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SO BIG POST Y’ALL.
My Rockman X Anniversary Collection Soundtrack made it in today! Many thanks to my beloved husband Zeekun for getting this for me while I finished my shift up at work. (It was registered air-mail, so I had to send someone to sign for it for me!)
Ok, so right into it- there is SO much going on here and I may have to make double-posts to fit it all in.
So since I ordered the ‘First Press’ I got a special sleeve that had that AMAZING ARTWORK of the four hunters all doing their little gig (I still swear that image of X on the special sleeve alone was worth the 40 dollars I paid to get this thing. I love seeing him happy, damnit.) Inside the sleeve is the CD in it’s standard packaging.
The tambourine wielding Met is still present too! Considering I once cosplayed as a giant Met at a few Otakons, and when I was in WAS we had a ‘pet’ Metool we named ‘Tooley’, it’s kinda like my past was coming back to greet me. Can I be considered the Met? I will gladly shake a little tambourine around if I get to jam with X. C’mon now.
So there’s no way they didn’t know some of us were going to import the CD. Why would you include the forward from singer/writer of the English version of Re;Future IN ENGLISH if you didn’t expect non-Japanese people to import it?!
THE FACT THAT SHE’S AN X FANGIRL MAKES ME GIDDY AS SHIT.
The art in the booklet is basically CD-sized versions of the art for MMXLC 1 and 2 and then some of the Mavericks behind the CD… The CD itself though… Hoooo nelly..
Ok, easily, this is the most gawddamned beautiful CD I now own. It’s got metallic blue circuitry accents and X in full without that text over him and– NNNNHhhhggg… I can’t. This was so worth it. And the crazy thing was, when I first found out about the CD and saw the original image of them all playing and performing, I was like “God, fuggin’ a. What if they did a Miku/Squid-Sisters like concert and literally had hologram versions of them play at a real venue?” For whatever reason, I could imagine X staring at the crowd with his guitar with a happy, slightly cocky grin– and then later when I got into that MM Media Creators discord and found THIS IMAGE it was literally what I saw in my head just days before and admittedly I LOST MY SHIT. This happens to me wayyyy too frequently but that is another time. @_@;;
Anyhow– what I was hoping for- aside X being.. well, X, and making wolfens nosebleed everywhere– were the english lyrics for Re;Future.
SO AGAIN IN TYPICAL CAPCOM FASHION- They had their Localization director write/translate Re;Future from Japanese to English and then later sing it as well. From what I understand, they also had some issues with recording and it lost some audio quality, some of which they had t manually restore- but from what I understand, Miss Hsu is not a native English speaker so there’s some mispronunciations here and there. Zero and I were trying to get lyrics down for DAYS but we kept mis-guessing what was being said- so since my CD was in the states on Sunday night, we decided to wait till we had official lyrics. SO glad we did, cause I think our ‘hints’ at X9 lie in this song and it’s lyrics.
At first, with the ‘blasting through anything’, especially given you have to use X to blast through the credits to get this song to unlock and play, I was like “OK, THIS IS X SINGING. Well not literally BUT IT’S HIS PERSPECTIVE.” This has happened before, RockmanHolic’s Re:Loaded was sung from X’s perspective even though it was a girl singing. So there’s that.
Then as I was listening, I was mis-hearing lyrics, I was thinking she was saying ‘purple crystal’ and ‘purple heart’ which made me think of Iris- especially if you play X Challenge mode volume 1 and get to the final fight- I was like “OMFG, what if we’re getting Iris back for X9?!” That may still happen based on X Challenge mode, but still. Everything else just coincided with X so strongly, so I was still torn. Plus, the achievement you get for unlocking Re;Future is called “Identity Erased”… And given we have new Giga Armor toys where X has a Rush of his own and in MvCI he slides just like Classic’s Rock does, Iiii.. I’m starting to wonder if we’re looking at the starts of a Retcon and they’re going to confirm X and Rock are one and the same. I’ve got other stuff that points at that, I’m working on a video explaining it all, so when I’m done I’ll explain more. Anyhow…
I figure if anyone wants a crack, here’s the Japanese lyrics. I can’t read a lick of ‘em (legit, only things I can read in Japanese are “Rockman”, “X”, and “Zero”. That. Is. It.) so if like, Sky or anybody else who has knowledge wants to see if they match up to the English lyrics, be my guest! My friend Alkaid of over-ti.me already has these, so I’m sure she’s probably gonna be getting her buddies in to take a crack at these sometime soon.
For now, I wrote-out the English lyrics if you guys wanna copy-paste them, etc.
Fragments of me lie in the darkness
waiting to be found
All I see around me are shadows,
No matter how I may try,
and so I keep on looking to find a light that will guide me,
I won’t give up the fight
Why am I here? What is my purpose?
Running for all I’m worth, I shout
Reaching ahead I throw my arms to the wind
Even if it takes all I have,
With the last of my voice I’ll cry……
I’ll call with all of my soul
This sparkling uncontainable light
Spilling over a brand new world
Its brightness dazzles, dizzying and blinding
But I don’t wanna close my eyes or look away
All these boundless feelings
Cascading over a brand new world
I’ll keep them with me for just a little bit longer
I’ll keep them safe here until the next world arrives
At long last I found my answers waiting in the darkness
I know why I’m here and my purpose
I won’t return to that loneliness,
and so I’ll keep pushing onwards
Blasting through anything that tries to stand in my way
I will fight, I will!
Even by myself or for a barren world
Two lights shine brightly showing me the way,
and I take courage the they have given me to fight for what
I truly believe
Nothing can stop me!
Running for all I’m worth, I shout
Reaching ahead, I throw my arms to the wind
Even if it takes all I have,
With the last of my voice I’ll cry……
I’ll call with all of my soul
This strongly beating hopeful heart
Filled to the brim by a brand new world
Through people’s kindness it learned of warmth and yet
It wasn’t whole until it learned what peace was at last
This utopic brand new world
Filled to the brim with hopeful light
There’s no going back – not for me, there’s only forwards
Until that day when the world of our dreams arrives
Whew. Huuuge post! Thanks guys! Wolfie out! ^_^ Now, remember, we plan on streaming more MMXLC tonight and tomorrow, over at my Twitch Channel (twitch.tv/wolfshadow6) so feel free to drop over tonight or tomorrow! Zero and I plan on going through all the games and getting ALL the achievements!