I've always avoided Tumblr because it seems like a complicated mess of pics and gifs and other random things, but with the decline of people frequenting LJ and growing user base elsewhere I'm finally listening to my friend and starting up a Tumblr to post updates whenever I translate something here.

sayitagain-trans @ Tumblr

I will not be posting ( Read more... )

At my friends' urging I caved and wrote my own report for the two concerts in Hawaii last week. I didn't want to post them in my own journal, so they suggested doing it here instead. I know this is supposed to be a translation journal so I apologize for hijacking it this way ( Read more... )

Translated this partially for xanderave and her love for OOR. It's a great song-- not conventionally pretty, but the blunt and forceful lyrics carry a sense of conviction to them that I really like.

Please give it a listen if you can! You can stream it here on Youtube.

( ONE OK ROCK - 未完成交響曲 (Mikansei Koukyoukyoku) )

Whoops, sorry about the long delay between the previous part and this! I've been really busy with other things, along with the pesky thing known as real life. Here's the last part to a very interesting - albeit a bit exaggerated at times (to me, anyway) - article about why women in their 40s are joining in on the idol frenzy. Here they talk about ( Read more... )

Back with more for you to read! If you haven't given this a read yet, I highly recommend it as it brings up many interesting points not only about why older women are becoming fangirls, but the mindsets of fangirls in general ( Read more... )

I'm going to get really busy again starting next week, so I got started on the Jyousei Seven article today. There's still three and a half pages to go, so these are by no means all the points the article has to offer. The next installment will have talks about the difference between female and male fans, the original idol boom and its current ( Read more... )

There's a bunch of other things that I should be getting to work on, but I wanted to kick this off too. I'm going to translate at least some of the cast interviews from the ROOKIES photobook, starting with a short one with GReeeeN, who had written and sang the theme song for the drama ( Read more... )

A quick random little thing before I get back to translating SWITCH, here are the Arashi-related bits from blog entries that Shinagawa Hiroshi and Narimiya Hiroki made after the filming for their VS Arashi appearance which aired on 03/21/2008. They're very short, but I thought people who are a fan of any one of them might be interested?

Enjoy!

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I... don't actually know why I translated this, since most of you are probably not part of the fanclub, and if you are you'd probably be able to understand it, but I guess I wanted to try my hand at translating something formal? Anyway, this is a notice they posted on the official site today regarding warning emails sent to fanclub members about ( Read more... )

This has nothing to do with jpop at all, but I love this song and the translation I'd found on the internet for my friend wasn't exactly great, so I ended up redoing it myself. It's a sad song, but I find the melody very beautiful and haunting. Do give it a try! :)

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( Evonne Hsu - Qi Yue Qi Ri Qing (This Clear 7th of July) )