Hi, guys! Sorry for the rather long hiatus. Work is still…soul-consuming haha. But I wanted to make a post about one of my favorite Japanese artists and this really cool song he released a little bit ago! All of his songs just got added to Spotify finally yesterday!

His name is 米津玄師 Yonezu Kenshi, and he is amazing. He started out making Vocaloid music under the name Hachi, in which he programmed all of the instruments and vocals. Now he mostly does music with his own vocals, and he writes and produces all of it. He also used to do all the illustrations for his music videos, and he does the cover art for his albums! I’m always swept away by his creativity and the poetry in his lyrics.

And you know how big a nerd I am about words, so here’s my English translation of my favorite song from his latest album. The song is called ひまわり Himawari (Sunflower).

This is a bit long, so I’ll put a “Read More” thing here. If you open the whole post, you’ll see my translation, and also a breakdown of my favorite kanji and words he uses. Hope you enjoy!

I hope that everyone studying Japanese can take a look at these lyrics, my notes on them, and see that even just listening actively to music can be a good way to study. 💗

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manager i cant come to work today i forgot how to mimic the behavior of a human. being

Thinking about the time my beloved childhood dog passed away and someone on instagram commented "don't cry...you will see him VERY soon <3" trying to comfort me, and it was so threatening it snapped me out of a sobbing fit for an entire hour

BLOCK 100

HEAVY ARMOR 100

So I looked up the whole story and, as the BBC reports:

I legitimately want to know what the wife’s reaction to this was.  I know she deserves to go to jail for attempted murder, but I can only just wonder what was going through her head when she saw him get out of bed complaining of a headache.

There is not a singular use better for that picture anywhere on the internet. 

❝​ さようなら、大好きだよ。❞

"download the app to continue!" what if I kill you

what's a tumblr influencer? what am i influencing? my mental illness? 😭

Me visiting the god damn monkey attack beach: "There better not be any god damn monkey attacks here"

I know its fun to be like omg twitter is dying lets goooo

but its really sad that we're losing yet another form of human communication and years of information because of another ceo baby manchild. I'm going to lose contact with a bunch of friends i've made because of this and it sucks

If i've learned anything from vine and twitter its that when humans are confined by limitations they accept them and somehow still make it funny and/or informative

Heavenly Delusion

for 2 years this post has appeared in my head every time I interacted with a customer service live chat. that great you can go ahead and order it.