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@userdramas âą event 18: music âą only the moon knows
So will you take my hand, or just stay silent? Only the moon knows the answer that we seek. Only the moon knows...
#avataro sentai donbrothers#donbrothers#super sentai#momoi taro#taro momoi#sonoi#don momotaro#higuchi kouhei#kouhei higuchi#yuya tominaga#tominaga yuya#udevent#umbrella.gifs#userdramas#tokuedit#please do not repost#umbrella.edits#umbrella.posts#translation: eigo#do me a favor and pretend these are better quality than they are... also that every event set i make doesn't look the same...#anyways just wanted to use my favorite section of this song bc i do miss momoi and sonoi from time to time#what if you were my rival and i wrote a romantic duet about us and refused to sing it with anyone but you?
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Yuya Tominaga and Shinnosuke Takahashi Mini Photobook
#avataro sentai donbrothers#donbrothers#super sentai#sonoi#sonoza#yuya tominaga#shinnosuke takahashi#toku cast#my scans#my edit#photobook#do not repost#yuya đł#cover + all 14 pages#arrived today and wanted to share
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https://twitter.com/tominaga_yuya/status/1757543757254475922
More to the Toku Bl Pipeline!
More like toku to Zettai BL pipeline... Ryo Sekoguchi is in this season too...
Seriously, what is with this show attracting tokusatsu actors like honey attracts Winnie the Pooh?
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LFG, Toku & BL fans!
#kamen rider build#inukai atsuhiro#lupinranger vs patranger#ito asahi#kyoryuger#shiono akihisa#zenkaiger#sekiguchi ryo#donbrothers#tominaga yuya
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Zettai BL Ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL Ni Naritakunai Otoko 2024 - Episode 5 Eng Sub
VS THE START OF A ROMANCE and VS HELPING
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translation notes:
About ânaresomeâ
As tends to happen when translating Japanese, this is one of those words that donât exist in English. Its literal translation is âthe start of a romance.â So, while weâve chosen to translate it as âget together,â it would be more accurate to give a more extensive explanation. It is a noun that specifically refers to the moment that love begins. So when weâre talking about ânaresomeâ weâre talking about the thing or situation that triggered the romantic relationship or romantic feelings.âSnow
about casting Tominaga Yuya as a guy who gets busy when it rains
I think this is another tokusatsu Easter egg. Tominaga Yuya, who plays Jouji in the âVs. The Start of a Relationshipâ chapter, was also on Avataro Sentai DonBrothers, a Super Sentai series that ran from 2022 to 2023. His character, Sonoi, was the agent of a culture from another plane of existence whose members feed off of the brainwaves of human beings. At first, he and his associates Sonoza and Sononi were enemies of the DonBrothers, but they eventually joined forces with the Sentai. A big reason this happened was that Sonoi had a special connection to the leader of the DonBrothers, Momoi Tarou. Their relationship reads as pretty darned queer to a lot of viewers, myself included.
Momoi Tarou and Sonoi bonding, before they found out they were nemeses
Many JBL fans know Higuchi Kouhei from My Personal Weatherman/Taikan Yoho, in which he played the titular meteorologist, Segasaki. Part of the premise of that series is that at the start of the story, Higuchiâs character only has sex with his partner on sunny days. Jouji, Tominagaâs Zettai BL character, does the opposite: he and his âsex friendâ only do it on rainy days.Â
Basically, the writers of Zettai BL 3 have made Higuchiâs toku boyfriendâs story into a reverse Taikan Yoho situation. What are the odds thatâs just a coincidence?âTowel
Also, he gets his own âZettai BLâ title card moment (and heâs the only one out of the secondary cast who get to have that).âSnow
Thatâs right!
Iâm going to put this in context a little because Iâve given a lot of thought (probably too much) to whoâs been featured in the opening credits of the different Zettai BL seasons. For every season of the show so far, Inukai Atsuhiro has had four other actors perform with him in the opening theme dance number. (All of whom also get a crack at some of those title card moments.) For two seasons, three of the four spots were taken up by Yutaro (Ayato), Shiono Akihisa (Toujou), and Itou Asahi (Kikuchi). The fourth spot was taken up by different actors in the first two seasons. It was the guy who played the attractive dude from the goukon in the first season, and it was Izuka Kenta, who played Kikuchiâs ex Igarashi, in the second.Â
This time around, I had hoped that Sekoguchi Ryo would take the fourth spot, because heâs my blorbo and of course I wanted to see him in a retro dance number (boy was that wish ever granted!). But I hadnât expected Shiono not to appear this time. Maybe there were specific reasons for this, like a scheduling conflict or an injury. Itâs not like Shiono appears less in season 3 than he did in the others, so thatâs not the reason. Itâs hard to say. But in that context, it seems even more significant that they gave a spot to Tominaga Yuya. We donât know the reasons for this. But itâs possible they featured him more heavily in this way because of his tokusatsu backstory and the inside joke it allowed them to make.âTowel
about âpudding relationshipâ and âprince and princessâ
This part was tricky to translate. As you might have noticed by this point, Mob likes to make puns. In Japanese, pudding is written as âpurinâ and it is used to refer to pudding as well as custard. Mob goes on to follow with âprince and princessâ, which in Japanese are pronounced as âpurinsuâ and âpurinsesuâ. In here, thereâs wordplay with these similar sounding words and the image of the ToujouAyato couple.âSnow Â
about âcuteness overloadâ
Japanese is a language that uses a lot of onomatopoeia. Thereâs 4 types, iirc: animal sounds, object sounds (like rain, creaking and the like), things that donât make noise (smiles, stares, silence, etc), verbs turned onomatopoeia (I unfortunately cannot remember this properly but it was something like that). In this case, Mob says âKyun ga tomaranaiâ (which literally means âthe kyun canât be stoppedâ). âKyunâ is an onomatopoeic word to refer to a âmomentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings,â usually tied to a romantic context but not exclusively. Taking this into account, we thought âcuteness overloadâ might be the closest expression in English.âSnow
Itâs worth noting that Mob is also saying âkyunâ right after the âcuteness overloadâ line. I really thought at first that he was saying âcute,â since it sounds so similar, it would make a lot of sense contextually, and English loan words are so common in Japanese. But no, it was âkyun.â There was no way we could get across the meaning of âkyunâ in one or two syllables of English, so we went with âadorbs,â which is just another word for âcute,â but at least it has a cutesy pronunciation that steps it up a notch.âTowel
about bouhan buzzers (16:06)
The translation note shown onscreen during this scene reads: âa bouhan buzzer is a security gadget carried by Japanese schoolchildren.â We did our best to summarize the meaning of this term briefly, so that it would be readable in the amount of time it was possible for us to keep that caption onscreen. But hereâs a longer explanation for those who might be curious.Â
It took a while for me to understand what these things were. At first I pictured something like a hand buzzerâthe kind that people used to use to prank people. But itâs nothing like that. Theyâre sometimes referred to as âpersonal security alarms.â Theyâre little doodads that you can clip onto a backpack or carry in your pocket, and if you activate them (the most common mechanism for which seems to be pulling some kind of tab or string), they make some form of alarm-type sound. I found a video, below, that shows someone activating two different types of buzzers, showing the sound they make.Â
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These two make the same sort of beeping/chirping noises youâd associate with an alarm protecting a car or the entrance to a buildingânot really a âbuzzingâ sound, or anything that resembles the sound Mr. Cheerleader makes in this scene. But maybe there are other types that are more buzz-like, or sound more like the sound our buddy is imitating.Â
According to some things I read when I looked these up, children often play with their bouhan buzzers, making it somewhat less likely that people will be on alert when they hear them go off. I donât think I could have resisted setting off a gadget like this if Iâd had one as a child. They seem to be available with all sorts of characters on them and in all sorts of colors and shapes, which is cool but might make them seem even more toy-like.Â
From what Iâve seen, these things are most commonly used by children, but adults sometimes use them too. If you look for them for sale online, there are more adult-looking versions available (say, a rose-gold blob instead of something with cute characters on itâthough of course, adults might want those too). One listing I saw advertised that theyâre useful for kids, women, and the elderly.âTowel
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#zettai bl#zettai bl 3#zettai bl season 3#zettai bl 2024#zettai bl ni naru sekai vs zettai bl ni naritakunai otoko#a man who defies the world of bl#absolute bl#translation notes#tominaga yuya#donbrothers#taikan yoho#Youtube
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Avatar Party! Donbrothers! - Momoi Tarou, Saruhara Shinichi, Kitou Haruka, Inuzuka Tsubasa, Kijino Tsuyoshi, Momotani Jirou, Sonoi, Sononi, Sonoza (Higuchi Kouhei, Beppu Yuuki, Shida Kohaku, TĆtarĆ, Suzuki Hirofumi, Ishikawa Raizou, Tominaga YĆ«ya, Miyazaki Amisa, Takahashi Shinnosuke) Avataro Sentai Donbrothers Final Live Tour (Show 3)
#avataro sentai donbrothers#higuchi kouhei#beppu yuuki#shida kohaku#totaro#suzuki hirofumi#ishikawa raizou#tominaga yuya#miyazaki amisa#takahashi shinnosuke#super sentai#final live tour#character song
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"Only the Moon Knows" (Tsuki Nomizo Shiru), from Avataro Sentai DonBrothers (2022). Performed by Don Momotaro/Momoi Taro (Higuchi Kohei) and Sonoi (Tominaga Yuya).
#Avataro Sentai DonBrothers#Super Sentai#DonBrothers#Don Brothers#Higuchi Kohei#Tominaga Yuya#Character songs#SoundCloud
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What a world we live in.
#dont brothers#i dont know how reliable the powerrangers fandom wiki is but just the idea of a world w/o the main noto trio in the back half of donbros is#stunning to me#also Yuya Tominaga is Sonoi's actor in case you dont know
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~ CHRIS & DREW MASTERPOST ~
putting together a list of matches available online featuring chris and drew either teaming together or against each other bc i have no life! and also for my fellow chrisdrew heads bc we gotta stick together.
some of these links will be behind a paywall, but i will try my best to find options that are not!! they'll be in order of year and organized by promotion. i have not been able to find any of their matches pre-2017, but i will continue my search until the day i die.
LUCHA FOREVER - the dawning of forever -> cck + chief deputy dunne vs. drew, bea priestley, + el ligero (2:15:00 timestamp)
ATTACK PRO WRESTLING - damplified -> cck vs. drew and shax
dear maria tag me in -> chris and pete dunne vs. drew and elijah
lifestyles of the weird and the wonderful -> chris vs. drew
nonstop feeling (pressure to succeed) -> chris, chief deputy dunne + wild boar vs. drew, lk mezinger + mike bird
live at the dome 3 -> chris vs. drew
**unfortunately, most attack pro shows are not available anywhere else other than the linked site, as far as i've found. the good thing is, the sub price isn't too steep, however they don't have all of their shows available, so some chris&drew matches are missing :(
PWC - the chaos element -> chris vs. drew (1:22:00 timestamp)
PROGRESS - chapter 82: unboxing day -> chris vs. drew, no dq (1:20:35 timestamp)
IPW - tuesday night graps forever -> cck + (inflatable) pete dunne vs. drew, el phantasmo, + the invisible man (45:30 timestamp) also with aussie open on comms. a good time
DDT - summer vacation 2020 -> chris + drew vs. damnation (57:40 timestamp)
get alive 2020 -> chris vs. drew, no dq for the universal title (1:34:20 timestamp)
who's gonna top? 2020 -> chris + drew vs. yuki ueno + naomi yoshimura (1:02:25 timestamp)
d-oh grand prix 2021 in ota-ku - chris + drew vs. mao + shunma (1:30:20 timestamp)
super encounter #1 - chris + drew vs. mao + shunma streetfight
super encounter #6 - chris + drew vs. mao + shunma vs. saki akai + hagane shinno
judgement 2023 -> chris, drew + hagane shinno vs. damnation t.a (2:40:30 timestamp)
BJW - 12.30.2021 -> chris + drew vs. astronauts (1:31:40 timestamp)
only the young -> chris + drew vs. kota sekifudo + yuya aoki (8:46 timestamp)
2 young 2 die -> chris + drew vs. isami kodaka + yuko miyamoto
front row -> chris + drew vs. kankuro hoshino + akira hyodo
young man standing -> chris + drew vs. kota sekisada & mitsuru takeda
ten minutes -> chris + drew vs. daisuke sekimoto & yuya aoki
**sadly the last half of the bjw shows i'm unable to find anywhere other than the bjw core website which is behind a paywall
GAKE NO FUCHI JOSHI - it's summer isn't it? -> drew + rina yamashita vs. chris + miyako matsumoto
clockwork -> chris vs. suzu suzuki (this is a chris match, but drew is his second and he does get involved in the hijinks)
snow white -> chris vs. miyako matsumoto (drew as chris' second again getting involved in the wonderful nonsense that is this match)
happy death day -> chris, drew + veny vs. miyako matsumoto, rina yamashita, + jun kasai (1:32:40 timestamp)
GANBARE PRO - kocho ranbo -> chris, drew + miyako matsumoto vs. veny, hagane shinno, + shinichiro tominaga (51:50 timestamp)
GATOH MOVE - chocopro # 179 -> chris + drew vs. baliyan akki + yuna mizumori
BAKA GAIJIN - vol. 1 -> chris vs. drew / chris + masa vs. drew + mao (1:01:30 timestamp)
vol. 4 -> chris + masa vs. drew + rina (1:10:40 timestamp)
i am also going to link this podcast that they did so everyone can mourn with me the fact that they only did one episode </3
AND that is the end of the list, for now! yay yippee! please enjoy
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DRAMAtical Murder Flashback Stage Play Goods
GO READ THE REBLOG! ALL THE GOODS WILL BE SOLD ON ANIMATE JAPAN ON MAY 29TH! GO USE YOUR PROXY SERVICE YALL!
THESE WILL ONLY BE SOLD IN STORE AND NOT ONLINE.
You can go to Marcari Japan and already start finding some items online. You can use proxy sites such as Zenmarket or Buyee to ship them to you.
They use DRAMAtical Murder in English as a keyword but you can also use:
ăăăčă (Domaste, the short form of the play name)
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ăŻă©ăă·ă„æŒć (Brain Crash Play)
ăăăă€ă (Bromide - The A4 postcard photos are called these)
Image Source: Animate
All Bromides have an A and B set for Aoba, one for each Actor.
Couples Bromides, cards and acrylic stands are all Seii-chan as Aoba.
Some goods are blind bags where you can't pick: Couples bromides, clear cards and acrylic stands.
The tshirt is only available in one size which is Large.
When you buy all Single Bromides Sets, you can pick a special 2L size Bromide, A or B ONLY IN THEATER. Link Source.
The Ring Light is ONLY IN THEATER and LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.
Goods will be available Friday April 28th IN STORE at Animate ( Akihabara store ) and SHIBUYA TSUTAYA B2F " shibuya 2.5d " corner.
SHIBUYA TSUTAYA Re-stocked items, TShirt sold out again. Refer to this post which they are updating.
Source: Animate
Source: Official
FAQ:
[About Aoba products]
Due to the production schedule, some pages of the pamphlet and solo bromide are using photographs of both Naotake Tsuchiya and Seiichiro Nagata. For other products, Seiichiro Nagata's photo will be used. Please note.
âȘAbout store salesâ«
Animate Akihabara and SHIBUYA TSUTAYA will sell some performance goods from Friday, April 28th.For details, please check the official website and SNS of each store.
âȘRegarding Kuradashi Goodsâ«
Some premiere goods will be sold at the theater and Animate Akihabara store.Please check the local product guide for the lineup of warehouse goods.
â Performance pamphlet: 2,800 yen (2,546 yen excluding tax) Specifications: Size A4 / 40 pages in total
All 12 types of solo bromide: 600 yen each (546 yen excluding tax) Specifications: L size 3 piece set Aoba role A/Naotake Tsuchiya Aoba role B/Seiichiro Nagata Kojaku role/Aren Kohatsu Noise role/Rikiya Tomizono Mink/Takaki Yamaki Clear/Yuki Yamagata Virus/Yuya Tominaga Trip/Dai Isono The role of Mizuki/Naoya Iwaki the role of Akushima/Tetsuya Makita the role of Ren/Shogo Yamazaki the role of Sei/Shogo Yamazaki For those who purchase all types of solo bromide, a 2L size not-for-sale bromide will be presented! You can choose one of the two options below. â Aoba, Kojaku, Noise, Mink, Clear ⥠Aoba, Virus, Trip, Dogwood, Akushima *Aoba will be Seiichiro Nagata.
â Random couple bromide All 7 types: 300 yen (273 yen excluding tax) Size: L size Aoba & Kojaku Aoba & Noise Aoba & Mink Aoba & Clear Aoba & Virus & Trip Aoba & Ren Aoba & Sei *Aoba will be Seiichiro Nagata. Products will be sold randomly in blind bags. You cannot choose the pattern.
â 14 types of random clear cards: 300 yen (273 yen excluding tax) Size: About W55mm x H85mm Material: PP Aoba (2 types) Red Sparrow (Koujaku) Noise Mink Clear (2 types) One with Mask, One Without Mask Virus Trip Dogwood (Mizuki) Akushima Lotus (2 types) (Ren) Sei *Aoba will be Seiichiro Nagata. Products will be sold randomly in blind bags. You cannot choose the pattern.
â Random acrylic stand All 14 types: 1,200 yen (1,091 yen excluding tax) Size: About W100mm x H100mm Aoba (2 types) Red Sparrow (Koujaku) Noise Mink Clear (2 types) One with Mask, One Without Mask Virus Trip Dogwood (Mizuki) Akushima Lotus (2 types) (Ren) Sei *Aoba will be Seiichiro Nagata. Products will be sold randomly in blind bags. You cannot choose the pattern. When removing parts from the plate, remove them slowly.
â Ring light: 900 yen (819 yen excluding tax) *Can be used from the ending.
â Eco bag: 2,200 yen (2,000 yen excluding tax) Size: Pouch about W100mm x H100mm / Bag about W390mm x H540mm x D100mm Material: Polyester An original eco bag for the performance with a pouch inspired by the lotus in Aoba's bag. Not only can you carry performance goods, but you can also enjoy shopping with Lotus.
â T-shirt: 3,300 yen each (3,000 yen excluding tax) Size: One size (L) An original performance T-shirt inspired by the junk shop "Heibon" where Aoba works part-time.
Source: Official
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I tried reading the Go Go Loser Ranger manga too and also couldn't stick with it. It felt more like "has the trappings of sentai slapped onto a generic shounen being edgy for fun" than actually being a sincere subversion of the sentai genre. Not that I expect good fight choreography in a random manga but it was also not great. Civilian drama too drawn out and boring as well. Which is a shame bc the mook design is fun and apparently they had stageshow suits made? That sounds like a better medium.
Oooh, stageshow suits? Now that sounds like fun.
Wait, Yuya Tominaga?!
#is there a reason why they went with riderman/gatchaman helmets btw#it seems weirdly common with this sort of thing
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translation note: opening theme lyrics
Towel here! I thought folks might be interested in hearing more about my process for making the more literal translation of the opening theme lyrics into something that would make sense and flow in English.Â
Big thanks to @my-rose-tinted-glasses for these gifs! This explanation wouldn't be the same without a peek at the bonkers retro styling of these opening credits or a reminder of how weirdly dreamy Inukai Atsuhiro looks when gussied up like a 70s teen idol.
Before I describe my post-translation interpretation process, we thought some folks might like to have a romanized version of the opening theme lyrics in Japanese, as transcribed by Snow:
BL! BL! Zettai BL! x2
Furagu sa, koi no yokan wa furagu sa
Inochigake kaihi sa
Aragate B L
Koi shite mo runaway, far away*
Datte ore wa mobu
Kitto ore wa mobu
Iya sa (zettai)
Dame sa (BL)
Suki sa BL!
BL!
Boysu Rabu beraborena
Junjou nigete yokete
Zettai teppeki no mobu mobu
BL! BL! Zettai BL!
*This is how the Japanese captions portray the English part of this line, so Snow kept that wording. But it doesn't entirely match up with the way Tominaga Yuya sings it, which has one less syllable and to my ear, sounds more like "run away, go 'way."
I figured even non-Japanese-speakers like myself might find this useful. Maybe it's just because I've watched these episodes so many times for the fansub, but I get the opening theme in my head a lot and I've been (brokenly) singing it to myself while I'm doing things around my house. Now that I have the real romanized lyrics, I can be more accurate when I'm singing to myself while doing the dishes or what-have-you.
Now, down to business! I started my interpretation process with an initial, more literally translated version of the theme song, provided by Snow:
BL! BL! Absolute BL! BL! BL! Absolute BL! Flags, flags are a premonition of love Risking my life avoiding them Resist BL Even if I fall in love Run away far away Because I am a mob character I am undoubtedly a mob character The dislike The not-good-ness The love Boyâs Love beraborena Pure heart, run away, avoid it Absolutely impenetrable mob mob BL! BL! Absolute BL!
Here it is after a round of easier rewording changes were done:
BL! BL! Absolute BL! BL! BL! Absolute BL! Flags, flags are a premonition warning of love Risking Iâll risk my life avoiding to avoid them Resist BL Even if I fall in love Iâll run away far, far away Because I am Iâm a mob side character I am undoubtedly a mob side character The dislike The not-good-ness The love Boyâs Love beraborena Pure heart, run away, avoid it Iâm absolutely impenetrable totally, completely mob mob a side character BL! BL! Absolute BL!
Now for the trickier changes (the small numbers are footnotes and the notes that correspond to them are below):Â
BL! BL! Absolute BL! BL! BL! Absolute BL! Flags, flags are a warning of love Iâll risk my life to avoid them Resist BL 1 Even if I fall in love Iâll run far, far away Because Iâm a side character I am undoubtedly a side character 2 The dislike 3 The not-good-ness 3 The love 3 Boyâs Love beraborena 4 Pure heart, run away, avoid it 5 Iâm totally, completely a side character BL! BL! Absolute BL!
1. At this point in the song, It seemed best for the subject of the lyrics to be Mob, or âI.â That would make âresist BLâ something more like âI resist BLâ or âI will resist BL.â I wasnât trying to make the English lyrics scan perfectly like real song lyrics that go together easily, but âI will resist BLâ really, blatantly didnât scan. But itâs just one mild rewording step from the latter to get to âI refuse to L a B.âÂ
2. âUndoubtedlyâ gets its point across, but it doesnât sound like a song lyric. So I thought about the kind of wording people use in the lyrics of pop songs, especially pop songs from the mid-70s, which this song seems to be emulating. So I replaced âI am undoubtedlyâŠâ with âI gotta beâŠâ
3. These lines seem to be linked together, so I tried to find something that Mob might say that would link disliking, not-good-ness, and love. (For the record, Snow would totally have come up with something more polished-sounding than "not-good-ness" if she was translating for another purpose, but I needed the meaning of the lyrics presented in a direct way. A perfect final translation not only wasn't needed, but wouldn't have suited my purposes as well.) I thought the first two lines might be referring to the third, making this a statement that when Mob looks at this love, he dislikes it and thinks it lacks goodness. âThe dislikeâ became âI dislike.â âThe not-good-nessâ became âworthlessâ because my understanding was that this wasnât supposed to mean ânot quite goodâ but rather âtotally lacking in anything good.â And I had to make âthe loveâ specific enough to refer to, so I knew I needed something like âthis loveâ or something similar. Then it was just a short step to âI canât standâ (a slightly stronger/more vivid way of saying âI dislikeâ) / âthis worthlessâ (âthisâ because itâs referring to the love in the next line) / âkind of loveâ (using "kind of ____" to indicate a particular example of something).Â
4. âBeraborenaâ means âfalling in love in an absurd way.â According to Snow's Japanese friend, it comes from ăčăæŁ (berabou), which means absurd or foolish, and æăă (horeru), which means "to fall in love". When horeru is attached to another word, the "ho" turns into "bo", so "bera" from "berabou" and "bore" from "horeru" (like in "hitome-bore" meaning "love at first sight"). Apparently itâs a dated term that hasnât been in wide use since the 1980s, which is interesting. The meaning of âberaborenaâ meant that this line literally meant âBoyâs Love, falling in love in an absurd way,â which I took to mean something like âBoyâs Love involves falling in love in an absurd way.â Rewording this and cutting out redundancy resulted in âBoyâs Love is absurd.â Given that the next line talks about running away and so forth, I thought the âberaborenaâ line might be the reason why someone should do all of this running away and avoiding. Hence âThis Boyâs Love is too absurd.â A specific type of love (Boyâs Love) is being referred to, hence âthis,â and itâs too absurd because the excessiveness of this absurdity is what makes it necessary to run away (if it was a tolerable kind of absurdity, why would you bother?).
5. So far, I had been viewing the song as Mob speaking from his own point of view about himself. Thatâs why âIâ will risk my life, âIâ refuse, âIâ will run far away, etc. But something about this latter portion seemed like it could represent a shift toward addressing another person. After all, Mob is always advising those of us in the audience on how to steer clear of flags in the world of BL. It seems like he would include us in his song. So I decided that having a pure heart, running away, and avoiding it were things Mob was advising the listener to do. âPure heartâ became âstay pureâ and the rest was just making the verb tenses fit.
After all of that, I ended up with:
BL! BL! Absolute BL! BL! BL! Absolute BL! Flags, flags are a warning of love Iâll risk my life to avoid them I refuse to L a B Even if I fall in love Iâll run far, far away Because Iâm a side character I gotta be a side character I canât stand This worthless Kind of love This Boyâs Love is too absurd Stay pure, run away, avoid it Iâm totally, completely a side character BL! BL! Absolute BL!
My process wasnât actually this linear, as you might imagine. But I think it makes more sense presented in this way, and individual things did proceed more or less in this order.
Iâm sure there are other valid ways of interpreting these lyrics so that they make sense in English, but I hope this one is decent! I really enjoyed this despite its being a bit more nerve-wracking than working with dialogue.Â
#zettai bl#zettai bl 3#zettai bl season 3#zettai bl 2024#zettai bl ni naru sekai vs zettai bl ni naritakunai otoko#a man who defies the world of bl#translation notes
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