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| keren |
 Posted: Dec 27, 2008 12:18 am |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Posts: 12
Location: Mazatlán Sinaloa México
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sad & beauitiful  really I loved it!!!!  the melody, the rythm GOSH! it touch my heart!!!
thanks so much!!! |
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| parasol |
| Posted: Dec 29, 2008 9:29 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 31 May 2007
Posts: 130
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| Oh gosh, this song grew on me pretty fast, and I knew it sounded sad, but I had no idea it was so dark. |
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| doraemonpup |
| Posted: Dec 31, 2008 1:12 pm |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
Posts: 26
Location: Germany
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Thank you for your translation this song.
I love this song so much, The story of them is so intersting .. ^^ |
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| yukino |
| Posted: Dec 31, 2008 7:52 pm |
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上塩タン焼680円
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Posts: 300
Location: California
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It somehow reminds me of The Little Mermaid (the original, darker, version)... the shards of glass, the concept of "becoming human". Plus I thought Ningyou mean mermaid for some reason when I first saw it lol.  Anyway, thanks bunches for the lovely translation. It's a great song. |
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| Mace63 |
| Posted: Jan 05, 2009 7:01 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Posts: 40
Location: Croatia
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yukino wrote: It somehow reminds me of The Little Mermaid (the original, darker, version)... the shards of glass, the concept of "becoming human". Plus I thought Ningyou mean mermaid for some reason when I first saw it lol. Anyway, thanks bunches for the lovely translation. It's a great song.
Ningyo does mean a mermaid in japanese,but Ningyou means a doll.
That's probably why you thought it meant "mermaid",lol.
I really love this song because it's so deep!
I wish she had more songs like this,lol. |
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| kindaichi |
| Posted: Jan 07, 2009 3:54 pm |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
Posts: 6
Location: malaysia
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5am in the morning, i listen to 人形Ningyou till my tears come out..100 % same as Ai chin no Ai 33sec video..hohoho..
i felt myself in this song.. |
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| miyago |
| Posted: Jan 10, 2009 11:20 pm |
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Happy Days
Joined: 05 Oct 2008
Posts: 116
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I listened this song over again.
I felt it is too sad song.
I write my feeling about this song.
About the mean of "Ningyou"
I think meny means of this term.
example:
1. cute sweet lovely ("Ningyou no youni kawaii" in Japan)
2. A figure having jointed parts animated from above by strings or wires; a marionette.
Ai-chin is a member of avex (marionette of avex).
(But once, She released "pocket" ,ignored avex's plan...)
3. Ningyou = Guuzou :
"Guuzou"(japanese) means idol.
One of the means of idol(Aidoru) is "Cute" young singer (lady,especially).
In Japan, The most favorite of Ai-chin's songs is SAKURANBO .
So Ai-chin is regarded as "young lady singer ,singing very cute song  (stereotype)"...
That is,
Ningyou = Ai Otsuka (herself) 
This song is "a love letter addressed to herself".
Probably,"the city" in this song is Tokyo , because she works in Tokyo far away from Osaka(her's hometown).
"I want to become human"
I felt this sentence is expressed about her freedom (of work ,song etc).
By the way ,her next single song is "bye bye".
and Her ambition in 2009 is "preparation of 2010"
(http://music.goo.ne.jp/contents/news/NMS120081222004/index.html)
That is mean...
>To Rodri
I think she use man of this song as mean of "another (a stereotype in Japan)" , against woman( "herself (her ideal)"). |
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| *noga~chan* |
| Posted: Jun 21, 2009 2:41 pm |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 10 Jun 2006
Posts: 14
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Such a beautiful song with beautiful and sad lyrics. I think it's Ai's saddest song.
I am not a Japanese speaker, but I think that this translation may have some mistakes.
"tomodachi ga hoshikute atashi ha YES dake de ' I don't know the sencence's meaning, but for me, it looks like the word "Yes" should be there, because it's the only word that comes in english in those lyrics. Maybe it's something like "Because I wanted friends, I (said) only Yes". The "said" is obvious, although I can't find it in the lyrics.
Morover, I find the romaji of "itami mo kodoku mo dare hitori tasukete kurenai " a bit wierd. In the Japanese text, there is the Kanji of 人 alone, without the "ri" in hiragana, so it should me something like "dare hito ni tasukete", which makes the sentence a lot clearer. (Hitori/ alone doesn't go good with the sentence, huh? XD)
Everything I have just written might be a huge mistake, so please fix me if I'm wrong.
I have to say that the translation really helped me understand the song. I even talked about it with my mom and we tried to the meaning of this songt....~Hahaha
Thanks for doing all this hard work^__^ |
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| sljinu |
| Posted: Aug 22, 2009 6:54 pm |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 02 Aug 2007
Posts: 1184
Location: Australia
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^ Sorry for not getting back to you sooner so I don't know if you'll ever get this but...
No, I don't believe that there is a mistake in the translation. It's just not translated literally word for word. I tried to explain it in a way to make the meaning clear. I had the same rigid before where you must keep the translation as literal as possible but I'm over that now 
Also, regarding the 'hitori', 一人 is how the kanji is written. You might've gotten confused because 人 is usually the one pronounced as 'hito' but the 'hito' is now pronounced by the 一. You'll find that's the case for several other words too eg 一晩 (hito ban)、 一思い (hito omoi)
Hope that clarifies everything for you! |
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