Mou Mayoi wa Nai, and about Yanagi Renji

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DVD HAS ARRIVED OMG YESSSS!!!! *cradles it*

([edit] Just opened the DVD box and there's this free schedule book and it's got the funniest pictures in it!

And the DVD booklet has the lyrics for all the songs. I can read what Yagami Ren is singing, finally!)

This is me attempting to figure out the lyrics of "Mou Mayoi wa Nai". It doesn't help that Yagami Ren mumbles. Someone please give him pronounciation lessons. D: Or maybe he just kept singing words I don't understand? I just can't catch most of his part and any part when his voice rides over Kanesaki's.


????
??? wo oshiete kureru
yasashii ippo umidasu ????
kibishii mirai ga
??????? kamoshirenai
ima wa kokoro yasurata ni
kisetsu wo keto ????

Taisetsuna mono wo
mamoru tame no yuuki wo
oshiete kure ta
yamai toiu shiren
tesaguri de asu wo
sagasa nakereba naranai darou
shikashi nakama wo shinjite
masugu mae o miyou

mou mayoi wa nai
mou urei wa nai
hito wa shiawase ni naru tamei
????? dakara

mou mayoi wa nai
mou urei wa nai
????? yume wo
kimi ni ageyou


But yes, from what I can understand, Sanada's part BREAKS me. It's about asking for courage to protect what's most important to him against the trial of illness, searching for a way to hold on to tomorrow, that he believes in his friend/comrade, and so let's look straight ahead together. IE HE LOVES YUKIMURA.

*SOB* Someone please tell me what the rest of the lyrics are~~~ PLEASE. *begs*

I'm such a sappy person. (This is Kanesaki's favourite song in the myu. Heh, he's also a sappy person!)

Um, I was asking giving_ground about writing Renji, last night. Every time I write him, he seems to be very... quietly pessimistic and I'm trying to figure out why and figure him out.


First, take his name. Yanagi Renji. It's very... poetic to me. Initially I thought it was a bit feminine, but the more I think about it the more poetic I think it seems, and it kind of makes me think of Buddhist things. The "yanagi" (willow) part and the "ren" (lotus) part, of course.

Which brings me to this "Buddhist" theory. I said to Liz last night that in a different life, I can see Renji being a monk. >_> His quietness (even more prominent in the games than anime), his love for light-tasting food, his love for simple things, for historical or old cultural things (again, a game thing), his simple hair, how he looks just right when in traditional clothing... he also has a gentleness that I can't describe.

I haven't written him much before. There were [Stop Trying] and [Cadence] (both YanaYuki) and of course he was in [The City]. Every time, he appears to be the slightly pessimistic sort - but the quiet type who doesn't let the emo take hold of him - or at least not let others see it's taken hold of him. He sometimes seem quietly resigned, to me. Although "resigned" isn't his approach to tennis.

I wonder if I'm letting the game version of him take root in me more than I should. Though, the game versions are often much closer to the manga (which I prefer) than the anime - apart from Yagyuu who is horrid in most incarnations except manga and myu but let's forget about him for now. He almost seems tragic to me, sometimes. The way he left Inui and the reasons behind it certainly feed to this tragic-ness. He becomes more alive when he's with his friends, though, and I love the way he calls them by their given names - Sadaharu, Seiichi, Genichirou, Akaya. I adore YanaKiri gen. YanaInui, YanaYuki, SanaYana, Troika, those I all like. YanaKiri I am fine with, I think it's cute but don't have much of an opinion on it.

But where was I... I don't know. :D; Yanagi Renji discussion? How do you think of him and how much do you love him?



VLP!Renji is not part of this discussion. XD He's special.

Comments

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

Yanagi Renji is my second favorite character ever, right after Tezuka Shinobu from Here is Greenwood. :D So I can discuss away :D

I can see where quietly pessimistic and resigned might come from, but I don't see him that way. Maybe it's because I fail at gaming and so never played any of the PoT games and just admired the pretty, pretty screencaps. :D

Renji is a very calm, quiet person. Teachers probably love him, which is why in the Rikkai that lives in my brain, he is often called upon to save Akaya from himself. :D But behind that quiet, polite face, I've always felt thatt there's an offbeat sense of humor and a wide streak of mischievousness. He was best friends with Inui, and I can't see anyone surviving being close friends with Inui without, ah, sharing similar personality traits. He also calls everyone by their given names, something that's frankly weird in someone as well-mannered as Renji, so I think there's definitely some perversity lurking in there. I also love the idea that Renji spends a lot of his free time quuietly poking Genichirou. So I have any canon evidence for this? No. But it's such a fun Idea.

I could totally go into Renji and His Relationships, but I have to leave for the office in two minutes and I'm still in my pajamas :D Knew I was going to be late as soon as I saw Yanagi Renji Discussion. :DDD I may come back later during a lull.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Yay for Renji love!

He says in one of the games that his motto is "gakko fubatsu", which is to use one's will to remain calm/not be swayed/not show weakness.

I'm not sure about the Inui thing, mostly just because little!Inui seemed very very normal, nowhere near as... strange... as he is now. Though there was very little of little!Inui screentime for anything to be known about him. :(

Hehehe I can see him poking Genichirou too. XD he can probably insult or poke at people very very politely.

There was this bit in the game where Renji tells the main girl character: "Look, Genichirou is coming this way. He is going to look right, then left, then he will think for a while. (or something to this effect) and then he'll turn left and run that way. He is looking for Akaya." He can just look at Sanada and know what he's thinking and predict what he's going to do. Freaky but love.

Maybe when Akaya wants to prank someone (most likely Sanada......) Renji would be able to come up with the best ideas?

I don't know if he calls /everyone/ by their given names, though. Genichirou, Seiichi and Sadaharu are probably because of closeness, and everyone in the team calls the elf "Akaya" anyway. But does he talk to Yagyuu and the rest this way, too?

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

Re: given names - you know, I'm not sure now that I think of it. It could just be the four - Akaya, Genichirou, Seiichi, and Sadaharu. I'll have to go back to my Genius and check. I seem to remember him calling Yagyuu "Hiroshi" but possibly I'm confusing myself with a fanfic, lol.

Renji = scariest prankster ever, because he plans meticulously and never betrays what he's doing, and combined with Akaya it'd be a deadly combination for poor Sanada. I actually once wrote a YanaKiri fic for stagesoflove in which Kirihara gets annoyed and decides he's going to prank the whole team one by one. Sanada's easy. Yukimura is hard but he manages something small. But when he goes to toss water balloons down on Renji when Renji's "napping" under a tree, Renji goes "Are you going to stay up there all day?" I think Akaya fell out of the tree :D

I think Inui was probably more normal than he is now, but some of that weirdness HAS to be innate. :D

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

I need to go revise Rikkai, too... not that I mind. It's a good kind of revision. :D

Oh, Renji. XDDDD I suppose he wouldn't prank people often though, not nearly as often as the rest of them. But when he does it, it'll be a very, very huge plan that tightens with each step and it will be VERY SCARY.

Come to think of it, Inui isn't nearly as weird in the manga than anime. Of course there's the iwashimizu and other juices, but the amount of exaggeration the anime put him through made him extra extra weird.

I love Renji's black hair. *random*

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

Renji loves Renji's black hair too :D As 20.5 tells us, he carries a comb for his hair in his bag at all times. Can you tell I've memorized 20.5 because there's practically nothing to go on re: Renji?

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

His brown anime hair horrifies me. But not as much as Yagyuu's Higa purple hair.

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

Yagyuu's hair isn't just purple. It's a BAD purple dye job.

I didn't hate Renji's brown hair, but black looks so much better on him.