俺、お前ＢＥＬＩＥＶＥ♪ (Demo tape) - translation
H: He called me. He said he was at the job.
Lesser: I got a call too…
H: Ah, there he is!
*Chokio enters*
H: You‘re wearing cool trousers today!
Chokio: Oh, really? *flattered* But you… with that thing you got from your parents, creating a demo tape… you’re really awesome! *to Undine*
H: Yeah, awesome!
U: Really?
H: You’ve really mastered it!
U: Well, thanks…
L: Well, but anyone could do that after reading instructions…
H: Let’s listen to those temporary vocals we did yesterday!
L: I’m the one who sang it, right? I think it’s okay…
H: Well, let’s listen…
Ch: But it’s just temporary…
U: Here we go ~
*song starts*
H: Here we are! *excited*
U: (I don’t understand him that well because of the track, but it’s something about bass)
L: I really has a nice tone in this part…
(I can’t make out much of that, but basically, it’s Hatenacchi, Undine and Chokio commenting about instruments, while Lesser talks about his vocals, ignored by everyone… poor guy xD)
U: I’ll pause it here, ok? *pauses the track at the ‚Kawaii sugoku kawaii kawaii naaaa‘ part* Listen… When I was sleeping yesterday, I was enlightened suddenly!
L: I know, I have such feelings all the time!
U: Listen! I said listen… *stops Lesser and starts to sing* ‚Kawaii sugoku kawaii kawaii naaaaa~’ isn’t it… At that place: ‚Kawaii sugoku kawaii kawaii nnn-naaaaaaaa~’ *sings in more high-pitched tone* I thought this would be better.
Ch + H: It’s amazing!
U: Really? Really?! *happy*
Ch: I’ve never heard something like that…
L: I think it’s little too unpleasant… *complains but is ignored once again - I must agree with him, though*
H: Come to think of it, it’s probably the first time I’ve actually heard Undine’s singing voice…
L: I think the previous one was better… *still complains about the ‘kawaii’ part*
H: You really have a good voice! *to Undine*
Ch: When I heard that, I was enlightened too!
L: My singing voice was probably better than yours… *still ignored*
H: If Undine did the vocals, it would be awesome…
L: I think I was…
H: Listen! There’s something I’ve been thinking of… We Triple Meaning…This demo tape is…
L: Hatenacchi Seven Questions… *still believes they’re called that way*
H: This demo tape is actually created using synthetized sounds, but Triple Meaning is a live band, so we should do live concerts…
L: Hatenacchi Seven Questions is a live band, so… *I really feel bad for the guy xD*
H: My sister has a bass guitar, and I was told ‘play the bass’ by everyone, so I’m planning to do it…
L: You really should play the bass! *probably afraid of losing his vocals*
H: Chokio, you have drums at home, right? You could borrow your Mom’s drums and play them…
Ch: Ok, I’ll play them.
H: Lesser has a guitar, so he should play guitar, right?
L: Well about playing guitar… I can play it, but when I play, my fingers start to hurt very soon… I was playing yesterday and they still hurt a lot. *makes excuses* So I think I should be on the vocals…
Ch: Undine, why don’t you play the guitar and sing?
H: That’s really good idea!
U: Me… sing?...... Well, but since everyone says so…
H: Oh come on! We’re begging you!
U: It can’t be helped… Okay. Since everyone wants it…
L: So two vocals… It’s going to be twin-vocals?
Ch: So, Undine, try to sing it!
L: Well, let’s do only the parts where we sing together…
H: Okay, Undine, we’ll redo the tape with your voice. First of all, try to sing this part.
U: Ok.
L: So main vocals, my parts is somewhere around here…
Ch: Here we go.
H: I’m looking forward to that…
L: Well, I wonder how it turns out… *doubts*
*Undine starts to sing*
Ch: Oh, nice!
L: Well, I was kind of afraid this might happen…
Ch: No, it’s really nice!
H: It’s really carefree…
Ch: Undine’s good!
H: The song’s very lively!
*Lesser joins singing breefly*
U: You’re trembling like chihua… ugh *coughs*
H: Oh, are you ok? Stop it!
U: I’m sorry… I caught a cold yesterday…
Ch: So it will have to be only Lesser after all, such a pity…
H: Really, take care of yourself!
L: Look, you should drink lot of water to sing like I do!
H: While Undine’s taking a rest, let’s talk about arrangement! Have you come up with anything? At that part, I’ll do this with the bass…
L: Well, don’t you think my part really narrowed down?
U: You think so?
L: When I think about it, it’s kind of unsatisfactory. Let’s talk about the song some more…
Ch: What are you talking about?! You have the most interesting part! *he calls him lesser panda, btw xD*
L: I understand it, only I can do that, but if I don’t sing more, the song will…
H: You’re wrong, Lesser. Listen! You’re wrong. Look here, at this white sheet of paper.
L: Paper?
H: Paper. When anyone looks at it, he’ll know it’s a sheet of paper, right? But at that white paper, there’s a black dot. *draws* Black dot. Though there’s the black dot, there’s still plenty of white area. But since there’s the black dot, no one will think it’s white paper, right? They’ll think it’s the black dot. That black dot is that one line of yours. Lesser’s line.
Ch: You’re like a black stain!
L: S-Stain? *confused*
H: If there were two or three of them, the one stain would lose its meaning!
U: Well, let’s re-do the arrangement.
H: So I’ll play the bass and…
L: But somehow… Maybe I should say something impressive on some other place…
U: What’s with you?! *annoyed*
L: So I’ll say something impressive on the beginning! Before the song starts.
U: Like what?!
L: Like… Ladies and gentlemen! I’m Lesser! We are Lesser! *boys laugh at his English*
U: W-Wait, once more! *apparently stops Hatenacchi from stopping Lesser, because he finds Lesser’s English amusing*
L: He’s Lesser! *tries hard*
U: Ok, enough. Lesser panda’s idea is rejected. Back to the arrangement.
H: So the bass, and I’ll do…
L: Hatenacchi! Hatenacchi! *annoyed*
H: Eh? What?
L: Why didn’t you tell him not to call me lesser panda?
H: Ah, I’m sorry, I forgot!
U: Panda-kun ~ *teasingly*
The End
And Lesser's diary:
… but actually I still have the photo from that day, I found that really interesting as a kid! Like: kataba-ba-ba-ba! (sounds of… something O.o) Renting the house at that moment?! What was mother thinking?!
Tomorrow is recording. I’m going to sleep soon.
15th November (Thursday)
Today’s the day, which could become a day, which some might call a non-important day in the Japanese history of rock. Why is that - I’m going to write about that right now. That is, the demo tape was completed. In Undine’s room, using a tape-recorder which Undine got from his parents, we HateQue (Hatenacchi Seven Questions) held the very first recording. I really don’t understand machines, but Undine created quite stylish orchestra. As I thought, I ended up in charge of vocals. My voice has a nice tone, so when I stopped singing, other members remained speechless. As I thought, my singing was good. My singing voice - it’s the only unique thing in a world with this shut out, immobile society, isn’t it. It may be the beginning of us HatenaQue.
16th November (Friday)
Talk about my future with parents.
17th November (Saturday)
In Undine’s room, we furthermore concentrate on the demo tape. Meanwhile we decide on parts in band. I said I don’t care what part I’ll do, but due to everyone’s persuasion I’ll be doing vocals after all. Well, it can’t be helped, since everyone was asking me to do that…(lol) Since Undine hasn’t voice for support vocals, it seems I’ll be in charge of support vocals. Today Hatenacchi told me this: ‚You’re completely white sheet of paper.‘ I’m completely white he said… Am I that pure? I don’t really understand it myself, but apparently I’m like that in other’s eyes.
On my way home, I drop in to Chokio’s room and borrow 2 000 yen.
19th November
Tomorrow’s a live. I’m starting to feel like all my blood…
It seems poor lesser panda really misunderstood that white paper + black dot thing. Either that, or he really can't admit to himself that he's black sheep of the band xD I feel sorry for the guy, but it's so funny!
Again: Don't use without permission (because it's very sucky xp). I hope you enjoyed it! :D
Lesser: I got a call too…
H: Ah, there he is!
*Chokio enters*
H: You‘re wearing cool trousers today!
Chokio: Oh, really? *flattered* But you… with that thing you got from your parents, creating a demo tape… you’re really awesome! *to Undine*
H: Yeah, awesome!
U: Really?
H: You’ve really mastered it!
U: Well, thanks…
L: Well, but anyone could do that after reading instructions…
H: Let’s listen to those temporary vocals we did yesterday!
L: I’m the one who sang it, right? I think it’s okay…
H: Well, let’s listen…
Ch: But it’s just temporary…
U: Here we go ~
*song starts*
H: Here we are! *excited*
U: (I don’t understand him that well because of the track, but it’s something about bass)
L: I really has a nice tone in this part…
(I can’t make out much of that, but basically, it’s Hatenacchi, Undine and Chokio commenting about instruments, while Lesser talks about his vocals, ignored by everyone… poor guy xD)
U: I’ll pause it here, ok? *pauses the track at the ‚Kawaii sugoku kawaii kawaii naaaa‘ part* Listen… When I was sleeping yesterday, I was enlightened suddenly!
L: I know, I have such feelings all the time!
U: Listen! I said listen… *stops Lesser and starts to sing* ‚Kawaii sugoku kawaii kawaii naaaaa~’ isn’t it… At that place: ‚Kawaii sugoku kawaii kawaii nnn-naaaaaaaa~’ *sings in more high-pitched tone* I thought this would be better.
Ch + H: It’s amazing!
U: Really? Really?! *happy*
Ch: I’ve never heard something like that…
L: I think it’s little too unpleasant… *complains but is ignored once again - I must agree with him, though*
H: Come to think of it, it’s probably the first time I’ve actually heard Undine’s singing voice…
L: I think the previous one was better… *still complains about the ‘kawaii’ part*
H: You really have a good voice! *to Undine*
Ch: When I heard that, I was enlightened too!
L: My singing voice was probably better than yours… *still ignored*
H: If Undine did the vocals, it would be awesome…
L: I think I was…
H: Listen! There’s something I’ve been thinking of… We Triple Meaning…This demo tape is…
L: Hatenacchi Seven Questions… *still believes they’re called that way*
H: This demo tape is actually created using synthetized sounds, but Triple Meaning is a live band, so we should do live concerts…
L: Hatenacchi Seven Questions is a live band, so… *I really feel bad for the guy xD*
H: My sister has a bass guitar, and I was told ‘play the bass’ by everyone, so I’m planning to do it…
L: You really should play the bass! *probably afraid of losing his vocals*
H: Chokio, you have drums at home, right? You could borrow your Mom’s drums and play them…
Ch: Ok, I’ll play them.
H: Lesser has a guitar, so he should play guitar, right?
L: Well about playing guitar… I can play it, but when I play, my fingers start to hurt very soon… I was playing yesterday and they still hurt a lot. *makes excuses* So I think I should be on the vocals…
Ch: Undine, why don’t you play the guitar and sing?
H: That’s really good idea!
U: Me… sing?...... Well, but since everyone says so…
H: Oh come on! We’re begging you!
U: It can’t be helped… Okay. Since everyone wants it…
L: So two vocals… It’s going to be twin-vocals?
Ch: So, Undine, try to sing it!
L: Well, let’s do only the parts where we sing together…
H: Okay, Undine, we’ll redo the tape with your voice. First of all, try to sing this part.
U: Ok.
L: So main vocals, my parts is somewhere around here…
Ch: Here we go.
H: I’m looking forward to that…
L: Well, I wonder how it turns out… *doubts*
*Undine starts to sing*
Ch: Oh, nice!
L: Well, I was kind of afraid this might happen…
Ch: No, it’s really nice!
H: It’s really carefree…
Ch: Undine’s good!
H: The song’s very lively!
*Lesser joins singing breefly*
U: You’re trembling like chihua… ugh *coughs*
H: Oh, are you ok? Stop it!
U: I’m sorry… I caught a cold yesterday…
Ch: So it will have to be only Lesser after all, such a pity…
H: Really, take care of yourself!
L: Look, you should drink lot of water to sing like I do!
H: While Undine’s taking a rest, let’s talk about arrangement! Have you come up with anything? At that part, I’ll do this with the bass…
L: Well, don’t you think my part really narrowed down?
U: You think so?
L: When I think about it, it’s kind of unsatisfactory. Let’s talk about the song some more…
Ch: What are you talking about?! You have the most interesting part! *he calls him lesser panda, btw xD*
L: I understand it, only I can do that, but if I don’t sing more, the song will…
H: You’re wrong, Lesser. Listen! You’re wrong. Look here, at this white sheet of paper.
L: Paper?
H: Paper. When anyone looks at it, he’ll know it’s a sheet of paper, right? But at that white paper, there’s a black dot. *draws* Black dot. Though there’s the black dot, there’s still plenty of white area. But since there’s the black dot, no one will think it’s white paper, right? They’ll think it’s the black dot. That black dot is that one line of yours. Lesser’s line.
Ch: You’re like a black stain!
L: S-Stain? *confused*
H: If there were two or three of them, the one stain would lose its meaning!
U: Well, let’s re-do the arrangement.
H: So I’ll play the bass and…
L: But somehow… Maybe I should say something impressive on some other place…
U: What’s with you?! *annoyed*
L: So I’ll say something impressive on the beginning! Before the song starts.
U: Like what?!
L: Like… Ladies and gentlemen! I’m Lesser! We are Lesser! *boys laugh at his English*
U: W-Wait, once more! *apparently stops Hatenacchi from stopping Lesser, because he finds Lesser’s English amusing*
L: He’s Lesser! *tries hard*
U: Ok, enough. Lesser panda’s idea is rejected. Back to the arrangement.
H: So the bass, and I’ll do…
L: Hatenacchi! Hatenacchi! *annoyed*
H: Eh? What?
L: Why didn’t you tell him not to call me lesser panda?
H: Ah, I’m sorry, I forgot!
U: Panda-kun ~ *teasingly*
The End
And Lesser's diary:
… but actually I still have the photo from that day, I found that really interesting as a kid! Like: kataba-ba-ba-ba! (sounds of… something O.o) Renting the house at that moment?! What was mother thinking?!
Tomorrow is recording. I’m going to sleep soon.
15th November (Thursday)
Today’s the day, which could become a day, which some might call a non-important day in the Japanese history of rock. Why is that - I’m going to write about that right now. That is, the demo tape was completed. In Undine’s room, using a tape-recorder which Undine got from his parents, we HateQue (Hatenacchi Seven Questions) held the very first recording. I really don’t understand machines, but Undine created quite stylish orchestra. As I thought, I ended up in charge of vocals. My voice has a nice tone, so when I stopped singing, other members remained speechless. As I thought, my singing was good. My singing voice - it’s the only unique thing in a world with this shut out, immobile society, isn’t it. It may be the beginning of us HatenaQue.
16th November (Friday)
Talk about my future with parents.
17th November (Saturday)
In Undine’s room, we furthermore concentrate on the demo tape. Meanwhile we decide on parts in band. I said I don’t care what part I’ll do, but due to everyone’s persuasion I’ll be doing vocals after all. Well, it can’t be helped, since everyone was asking me to do that…(lol) Since Undine hasn’t voice for support vocals, it seems I’ll be in charge of support vocals. Today Hatenacchi told me this: ‚You’re completely white sheet of paper.‘ I’m completely white he said… Am I that pure? I don’t really understand it myself, but apparently I’m like that in other’s eyes.
On my way home, I drop in to Chokio’s room and borrow 2 000 yen.
19th November
Tomorrow’s a live. I’m starting to feel like all my blood…
It seems poor lesser panda really misunderstood that white paper + black dot thing. Either that, or he really can't admit to himself that he's black sheep of the band xD I feel sorry for the guy, but it's so funny!
Again: Don't use without permission (because it's very sucky xp). I hope you enjoyed it! :D