Quick translation of AKB48’s Hama Sayuna’s tweet and the linked company statement on her recovery from Covid-19 and return to work: First let me say, for the great deal of worry and inconvenience I have caused due to my infection by the novel coronavirus, most of all to my fans, Read more…
My exploration though older AKB releases at some point brought me to this Team 4 song, なんか、ちょっと、急に… (nanka, chotto, kyuu ni… / Somehow, Just a Bit, Suddenly…) off of 唇に Be My Baby from the end of 2015. I don’t know a lot about the history of the AKB teams, Read more…
Mystery Line, a B-side with no video from AKB48’s 6th album, has special meaning for me. Well it’s not that exciting a story, but when I spent a month living in Saitama, commuting an hour and 45 minutes each way to Tokyo every day, I got lost a lot. Maybe Read more…
Here by popular (i.e. my wife’s) request, Zukky’s dark double-center モニカ、夜明けだ (MONIKA, yoake da / Monica, It’s The Dawn). A good song from the single with the best cover, too. Aside from Zukky getting a non-cute song, I was happy to see Ayaka make this “48 Group NEXT12” senbatsu with Read more…
Here’s a quick one — and come to think of it another Theater Edition song! My wife fell in love with the 2019 Request Hour performance of 抱きつこうか？ (dakitsukou ka? / Should We Embrace?) by the AKB 16th gen members, and eventually it pulled me in, too. To be fair, Read more…
Been super busy, so all my translations have been languishing. Well let’s get back into it with another bouncy song. 法定速度と優越感 (houtei sokudo to yuuetsukan / The Speed Limit and a Sense of Superiority) by the AKB48 17-and-under senbatsu. I liked this song and MV as soon as it came Read more…
Sometimes you just want a bouncy idol song, and the AKB songs with a younger member senbatsu usually deliver. So I’ll probably translate a few of the recent ones here, starting with 最強ツインテール (saikyou TSUINTEIRU / Mightiest Twintails) from AKB48’s NO WAY MAN Type-D. The lineup here is the top Read more…
Here another long Instagram post from AKB48’s Ma Chia-Ling, brought to my attention on the S48 forums, and it piqued my interest so I decided to do a quick translation. I wish I had time for more proofreading, but this post is late enough as-is. Ok, I’m not going to Read more…
Sadly relegated to the theater edition of AKB48’s 52nd single, Teacher Teacher, and with no music video, is one of my favorite AKB songs, 蜂の巣ダンス (hachinosu DANSU / Beehive Dance). It’s performed by Team 8, and is a great showcase for their energy, and for the dance and vocal prowess Read more…
There was a request over on S48 to translate a long Instagram post from AKB48 Team 4 member Ma Chia-Ling (馬嘉伶). I follow her, but I had missed this one myself. Macharin is one of the first idols I started following on Showroom, in large part because at the time Read more…