teddiursa's j-pop lyrics page

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June 10th, 2024

I've been away for longer than I would have liked lollll. After being sick in December I had this really specific brand of brain fog for a while where I'd be mid-conversation (in English...) and completely forget the ONE WORD I wanted to use. So I took a break from translating things for a while, since that whole process involves swapping out different words/phrases until it feels right, and brain fog on top of that would just be like playing on Hard Mode. It all got better eventually but then I was just super busy for a while 🥴

Sooo since I was last here, Jaejoong came to my city on his 20th anniversary tour! He did a Q&A thing at the concert and sadly he didn't read out the message I sent him about HYDE, but I like to think he saw it because WHY ELSE would he do his best HYDE impression in Melbourne and nowhere else lmao. he knew that we would understand his artpop...

I'll always hold fond memories of the night Kim Jaejoong decided to discuss the Victorian state budget with us at Festival Hall ♡ And on that note, he has his own page now!
December 27th, 2023

New Tohoshinki translation (the Japanese version of TVXQ's debut single released on December 26th, 2003)! 🎈

This was meant to be up in time for yesterday obvs but I've been busy announcing the results of my PCR test (translator's note: "yo say" sounds like 陽性, the word for "positive test result") yes i just wanted to post the silly hot limit meme.

In light of that, I might take a break for a little bit (brain does not like working on writing rn) but I'll be back sometime in the new year!
December 17th, 2023

New page for capsule ✨ also moved quizzes to a separate page and updated the fanlistings page!
November 26th, 2023

I have a new access translation up for their 31st anniversary 🎉 I actually hadn't done anything from their first album yet...
November 9th, 2023

New DA translation, plus some CSS tweaks to accommodate longer album titles (and ones that need translating) 😊

I remembered the 🌈 albums are subtitled in Japanese and I thought it would just be the equivalent of the English title... nope it wasn't quite that straightforward... also I spent way too long trying to read some non-standard 'furigana' printed in like... size 1pt font in the lyric booklet

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