DJ HERETIC's blog: "How Bloody Random!"

Got a minute thirty? Check this out... it's more about the song than the animation.

Watching the anime series Hell Girl. Two disks in, not bloody fabulous... rather more of a procedural where the perps and victims change, but Hell Girl and crew show up, throw down the challenge, and later inevitably claim and ferry an offending soul to hell. While a pretty black haired girl who ferries souls to hell probably sounds like half the women I've dated, I assure you there are no similarities. I'm hoping the series continues to deepen, so it doesn't seem the same story over and over.

The song? Sounds like what David Lynch always hoped to achieve with Julee Cruise, but better. The lyrics aren't perfect, but pretty effective nonetheless. And I seem stuck on it lately, as much as I'm stuck on Radiohead's "All I Need" from In Rainbows.

This is the promotional video, sans the ever-useful subtitiles... they actually spent some money on it. Quite nice in the long form.

This translation isn't as poetic as the subtitled version, but you'll get the gist.

Basting
Vocals: Noto Mamiko
Lyrics: Mieno Hitomi
Composition: Nishida Masara
Arrangement: Nishida Masara

Let's pick memories; let's pick flowers
I'll raise a single flower to the darkness in my chest and arrange it

At the dead end all the time
I can never escape
I'll let my sorrow ride on the birds in the sky and fly

This place is the basting
The eternity that binds me
Whose going and returning passes by me is a dream

The sun sets and hides the shadows; alone, I feel like crying
The centers of my eyes that stain black will grow afraid

This is place is the basting
The eternity that knitted the world
Whose going and returning follows is the wind

I strayed away for a moment and wept...

This place is the basting
The eternity that binds me
Whose going and returning passes by me is a dream