フーリンキャットマーク – 近未来シンデレラ

‘Title: 近未来シンデレラ (Cinderella of the Near-Future)
Circle: フーリンキャットマーク
Album: Cat Nap Pops (2021)
Arrange, Lyrics: 谷高マーク
Vocal: 鳴紗
Original: U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか？(U.N. Owen was Her?)
Track: 04
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A lot of Fuling Cat Mark songs seem to be interested in building worlds of repetition within their lyrics–the narrators get caught up in reliving emotions they want to linger in, or doing the same things in the hope of a different outcome.

This time, in a lovely futuristic musical adventure, we enter the world of Flandre, a Cinderella figure trapped in the basement. Except there’s a twist–it’s the 2020s, so she’s got some more modern tools to help her break out and get to the ball. Or can this, too, still end up in failure somehow…?

フーリンキャットマーク – キラキラ×ナユタ

Title: キラキラ×ナユタ (Sparkles x1000000)
Circle: フーリンキャットマーク
Album: Cat Nap Pops (2021)
Arrange, Lyrics: 谷高マーク
Guitar: うっちー
Vocal: 鳴紗
Original: 大吉キトゥン (Kitten of Great Fortune)
Track: 03

[Official MV]

Meow! A sweet song of being infatuated with a cute girl~

Your love is greater than the number of stars in the sky–indeed, the title is a roundabout way of describing the stars in the sky being so great in number it’s impossible to count.
Lots of translation notes this time around, as there’s a lot of fun phrases to play around with.

フーリンキャットマーク – めめんと

Title: めめんと (Memento)
Circle: フーリンキャットマーク
Album: Cat Nap Pops (2021)
Arrange, Lyrics: 谷高マーク
Guitar: うっちー
Vocal: 鳴紗
Original: ティアオイエツォン (diao ye zong / Withered Leaf)
Track: 02
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When you’re soooo in love… you’re on cloud nine, and you don’t want that honeymoon sweetness to ever end–you keep replaying the same scenarios, over and over again, each time just a little bit different from the times before and after. Almost as if in a never-ending dream world.

The lyrics of this track don’t seem to have much to do with Chen, but they’re adorable just the same. I particularly like the instrumental to this track having a kind of 2000s Game OST dnb/pop vibe to it.

TL Notes + Lyrics below!

フーリンキャットマーク – アナベルアパリシオン

Title: アナベルアパリシオン (Annabelle Apparition)
Circle: フーリンキャットマーク (Fuling Cat Mark)
Album: Cat Nap Pops (2021)
Arrange, Lyrics: 谷高マーク
Guitar: ゆっきー
Vocal: 鳴紗
Original: 芥川龍之介の河童　～ Candid Friend (Akutagawa Ryuunosuke’s Kappa)
Track: 01 [Listen on YT]

Nitori spies on humans getting all lovey-dovey during the summer, and it makes her all flustered just watching them–she even makes comments to herself as if she were watching a romance on TV…
But, of course, a kappa, being a kappa, can only be an onlooker to the weird ways humans get together. Oh, if only…!

I plan to tackle every track of this 2021 album from Fuling Cat Mark!

Translation and other notes below!

BLU-SWING – クラゲ

Title: クラゲ / Jellyfish
Artist: BLU-SWING
Album: クラゲ (2021 Single)

Translated on a whim mostly :p
I’ve been a huge fan of BLU-SWING’s works for a while, though it’s a bit of a pain being able to listen to their whole discography in one place;; this song is a single they released a few years ago. I haven’t found any English TL for the lyrics so I’d like to provide my interpretation :]

I really like the jellyfish being used as a metaphor for love–its beauty from a distance, its pain up close, the often short-lived and fleeting nature of it.

piana – Something is Lost

Title: なくしたもの / Something is Lost
Artist: piana
Album: ephemeral (2005)

I’ve heard this song sampled a bunch on certain breakcore / dnb tracks I’ve been listening to lately, so this is a self-indulgent translation of the original song!

サリー – Plaza blue Rage

Title: Plaza blue Rage
Circle: サリー (Sally)
Album: ニューサドマゾヒズム (2014)
Arrange: NSY
Lyric: shuriken
Vocal: ランコ (Ranko)
Original: 聖徳伝説～True Administrator (Shoutoku Legend ~ True Administrator)

Done based on a request!
This song is not only part of the “plaza” series of Sally songs, but also an alternate version of “plaza Blue age”, from Sally’s 2011 album サドマゾヒズム.

Compared to the original lyrics of plaza Blue age (note the difference in capitalization too) I feel as if this is a kind of “B-side” reflection on Miko’s becoming a shikaisen. There’s a sense of gravity here compared to the preachiness of the original…

Might come back and revisit this translation later, but one thing’s for sure:
The journey of conveying Shuriken’s lyrics is a fun one.

stargaze shelter – エミュレーション

Title: エミュレーション (emulation)
Artist: stargaze shelter
Arrangement: gaze // he’s me
Vocal: 星宮とと (hoshimiya toto) / totonee
Album: emulation e.p. (2020)

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A beautiful song I happened to find on Spotify.
When you emulate something (like a game) you’re recreating something. Getting something back from the past and bringing it to the here and now. And so… the narrator of the song wishes to a certain time, and a certain someone…

There’s no concrete story here. Just a general feeling of wanting to see someone again, but only being able to in dreams.

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フーリンキャットマーク – 冥界ランデブー

Title: 冥界ランデブー (Netherworld Rendezvous)
Circle: フーリンキャットマーク (Fuling Cat Mark)
Album: ベイビーリトルシティ (2016) / ロングロングロンド (2020)
Arrange, Lyrics: 谷高マーク (Mark Yataka)
Vocal: 天川かぐや (2016) / 鳴紗 (2020)
Original: 幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜 ~ Border of Life (Bloom Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossoms)

Love is the sweetest poison…
The overall feeling this song gives me is a whimsical kind of love between ghosts (probably), so I had a lot of fun with these lyrics.

Fuling Cat Mark has produced several versions of this song, and the one I’ll be referencing for lyrics is called “鳴界 ver”, a pun mashup of 冥界 (Meikai, the Netherworld) and 鳴紗 (Meisha, the vocalist).

There is a 2013 version with slightly different lyrics that exists as well, but that album is currently out of stock and it’s hard to find good scans for LOL.

Only vocals and music arrangement themselves differ between the 2016 and 2020 versions. The printed lyrics are split up a little differently between albums as well (including a small typo in the 2020 version) but I wasn’t able to find any significant difference.

フーリンキャットマーク – ヴィーナスDIARY

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Title: ヴィーナスDIARY (Venus Diary)
Circle: フーリンキャットマーク (Fuling Cat Mark)
Album: スターライトワンピースター (2017) / 女の子ダイヤル (2020)
Arrange, Lyric: 谷高マーク (Mark Yataka)
Vocal: 天川かぐ (Amakawa Kaguya) (2017) / 鳴紗 (Meisha) (2020)
Original: フラワリングナイト / 感情の摩天楼　～ Cosmic Mind (Flowering Night / Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind)

Venus is the token representative of beauty, love, friendship, and romance–the speaker writes down their sweet thoughts in this stylish song~
The major difference between both versions is solely in music arrangement and vocal.