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2/25/2016: Updated English translation policy! Please see this page.

Note: English translations

I have decided to change my policy on English translations, since I feel that I have reached a level where I can attempt them now.

I will only be translating songs that I feel I can provide a reasonably accurate translation for. That being said, I am still learning and I am prone to error/misinterpretation, so please feel free to correct any mistakes that you see!

All translated songs are tagged under English translation.

7 comments:

  1. RaichuApril 20, 2016 at 12:03 AM

    Hi, I'm happy to see you've started to attempt English translations! I enjoyed reading your translation of 40mP's Happy Ending. The line "please let the two of them ..." sounds a bit strange to me. It means a third party is praying for the couple. The Japanese sentence is incomplete, but I think it sounds better to say "But they only wished for ..." If it's OK, I have a question, how do you interpret 歩いてきました?

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    1. Radioactive PixieApril 20, 2016 at 1:42 AM

      Thank you for your input!

      I actually translated the entire song in third person, not just that one line. To me, it felt like the whole song was a third party reading out of a fairy tale book, because of the repeated "once upon a time" and "they lived happily ever after." Figuring out who the speaker was in this one was a bit difficult, so I'm not sure ;A;
      To me, どうか二人に makes it sound like a third party is speaking. I feel like if it was "but they only wished for..." it would be something like 二人はそっと穏やかな毎日を（過ごすようにと願った）? I think...

      For 歩いてきました, I translated it as "they began to walk," kind of like how 雨が降ってきました means "it started to rain." From what I understand, てくる expresses a change that started in the past and has continued to the present, so I think 歩いてきました is the subject starting to walk sometime in the past and has continued walking up until the time of speaking (and possibly beyond?).

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    2. RaichuApril 20, 2016 at 6:53 AM

      Thanks for your quick reply. OK, I understand why you translated it that way. About 歩いてきました, my question is what does aruku mean, since it's not literally walking.

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    3. Radioactive PixieApril 20, 2016 at 8:23 AM

      Ohh I see, sorry for the misunderstanding!
      I see it as moving forward with life in this context.

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  2. RaichuApril 20, 2016 at 7:19 PM

    Thanks. Looking forward to more of your translations!頑張ってね。

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  3. UnknownJune 6, 2016 at 10:23 PM

    Cool men thanks ;)

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  4. UnknownJuly 4, 2016 at 7:51 PM

    I really wanna the translation into English

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