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krazybouts&s



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:49 pm Reply with quote
Hello,

Live-eviL is planning to pick up the anime classic, Legendary Idol Eriko in a few months time. It dates back to 1989 and is an story of a 14-year-old rich girl, who after experiencing an incredible twist of fate, decides to become a singer. It's a down-to-earth story guranteed to bring tears to your eyes (and any Full Moon wo Sagashite fan is a potential fan;) . This anime was made to promote the real-life singer by the same name, Eriko Tamura, who made her debut the same year with the anime's opening theme 'Namida no Hanbun' as her debut song.

The project is full-staffed now and our only hold-up is we can't just seem to get the lyrics anywhere. Most people in our group are looking forward to it but non of us are in possession of the CDs.

As is the case with any idol story, this series poses great difficulties for any translator, due to the songs used throughout the story. Aside from the regular dialogue, idol stories are always very difficult to translate,because translating song lyrics from Japanese to English is exceptionally difficult - maintaining the emotional meanings is very important for any idol story, and adds a level of complexity not found in any other anime. And with a series dating back to 1989, the audio source is a factor too.

We're planning to fully karaoke and remaster all our music. We have 23 songs to do and in order to romanize and t/l them, we need the lyrics. Sad Guessing at lyrics = obvious chances of inaccurate romanization and translation. We need the CDs listed below in order to start on the series and continue it to the end. And yes, since Tofu is not t/ling it but I am, there's no chance of this project getting stalled, unlike the fates experienced by some of our other projects.

So if someone would please buy the following CDs for us and scan the lyrics provide us with them, it would be highly appreciated by all of L-E, especially me, who wouldn't be t/ling now if there was no Legendary Idol Eriko in the first place to get me into anime. Without lyrics, I highly doubt we'll be able to sub the series properly.

The CDs can be obtained from Yahoo! auctions. The sites are in Japanese but it's not essential to know Japanese to buy them. You need to be able to bid there and have to be prepared to obtain the CD's via Yahoo Auctions Proxy Services.

Here are the links for the CDs we require:

http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r30224214

(just above 1 day left on the bid ~_~)

OR

http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n45870742

(3 days left on the bid)

OR
http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g48121879

(13 hours left)

AND

http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k37908305

(6 days left ^^)

We are in desperate need of the songs lyrics covered in the above CDs.

Also, even if purchasing the CDs isn't possible, if anyone has the CD Lyrics booklets of any/some/all of the CDs below or are in possession of some of the lyrics from this show, please help us by providing them for our fansub needs.

CD list:

Idol Densetsu Eriko - OST Vol 1
Idol Densetsu Eriko - OST Vol 2
Idol Densetsu Eriko - OST Vol 3
Idol Densetsu Eriko - Best Hit Vocal
Tamura Eriko - Myself
Tamura Eriko - May be Dream
Tamura Eriko - Soyokaze no Prologue 'Istanbul Version'

CD Singles:
Tamura Eriko - Process
Tamura Eriko - Honki

If you could and would like to aid us in this matter, please contact me through forum pm, e-mail or see me in our IRC channel irc://irc.enterthegame.com/live-evil.

Contact info:
Live-eviL Forums Name: Tsubasa
L-E Forum Home: http://forum.live-evil.org
IRC Nick: Tsubasa/Tsubie
e-mail: [email protected]
*Tsubie is really hopeful. Smile

Thank you,

-Tsubasa
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:33 pm Reply with quote
This is technically against several rules, however due to the nature of the project (an old classic unlikely to receive any commercial interest) I've allowed the post.

Do not assume this sets any sort of precedent.
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Zoe



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:04 pm Reply with quote
You can get some of the lyrics at Uta-Net.
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Swissman



Joined: 11 May 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:17 am Reply with quote
krazybouts&s wrote:
Hello,

Live-eviL is planning to pick up the anime classic, Legendary Idol Eriko in a few months time.

That's a very good idea. I always wanted to see the show after I got one episode taped on vhs from a penfriend. The opening and ending is very catchy. There's a dvd-box set listed in amazon japan but it got very bad reviews due to technical problems and bad cover art.

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That cd is in my posession. As Zoe has said, you can find some of the lyrics at Uta-Net. Some lyrics of Eriko Tamura's songs are here, two songs from Mai Hashimoto are here. As for the rest, I'll see if I can make some scans from my booklet.
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