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YoRHa Musical Ver.1.2 – Secret File #1

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This is something that I started working on earlier last year but never had the opportunity to finish it until now. There’s some pretty interesting information here, so I hope you enjoy!

A couple interesting things to note:

  • The Commander was against the M Squad project but was overruled by the Council of Humanity.
  • No2’s battle data was used in the development of future No2 models, which were rebranded as Type E units.
  • The “false memories” installed into prototype YoRHa models was later abolished since they often caused hesitation in battle.
  • There is mention of “black boxes” in the stage play but they are often referred to as “fusion core reactors”.

See also the Secret File from the YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 stage play pamphlet here.

New Song Lyrics in the YoRHa Musical

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The YoRHa Musical Ver.1.2 was massively upgraded and revisioned from the previous Ver.1.1 stage play that had its last run in May 2015. One of the new additions to the musical was newly added song lyrics penned by Yoko Taro himself.

Back in February when I went to the musical and later watched it several more times via NicoNico Douga, I wrote down the lyrics as I heard and understood them, later translating them into English. This was really difficult to do and I knew there would be plenty of discrepancies and mistakes.

Now that the Musical has been released on blu-ray, they’ve included the lyrics to these songs, so now all we have to do is translate them. There are a couple additional verses to the song “Grandma” that does not actually appear in the musical.

Below you can find the lyrics as they’re shown in the booklet along with the Romaji reading and my preliminary English translation. It’s still pretty barebones right now and I may tweak them some more so that it sounds more like song lyrics without losing the intended meaning and feeling.

◆「還ラナイ声」/ kaeranai koe / Voice of No Return

[ JAPANESE ]

我が見えし
祈りの太刀
現闇に
惑いながら

彼の敵と
滅びの火は
何時　光　未だ見えなくて

それは　虚ろな
それは　贖い
ありもしない　御霊が
歌に　遠い　歌に
今も　壊れゆく

[ ROMAJI ]

waga mieshi
inori no tachi
utsuyami ni
madoi nagara

ka no teki to
horibi no hi wa
itsu hikari imada mienakute

sore wa utsurona
sore wa aganai
arimoshinai mitama ga
uta ni tooi uta ni
ima mo kowareyuku

[ ENGLISH ]

My vision
A sword of prayer
In the present darkness
While lost

His enemies and the fire of destruction
When the light still cannot be seen

Is it empty?
Is it redemption?
Those imaginary spirits in the song, the distant song,
Even now they break

 

◆「オバアチャン」/ obaachan / Grandma

黒　寄る辺なき光
白　薄闇と
空　届かない祈り
歌　今もなお

音　侵されて
刻　戸惑いて
音　奪われて
刻　彷徨いて

赤　砕けゆく命
灰　運命が
牙　曇りゆく刃
傷　忘れ得ぬ

音　狂わせて
刻　失って
音　間違えて
刻　呪われて

[ ROMAJI ]

kuro yorube naki hikari
shiro usuyami to
sora todokanai inori
uta ima mo nao

oto okasarete
toki tomadoite
oto ubawarete
toki samayoite

aka kudake yuku inochi
hai unmei ga
kiba kumori yuku yaiba
kizu wasureenu

oto kuruwasete
toki ushinatte
oto machigaete
toki norowa rete

[ ENGLISH ]

Black, No light to turn to
White, With the pale darkness
Sky, Unreachable prayers
Song, Even now

Sound, Is distorted
Time, Is confused
Sound, Is stolen away
Time, Is lost

Red, Life falling to pieces
Ash, Fate
Fangs, Growingly cloudy blade
Wounds, Cannot be forgotten

Sound, Is mad
Time, Is lost
Sound, Is mistaken
Time, Is cursed

YoRHa Musical/YoRHa Boys Blu-ray does NOT have English Subtitles

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A fellow user on Twitter recently asked the official account for the YoRHa stage plays whether or not the up-coming Blu-ray release will have English subtitles, and here was their reply:

Unfortunate for sure but not entirely unforeseen. I have yet witnessed a release by DearStage that includes any subtitles whatsoever. Then again, my only experience is with the initial DVD release of the YoRHa Ver.1.0 stage play, which was strictly a barebones release with not special extras. The video itself was horribly rendered with interlacing codecs that made it sort of ugly to even watch. *sigh* Here’s to hoping at least the production quality of this release will be better…

There could still be hope for an international release that includes English subtitles (and maybe others as well), depending on how well this first release does.

Lastly, if you look closely at the image that they posted, you can see that the region encoding of the Blu-ray is “region free”… which would make this playable internationally. That’s at least one small step that they took to make at the very least importing it more plausible…

I also tweeted the following information:

It amused me that the official YoRHa Twitter account liked it. lol

YoRHa Musical & YoRHa Boys Blu-ray Screening on July 21 and 22 in Akihabara

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This just announced, the special two-day screening event of the YoRHa Musical Ver.1.2 and the YoRHa Boys Stage Play Ver.1.0 will be held at the UDX Theater in Akihabara on Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22. This is about a week before the official release of the blu-ray sets on July 27.

Ticket information for these special screening events will be announced via Twitter in the days to come! Aside from merely screening the blu-ray, they will also have a talk event with the cast members!

YoRHa Musical & YoRHa Boys Stage Play Livestream on Friday, May 11

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There will be a special livestream regarding the blu-ray release of the YoRHa Musical and YoRHa Boys Stage Play on Friday, May 11 at 9:00pm (JST) on NicoNico Douga Live.

[ Direct Link Here ]

Like I previously reported this past Saturday, this broadcast will feature some of the cast from the shows. Thus far, the following actors have been confirmed from the YoRHa Musical side:

  • No2 – Ishikawa Yui
  • No21 – Hanana Mio
  • Rose – Hinagata Ui
  • Anemone – Tachibana An
  • Commander – Maikawa Miyako
  • Vocal – Kawano Marina

And the YoRHa Boys side:

  • No9 – Saito Naoki
  • No2 – Eda Shinichiro
  • No21 – Murata Hisashi
  • No22 – Terasaka Hiroki
  • No6 – Doi Yuuto
  • No3 – Shouji Masato
  • No4 – Oguri Ryo
  • Cactus – Inko-san
  • Lotus – Masuda Tomoya
  • Phlox – Tanabe Toshiki
  • Instructor – Kikuta Daisuke

Of course, Yoko Taro will also make an appearance on the program! This ought to be fun! xD

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