Hello Readers... (do I have any readers?)
I have finally purchased Qualia, so I could transcribe and translate for y'all. A beast of a CD is what I say haha. 10 unique songs by 8 different singers telling 5 stories. There are all kinds of genres included in this CD. From sad ballads to symphonic metal. Now I ask myself how did I miss this CD for such a long time. The stories that are told in the songs are AMAZING. So good that I moved up Qualia in my ranking to SS and might even move it to SSS, because it exceeded my expectations thousandfold.
The five stories are:
- Single-minded Love (song 1 and 2)
- The nun who undergoes sudden transformation (song 3 and 4)
- The suicide to escape reality (song 5 and 6)
- The demon summoning fortune teller (song 7 and 8)
- Self-sacrificing love (song 9 and 10)
From what I understand purely from transcribing and first listens to songs these are the actual context of the songs: I am not 100% sure though about every song ,but I'll see during translating.
1: tells the story of the young girl who picks up an old book who is amazed by it
2: tells the story of the book being found by the young girl in song 1
3: tells the story of a nun before transformation in song 4(beautiful butterfly)
4: tells the story of a nun after transformation in song 3(monster butterfly)
5: tells the story of a boy who harrasses a girl until she suicides and he jumps after her
6: tells the story of the boy OR girl from song 5 during their death flight
7: tells the story of a witch who becomes a fortune teller
8: tells the story of the fortune teller in song 7 who tried to save the world in the moment of disaster
9: tells the story of a best friend of a terminally ill child, who goes in search of a flower of immortality to save their friend
10: tells the story from 9 from the viewpoint of the terminally ill child
On the pages and in the XFD the following symbols are stated with Japanese underneath. This is written out as Symbol / Japanese. Between the brackets I do the following (explanation of symbol as stated in the XFD/romaji/the translation of the Japanese)
∞ / 無限世界 (Infinity/Mugen Sekai/Infinite World)/
=/ 同一人物 (Equal/Douitsujinbutsu/The very same person)
∴/観察結里 (Conclusion/Kansatsu Ketsuri /Observation Completion)
√ /救世根源(Root/Kyuusei Kongen/Root of Salvation)
∵ /行動理由(Reason/ Koudou Riyuu/ Reason of Conduct)
They connect 1 to 1 to the five stories, so the Infinity story connect to "Single-minded love" etc
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In charge of the music, production and lyrics is our lovely mr. Paspal! The narration of the PV is done by 宮下奏子 (Miyashita Souko). The illustration was a collab between 千年凛 and 向坂みどり
On vocals...:
Track 1: okogeeechann, known from Elfensjón!
Track 2: 冬乃桜 (Touno Sakura)
Track 3&4: 鈴葉ユミ(Suzuha Yumi)
Track 5: theta
Track 6: 小松菜(Komatsuna), also known as our beloved Komatsu Rina!
Track 7&8: nameless
Track 9: くゆり(Kuyuri)
Track 10: ちな(Tina)
Track list:
01. 解き放たれた記憶 (Tokihanatareta Kioku) - Unleashed Memories
02. 一冊の想い (Issatsu no Omoi) - A Book of Thoughts
03. 聖夜の教会 (Seiya no Kyoukai) - Church of the Holy Night
04. 囚われた孤独の蝶(Torawareta Kodoku no Chou) - Imprisoned Lonely Butterfly
05. 白く儚い翼 (Shiroku Hakanai Tsubasa) - White Fragile Wings
06. 風に乗せた逃飛行 (Kaze ni Noseta Touhikou) - Flight on the Wind
07. 悪魔の逆五芒星(Akuma no Gyakugobousei) - Reverse pentagram of the Demon
08. 流れる星の占い師(Nagareru Hoshi no Uranashi) - Fortune Teller of the Shooting Stars
09. 理の最果てに咲く花 (Kotowari no Saihate ni Saku Hana) - The Flower that Blooms at the end of Reason
10. 窓から見える世界 (Mado kara Mieru Sekai) - The World Seen from the Window
The order in which I like the tracks was actually very hard to determine, I liked all songs a lot, especially 4,6 and 8 were amazing. 1,2,3 and 9 were very good too. There is not a single song I disliked in this slection of 10 songs. and that makes me really happy. I think the final order is something like: 4>6>8>1=2=3 =9>10>7>5
The last page of the booklet states:
Your 《Qualia》 will enable you to get the best answers to your life......
So please believe in your feelings and everything will be alright :)