birdcage - Beatrice Image Song Translation (short) @ShugoShadow

Uploaded December 2011 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

I guess I'll work on the songs from Diabolic Theater for a while - Someone asked me to translate Furniture Waltz so I'm trying to do that and continuing with the rest of the songs for the sake of completeness. Because there's not a lot of noise in the back of this song, I might actually be able to put something together by ear for this one, but I'm not that good at Japanese yet and this is mainly a learning experience for me, so bear with me.

This song seems to be about Kuwadorian-Beatrice from this short part. I don't think I need to explain anything, and there seems to be no spoilers.

birdcage - Beatrice Image Song Translation (short)

$Rin to Shite Saku Hana no Gotoku - English Sub Subs in captions. Also frequently called Like Dead Flowers. - though thats a terrible translation of the title... never trust Google Translate with grammar, btw. Title translates as As Dignified As a Blooming Flower (or something like that ^_^;) Its not about dead flowers at all! Or dead anything! Its about growing up and sparklers and spinning and cherry trees and, well... LIFE. Its really cute. Ah well... Romaji later? Artist: Beniiro RITOMASU (紅色リトマス) {Red Litmus} - hey, didnt we use that stuff in chemistry class? This song is a triple metaphor of sorts - the flowers blooming and becoming full, the moon blooming and becoming full, and young girls blooming and becoming more refined. I think. I hope. Well, she is comparing herself to the cherry blossoms when she says I still dont know where that little bud will wind up. Hopefully those last four lines make a bit more sense? Obviously its not the cherry blossoms whistling to each other and wearing geta, but its the girls that bloomed. I think. Also, about the moon rabbits... Instead of the man in the moon, the Japanese have rabbits pounding mochi on the moon. I guess they also trace out the moons phases while theyre up there? The footsteps at the end - it was originally geta which are those weird looking sandals with wood stilts on them. Means the same thing - I guess I didnt want to interrupt the flow with people stopping to Google something... This is an original picture (Not by me! Pixiv 542836), so the character is not from any anime or anything. And if you look closely, she has bunny ears! This song was in DDR if Im not mistaken?$ $GUMI - Nostalgia Tactics (NfN) English/Romaji sub Subs in captions again. Man, captions are a pain to use now... This is possibly the most important song so far. If you dont get it, this will explain things! So many cross references! So many spoilers! SO MUCH EPIC. I tried putting all the references I could catch in annotations, but that part near the end was too fast for the annotations to keep up ^_^ A few notes: Title: kyoushuu sakusen Kyoushuu just means nostalgia (and since this is Nostalgia for Nothingness...). Sakusen is more tricky. It can mean operation, like a military operation (Operation: Nostalgia) and as cool as that sounded, it didnt flow well in the actual lyrics... It can also mean military strategy or tactics. So, Nostalgia Tactics it is. Original Title: 郷愁作戦 (kyoushuu sakusen) Original Video: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21920156 Sung by GUMI Composer/Lyrics: Maki (Also called 偽善者P {GizenshaP} HypocriteP) Illustrations: 真理恵 (Marie) Order of the Nostalgia for Nothingness series: Hypocrite Justice (偽善正義) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvrrMvegF9w Rarefy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLq_3I-G7Fc Justice Breaker (正義粉砕) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN81SIrpoGk 0(+1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDGj30jqSBw P² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMmevlBLppA Speed Star (スピードスター) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM0tOSq_uTk Everyones Selfish (みんな身勝手) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcN-f6hK7DE Flower of Blood (血の華) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5zGUDRKQKo For Want Of Words (言葉欠乏) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDcE0VK9PSc RESISTANCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiLEOQ3CESU fleeting (はかない) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQpUsqywtE Nostalgia Tactics (郷愁作戦) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v yTcjNa-hD4 Believe (ベリーヴ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ii6nmAlCU NfN Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlQjF0rzjlriGIBSnHSklCAnyIm144din$

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birdcage - Beatrice Image Song Translation (short)