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Re: Gunslinger Girl [message #355261 is a reply to message #354808]

Sat, 28 October 2017 12:45

Chris Buckley
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On 2017-10-28, Brian Christiansen <brian_christians@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I also once came across a YouTube video where someone had translated the
> themes for "Your Lie in April" and "Lucky Star" (these were brought to
> my attention in a review by Anime America). Though the translations
> were not used by the official English dubs and were just little projects
> done by anime fans (at least I assume they were anime fans),who: spoke
> Japanese and English well enough to translate a song, also happened to
> be musicians and were also songwriters, because it seems to me that when
> translating a song, if the best translation does not "mesh up" with the
> music, some songwriting skill have to be come into play to produce
> lyrics that do not sound cringy.
>
> Hmm...I guess it takes quite a few skills to translate a song well.

Indeed. And there's so many different ways to do it!

My favorite anime song is "God Knows" (_The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_).

Just looking around on YouTube, there's probably a dozen different
English translated performances of it (not all animated, most are just
sung, which avoids the lip-sync problem) Some of them are quite good,
including the official dub translation, done by the dub voice actress.
(There's also umpteen other versions of the song, including several on
concert pianos and a nice one for piano and 3 violins (it's a standard
guitar rock band in the anime.))

Great song and fantastic animation for the time. The biggest YouTube
version (about 65 million views) pre-dates common HD, but some of the
other later versions in HD really show the animation well.

Chris

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		Gunslinger Girl By: Brian on Mon, 23 October 2017 06:27
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Dave Baranyi on Mon, 23 October 2017 20:59
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Dave Baranyi on Mon, 23 October 2017 21:15
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Brian on Fri, 27 October 2017 21:29
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Chris Buckley on Sat, 28 October 2017 12:45
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Dave Baranyi on Sat, 28 October 2017 16:02
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Chris Buckley on Sat, 28 October 2017 20:04
		Re: Gunslinger Girl By: Brian on Sun, 29 October 2017 03:01

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