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Fukai Mori - Do As Infinity lyrics and translation

ᵁˢᵘᵃˡ ᵈᶦˢᶜˡᵃᶦᵐᵉʳ: ᴵ’ᵐ ᵃ ᴶᴾ ˢᵗᵘᵈᵉⁿᵗ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᶠˡᵘᵉⁿᵗ, ˢᵗᶦˡˡ ˡᵉᵃʳⁿᶦⁿᵍ. ᴵ ᵃˡˢᵒ ᵗʳʸ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵒ ˡᶦᵗᵉʳᵃˡ ᵗʳᵃⁿˢˡᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿˢ ᵇᵉᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᶦᵗ ᶜᵃⁿ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ˢᵗᵃˡᵉ. ᴵᵗ’ˢ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᶦᵐᵖᵒʳᵗᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉʳᵛᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵉᵉˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᵗᵒ ᵍᶦᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵃ ᵇᵒʳᶦⁿᵍ ᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗ ᵗʳᵃⁿˢˡᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ. A classic song that most anime fans grew up hearing late at night, famous for being the 2nd ending song for Inuyasha and helping a lot more people fall in love with the titular character's hot older brother Sesshoumaru. I listened to a lot of Do As Infinity in highschool, and this song always stayed a favorite. There's a well-known clip of the band performing Fukai Mori in which Tomiko Van, the lead vocalist, expresses that this song is special to her and that she was feeling emotional. She seemed to struggle and missed a few lyrics as the emotions took over. From this clip came a rumor that the song was written in response to the grief she experienced when a friend took their own life. This is most likely false, as some sources say the song was written by the band's former composer Dai Nagao before they officially debuted. Even though it was just sort of an urban legend, because of how it spread, a lot of people to this day associate this song with loss and grief, including myself. I listened to this song a lot when my cat was diagnosed with cancer in 2011. After she passed in 2013, I stopped listening to it for a long time because it was too painful. Even to this day, I choked up a lot listening to it while I translated it. The past few years have been a lot of intense mourning, and this year it's really hitting me hard. So I was drawn to close out 2022 with this song. Whatever the true story is, it's a powerful and beautifully written song that speaks of the conflict between wanting to hide our hearts away in order to protect ourselves, and wanting to live in the moment even if it's painful.

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Translation, romaji, and kana below

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In the deep, deep center of the forest I'm sure that even now The hearts we leave behind remain hidden

Without the strength keep searching Completely worn out Each person disappears into the infinite darkness

Even if I kept my heart small, maybe I'll still be able to find it

As we live on We lose ourselves little by little Facades and lies wrapping us up Until we're frozen in place, unable to cry out

The blue, blue color of the sky goes unnoticed As each passing day changes

If we go beyond these made-up systems We'll live in the moment And our rusted hearts will beat again

If we can grasp the rhythm of time, will we be able to fly once more?

As we wander on We live life wherever it takes us I still believe in the search for light So I'll walk with you now

As we live on We lose ourselves little by little Facades and lies wrapping us up Until we're frozen in place, unable to cry out

As we wander on We live life wherever it takes us Looking back, we close off the path we took And we walk on for eternity

Frozen in place, unable to cry out We'll live on for eternity

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fukai fukai mori no oku ni ima mo kitto okizari ni shita kokoro kakushiteru yo

sagasu hodo no chikara mo naku tsukarehateta hitobito wa eien no yami ni kieru

chiisai mama nara kitto ima demo mieta kana

boku-tachi wa ikiru hodo ni nakushiteku sukoshi zutsu itsuwari ya uso wo matoi tachisukumu koe mo naku

aoi aoi sora no iro mo kidzukanai mama sugite yuku mainichi ga kawatte yuku

tsukurareta wakugumi wo koe ima wo ikite sabitsuita kokoro mata ugokidasu yo

toki no RIZUMU wo shireba mou ichido toberu darou

boku-tachi wa samayoi nagara ikite yuku doko made mo shinjiteru hikari motome arukidasu kimi to ima

boku-tachi wa ikiru hodo ni nakushiteku sukoshi zutsu itsuwari ya uso wo matoi tachisukumu koe mo naku

boku-tachi wa samayoi nagara ikite yuku doko made mo furikaeru michi wo tozashi aruiteku eien ni

tachisukumu koe mo naku ikite yuku eien ni

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深い深い森の奥に 今もきっと 置きざりにした心 隠して��よ

探すほどの力もなく 疲れ果てた 人々は永遠の 闇に消える

小さいままなら きっと 今でも見えたかな

僕たちは 生きるほどに 失くしてく 少しずつ 偽りや 嘘をまとい 立ちすくむ 声もなく

蒼い蒼い空の色も 気付かないまま 過ぎてゆく毎日が 変わってゆく

つくられた枠組みを越え 今を生きて 錆びついた 心また動き出すよ

時のリズムを知れば もう一度 飛べるだろう

僕たちは さまよいながら 生きてゆく どこまでも 信じてる 光求め 歩きだす 君と今

僕たちは 生きるほどに 失くしてく 少しずつ 偽りや 嘘をまとい 立ちすくむ 声もなく

僕たちは さまよいながら 生きてゆく どこまでも 振り返る 道をとざし 歩いてく 永遠に

立ちすくむ 声もなく 生きてゆく 永遠に

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Reaching out to the people doing scans was a great decision. You have no idea how long I spent staring at a listing for the Kratos novel last month, fighting myself because it's so freaking expensive compared to all the other novels... I could get like 10 novels for the same price... 40 if it's from a specific store during a campaign. And nobody seemed to care about the novels (hadn't seen the Phantasia ones being uploaded yet at the time), so who else was going to do it...!! Ended up deciding against it because it's Symphonia, the favorite child, and if anyone was going to give a crap about any of the Tales series novelizations, it'd be Symphonia's, and if they were going to care about any specific novel, it'd definitely be that one, so I might as well pour my blood love into the less popular entries. (And for once, I was right!)

That is to say, I have quite a few Tales novels on the way, and I will also be scanning them (though with a very ancient, borrowed scanner), and there shouldn't be any overlap with what Kevan33 is graciously doing. Here's hoping the box doesn't get lost in the mail :') Hasn't shipped yet, because I'm waiting on one more book to reach the warehouse, which I was only able to afford because I reached out. I would have wasted money getting a few novels that were already going to be scanned. (jfc this one book is also about the same price as the Kratos novel.... But I have a bit of a confusing Personal Investment in this particular one now that I'll share once it's in my hands.)

I wonder if I should try to contact the person going by Stahn's name on archive too? If I'd overlap with anyone, it'd probably be someone named for Destiny stuff. I mean, I guess it doesn't matter if I'd overlap with them since the novels are already bought and paid for and I couldn't get a refund even if I tried. And also they seem to only be uploading guidebooks. (Which are also super heckin' cool because they also have lore in them)

It'll be like 4 months before the box gets here, and it's not just the Destiny novels. So I guess I'll post a list of everything I'll be ripping/scanning just in case. I'd love it if more people did this stuff, so if there's anyone interested in buying stuff like this to continue to archive it (it's not like anyone who contributed to making them is making money off of them anymore. At least, I'm pretty sure they aren't), here's a list of stuff I've already got coming so you can cross it off your own list.

Tales of Destiny novels (tl;dr: ALL OF THEM):

ルーティのルール

青の記憶

天地戦争編

運命をつぐもの上巻

運命をつぐもの下巻

蒼黒の想い上巻

蒼黒の想い下巻

Tales of Destiny 2 novels (tl;dr: ALL OF THEM):

英雄を探す少女

二人の聖女

運命の果てに

蒼黒の追憶上巻

蒼黒の追憶中巻

蒼黒の追憶下巻

朱鷺色の風

Tales of Eternia novels (NOT all of them):

蒼天の星上巻

蒼天の星下巻

暁の約束上巻

暁の約束下巻

リッドのとかげ

キールの希望

(For those keeping track, that means what remains of Eternia is all 3 volumes of 永遠のきざはし, and 聖エルモの灯.)

Misc:

テイルズリング アーカイブ EPIC TWO ～英雄の飛翔～

テイルズオブカウントダウン DVD

テイルズ オブ シンフォニア 4コマミニミニ大図鑑

Do As Infinity - TAO (early demo)

(Note: The Countdown DVD has been partially uploaded and even partially subtitled before, but the full thing has not been uploaded before! I don't know if there's anything hiding on the Peach Gummy DVD (which has been uploaded before) too, but the cheapest way to get the Countdown DVD was in a bundle with that, so I guess I'll have that too. Also I didn't buy anything for the early demo, but I do have the mp3 sitting around from.. somewhere? I swear I got it from Abyssal Chronicles way back when Legendia was first unveiled, but I couldn't find it anywhere even on archived versions of the site. It's clearly an earlier draft of the song and the vocalist is also very clearly Tomiko Van. I couldn't find any mention of this thing anywhere, so am I sitting on Lost Media? Or would uploading it be pointless?)

Misc whose names I'm obscuring because I'm not actually sure if the artists are still making money off of them, give me advice pls

The DVD with the pachislot animation on it. I'm not sure if it's been uploaded in full (none of the few compilations say so), but it's probably never been uploaded in its full quality. I might upload just the video without the audio.

The artbook of the artist of the TODDC manga. I don't know if it's been uploaded in full before. (I found it for pretty cheap, or else I might not have bothered...) Actually, I'd rather someone else with a better scanner and a willingness to unbind it (I'm not unbinding any of these; my hands aren't steady enough) to scan this anyway, so maybe go for this one anyway if you're looking to get stuff scanned.

Also secured by someone else is Tales of Destiny 2's manga, Tales of Destiny Director's Cut's manga, and the French localization of Tales of Destiny's first manga. The first two are already scanned, plans to scan the last one, but I'm not sure if they want to upload them to archive. They are absolutely willing to give them to people who would want to translate them, though.

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Desde Instagram

Koda Kumi con Tomiko Van

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2002

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Do As Infinity - Oasis

2000

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Tomiko Van trashes former Do As Infinity member Dai Nagao over drug arrest

A few days ago news broke that former Do As Infinity member Dai Nagao was arrested for violating Japan’s stimulants control law. On July 15th Nagao was caught for possession, and was eventually released via bail on July 22nd. He was formally charged two days later on July 24th. Nagao took to his Facebook account […]

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𝔸𝕤 𝕨𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕠𝕟 We lose ourselves 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦

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Bild (gerade) am PC gemacht Do as Infinity

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Do As Infinity - Engine

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Rules: Spell your url with songs and then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.

Thanks for the tag @daisyneptune!

tiny - how merry marry

angels - the xx

manacles - van tomiko

aurora - bump of chicken

nabi - bibi

obsession - shinee

no plan - hozier

everyday it rains - tvxq

Tagging... @milesmoerales @kremaclassi @shiroyeesha @rattle-em-spooky-jones @lookslikerainydays @pear-thery @blackfaun @yoshifics

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Do as Infinity, Chile July 9 Thank you for visiting our country. I can believ they actually used the flag I gave them on stage

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Desde Instagram

"¡Me encontré con Van-chan!

Desde que debuté, Van-chan ha sido muy amable conmigo y me hace sentir como si estuviera en casa.

Por la noche, cenamos y charlamos...

Tiene una personalidad, voz y cara hermosas.

Me siento como una kouhai impresionada con su senpai♡

Antes solíamos hablar de música y romances, pero ahora hablamos de niños y cosas del pasado

¡Espero por la siguiente ocasión en que nos reunamos!"

Tomiko Van publicó las mismas fotos con el siguiente mensaje:

"Koda Kumi está loca; estar con ella es muy interesante 😂

Estoy tan feliz de su éxito que he llorado por ello.

Me siento aliviada de que le vaya tan bien!"

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do as infinity - rakuen