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Congratulations to THE IDOLM@STER sound team at NAMCO BANDAI Studios! They claimed the top award in the sound category at the 2012 Computer Entertainment Developers Conference (CEDEC) ! Three members of the team pose with the award below. Note that they are all being totally awesome by wearing the 7th Anniversary Concert exclusive iM@S Producer-style ANIM@TION EDITION neckties ! Mr. Nakagawa, Mr. Uchita, and the Sound Director, Mr. Ishihara, pose with their award The award was given for “Surpassing the bounds of game music, J-pop songs from a game.” The full description for why they received the award reads as such: “The light J-pop songs created by the virtual-idol producing NAMCO BANDAI Studio Sound Team have surpassed the bounds of game music, brilliantly achieving things such as: appearing as opening and ending music for a television anime, realizing a dedicated 2-day concert at the Yokohama Arena, and having character single CDs hold 5 spots in the Oricon Weekly Top 10 chart...

So because a friend brought it up, I remembered that my very old transliteration of the song "Wind" by Megumi Hasegawa (長谷川めぐみ) comes up in a Google search for me. I looked at it, and while there are certainly things I would like to change (actually, I think it's just one thing in particular), for the most part it's good. There just isn't too much to mess up in a transliteration. Anyway, being unsatisfied with the translation that a friend of mine tried to make for it (to be fair, it was his first translation, and song translation is hard), I thought I'd give it a shot myself, now that my Japanese level has improved considerably over the years. It's not a straight literal translation, as I took a few minor liberties that I felt conveyed both the meaning and feeling of the words better. Anyway, you can find both the original lyrics and my translation below: My Translation: Somewhere in this blue sky, there is someone I meet suddenly. The summer sun shine...

A clever parody of the song "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!", which is a Touhou arrange song by Beat Mario, this song is sung by recog, and should be amusing to those who are familiar with "A Certain Magical Index" and "A Certain Scientific Railgun". Once again, I will be providing a rough translation below. Also, I used as reference the translation for "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!" from the Touhou wiki ( Link ). <a href="http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9364949">【ニコニコ動画】【替え歌】　Help me, TOUMAAAAA!! / recog　【禁書目録】</a> 【ニコニコ動画】【替え歌】　Help me, TOUMAAAAA!! / recog　【禁書目録】 Touma, Touma, Touma, One, Two, Three, Hey! Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey ...

Do you like BURNING giant robot songs? Because this one is totally on fire! Well, not the robot, but the song totally is. The song was originally a BGM from Touhou 12.3, but its old school giant robot feel quickly got denizens of niconico to add lyrics to it and try to sing it. Probably in response to that, Tasogare Frontier released an extended karaoke version of the song on the game soundtrack, and thus, I present below, the full version of "Our Hisoutensoku" sung by Yuge. <a href="http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9387162">【ニコニコ動画】ぼくらの非想天則（Full Ver.）を歌ってみた / 湯毛</a> 【ニコニコ動画】ぼくらの非想天則（Full Ver.）を歌ってみた / 湯毛 And because I feel like it, here is a rough translation of the lyrics: It flies high in the sky, did you see it? That giant steel frame? The ground shakes bel...