I've fallen completely in love with this song. It's 大好きだよ。I love you by 大塚 愛 Otsuka Ai. The melody, the lyrics (which I only understand a bit of - the rest I've read translated)... It's beautiful. My Japanese is obviously not so good that I can translate it myself, and internet translations are not always the best, and they differ from each other. Still, there's some things the translators agree upon, and that I with my limited Japanese skills can understand a bit of as well. (And I'm very proud every time I understand something. Haha! XD)
I think one of my favourite parts of the song must be this:知ってた？ あの夜にね 2人でドライブに行った時
バイクの後ろ座席で 願ったコト
知ってた？ あの夜にね 2人で見上げた星空に
あなたとあたしの幸せが見えたよ Did you know what I wished for on the back seat of the bike
On that night when the two of us went for a drive?
Did you know that I saw our happiness
In the starry sky that the two of us looked up to on that night?
Yes, I can be a bit of a romantic. :P And the fact that my other favourite song of hers is 甘えんぼ Spoiled Child, says it all. XD
ずっと 大好きだよ~
Okay, so I was going to write this, like, totally cool post about how I got to see the opening of the new opera house yesterday. I was going to tell you all how I got to see the opening ceremony before even the king did, because my dad's made of awesome. But I, like, failed.
/Ini Miney
Soo... I thought I'd share with you all the news I found on the internet that made me so fangirlishly happy! Kago Ai is planning a comeback! You hear me!? Aibon is back! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! ><
Kago Ai (
加護 亜依),
Profile:
Name: Kago Ai (Kago being her family name)
Nickname: Aibon
Age: 20 (1988-02-07)
Birth place: Nara-ken, Japan
Blood type: AB
Height: 155 cm
Hello! Project groups:
Morning Musume (2000 - 2004)
W (2004 - 2006)
Subgroups:
Tanpopo (2000 - 2002)
MiniMoni (2000 - 2004)
Morning Musume Sakura Gumi (2003 - 2004)
Shuffle Units:
2000: Kiiro 5 (Second Generation)
2001: 3nin Matsuri
2002: Happy 7
2003: SLAT5
2004: H.P. All Stars
Ai Kago is a former member of the Japanese all-girl pop group Morning Musume, part of the Hello! Project. She auditioned for Morning Musume at the age of twelve, and was accepted along with Tsuji Nozomi as 4th generation members in 2000. After graduating from Morning Musume in 2004, Kago and Tsuji went on to form a group of their own, called W.
After the gossip magazine Friday published pictures of Kago smoking while underage, she was suspended from Hello! Project for a year, and went back to her hometown of Nara to live with her family. In January 2007 she returned to Tokyo and began working as a receptionist in the Up-Front Agency's office while the details of her comeback were decided.
24 March 2007, Weekly Gandai (also a gossip magazine) published photos showing Kago holding hands and visiting a hot springs resort with Ishimoto Yasuyuki, a man many years her senior and the owner of the popular SOMA café. There were also pictures showing her smoking in his car. Two days later Up-Front Agency confirmed the story and terminated Kago's contract, thus disbanding W. (Nozomi Tsuji became a member of a new group called Gyaruru, but 2 weeks after she joined it announced that she was pregnant and engaged. She's now on maternal leave.)
But Aibon is back, and it's all sunshine, roses and fluffy pink clouds! Although she's not coming back to Hello! Project, I'm glad to hear from her again. Hisashiburi, Aibon!
It's time for me to stop fangirling now. I need to work on my history assignment. ><
PS: If you want more information about Aibon, go here. It's my source for most things J-pop/J-rock. =P
