Tuesday 31 January 2017

熱情のマリア -Translation-


As promised, it is time to tackle the request from pipio and ℓoro - Netsujou no Maria.

Over the course of translating Nana songs, I have come to realize that one of my favorite things is when the song challenges me to think about much more than what is explicitly said in it. It's like solving a mystery - the mystery of what she was thinking of and what she wanted to convey when she wrote that particular song. To my joy, Netsujou no Maria (=Maria of Passion) provided me with  plenty of these, encouraging me to understand it.

Monday 30 January 2017

BLUE -Translation-

宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 追憶の航海

I am finally back from my long lyric translation hiatus! 

My quality checker had a lot of wonderful things keeping him busy and I didn't want to publish something that might come across as not fully thought through, so it ended up being a while. I'll be working through some of my backlog now (yes, I haven't  forgotten any of the translation wishes I have received... I hope), starting with the request from Vincent Vincent way back when Nana sang BLUE in LIVE THEATER (yikes, it really has been a while I am so sorry orz).