Stuff From 2004

This is ridiculous.

I logged into my ancient Geocities account after guessing through my security question by sheer luck (Who was your childhood hero?) and found that I did leave a few things behind in my account, dated from 2004.

The old site I ran was called “Hitorijime Anime Lyrics”, the vestiges of which can be found on a handful of lyrics submission sites.

Here are some of the things that I found: (God, my art sucked)

Old banners for the website

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX 3rd Opening Theme – Tiadoroppu

Teardrop
Vocals: BOWL
Lyrics: Maruyama Kazuhiro
Composition: Maruyama Kazuhiro
Arrangement: BOWL

A single teardrop falls down your cheeks that turns downcast and laughs

You hide sighs on the dark side
Of your bluffing self; your smiling face is clouded
And like shattered and scattered glass
It stabs at me

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX 2nd Opening Theme – 99%

99%
Vocals: BOWL
Lyrics: Maruyama Kazuhiro
Composition: Nishikido Atsushi & Maruyama Kazuhiro
Arrangement: BOWL & Yamaguchi Kazuhisa

In a locked room, you wept alone
Even if only yesterday reflects in your downcast eyes, you won’t move forward

When it’s morning, I’ll go greet you; everyone is the same, weak
But the truth is, there is no wall there as much as you feel there is

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX 2nd Ending Theme – Wake Up Your Heart

Wake Up Your Heart
Vocals: KENN with The NaB’s
Lyrics: The NaB’s
Composition: Maeda Katsuki

You’re able to search for your own place, which is still invisible, and keep walking
The heartbeats in your chest echo so strongly that you can’t hide the upsurge

Let’s believe in the future more than the past and live in the present
Don’t be hanging your head; spread your wings and soar up

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX 1st Ending Theme – Genkai Batoru

Borderline Battle
Vocals: JAM Project
Lyrics: Kageyama Hironobu & Okui Masami
Composition: Kono Yogo

In a borderline battle, even if we strike and get hurt, isn’t it okay?

The gong of a hot duel filled with time echoes
The card of destiny shines

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX 1st Opening Theme – Kaisei – Joushou – Hareruya

Fine Weather – Rising – Hallelujah
Vocals: JINDOU
Lyrics: MASAYA, NAGATA, TAKE
Music: KOJI, MASAYA
Arrangement: JINDOU

Sailing my sea!
Yeah – Never say die Gotta go! Go!

Unfold the map to tomorrow, let’s go together, Go along along
If you peek through a telescope, head to the unknown harbor, Go along along

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 5th Ending Theme – EYE’S

EYE’S
Vocals: Ikuzawa Yuichi
Lyrics: Mike Sugiyama
Composition: Ikuzawa Yuichi
Arrangement: Oshima Kosuke

We nowadays don’t need a map or such
Only the hope that ripped apart darkness is in my hands

Without deciding on a goal, I’ll just take a step toward my dream

c/w Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Overlap – Oath in the Storm

Oath in the Storm
Vocals: Kimeru

The sound of the strong wind approaching stirs our chests
So that we’ll look ahead of the thick clouds blocking the light, we’ll stand motionless

Even now the same sky as back then binds us together

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 5th Opening Theme – OVERLAP

OVERLAP
Vocals: Kimeru
Lyrics: Kimeru
Composition: Shibuya Ikuo
Arrangement: Fujita Yoshihisa

Light so glaring that it can’t be hidden shatters the silence and revives in this world
The violently quaking and parched earth stakes its life and clashes together with sparks

Just one more time is enough, start a miracle
For the power to recover a memory’s pages lost in the past

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4th Ending Theme – Afureru Kanjou ga Tomaranai

Overflowing Emotions Don’t Stop
Vocals: Ikuzawa Yuichi
Lyrics: Ikuzawa Yuichi
Composition: Ikuzawa Yuichi
Arrangement: Ikuzawa Yuichi & Terashima Ryoichi

Make the indelible past end
If I close my eyes, even now, that’s right, you are…
My memories remain innocent at all times
And are still not used to living alone

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4th Opening Theme – WARRIORS

WARRIORS
Vocals: Ikuzawa Yuichi
Lyrics: Ikuzawa Yuichi & IPPEI
Composition: Yamashita Masahiro
Arrangement: Shimizu Takehito

In the wavering image, our wish is eternally endless

Before I realized it, I abandoned happiness in order to live
By lying, I was clinging and dancing on a mere illusion

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 3rd Ending Theme – Rakuen

Paradise
Vocals: CAVE
Lyrics: RUMIKO
Composition: SHOJI
Arrangement: SHOJI

The unsetting sun rises endlessly; can’t you make the stuff about “dreams are dreams” end?
“Please don’t throw it away so easily”; in your hands that began to open the bud that has started to bloom, there’s a…”secret paradise”

A straight rail and a treacherous route; whether you’ll go or not, it’s all of yourself
I’m already fed up with counting on my fingers inside the cage

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 3rd Opening Theme – WILD DRIVE

WILD DRIVE
Vocals: Nagai Masato
Lyrics: Nagai Masato
Composition: Nagai Masato
Arrangement: Nagai Masato, WILD&DELICATES

My filled up energy is bothered since it lost its destination
Just with someone wavering a bit, the boredom will explode

I Ride, on the White Line, Oh, Oh, Oh,
Sit Down at the place I confide in, Oh, Oh, Oh,
I can go at the instant when I’m confused!

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 2nd Ending Theme – Ano Hi no Gogo

The Afternoon of That Day
Vocals: Okui Masami
Lyrics: Okui Masami
Composition: Yabuki Toshiro
Arrangement: Yabuki Toshiro

It feels as if I was here long, long ago, too
The setting sun colored the classroom after school

I point and laugh at my over-trimmed forelocks with everyone

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 2nd Opening Theme – Shuffle

Shuffle
Vocals: Okui Masami
Lyrics: Okui Masami
Composition: Yabuki Toshiro
Arrangement: Yabuki Toshiro

“Can’t overcome”, “getting irritated”
Even if you break the hurdles, you won’t give an answer to anything

If you don’t protect the balance of strength, love, and so on
You’ll lose sight of yourself