One more episode to go and two more chapters to go… and then I can sleep on Mondays.
Wall-of-text note about the alternate OP from the translator:
The opening theme in this episode seems to clearly be an homage to Kajiura Yuki. They’ve taken unique aspects of Kajiura’s songwriting style and exaggerated them to the point of parody. The song opens with an impossible to decipher chant. It could be some obscure language or entirely made up. With the Japanese pronunciation, you can’t tell.
Once the song proper starts, the lyrics are all pretentious and deep-sounding phrases, loosely strung together. Half of the words are clearly made-up, created by sticking serious, dark, and deep-sounding kanji together, so it’s hard to tell what’s even meant without seeing it written out. And impossible to transcribe, much less translate!
What isn’t made up gives you an idea of how faux deep and pretentious sounding it is meant to be. Phrases like “The garden of the end”; “The night of despair”; “The thorned path”; “Wings of prayer”; “The flower of peace”; et cetera. Remember, these phrases are very loosely strung together, so interpreting any connection between them is difficult.
Basically, this song is a completely untranslatable, but entirely brilliant, parody of not just Kajiura Yuki’s songwriting, but also the kind of faux-super-deep writing also common in Japanese fantasy game theme songs.
This song is a masterpiece and Hirose Sayaka is a genius for writing it.
Though I would love to see someone prove me completely wrong by transcribing and making any sense of it.
HD: [Doki] New Game! – 11 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [BC668C86].mkv
SD: [Doki] New Game! – 11 (848×480 h264 AAC) [53D099AE].mkv
Manga: [Doki] New Game! The Spinoff! – Special 10 [4AD52F07].zip
Manga: [Doki] New Game! The Spinoff! – Special 11 [0F96849E].zip
What? Kajiura Yuki 2Deep4U?
Kalafina wannabe
Funny thing to see that nobody is complaining about the opening, but you change the names and suddenly everyone is a expert translator :^)
Welp. Thanks!
The opening reminds me of Shikata Akiko instead of Kajiura.
One week left, thanks a ton for subbing all of these. Has been awesome.
There is a typo at 00:03 in typeset.
“… and personal infromation.” should be “… information.”
As always, thanks for subbing!
We didn’t translate the ticket. It was like that from the start.
Ahh… I see. I thought that it was a typeset.
Cheers.
Logi, did you mean this ONE typo 🙂 :
http://imgur.com/a/BT1VS
Yep, totally thought it was a typo on translation. But, it was like that originally..
Thanks for the translate xD !so the spin-off have 13 chapters total ?
Thanks!
Sankyuu
Thanks for the chapters! ^^
Thank you, Doki!
That was a neat translator’s note.
Seems like this series/arc is drawing to a close =o Thanks for the chapter!
Opening for game reminded me of Genso Suikoden series openings 🙂
Thank you so much for your New Game! releases!