![]() ![]() In March and April of the same year, they went on tour, before leaving High Line Records. Despite their song ‘Danny’ winning an award in 1996, the band wouldn’t officially release an album until three years later, five years after their debut, in 1999.Ĭalled Flame Vein, their first album was released by High Line Records, as was their first single, 2000’s ‘Lamp,’ and their second album, The Living Dead, which was also released in 2000. In the years following the band’s inception, they continued to make music, though, as is often the case, it took a couple of years for the group to gain steam. Given the fact that the band formed back before the days of Google Translate, one can see how in the quest for a cool band name the foursome might find their way from ‘strike’ or ‘attack’ to ‘bump’ and ‘Chicken’ is a relatively direct, if figurative translation for ‘Coward.’ Apparently it was inspired by one of their first original songs. The name ‘Bump of Chicken’ is a rough English translation of the Japanese phrase ‘ jakusha no hangeki.’ A more accurate translation would probably be the literal: ‘counterattack from the weak-man/wimp/weakling,’ or rather ‘cowards fight back.’ In 1994, the four friends were in ninth grade and performed as a band for the first time, playing a cover of The Beatles ‘Twist and Shout’ for their school cultural festival. ![]() The four members of the band-Motoo Fujiawara, Hiroaki Masukawa, Yoshifumi Naoi, and Hideo Masu-all went to school together since kindergarten. Though ‘Sailing Day’ was released in 2003, ‘Karma’ came out in 2005, and ‘Hello World’ came out in 2015 Bump of Chicken first starting making music back in 1994. So let’s check look What Came Before ‘Hello World,’ ‘Karma,’ and the Rest But how often do we actually think about the bands behind these iconic songs? Often enough, even if we end up getting our hands on the soundtrack, these musicians have whole albums worth of music we’d dig just as much.Ĭonsidering Bump of Chicken has been making music since the ’90s, there’s tons about them you don’t know. The posts will mainly be in English or Indonesian, depending on my mood and my ability to think in English at the time I’m making the post lol.Ever find yourself getting pumped up listening to ‘Hello World,’ the opening theme song for Blood Blockade Battlfront ? How about ‘Karma,’ the theme song from Tales of the Abyss ? How about ‘Sailing Day’ from the One Piece the Movie: the Adventure of ‘Dead End’ ? The list goes on and on.Ī good theme song can add so much to the experience of enjoying a good anime, movie, or game. If you happen to know more Japanese than me and spot any mistake in my translation, no matter how big or small, please don’t hesitate to hit me up! In fact, I’d really appreciate it if you could help me with my Japanese learning! Since I’m 100% self-taught, I don’t have anyone to correct me if I make any mistake, so please do take my translation with a very huge grain of salt. Even though I’m not that good at it yet, I realize that I actually learn faster by actively trying to understand actual Japanese materials instead of just studying its syntax and whatnot from the lens of a foreigner. I’m planning to take either N2 or N3 (depending on how much I will have improved by then), so having some sort of place where I can just keep my study notes would be very helpful to my learning process (I actually keep handwritten notes, but sometimes I just can’t read my own handwriting lol).Īside from notes, I’ll try to post my attempts at translation too. So now I’m thinking of repurposing this blog as a medium for my Japanese learning efforts (kind of like studyblrs except on WP I guess?). I initially wanted to use this blog as some sort of a personal journal, but alas I don’t have the patience to actually write down what I want to write and Twitter has kind of spoiled me too on that part.Īnyway, I’ve recently gotten back into learning Japanese again, more seriously than ever before. ![]() Through some things and another, I ended up stumbling upon this old blog of mine, which I barely used at the time it was created. ![]()
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