#Sumire Translations

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Hot〜 Tashiro Sumire (23.06.29)

Yaposhumi〜

I'm Tashiro Sumire💜

Today it was seriously too hot！！🥵

I had work today、so I had to go outside

But it was so hot I thought I might melt！！

Tomorrow is the final day of June...！

It's passed by in the blink of an eye😮

Like my birthday event was only the other day！！

It's summer〜🌞🌺🩷

A photo from when I went to a café with my friend the other day📷

This was delicious🍓

(T/N News and information has not been translated)

Right now I really want a compact mirror less camera、

So I've been searching for one〜📷

I want a compact size because I think it'll be easy to carry around with me！

I want to take lots of photos

So I want to get my hands on a compact camera。

For all of your likes・comments

Thank you very much❤︎‬

Well thenn！

This has been Tashiro Sumire〜

[vashtijoy]

In case you haven't seen That Scene from Akechi's P5T character trailer... here it is with subtitles.

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P5 Tactica Crow Trailer scene Translation

Akechi: Whew… the battle's over. Looks like you're okay too.

Akechi: Wouldn't you have been in danger if Yoshizawa-san and I arrived too late?

Kasumi: Hehe, Surprisingly Senpai, wouldn't you be able to handle this on your own?

Joker: *Nods*

Akechi: Heh, to think you can handle that tough situation.

Akechi: In that case, I'll leave you alone to fend for yourself next time. I want to see your true ability by all means.

Joker: *Nods*

Kasumi: S-Senpai? Akechi-san? Aren't you two bickering?

Akechi: Haha no way! We're not children, so we won't get serious about this.

Kasumi: O-oh I see! My apologies!

Kasumi: But the both of you appear to look serious… Is it just my imagination?

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LMAO it's like the P5R cafe scene all over again! Shuake bickering in front of Kasumi's salad 😂

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I was looking more into Sumire and Tsukasa's song earlier and I found something interesting.

Here's the English TL and OG Japanese side by side:

One thing that's interesting is that the Japanese one is entirely in hiragana. Well, actually, in Sumire's version only the first part is in hiragana, but I digress... (Tsukasa doesn't know his kanji yet and I respect that)

Regardless, the lack of kanji makes the song a bit...ambiguous. it leaves wiggle room for other interpretations. And if you read the ask I answered about Kagome Kagome recently, AKA the song this is based on, that song is actually somewhat ambiguous, too! There are not only variations of the lyrics but different interpretations of the same lyrics.

Anyway, I want to focus on the first part of the song specifically. Here I've transcribed both versions for you:

English: One Night, Two Dawns, Three Go Together.

Japanese: hito yo, futa aki, mina soko e~

It's clear the English writers were trying to focus on the counting part of the song as opposed to incorporating every meaning possible, which is respectable. Given their lack of hindsight, I love these lyrics!

The only note I would leave is that "Three Go Together" is more like "Everybody Gather There" in Japanese. So it's not limited to just three people.

Anyway, here's me arbitrarily adding kanji to these lyrics to make it match the English version:

一夜、二明、皆其処へ

...and here's another way to write it:

人よ、蓋明、水底へ

Before I tell you the translation, isn't that kinda crazy!? Most of these characters look completely different! You can see why it'd be difficult to translate.

Anyway, here's the translation of these new lyrics:

O' Human, It's Starting, Go To The Waterbed...

Now, it's totally possible AidaIro didn't intend this specific interpretation, but it's interesting how I could even think this, isn't it? I think at least some level of ambiguity was definitely intended.

And it brings to mind something familiar...doesn't it?

...yes!! That's right! The kannagi were sacrificed into a pit filled with water!!! Wow!!

And let's not forget, they all washed ashore in the reservoir below the Red House...

...Which was built on top of a WELL!!

(Look, the text bubbles of the Pit God are even modeled like water bubbles!)

So the two people that sang this song, Sumire and Tsukasa, were both sacrificed into water-filled pits. Neat! I can't imagine that's a coincidence.

I'm not sure if there are any other interesting ways to interpret these lyrics, but in case anyone wants to try their hand at it, I would be most curious to see what you come up with!

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I was talking to pita about the good old foxskull days and I gotta say. I hate atlus. apparently there was a mass exodus of jp yusuke fans after royal because some of yusuke’s stuff was given to sumire AND there was more emphasis on comedy relief AND the 3rd semester dream palace whatever did some weird characterization stuff (though it could be kind of explained away by the teacher’s misinterpretation of yusuke) AND apparently with the retranslation of p5 yusuke’s voice (diction not va) is different. I hate atlus and its 50 billion iterations of the same character, the goddamn base game vs manga vs anime (especially egregious) vs royal bullshit pisses me off so much

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「Murakami-san’s Place」 Advice Column Translation

Answered by Haruki Murakami Illustrated by Masaru Fujimoto

Entries #006 - #010

#006: I’m nearing my thirties.

◎ My thirties is right around the corner but I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished anything. When I was a child, I thought being an adult is a wonderful thing, yet as I am now I feel so far away from that. And my heart breaks when I think about that reality. Just how am I supposed to live from here on out?

— Jo& Maca, F, 28 y.o.

◉ This might come off as rude but I think it’s incorrect to think that “being an adult is a wonderful thing.” What you make of it is your own responsibility. Accomplishing things is not easily done. It all starts by putting a little bit into it. You’re not even that much of a grown up yet at 28 years old. That’s because you’ve only just begun.

#007: Sex

◎ I’ve been looking forward to today! Mr. Haruki, who I haven’t met despite living in Japan, I’ve been a big fan of yours since high school. What I sincerely want to ask you about is regarding my sex life with my husband. He doesn’t have that much sex drive. How do I make him want to do it?

— Human Snoopy, F, 31 y.o., office worker

◉ Excuse me but I cannot possibly know anything about the circumstances of other people’s sex drive. Even I don’t fully understand my own. I’m sorry but please figure it out yourself.

#008: Iceland Love

◎ Hello, Mr. Murakami! Last year, I went on a trip to Iceland for in August for around 8 days. I’ve loved Icelandic artists like Sigur Rós and Múm from the very beginning, and from there I embraced my interest in the country. I looked up all sorts of things about it and thought I definitely want to visit it at least once, so I took up the chance to go there for my honeymoon. I thought the streets were clean, the food was delicious, the people were kind and the scenery was even more beautiful than I had expected. I became an Iceland fan through and through. If I’m not mistaken, you wrote about your trip to Iceland on an essay. What were your impressions of the place? There are plenty of bookstores and cafes in town and it’s easy to spend time there. If you venture out of the city, you can see countless of your beloved sheep. There are also a lot of hot springs. I don’t often go overseas and think to myself “I’d like to live here,” but I thought I’d like to live in Iceland. Anyway, as you love Iceland as well, I just thought I would ask.

— Papiko, M, 28 y.o., office worker

◉ I certainly love Iceland. But if you don’t go there at least once during the wintertime, you wouldn’t know if it’s a place you would like to live in or not, don’t you think? I went there at the start of September. There was some sort of literature festival and I was invited. I got a rental car and went all over the place. I’m going to be putting out a Travel Journal in the later half of this year and there is an entry in it on Iceland as well. Have you seen the movie called “Cold Fever”? It’s a very interesting movie set in Iceland. It was directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, starring Masatoshi Nagase. It’s often said that there are more ghosts and spirits of the dead than there are people living in Iceland, and that movie certainly made me think that. Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” is also set in Iceland. For one reason or another, it’s a very mysterious place. I’d like to go back there again.

(Administrator’s Note) The Iceland travel journal entry is published on “What On Earth Is In Laos?”

#009: Any young rock bands?

◎ Hello! I love rock. I started listening to Western rock music some years ago and I’ve come to love 60s and 70s music. Do you have young rock bands that debuted after the 2000s that you love and listen to? Thank you for your time!

— Glasses Idiot, M, 32 y.o., office worker

◉ I haven’t really listened to the music of young people recently. I’m sorry. But I do like music from Black Eyed Peas and Gorillaz, though they’re not really considered new. Which reminds me, I went to a Suga Shikao concert the other day. It was really fun. But my ears hurt a bit because of the volume.

#010: What kind of place is heaven?

◎ At the end of last year my uncle suddenly passed away. Two years before that, my aunt passed away (due to breast cancer). With my grandparents having died when I was a child, I have lost most of the people who have been important to me up until this point. Of course it’s only natural that that happens, but sometimes when I think about how someday, my still healthy parents will also one day pass away—I just get sad. I encountered your novels when I was an adolescent and I can remember feeling relief and shedding tears over them. Recently, I feel my beloved aunt who passed away is talking to me in her voice, and I would think, oh, she would probably say such and such at a time like this. (I'm most likely just making this up.) So, I have a question for your Mr. Haruki. Do you believe in heaven? If you do, what kind of place do you think it is? If not, what do you think happens to souls and such after we die? Thank you for your time!

— Mountain Goat, F, 34 y.o., housewife

◉ I think I might be disappointing you with this but personally, when I die, I simply want to sleep peacefully. I don't need heaven, or hell, or a hostess bar. I just want to sleep quietly, undisturbed by anyone. Though I do think I would like to try eating deep fried oysters from time to time.

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[ ⚠️ WARNING NEON GORE AND SOMEHOW BODY HORROR AND SOMEHOW SPOILERS FOR P5R ]

It's over.

Can I Finally be free- Non potes effugere de tuis propriis quaestionibus Takuto, tua nunc nobiscum adhæsit.

S h i t

[cyber-digibeat]

another week, another site update!

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name meanings (according to google):

Namida means tears/tear

Wasabi means a botanical spice which is native to Japan

Sumire means A lovely violet

hanabi means fireworks

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Osaka Release Event！Yonemura Kirara (24.08.28)

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Today！ ！Tashiro Sumire (23.06.26)

Yaposhumi

I'm Tashiro Sumire💜

Today was、『Morning Musume。'23 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TOUR ～glad quarter-century～ at Nippon Budokan』👏🏻🌟

OCHA NORMA、were able to appear as the opening act!!

We performed

『Chotto Jyocho Fuantei･･･?Natsu』🌞🩵

Everyone who cheered us on

Thank you very much!!🫶🏻💞

You made me super happy 🥰

Morning Musume。'23 - san's performance、

Was really so amazing...！✨

Their 25th anniversary of their formation、

Congratulations👏🏻🎉

They had so many high-energy songs、and I couldn't stop myself dancing too!!

Morning Musume。'23-san gave an inspiring performance through their wonderful songs、and the whole time I was just thinking They're so cool...🥲✨

OCHA NORMA、

Will work even harder too‼︎🔥💚

I took a photo with Madopi✌🏻🩵

Today I did some online shopping with Madopi☆

We ended up down a rabbit hole of make up pouches！！

We've had work all day today、

And since we had to wake up early once we were finished loads of people crashed out asleep。

Seeing everyone fast asleep was really funny！！！笑lol

After all we just want to sleep whenever we have the time！笑lol

So we turned out the lights and went to sleep 💖笑lol

It was like an overnight trip but it was really fun 笑笑lollol

For all of your likes・comments

Thank you very much ❤︎

Well then！

This has been Tashiro Sumire〜

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Rough translation:

Kasumi: Eh? Akechi-san!? Why are you here?

Akechi: Recently, there are graffiti similar to this one that has been painted all over Tokyo.

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Macaroni！ Kamikokuryo Moe (23.03.15)

For the first time in a while！

I was MC for Hello Station😊

With Tashiro Sumire-chan💜

I've had surprisingly few chances to meet all of the OCHA NORMA members。

So I'm really happyーー！！！！

Y'know、taking to her from the side、the length of her beautiful eyelashes was kinda emotional for me。。😳

I was surprised when I heard she was still only 17、so I want to keep watching her grow up 🥰

We were only able to talk a little bit so I hope we can talk lots more next time〜！

Everyone、please、

Check out Hello Station！！

Today was dress rehearsals！

I always wear sneakers for rehearsals so today was my first time in a while dancing in heels and I really wasn't confident、and kept stumbling。。

Moreover、my current weight、

Is the highest its ever been🤣

I can't smile about it、

Today I'll do some weight training before bed！！！

I'll do my best🔥

Please、

Look forward to the opening day！！💙

See ya！

[hotarutranslations]

Nakano and, Tower Records Parco-san

Evening

Nakano performance! I'm home! Thank you very much for your support today as well 🍀

Did you have fun!

I'm also very happy 🌷 Rather its like I've gotten energy, that's how this performance felt

Since it was recorded, it seems like everyone was nervous though 🙊 lol

I talked during the MC,

With Tashiro Sumire-chan!!!

At todays live, the MC was completely different than the rehearsal! I mean that in a good way, shall we do it again some dayyy 😌🍀

Everyone,

Did everyone see on Twitter, from Tower Records Sendai Parco-san 🐦️

🐦️ Tower Records Sendai Parco-san

They've helped me for a long time, Those that went to the shop, Aa, and those people, the Hello Wota employees! (From #HelloWotaEmployee archive, I will also write it here)

Speaking of Tower Records Sendai Parco-san, The panels from the photobooks I shot, and with single and DVD posters from when they released, With the POP and many autographs, The store staff made the store so much fun,

It was like, the Sendai station has become a bit like a Hello Shop 🤭 I was really happy about that!

Although it was a little embarrassing lol

It seems that, Sendai Parco-san will be reopened!

They're closed from 2/13~4/6 and then, It will reopen on 4/7 🎉

Also at the same time,

So far Tower Records-san, has made things really exciting with Hello Pro, the Hello Wota employees have graduated and......

I was really surprised, it was sad......

Actually,

For my white outfit in photobook & birthday event, I was saying to manager-san, "I'm not going to use it anymore what will be done with it?"

At the same time I, arbitrarily said,  🤦‍♀️

I wonder if it will become decoration at Sendai Tower Records-san!?

it was before I knew they were reopening 🤦‍♀️

I mysteriously had confidence in it like, they'll absolutely use it as decoration! 🤦‍♀️ lol

Since they've helped me out that much......

Its sad but, congratulations on graduating!

You've really helped me out 🍀 everyone certainly has as well 🍀

I'm sorry I couldn't visit, Before the reopening......

I'll go on my own again, after the reopening, of course 🤭❤️

Thank you very much!!

February Limited 💙 Oversized Acrylic Stand Figure

A video of COUNTDOWN JAPAN where we appeared last year, Go fast, you can watch it on the JFest app on 2/19  🔥  

JFest

see you ayumin <3

https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-10ki/entry-12788994356.html

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「Murakami-san’s Place」 Advice Column Translation

Answered by Haruki Murakami Illustrated by Masaru Fujimoto

Entries #001 - #005

#001: Please tell me, Murakami-sensei!

◎ Murakami-sensei, I would like for you to answer these four questions! First, out of all the narrators you’ve written, which main character do you resemble the most? Also, how many novels have you modeled after yourself and your wife? Second, when does a “boy” become a “man?” How did you become a full-fledged grown up? Third, is a lifestyle that doesn’t involve women (in other words, without a woman) a failure of a lifestyle for a man to live in his twenties?Fourth, regarding a recent terrorist attack against a French publication in Paris, of course a terror attack is a horrendous act, but do you think “freedom of expression” should be guaranteed to caricature-like publications such as CHARLIE? That is all. (I am currently studying Japanese so there might be parts that come off rude or weird. Please forgive me.)

— GEGE, M, 23 y.o., student

◉ Congratulations! You should commemorate this because this is email number 1! For that reason, I’m answering this. But four questions is too much, so I’ll just answer one. Regarding your first question, there are parts of myself that resemble the first person narrators that appear in my novels, but there are even more ways I do not resemble them. And I feel like for each novel, the parts that are similar and dissimilar vary in different ways. Or rather, it may be better to think of those narrators as “the me who I had the potential of being.” This is called “subjunctive past perfect” in English. It’s “the one I could have been, if…” Perhaps the fun in writing novels is trying out this subjunctive mood. Because it’s something you can’t do in real life.

#002: If I wrote it now, I could have written it better…

◎ My favorite work of yours is “Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World.” I met this book in January of 2014. It was written almost 30 years ago yet it hasn’t lost its freshness. In fact I think there are a lot of things in it that still resonates with present day society. My heart trembled when I finished reading it.

I have since reread it a number of times.

You often say in interviews and such that you could have written that work better if you wrote it now. If you don’t mind sharing, could you please tell me which parts of the book you would write better? As a reader of yours who favors this work the most, I would be happy to have my imagination encouraged even more.

Please take care of yourself. I wish you the best with your writing. I’m rooting for you even from a far.

— Tonkotsu, M, 23 y.o., college student

◉ Have you ever thought to yourself “I wish I could have acted better that time” when you think of an ex-girlfriend? I do, constantly. It’s the same as that. I wish I did it better. But I did the best I could do at the time.

#003: It’s not like a horse race.

◎ About the big deal that’s made out of who gets the Nobel Prize every year, what do you actually think about it?

— Kanako, F, 36 y.o.

◉ Honestly, it’s quite a nuisance. Because it’s not like you could become an official finalist for it, and it’s just private bookmakers who decide on the odds. It’s not like a horse race.

#004: I suck at writing.

◎ I’m currently a graduate student and I have to write a lot of reports, presentation drafts, emails to professors and such. Anyhow, I’m really terrible at writing. But if I don’t write then I won’t be able to graduate and that would be troublesome. Since it can’t be helped, I go on writing while moaning and grumbling. Is there a way to make writing go easier? If you have any instructional-type writing advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

— Sakurai, F, 23 y.o., graduate student

◉ Writing is like courting women. You could get better to an extent by practicing but fundamentally speaking, you’re working with what you were born with. There are those who were born good at singing and those who were were born tone deaf (I, for one, am tone deaf). It’s the same as that. That’s a rather brutally honest way of putting it, but at any rate, please do your best.

#005: I was born in 1995.

◎ I was born in 1995 and in two months I will be 20 years old. The year I was born marks 50 years after WWII. It is also the year in which events such as The Great Hanshin Earthquake, Tokyo Metro Sarin Gas Attack occurred and which remains in the memory of plenty of people. Lately, as I’m coming of age, I’ve come to think that perhaps the year I was born has some sort of meaning in relation to my fate or future. Your works “After the Quake” and “Underground” pertain to The Great Hanshin Earthquake and the Tokyo Metro Sarin Gas Attack. And war related topics are featured in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.” From your point of view, how do you think such big events would affect the world, or how do you think it should affect the world going forward? Also, do you have any thoughts about the present generation such as ours who will live on beyond these events? How do you feel about our present generation? Please tell me.

— Nozomi, F, 19 y.o., college student

◉ You’re 19, right? This is pretty obvious to say but I too was 19 once. It was a terrible period in which the world felt like it would turn over. And yet the world is not something that could easily be turned over. At that time, I think the most important thing in my life was to take in as much material as I could, and analyzing all that material took many years. That's why I think the most important thing for you now is to gather as much material and to store them neatly. You can think about what these experiences mean in your own time later on. For now I think it would be good for you to read lots of books, meet as many people as you can, fall in love deeply if it’s possible, and worry to the point of not understanding anything anymore. That's what I did back then.

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