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Old 2008-08-23, 07:17   Link #81
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I don't have the kanji characters in front of me, so I can't tell you with 100% certainty that it is "Shadow of Summer" (or "Summer Shadow" if you prefer). I don't believe that "Summer Lights" is correct.
Really? Because... some japanese guy... posted... something in japanese... explaining how, depending on the context, "Kage" can also mean light. Like how in Sailor Moon, the character "Tsukikage no Knight"'s name was translated as "Moonlight Knight". Yes, I realise that this explaination is badly flawed and has next to nothing to back it up, as I don't remember where I found the explaination, (though I think it was a youtube-video of a live-performance of Natsukage) nor did I actually understand anything, except that "Kage" could apparently mean both "Light" and "Shadow".
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Old 2008-08-23, 21:14   Link #82
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Using an online dictionary, one of the entries for "kage" is:

影【かげ】
(n) (1) shadow; silhouette; (2) reflection; image; (3) presence; sign; (4) light (stars, moon); (P)

The (P) just indicates that these four definitions for this entry (one among many for the term) are popularly used in Japan. Note the fourth definition. Assuming this online dictionary is a definitive source, then "kage" could correspond to star and [/i]moon[/i] light (and perhaps light from other astral/heavenly sources), but not light in general.
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Old 2008-08-24, 13:51   Link #83
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I would say it means “summer shade”, since the kanji is clearly used to refer to dim light or shadows. Also summer shade sounds natural and fits the mood of the music, whereas "summer light" sounds kind of weird to me, I'd expect something more like "summer sunshine". Having said that, this theme seems mainly to be played during sunny scenes of Yukito & Misuzu walking along and not when people are sat in the shade.

I've seen this kanji mistranslated before, notably in the ED to the Agatha Christie series where Frothbite translated "shinju no tsukikage" as "pearl moon shadow" instead of "pearl moonlight" (or just "pearly moon"). You can't usually just translate kanji in isolation, the meanings rarely map one-to-one onto English words so you need to consider the context to divine which of a range of English words fits the particular use.
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Old 2008-08-25, 13:36   Link #84
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It is translated as "summer lights" in the game, though they did take liberties with a couple of the titles -- 双星 as "altair and vega", for example...a reference to the legend of the separated lovers, rather than the more literal but less evocative "twin stars".



Personally, I have a hard time reading it as anything other than "summer shade" or "summer shadows", but "light" is a valid meaning for the character (Nelson lists it as "EI shadow. kage light; shadow; silhouette; phantom; reflection; trace.") and it seems unlikely that Key would mistranslate the title using a word that's the opposite of what was intended, so my assumption is that the title was chosen deliberately to play on the contrast between the stated reading of "light" and the associated reading of "shadow" that no-one seems to be able to avoid. That seems to fit well with Misuzu -- bright and cheerful on the surface, but desperately lonely underneath.

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Old 2008-11-18, 06:27   Link #85
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Say, I was just watching some trailer-thingy for some Lia-concert, and I heard a short clip of a song that sounded extremely much like Kanna's theme-song, "Moon Child". (At least I think that was what it was.) Was it just a random coincidence, or does she actually have a vocal version of that too? I knew that Misuzu's theme had been made into a song, but I didn't realise that there were others too.
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Old 2008-11-21, 04:09   Link #86
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Say, I was just watching some trailer-thingy for some Lia-concert, and I heard a short clip of a song that sounded extremely much like Kanna's theme-song, "Moon Child". (At least I think that was what it was.) Was it just a random coincidence, or does she actually have a vocal version of that too? I knew that Misuzu's theme had been made into a song, but I didn't realise that there were others too.
Not a coincidence -- pick up http://www.amazon.co.jp/Lia-COLLECTI...ref=pd_sim_m_1 if you don't have it, or better yet, the full collection.
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Old 2008-11-21, 11:34   Link #87
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Not a coincidence -- pick up http://www.amazon.co.jp/Lia-COLLECTI...ref=pd_sim_m_1 if you don't have it, or better yet, the full collection.
I've been thinking of buying it, but currently, the actual visual novel soundtrack seems more tempting to me. That collection-CD has a couple of songs I'd like to get, (Especially the vocal version of Negai ga Kanau Basho from Clannad) but most of those songs are also available on the soundtracks, so basically, there are only two songs on there that I can't get by some other means. (Or three, as I seriously doubt that I'll be able to find the Natsukage-single.) But I did in fact plan on getting it a few weeks ago, then I realised that the currency-rates had changed, so I'd have to pay taxes and blah blah blah to get it... Then some guy told me that apparently you don't have to pay custom taxes for CDs, so I'll probably get that CD once I've got some money, and don't have so extremely much other stuff that I want more.
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Old 2008-11-24, 08:00   Link #88
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Natukage+nostalgia. I bought it from AnimeJungle a few years back, very fast and great service

The Lia Collection is absolutely fantastic, too... I bought it when it first came out a couple of years back. I have to buy some of it again, actually - as one of my two Diamond Days disks has disappeared out of the jewel case. I only noticed when I went to listen to it in my car CD player a few weeks ago. Absolutely fuming :/

Still have the mp3s I ripped of it, of course - but not the same


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Old 2009-01-03, 23:20   Link #89
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Just found this little video on youtube of Air Opening being composed using NES 8-bit graphics and sound....It is quite good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDBA2_lyxJw
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Old 2009-01-04, 11:08   Link #90
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Quite interesting.
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Old 2009-07-05, 03:45   Link #91
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Recently I started listening tori no uta again and found this one is very nice.
It is done by a group call ZimuinG&Usako. Anyone can give abit more information about them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLwkLIeRj0M
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