胸に焚いて　浮世を駆けろ

Romaji

saa ima kazaseyo hi no kagiri (Wo Oh chiri yukedomo) (Wo Oh hate made) (Wo Oh ima wo kogase) (Wo Oh shissou)

"yodomi ni ukabu utakata" (kono yo wa) dareka ga sou yonda hibi no nare no hate (koko wa eien shogyoumujou ka? chouchouhasshi no senjou... joutou!)

kesagake ni furinuite daremo kare mo chirasouka? ashura no chi ni yotte soro mama yoto, motsure konde

kawasu geki mo mata utsutsu no yume moyou

midarechiru tomoshibi manjushage wo sakasete moeochiru sono sama wo misero idomu nara sono mama chirikuzu ni tsuranare kono michi wo fusagu mono nakare tsurugi to mau matsuribayashi odore odore unmakase ni izaya! takenawazo ukiyo no utage

ogoreru mono no yukute wa (dochira ka?) kizuita toki wa mou sude ni zehi mo nashi (koko wa eien shogyoumujou ka? noru ka soru ka... eikoseisui)

nagareru mizu se ni shite dare ni nani wo kou no ka? kaketa yaiba ga sarashita nukimi no morosa ni nake

sore wa magirenaku noroshi ni naru homura

unmei ni mamirete asamashiku motomete moesakaru sono sama wo miseyou ichizusa wo waratta gumaisa wo kamishime haizurou mu ni kawaru made butaijou wa utsuroe domo rinto rinto burenu mono yo yatto te ni shita no wa kokoro no arika

kaze wa fukinukete...

ni no ashi wo fumishime me no mae wo miyareba tachikomeru kumo usete kieru ari no mama ikinuke sore koso ga mabayusa sou kimi mo kitto iu darou

midarechiru tomoshibi manjushage wo sakasete moeochiru sono sama wo mitero idomu tabi yakarete hoshikuzu ni chikazuku kono michi wo fusagu mono nakare tsurugi no mau matsuribayashi odore odore doko made demo asu no kagaribi wo iza! mune ni taite ukiyo wo kakero

English

Now, hold up over your head the limits of this flame (Wo Oh Even if it scatters) (Wo Oh Until the end) (Wo Oh Burn the present) (Wo Oh Dash)

"Where the current pools, bubbles form on the surface" (This world is) Nothing but the ruins of those days someone composed such lines (Is this place eternity or ephemerality? Clashing swords on the battlefield... Superior!)

Slashing a sword from my shoulder, shall I scatter everybody? Getting drunk on Asura's blood I do not care, carry me over

This intersecting play is, again, the pattern of a fleeting reality

A disarranged lamplight makes red spider lilies bloom and goes down in flames, show such a thing If you wish to challenge me, stand in a row in the dirt There shall not be anyone who stands in my way To the festival music to which swords revolve, Dance! Dance! Entrusting it all to fate Now! This fleeting life's banquet is at its peak

The path of the extravagant ones (Where is it?) It will already by unavoidable when you realize it (Is this place eternity or ephemerality? Win or lose... Ups and downs)

Turning your back to the flowing water, what will you ask for? And to whom? Cry for the fragility of naked sword Exposed by a broken blade

That is a flame which will become an undeflected signal

I shall show myself covered in fate, miserably seeking, and ablaze Reflecting upon my stupidity of laughing at earnestness I shall crawl until I am nothing You, who remain unshaken Coldly coldly, even when the stage fades What I have finally obtained is my heart's whereabouts

The wind blows through...

If you firmly step on hesitation and see what is before your eyes, The hanging clouds will disappear Survive true to yourself, that is a dazzlingly beautiful thing Yes, you will surely say something similar, right?

A disarranged lamplight makes red spider lilies bloom and goes down in flames, see such a thing When I challenge myself, I burn and get closer to the stardusts There shall not be anyone who stands in my way To the festival music to which swords revolve, Dance! Dance! No matter how far Tomorrow's bonfire Now! Build it in your chest and run through this transient world

#hatano wataru #wataru hatano #caravan wa philia wo kanaderu #seiyuu #request #ashita no kagaribi

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japanessie · 7 years

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MY FIRST STORY MMA Tour Final The Premium Symphony 2017 in retrospect

On 23rd December 2017, MY FIRST STORY made another milestone by performing at the same venue which was supposed to have been the place where their rival brother band ONE OK ROCK was originally scheduled to perform with Linkin Park in November. Looking at the visuals presented to us so far, it was a roaring success.

Photos by Masanori Fujikawa and Taka Tallman except *

Here are my thoughts .... for my reader who requested. Basically a continuation of what I had said in a previous post before.

1. The stage looks like something inspired by Jules Verne novels combined with the Parthenon.

That’s impressive!!

Then, similar to OOR, they also used a runway heading out to the audience. OOR normally use this for their acoustic set where the band members would gather together with their instruments. MFS used the end platform for Hiro where the digital piano was mechanically raised from below the stage. For a rectangular concert hall, you have to have this kind of setting for the audience's optimal viewing.

Look at the laser lighting! It was among the elements that worried the s**t out of their boss GEN back in the Shinkiba Studio Coast show because it was expensive. But looks like he’s not worried anymore based on this elaborate display.

Ready to go “Around The World In 80 Days” or “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”! XD

2. The attendance at Makuhari was higher than the Budokan.

From the TV clips shared by Japanese fans, 18,000 people came compared to 12,000 for the Budokan. Reading through fans' reports, it looked like Blocks A & B were the most packed or the crowds consisted of the hardcore fans. One girl in Block B said she wished she could transfer to Block C where she could breathe.

Looking at the crowd placement, I started to feel doubtful whether choosing a seated ticket for this venue is worth it for someone like me (154cm tall) because unlike the multi-tiered Budokan or the Makuhari Event Hall, the Makuhari Hall 9-11 are flat. They're exhibition Halls after all. How high were the seats raised from the main floor if they were raised at all?

* Photo: Makuhari Messe Hall 9-11 when empty. Making me wish that it had a premium ceiling seat XD

3. It was MFS first attempt at using a full orchestra + a full choir

When they first announced the MMA Tour Final, they said this would be MFS as we had never seen them before. The ALL SECRET TRACKS album obviously had been arranged for this. The Live was not named The Premium Symphony for nothing. To me MFS music from the start has always been heavily layered. It was inevitable that they would arrive at this point.

Photo: The moment the curtain came down. Aaaahhhh!!! That’s 終焉レクイエム (Shuuen Requiem) making its debut everyone \(^^)/

When MFS did the acoustic set for Itsuwari NEUROSE Final at Shinkiba Studio Coast, my mind actually wondered whether they would one day tackle the violin-cello string arrangements. Would have been slammed with the "OOR copy" moniker big time if they did it back then, wouldn't they? The difference is MFS actually created songs with orchestration right on their album rather than pick a few songs and re-arranged them with a string section for the Live show.

You know what’s beautiful about the above photo? The backup musicians were smiling as they looked at the band members giving it all. Despite the different genres they come from, all artists know passion when they see it.

4. The Surprising setlist :-o

More like shocking to me!

The most striking thing about the setlist is the fact that they had excluded their signature Live songs Second Limit, The Story Is My Life, 最終回STORY and Awake :-o. Seriously?? WTF! You know what this means??! This means they were signalling the beginning of a new era. Up to this point, an MFS show would not be complete without those songs. This is them presenting the fans the new-phase MFS!

The Setlist

1. 終焉レクイエム (Shuuen Requiem) 2. ALONE 3. Black Rail 4. 悪戯フィクション (Itazura Fiction) 5. Missing You 6. REVIVER 7. この世界で一番の幸せ者にはする事など出来ないかもしれないけど... (Kono sekai de ichiban no shiawasesha ni wa suru koto nado dekinai kamoshirenai kedo...) 8. 失踪FLAME (Shissou FLAME) 9. See you again 10. Love Letter 11. monologue 12. 虚言NEUROSE (Itsuwari NEUROSE) 13. LET IT DIE 14. "BOOM" 15. Zero Gravity 16. The Puzzle 17. CHiLD -error- 18. Tomorrowland 19. モノクロエフェクター (Monochrome Effector) 20. 不可逆リプレイス (Fukagyaku Replace)

(Encore)

-Nori Ohtani marriage proposal- EN1. 「花」 -0714- (Hanarenai yo) EN2. Merry Christmas EN3. REVIVER

While I understand their wish to move forward with their music, it's sad for me to see 最終回STORY go because that's the song through which I fell in love with MFS (T_T).

5. Hiro debuted his piano solo performance

My wish came true \(^^)/! Back in 2014 when MFS released their Taylor Swift remake We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, I told another fan on my friend's MFS FB fanpage that I hoped to see Hiro perform with a piano.

I guess it wasn't the right timing for it then because it was the time when Hiro was still so heavily criticized and ridiculed as being Taka's copycat. Hiro with a piano onstage would be a bad move a few years ago. Nowadays, the comparison with his famous brother is much kinder as MFS music is speaking for itself more and more. So I think Hiro picked the right time to finally do it.

By the way, Hiro played See You Again solo. For Love Letter, he played solo halfway and then joined by the others. Can’t wait to see these (^^)

6. Hiro’s vocal performance

You see this one coming. My MFS concert commentary wouldn’t be complete without me talking about Hiro’s vocals, would it? True that I wasn’t there at the Hall BUT I have come to the point were I can slowly trust him to nail it around 90 to 95%. While I wasn’t expecting perfection, I know Hiro had worked really hard as he was confident enough to again include the song I directly and openly criticised him for through the band’s social media back in 2016, 失踪FLAME . Though they did not respond to me directly but Hiro did acknowledge on STORYTELLER that the song was hard.

When I saw this visual for 失踪FLAME , I felt good because I knew he still kept his determination to get that song right. I believe he handled it well. He wouldn’t have made this visual display if he couldn’t do the song right, could he (^_-)?

7. Former drummer Masaki came (^^)

Their friendship remains solid and Masaki once again showed that he wouldn't miss his former bandmates' big moment for the world. He tweeted saying it had been awhile since he went to see them, how awesome the show was, apologizing that he was giving an impression of an elementary schoolkid’s excitement and then attached his old photo wearing his underwear with producer Nori with a congratulatory message. Because that’s the only two-shot photo he ever had with Nori XD

8. "Men In Black" (^^)

Who wasn't taken by the fact that the band performed fully in suits?

I think rather than setting themselves apart from the backup orchestra + choir members, the look they chose tied the whole thing together. The formally attired orchestra + the choir that coloured the overall feel of ALL SECRET TRACKS and their visually impactful LET IT DIE MV from ALL LEAD TRACKS. It was "MFS The Premium Symphony" and not "MFS with some guest musicians for some songs".

Oh, yes. To me Teruki Nishizawa is the most dashing of them all in black suits. They’re all cute guys but Teru actually has that “prep school + white collar” aura which transcends well with that outfit. I don’t think I’m biased at all. Just look.

9. Hiro & Blouson Chiemi

I'm a bit blurry with this one, did he do something like her comedy skit onstage or what? I saw a few Japanese fans mentioning her name along with Hiro’s. Knowing that Hiro likes her, I was hardly surprised. But MFS always edited out extra things like this when the concerts went to DVDs. So, if he ever impersonated any celebrity at all, it probably wouldn't go on the official release (-_-)

But at least we had seen Hiro posing like her during VAMPS Halloween Party 2017 XD

*Photo: From BREAKERZ Daigo’s blog

10. Sho Tsuchiya did not perform with them this time

Though he did appear here and there on the MMA Tour, he did not perform at the Final as I previously had expected. Well, they already played up his surprise appearance to the MAX at the Budokan. Anyway, I'm glad I wasn't at the Budokan because I swear I would have pissed in my pants the moment I saw his face on the screen XD. But it wouldn't have the same impact doing it the 2nd time around, eh? The only way Sho’s re-appearance can top the Budokan is if they actually announce him coming back to them.

* Photo from iTony Entertainment (it’s JMS subsidiary too!)

11. The biggest surprise of the night ..... Nori's getting married!

Their producer Nori Ohtani proposed to his girlfriend and after which, the band launched into their wedding anthem 「花」 -0714- . The fans, including yours truly XD, flooded the band's social media with messages congratulating him and wishing him well.

My thought :

Dating a rock band's manager / producer has its perk, eh? If things go well, you may get an epic marriage proposal with an orchestra, a choir and 18,000 eye witnesses too XD

Overall

One fan commented on IG that after watching the Makuhari show, the Tokyo Dome now doesn't seem like a dream anymore. I agree with her. I mean, if a band or any artist can hold a packed show at a venue like Makuhari Messe, with glowing reports and feedback afterwards, then the Tokyo Dome is not a dream but already a given.

#my first story #mma tour final #hiroki moriuchi #teruki nishizawa

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