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Opening Song

Japanese	English	My Comments
Musicality		Added guitar and dubbed vocals to English. The guitar isn’t too bad but still completely unnecessary. American attempt to modernize a ten-year-old anime. The vocals are actually very close to the original Japanese style . They’re slightly softer with a few syncopation changes. The tone changed. It now sounds lower with more bass coming through than the original version
A crowd in the big city	Going in a crowd	You'll notice a lot of the changes made in the english version are simply to help the song rhyme. In Japanese most poems and songs are made using syllables and don't ever rhyme. Sometimes this changes the english meaning a great deal because the translators have to bend our language to make it fit into a rhyme scheme.
I was bumped on the shoulder by someone	In a faceless town, need to feel	I actually kind of like the poetic sound of a faceless town.
I'm alone	The touch of a friend
A vast grassy field	In the countryside	Hmm different idea but there really isn't a lot of open space in Japan so technically a large grassy field would probably really be in the countryside. ^^;;
Where the wind strongly blows	I wander far and wide
I'm alone.	The isolation gets me again.
How can I face this;	I don't know where to go.
tear filled visage	When I feel like crying... oh my.	The Oh my was a little strange and sets us up for a little more cheezy sounding song. The woes of having to rhyme and fit words to notes at the same time...
Draw two circles end to end,	It's time to open myself to something new	I'll have to ask Reina or Yuko what the circle thing means. I'm sure it's just a japanese metaphore.
I feel a little more mature.	I want to stop and grow up a bit.	This is definitely a meaning change. In one case you feel more grown up, in another you still need to.
I feel the courage and power	Then suddenly my power and confidence
welling up from deep within me.	are swelling up, magically erupt	Again with adding in strange things to fit. ^^;; Yuusuke luck? Yeah it's sort of magic.
Enough to break through the wall.	And it's all because of kindness that I feel from people I don't even know.	From here on out it's pretty much an entirely different song. ^^;;
I am glanced at by the toughest of foes.	Then suddenly my intuition and my wisdom grow. And then I know.
Maybe because of tenderness	That most of all I sense compassion's real. Thanks to strangers wherever I go!
Thank you very much!	Thank you for waking me up!

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