Awasekagami no
zutto oku, karu tsuzuku
Kono gishiki wo
Saa hajimeyou…

Butai wa
~(kumonoue)~
gisei wa futari no kako
~(Jumon wa)~
kono sasayaki negai wa…. na na na na na

Taiyou ga hohoendeiru
futari wo awaremu you ni
Sora no hate
kara hohoendeiru
Futari no ai mo sora no hate made

Taiyou ga hohoendeiru
futari wo awaremu you ni
Sora no hate
kara hohoendeiru
Futari no ai mo sora no hate made

あぁ　煙の向う側　手招きしている無数の影
Aa kemuri no mukougawa temaneki shiteiru musuu no kage
邪魔しないでおくれ理性　うずきだしている本能
Jamashinaide okure risei uzuki dashiteiru honnou

合わせ鏡のずっと奥から続く
Awasekagami no zutto oku karu tsuzuku
この儀式を　さぁ始めよう
Kono gishiki wo saa hajimeyou

舞台は雲の上　犠牲は二人の過去
Butai wa kumonoue gisei wa futari no kako
呪文は囁き　願は永遠の愛
Jumon wa sasayaki negai wa eien no ai

太陽が微笑んでいる　二人を哀れむ様に
taiyou ga hohoendeiru futari wo awaremu you ni
空の果てから微笑んでいる　二人の愛も空の果
sora no hate kara hohoendeiru futari no ai mo sora no hate

Aah… On the other side of the smoke there are countless beckoning shadows
Don’t get in the way, my late reason, my natural instinct

From the deepest part of opposing mirrors, it continues
Let’s begin this ritual

The stage is above the clouds
The victims, the pasts of two people
The spell is a whisper
The wish is eternal love

The sun is smiling like it has mercy on two people
From the limits of the sky, smiling
The love of two people, as limitless as the sky.

Shisen no kaze wa boku no hitai ni ana o
ana o aketa mama
Shisen no kaze wa kono sekai ni zutto, zutto fukiareru

Erase all with only light,
Hito wa mumei no mama
Leave me without delight
mina kiete yuku

Wameki susurinaki aegu koe, sorera saegiru you ni
Oshi tsutsumi hirogaru silence, silence
(xxx Silence)

Erase all with only light,
Hito wa mumei no mama
Leave me without delight
Mina kiete yuku

Hajimete shi wo ishikishita ano osanai hi wo omoinagara
Hikari wo saketa boku wa hitori obieta heya ni toritsukareteiru

Sekai kara subete no iro ga
nakunaru hi wo…

Kimi to no saikai no toki…
Koroshitai to omou darou ka?
Dakitai to, omou darou ka?

Erase all with only light,
Hito wa mumei no mama
Leave me without delight
Mina kiete yuku

Hajimete shi wo ishikishita ano osanai hi wo omoinagara
Hikari wo saketa boku wa hitori obieta heya ni toritsukareteiru

(xxxx)

Sekai kara subete no iro ga…

Dakishimeta kioku to sora
Kotoba yori, kimochi yori, me no mae no anata dake
Natsukashii kioku to ima
Me ga kuramu, ashi ga sukumu, hone ga kishimu, hone ga furueru

Dakishimeta kioku to sora
Kotoba yori, kimochi yori, me no mae no anata dake
Natsukashii kioku ga ima
Me ga kuramu, ashi ga sukumu, hone ga kishimu, hone ga furueru

記憶と空
Kioku to Sora

視線の風は僕の額に穴を開けたまま
この世界にずっと吹き荒れる

Erase all with only light, leave me without delight
人は無名のまま　皆消えて行く…

わめき　すすり泣き　あえぐ声　それらを遮る様に
押しつつみ広がる silence

初めて死を意識したあの幼い日を思いながら
光を避けた僕は一人怯えた部屋に取り憑かれている

世界から全ての色が　無くなる日を…

君との再会の時　殺したいと思うだろうか？
抱きたいと思うだろうか？

抱き締めた記憶と空　言葉より気持より目の前のあなただけ
懐かしい記憶と今　眼が眩む　足が竦む　骨が軋む　骨が震える

Shisen no kaze wa boku no hitai ni ana o aketa mama
kono sekai ni zutto fukiareru

Erase all with only light, leave me without delight
Hito wa mumei no mama mina kiete yuku

Wameki susurinaki aegu koe, sorera saegiru you ni
Oshi tsutsumi hirogaru silence

Hajimete shi wo ishikishita ano osanai hi wo omoinagara
Hikari wo saketa boku wa hitori obieta heya ni toritsukareteiru

Sekai kara subete no iro ga nakunaru hi wo…

Kimi to no saikai no toki, koroshitai to omou darou ka?
Dakitai to omou darou ka?

Dakishimeta kioku to sora, kotoba yori, kimochi yori, me no mae no anata dake
Natsukashii kioku to ima
Me ga kuramu, ashi ga sukumu, hone ga kishimu, hone ga furueru

The moment the wind of your gaze drilled a hole into my forehead,
it swept over this entire world.

“Erase all with only light, leave me without delight”
To be human, is that in a moment of anonymity, everyone vanishes.

Screaming, sobbing, gasping voices-
a way to obstruct those
is a pressing, wrapping, expanding silence.

While I think about the premature day when I felt death for the first time,

I, who avoided the light, possessed by the room that scared me, alone…
Thinking of the day when all the colours vanished from the world…

When I reunite with you, will I think, “I want to kill you”? Or “I want to hold you”?

The memory and sky I held on to,
Beyond words, beyond feeling, only you here
right before my eyes.

The memory and now I longed for…
Make my eyes dizzy
My legs cower
My bones creak
My bones shiver

inochi no kodou ga naritsudzukete
kodoku ni tatsu ishi wo mune ni kizanda

hikaru sora ni ukanda kiri ga
umidashita kuroi kage
kimi no naka ni mebae hajimeta chiisa na yowasa ga

sono sabishisa wa kokoro no naka kogashite
modorenai kako wo sutete ikiru

furaseta namida wa itsuka kitto
kawaita daichi wo nurashi hajimeru

ima wa sono mune no hikari to kage wo dakishimeta mama yukou
yurete kieta risou no sugata
kizutsuita kuroi hane hiroge
mayowazu yozora no hate mademo koeru omoi

That shining time…
That white and serene place…
Now is the time to take it back with my hand.

Life’s pulse continues again and
The will that stands in my loneliness, I scratched onto my chest.

In the bright sky, a floating mist
gave birth to a black shadow
Inside you, the weakness that had begun to sprout.

That loneliness burned in your heart.
The past you cannot return to, you let live.

The tears cried will surely someday
begin to soak the dried earth.

Now I go from that light and shadow I hold inside my chest
The shape of a trembling and dead ideal
Open the wounded black feather
To the thought that we can cross over even the perplexing limits of the night

あの輝く時間
白く澄んだあの場所
この手に今取り戻す時さ命の鼓動が鳴り続けて
孤独に立つ意志を胸に刻んだ

光る空に浮かんだ霧が
生み出した黒い影
君の中に芽生え始めた小さな弱さが

その寂しさは心の中こがして
戻れない過去を捨てて生きる

降らせた涙は何時かきっと
乾いた大地を濡らし固める

今はその胸の光と影を抱きしめたまま行こう
揺れて消えた理想の姿
傷ついた黒い羽広げ
迷わず夜空の果てまでも越える想い

imi nado shiranu mama, tada nagasare
In the moment of not knowing the meaning, I never-the-less still drift,

itsuka egaita risou mugen
in the dreams, ideals I drew someday

koko ni nokoru wa “MIZERABLE”
Left in my heart, [Miserable]

Yume wa yume janai toka Sameta sekai de
Dreams are not dreams, and so on… In this world that has become cold

nani ga taisetsu na no ka mienai
you cannot see what is important

Kokoro ni yadoru Daremo ga motsu JEWEL
The jewel that dwells in everyone’s heart

nakusanai you ni
Don’t lose it

wasurenai you ni
Don’t forget it

“Ikiru koto wa nanika” to omoi tsukarete
To think “What is existence?” is tiring

arukikata wo wasureta otona e
To the adult that forgot their way,

Omoidaserukai?
Do you remember?

mujakisa ga afureta ano hi no kimi wa
The you that was brimming with innonence on that day

kagayaiteita
sparkled

Kokoro ni yadoru daremo ga motsu JEWEL
The jewel that dwells in everyone’s hearts

nakusanai you ni
Don’t lose it

oboeteite
while remembering

Sugiyuku toki no naka e
To the centre of passing time

[IRANAI MONO] dake oite yukou
Only go without [things I don't need]

(Translation by Tsuuyaku. Kanji lyrics from Surreal.co.jp )

I wonder where it is…
The treasure that is only mine
Right now I’m setting off for a big adventure…

Tender rays of sunlight
A premonition of a journey’s beginning
The sky and the flowers… Look! they are smiling too.
From this point on, I wonder what awaits me?
A deep breath
I softly slip my hand into the door to my dreams…
Let’s go!

While the wind blows,
While my heart is shaking in excitement,
While I hold a pure white map in one hand,
I start running!
To grant my wish,
I’ll breakthrough any walls

While the wind blows,
While I paint tommorow,
How far
How long
‘Til I get to the point where I am good enough?
Simple anxiety, and a complex future too,
There is nothing, nothing I’m afraid of anymore.

I should search for it slowly
How hurting
is the same for everyone…

Me, the beginner, is the “Traveller of Dreams”!
The sky and the flowers… Look! They are smiling too.
There’s only one true path for me
Must not give up before I tie my shoelaces…
So!

While the wind blows,
While my heart is shaking in excitement,
While I hold a pure white map in one hand,
While the wind blows,
While I paint tommorow,
How far,
How long
‘Til I get to the point where I am good enough?

I refuse to lose!
I refuse to cry !
Until that day when this dream is granted,
When that sky has smiled
And those flowers have smiled.
Because I’ll be smiling too, one day,
Because I’ll get through any walls
There’s nothing, nothing I’m afraid of anymore.

作詞 (Lyrics)：Keiji
作曲 (Music)：Keiji・朝三｢sammy｣憲一

Ed note: On a brighter note, the majority of the translation in the actual anime is right, so it seems EF just slipped up on the song.

I started noticing something weird when I was reading the song subtitles in Elite Fansubbers ‘Hikaru no Go’ sub. I like to sing along to songs, or I wanted to sing along, until I realised alot of the written words in the EF sub, didn’t match the words in the actual music.

Here are the original lyrics compared to the EF sub:

EF Sub: nakama tono magure

Original: Nakama to tawamure

EF Sub: Dakara dayori takaramono noni
Original: Dakara mayoi nagara mo tomo ni

This is no good at all. I mean, I’m not being hard on these people, because its good that someone takes the time to translate, but certainly there is a lot of room for improvement. These are really bad errors. Why? Because if they can’t even HEAR the Japanese speech correctly, how are they supposed to translate things right in the actual anime? With lyrics, the could even check it out from other sources, such as googling, to see that the words are correct… (which they obviously haven’t done), but in the anime itself there isn’t any reference. So a) They transcribed the lyrics wrong, and b) they also translated it wrong and c) they didn’t check it. To me, that’s a pretty sloppy job. People rely on subbers to bring a somewhat correct translation, so I think the most important thing firstly is to hear words acurately, secondly to translate the meaning, and thirdly, to put this in reasonable English. I actually don’t mind semi-incorrect English because its better than someone making up something they don’t know in Japanese into something wrong but grammatically correct in English – that would be worse.
Let’s examine an example of their mistake, in-depth:
1. EF Sub: nakama tono magure
Original: Nakama to tawamure

EF Sub’s English text: “Divisions with my friends”

Actual meaning of the EF sub’s Japanese text: “chance/fluke” (magure), with friends

Actual meaning of Original Japanese lyrics: Playing/having fun with friends

2. EF Sub: Dakara dayori takaramono noni ikiteikouyo mirai e
Original: Dakara mayoi nagara mo tomo ni ikiteikouyo mirai e to

EF Sub English text: “And so before any great treasure let’s live towards the future”

Actual meaning of EF Sub: “For the purpose of the treasure/treasured item, let’s strive together towards the future”. (‘Dayori’ doesn’t have a meaning here, as it’s not a word, and even as two seperate words, it doesn’t belong here).

Original meaning of original Japanese lyrics: “Even while ‘in doubt’/'lost/confused’, let’s strive together towards the future”

(Note: Literally, ‘ikiteikou’ means something like “to live”, not as in we are ‘merely’ alive, but more like what it means to be alive – like living and experiencing our lives, and whats important in our lives and so on. So here I have transcribed the closest meaning, because ‘living together towards the future’ doesn’t sound right in English).

Now, you might be able to see another surprising thing: The actual meaning of the mis-transliterated sub makes more sense than their own English translation of their own misheard lyrics! Ironic.

And a short grammatical note to future subbers or people learning Japanese:

Japanese isn’t always written in the same order as English, in fact a lot of the time it isn’t. In song lyrics, the lines of the song are not necessarily seperate sentences or clauses, it fact, it is very common for sentences in songs to traverse lines. The only way to work out what the sentences are, is by understanding Japanese grammar.

‘Dakara’ means ‘because’. The clause, or the reason, comes before the ‘dakara’, not after. It’s O.K. if they translate it as ‘so’, as long as the text after it isn’t written as the ‘reason’. The reason, or clause, is in the previous line of the song.

Also, ‘nagara’ is translated wrong in both the lyrics translation on the website link to the original Japanese lyrics, and the sub. ‘Nagara’ means ‘while’, eg. “tabe nagara kaite imasu”= “I am writing while (also) eating”. (Taberu is to eat, kaku is to write… Mayou is lost/confused/perplexed, hence ‘mayoi nagara’).

Bonus Easter Egg: If you watch later episodes of the EF subs, there is an episode where the sub says “Wasabi”, for no reason. And another part where “Thankyou” is subbed as ‘sankyu’.

Spoilers abound, but you won’t be able to read it if you can’t read Japanese. Plus, L’s name revealed.

You’re gonna get spoilers here too, from Death Note: How to Read 13, so look away now if you don’t want them…

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Ok anyway,

So Misa commits suicide a year after Light’s Death.

Near becomes the new L (obviously), this is shown in the last manga.

The ownership of Death Note’s: Near owned Jealous’ deathnote, Light owned Rem’s Deathnote, but couldn’t use it for obvious reasons, Shidou (one of the shinigami) got his note back, the one Ryuk had tricked the king into giving him.

The Kira supporter with the candle at the end of the manga is not Misa. (Which means she is just an anonymous member of the Kira worshipping cult, to my best knowledge, no other background detail has been given).

Whose’s name is in which note:

Ryuk’s notebook : Yagami Light

Shidous notebook: (Mostly everyone that Light killed)

Jealous’ notebook: Mello, Rod Ross, Mafia, and some others.

Rem’s: L, Watari , and one other.

For a reader request,

Mello’s blood type is A,

Height: 171cm

Weight: 52kg

Near’s blood type is B

Height: 155cm Weight 40kg

Aw, Near is really little.

Though here is something unbelievable: Misa is 36kg. Cmon, Near is like so short and he’s 40kg and he’s not fat or anything, Misa is taller and not like anorexic. So I don’t think she’s 36kg ;p.

Misa- Blood Type A

Height: 152cm Weight 36kg

For future clarification, in answer to Alex, this is a TRANSLATION website.

So it includes things to do with translation, such as what japanese words mean in English, etc.

Cheers.

03:20 Near:I am in Japan now

(not, ‘I’m going to come to Japan’).  Note: this is really obv cos he just boarded the plane, so next time he would be in Japan right? Pay attention to what they are saying and what’s happening, translators!

Woohoo, I love Near’s Lego figurines

To explain the message passed to Takada from Light:

“About T: He can have a different task.  For the sake of creating the perfect Kira world,  I would like you to pass judgement in the role of Kira.”

lit. he can have different work/job