Okamikakushi Ending Theme – Tsukishirube

The girls’ school uniform in Okamikakushi is one of the prettier ones coming out of this winter 2010 anime season. The same thing cannot be said for the boys’ uniform. Peach-Pit’s design also makes everyone look a little too young; Hiroshi looks 14 and Mana looks all of 9 years old.

Also, poor, poor Ogasawara. And Shiraishi Minoru voices this poor chap.

Moon Guide
Vocals: Nanri Yuuka
Lyrics: Ozawa Takumi
Composition: Ozawa Takumi
Arrangemnet: Ozawa Takumi

Please don’t forget, this feeling
Is the resonance of love that we believed in

On the night when I hug you, the waning moon cries
In my repeating sins, the moon of hesitation
Grows full and becomes obscured

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Theme Song – Yasashii Boukyaku

A Tender Oblivion
Vocals: Chihara Minori
Lyrics: Hata Aki
Composition: Ito Masumi
Arrangement: Nijine
Original Lyrics: Tanigawa Nagaru

What do you desire?
I ask
It wasn’t a lie that you don’t need anything

Touhou Housenka – Akai Tsuki

My brother had been playing this song non-stop in the house in the past few weeks.

Scarlet Moon
Vocals: Ucchi
Lyrics: Yoshiha
Composition: ZUN
Arrangement: Ranty
Circle: Yellow Zebra
Adapted from Touhou ~the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: U.N. Owen is Her?

A perfectly round scarlet moon appears, shining in from outside the window
The shadow of a lattice casts in, splitting me in crosses
Even if they’re fragile like glass
That shatters just by touching
I’ll fully envision the future ahead of those fragments

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru episode 5 Staff Roll Song – TSUBASA

WINGS

Vocals: Katakiri Rekka
Lyrics: M.Graveyard
Composition: dai
Arrangement: M.Graveyard

Please recollect your crime
In grief, you keep singing a song that I taught you
When they cry

Baka to Test to Shokanju 2nd Ending Theme – Hare Tokidoki Egao

Sunny with Smiles at Times
Vocals: Harada Hitomi, Mizuhashi Kaori, Kato Emiri, Isomura Tomomi as Himeji Mizuki, Shimada Minami, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, Kirishima Shoko
Lyrics: yozuca*
Composition: yozuca*
Arrangement: Kurosu Katsuhiko

Just as I expected, the first kiss tasted like strawberry milk
Going home at dusk while pushing my bike

There’s a simulation of delusions in my dreamy state of mind; (Here) where? (There)
I trip 7 times and fall 8 times, wah hah hah hah

The Qwaser of Stigmata 1st Ending Theme – Passionate squall

Passionate squall
Vocals: Fujimura Ayumi, Toyosaki Aki, Chihara Minori, Hirano Aya, Hikasa Yoko as Oribe Mafuyu, Yamanobe Tomo, Teresa Beria, Katya, Katsuragi Hana
Lyrics: Hata Aki
Composition: Tom-H@ck
Arrangement: Tom-H@ck

Oh, before you perish, shine
Do live again (alive) again (alive) I’m all
Even if it gets stolen away, my endless passion
Embraces (The sun) the desert (The earth) on squall

Baka to Test to Shokanju 1st Ending Theme – Baka Go Home

If you look closely at the ending sequence of Baka to Test to Shokanju, you can see the actual translated lyrics in the background. The following lyrics are my interpretation, however, not the same as the shown lyrics.

There’s some wordplay in the lyrics that I couldn’t fully convey in the translation. The phrase “yakiniku teishoku” is a pun on “jakuniku kyoushoku“, which means “law of the jungle (the strong eats the weak)”. The phrase “shichiten batto” is a pun on “shichiten battou“, which means “falling and rolling on the ground”.

Idiot Go Home
Vocals: milktub
Lyrics: bamboo
Composition: Ichibanboshi☆Hikaru
Arrangement: Miyazaki Kyoichi
Chorus: BakaTest All-Stars

Class is over, it’s a time of bliss
If I were to make a comparison

“It’s really an angel!”

Touhou Lovelight – Bad Apple!!

The song from the Touhou segment featured on CNN.

Bad Apple!!
Vocals: nomico
Lyrics: Haruka
Arrangement: Minoshima Masayoshi
Adapted from Touhou ~Lotus Land Story: Bad Apple!!

Even if I’m in the midst of flowing time, I feel languid, look, spinning around and around
I can’t even see my heart that leaves me; didn’t you know that?

Unable to move myself away, I continue to be washed down the cracks of time
I don’t know about my surroundings; I am who I am, that’s it

Okamikakushi Opening Theme – Toki no Mukou Maboroshi no Sora

Another stunning song from Kajiura Yuki this season.
This opening theme wouldn’t be out of place if it was used as a Higurashi or Umineko song.

Okamikakushi immediately invokes the setting of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. A young man moves to a remote town where a wolf god is said to prey on helpless victims and he befriends a throng of cute girls with varying degrees of possibly murderous intent. The story also takes place in summer of 1983.

Lovely job, Ryukishi-cakes, for another masterpiece.

Across Time   Sky of Illusions
Vocals: FictionJunction
Lyrics: Kajiura Yuki
Composition: Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki

Does love always
Lead to sorrow?
I couldn’t speak up and tell you
“Please don’t cry all alone anymore”