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

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

lolz that you post this today because I was going to post about why YanaKiri is my OTP tonight.

Renji, Renji...I think he's nastier than we often give him credit for. After all, they are supposedly the three monsters not the three fluffy bunnies on the courts.

And datawise, I've read him spewing off percentages like Inui in fic and he's NOT like that in the manga at all. He only uses Inui-style data twice, both times to mock Inui. He's much more literature-oriented and I see his data style as more...metaphoric.

I also think he's moved on from Inui, but Inui is still hung up on him. After all, Renji's bestest friend!!! is Sanada, not some old incarnation of Sadaharu. I bet he and Sanada have sleepovers at Sanada's house and pig out on...snacks that aren't greasy.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

He's probably very nasty (or he can be) in tennis? Although whoever does the translation called them the three "monsters", the exact wording Akaya used was "kisai". One thing to note is "ki" means demon or demonic. "Sai" is the same word as "tensai", meaning talent. So they are actually referred to as people who have demonic talents. (whereas tensai = those with talent from above) It's referring more to the tennis than the personalities.

Totally agree on the data!

They all occasionally go to Sanada's (because his place is the largest). But apparently Akaya's been thrown out once for breaking something. XD;;

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

Just to piss Sanada-fukubuchou off, Kirihara probably tries to befriend Sanada's brother and get all the dirt on his senpai that he can...;D

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Poor Sanada. d:< Kiri should learn to understand that those are bitchslaps of love!

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

"And datawise, I've read him spewing off percentages like Inui in fic and he's NOT like that in the manga at all. He only uses Inui-style data twice, both times to mock Inui. He's much more literature-oriented and I see his data style as more...metaphoric."

Exactly. It always gets to me in fics because Renji data is not equal to Inui data. If both he and Inui are researchers, then Inui puts most of his stock in quantitative data, whereas Renji puts more stock in qualitative data.

I don't know if I would say he's moved on from Inui, or rather I would say they've both moved on, at least post-Kanto. I've always felt Inui was prevented from moving on because of the way Renji left, but by winning and equalizing them in his mind, he can move past it. Neither are going to be best friends anymore, though. Renji has Sanada and Yukimura, and Inui has...well, he has Kaidou. And I think he and Fuji are good friends.

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

Yes yes~! Quantitative vs qualititative is exactly how I see it too in my mind regarding their data styles. Which is probably why Renji is more into literature and calligraphy and artsy-fartsy things while Inui likes...numbers. And pi. Although his juice could go either way: the concept of specific measurements of ingredients, or the qualitative different ingredients involved. But he probably just makes it because he's sick and weird and amused by the reactions of others ;D

Inui-Fuji friendship is just. Yes, I can see that. It would take a specific type of person to be close to Inui. He'd probably drive most people (ie. like Tezuka) up the wall. ;)

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

qualititative

No can spell today, forgive me. *facepalms*

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

He LIKES driving Tezuka up a wall. It's his hobby. :D In fact, he and Fuji probably discuss various ways to drive Tezuka completely bonkers.

Somewhere, Tezuka is twitching and wondering whether Inui, Fuji, or Miyuki is plotting against him. His secret nightmare is all three coordinating their efforts. :D