Yum!Yum!ORANGE - Precious Days

I was trying to find "Precious Days" by Junko Minagawa since my Oneechan gave me a song file of it. But since i wasn't able to get it properly, i decided to find it on Youtube where most of her songs are found there except for a few special others. Until i found Yum!Yum!Orange instead.

I decided to take a listen and found it to be very cute and vibrant, as to the lyrics. Having such a catchy beat, plus the trumpets sounded awesome! The lyrics is mostly of a person moving on when the person he/she likes is gone. Not exactly sure if by 'gone', meaning "passed away" or "just left". But the guitars with the trumpets complimented each other throughout the entire song and the last instrumental in the end.

What mostly amused me was the cute painted characters on the glass. The fish with hearts on the corners of his eyes, the flying bat pumpkins are just too KAWAII!! I like how some of the band members painted some lyrics of the song in some empty glass window. And the lead singer, Kumi was awesome too. Ichi-Low on the drums was working it! Izumi and Ameal with the trombone and trumpet were the best though. Partnered with Ryu, on the guitar and all.

I saw how they had a member named Fumi who was a saxophone player but then dropped out. Well, still trying to find some more songs from Yum!Yum!ORANGE. They are actually a J-Ska (J-Suka) Band. First time to come up with the genre actually. But as the information is from Wikipedia, J-Suka is traditional jamaican club sound with metal, punk, funk and/or country. It also has a few english words in them.

For the lyrics, i love....the first verse best:

Isogiashi no machi ni se wo mukete
Iku ate mo naku hashiridasu
Haato no piasu kaze ni yureru tabi
Awai omoide yomigaeru
Takaramono wa itsumo mune no oku
Poketto ni iroasenu you

I turn my back to the bustle of the town
And run, with no destination in mind
Every time my heart earring swing in the breeze
They bring back a faint memory
Treasures stay in the heart
So they don’t fade in our pockets

私は、街の喧騒に背を向ける
と実行すると、心には先に
そよ風にスイングするたびに私の心のイヤリング
彼らへのかすかな記憶をもたらす
宝物の中心部に滞在
だから、私たちのポケットにフェードしない

It sounded awesome, but realistic in a way. When someone feels upset or happy, sometimes it's just best to just run without any destination to go. I often do that myself actually, only i walk not run. I get too tired easily. But sometimes when something just happen, you either take a few more minutes to take it all in or whatever. But i do like it a lot.

Vic Mignogna - Byakuya~True Light English Version

Eversince i got this from a friend who found it (thanks Oneechan), i instantly liked it! It's like the original singer, Shunichi Miyamoto. But what was more shocking was, it was none other Vic Mignogna! GASP! In case anyone was wondering....he voiced Edward Elric in the American Dubbed version of Full Metal Alchemist!

He sounded so good! I never knew Mr. Mignogna could sing so well! But it was really surprising as well when i found he was the one who also played the voice of DNAngel's phantom thief, Dark Mousy. Yeah! English Dark can sing! Hope Krad isn't jealous or anything.

Hahaha. He sounds like an American Miyamoto-san! Man, too shocking for words. And he voiced Takenaga Oda from "The Wall Flower" too. I love him really. But i hope my friend will be happy since in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, he voiced Fay D. Flowright! Yay! Fay is love in our little group. Anyway...back to the comments of the songs...

The lyrics sound weird but it sound really good actually. But of course, English versions of the anime songs always seem to have weird lyrics just to make the words fit the song's original tempo and tune. But of course, for true Anime fans, nothing beats the original song and lyrics.

(of course, copy of the song and link to one amv with the song. Unfortunately, it's only a minute and around 39 seconds of play time because the english dub only made a TV size version Mr. Mignogna's version. Darn it. And it sounded so good.)

Darkness of white

You can through the sadness take your flight

And become the wings

That pierce the veil

Spreading strong and true tonight
Brought into the line at last

By the cold exposing sun

I was granted freedom tamed

To become the chosen one

Through the mirror

Night relfected

Miraculous to see

My soul threw away the mask

That hides the deeper me

Breaking the dark of night

Piercing through the painted white

Cut it all away

From yesterday'til and new era's in sight

Unlock the heart within

Let it spread it's wings and soar

Rising up in flight

Through the night of white

And fly on forever more

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oOcBI_j4fg

(And of course, a picture of Mr. Mignona. Don't ya love the hair and eyes. Smile those pearly whites, Mr. Mignona!)

- And of course, i like to give an ad his OFFICIAL website: http://www.vicsworld.net/ , which contains all you need to learn more about Mr. Mignogna. He even made an introductional gif of him introducing anyone who views his website! WHICH IS PURE AWESOMENESS!!! OwO