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BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK THOSE UP ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD I'M SORRY I'M DUMB AF ;w;

Erm.... did anyone managed to record or know where to download the 15th anniversary White Sheep/Black Sheep live on NICO NICO yesterday? I only read about it now and its over....!!! T-T

Hey guys, I've never really listened to Merry before and was wondering if you could give some suggestions! Favorite albums?

I suggest trying out every album :)))
 
For their old stuff: Koseiha Blend Classics ~Oldies Tracks~, Modern Garde
For their Victor stuff: PEEP SHOW, M.E.R.R.Y., nu Chemical Rhetoric
For their recent stuff: Nonsense Market ✨
Beautiful Freaks is also a fave of mine, if you like the metal stuff

Well I did record it, will probably sort out the files and upload somewhere tomorrow. What a great show it was today! Fingers crossed for a DVD. And *littlelamb is 100% right on the vocals, impeccable.

Absolutely one of my favorite venues ever. I just love that place! It's been a while since MERRY played there, right?
 
Setlist for today:
 
MERRY（メリー）
2016.11.07
品川ステラボール（白い羊）
MERRY 15th Anniversary Greatest Hits or Not Greatest Hits
～Special 2night【白い羊】【黒い羊】～
SET LIST（セットリスト）
 
01.六本木ジャジー喫茶
02.黄昏レストラン
03.躊躇いシャッフル
04.薔薇と片隅のブルース
05.アタシは捨て猫
06.林檎と嘘
07.東京テレフォン
08.カナリア
09.千代田線デモクラシー
10.M.E.R.R.Y. MARCH
11.歌声喫茶「モダン」
12.BLUESCAT
13.梟
 
EN
01.Unreachable Voice
02.平日の女
03.新曲 (New song)
04.Happy life
 
2016.11.07
品川ステラボール（黒い羊）
MERRY 15th Anniversary Greatest Hits or Not Greatest Hits
～Special 2night【白い羊】【黒い羊】～
SET LIST（セットリスト）
 
01.ジャパニーズモダニスト
02.バイオレットハレンチ
03.絶望
04.オリエンタルBLサーカス
05.Midnight Shangrila
06.[human farm]
07.ビニ本2丁目八千代館
08.Ve-doro
09.【collector】
10.Station07
11.千代田線デモクラシー
12.「東京」
13.Carnival
14.消毒
15.The Cry Against...
16.自意識過剰型木偶人間
 
EN1
01.平日の女-B面-
02.新曲 (New song)
03.Happy life
 
EN2
01.T.O.P
 
Very solid song selection!

Let me just say, and I say this very rarely, YAAAAAAAAASS!!!
Pretty good anniversary setlists, too
 
Also, hoping the "new album in '17" prediction is correct!

WHAT OMG
 
omg i hope someone recorded it, i'm always up for new shit and my favorite kawaii jrocker being very kawaii ^.^

MERRY ANNOUNCED A NEW SINGLE IN FEBRUARY AND I'M FREAKING OUT
 

 
I WANT ANOTHER BIRTHDAY SINGLE, LIKE FUKUROU PLSSSSS #february6

They played the new song twice today. First an acoustic version during White Sheep and then the proper version during Black Sheep. Sounded good! Very retro, so seems they're continuing what they started. Can't wait!
 
Great show today BTW. Gara was so happy and chatty.

They will also perform at Hibiya Outdoor Music Hall on May 5, 2017.

Considering that means 3 singles now, I guess we can probably expect an album somewhere in 2017 too?

MERRY has announced a new single slated for release in February 2017. Details tba.

Tomorrow morning means in less than 3h, just saying. Will try to record ^^

P.S-This thread is a blessing.

The thread title says it all. Let's get started!


"Fuck me gently with a chainsaw."
Heathers (1988)

As already mentioned by @cvltic I also recommend ejje.weblio. I found out about it not too long ago and it has helped extensively with my translating. I often use it to see different variations of translating a certain word, or expression. Have not used it for English to Japanese much though, but I just tried it and this thing is really awesome! You can pretty much type anything, even slang words, and it'll give you lists of ways to say it in Japanese.
 
rikaichan (firefox)
rikaikun (chrome)
If you hate reading kanji or want a faster way to look them up while reading something online, these add-ons/extensions will help you read them in less than a second! Just hover your mouse over any Japanese text and it'll give you the reading (in hiragana/katakana), including the definition. This has made reading anything online so much easier and I recommend it for all learners. It's also built with a dictionary, but I don't use it very often.
 
Here are some book resources I've read that I found very helpful for intermediate learners. I understand that they may not be available for everyone, but it wouldn't hurt to list them here as well.
Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You, Jay Rubin
I read this one a few years ago so it's not entirely fresh in my head, but it's basically what the title says. Lots of in-depth explanations of nuances and ambiguities of the Japanese language they don't tell you in textbooks or in class. I remember clearly that it talked about the difference between "wa" and "ga", which everyone always asks about. I still get confused about it myself sometimes, but I thought this book helped in making it clearer.

Read Real Japanese, Michael Emmerich
Read Real Japanese, Janet Ashby
If you want to tackle reading Japanese, for example book novel level material, I think these two give a good start. Both books lay out several passages from well-known Japanese novels and include side notes that give literal translations of each sentence and further explanations. It helped me greatly with my reading comprehension and I especially like how the side notes give you an idea of what each sentence means. The first book listed has a dictionary in the back and a cd audio included so you can listen while you read.
 
Also, if people have questions about forming basic sentences or using particles, etc,  I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can. Just ask on here or through pm! ^^

i just saw this thread in the recent activity box so let me drop a few of my favorite links
 
http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/
weblio's example translation corpus is highly underrated and i use it all the time for professional translation work because it has examples from daily conversation, business emails, novels, history books, contracts and law, etc etc. you can input English or Japanese, so if you need to know how something is expressed in Japanese or don't understand the meaning of a Japanese construction, try pasting it here and see how it's been translated by others. i started using this when i did shitty 12012 blog translations and i never looked back

http://jn2et.com/JLPT.html
if you're studying at an intermediate+ level you might find that Japanese explanations of grammar constructions are much more useful for understanding the minutiae between similar constructions, i used this one a fair bit in conjunction with jgram.org & japanesetest4you.com.
 
http://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/
http://nihongo-e-na.com/eng/
a good ass portal site for Japanese learner resources

to close and as a semi-introduction, hi, i do freelance jp>en translation and i just completed a "high level" japanese course at Nagoya University.
i'm definitely not a master and still have plenty to learn myself but if there's questions feel free to post them there and i'll see if any texts i have can provide a satisfying answer -- i'm sure other learners will happily pool their resources too.
i'm pretty good at バンギャ用語 too if you're trying to read naughty messages about bandmen in forbidden message boards, so if you have questions about that i'm happy to help here or via PM lol
9月に名古屋大学でいわゆる上級日本語コースを修了したのですが、
ご質問などありましたらそのコースの資料などを使って答えるように頑張ります♪

reminder to those who wanna watch the nico live, it'll be broadcast tomorrow morning, so get your cup of coffee & be ready by then!! and pls record the whole thing too..........including premium footage...........thank♥
 
http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv280746643
 

Does anyone know what the deal with Super Merries is? Is it just different costumes? I remember hearing a bootleg of them a loooong time ago and it sounded just like regular MERRY :x

Aww, I'm glad! Sorry, it was so long ago, I don't even remember if there was a recording, so I'm afraid can't help you with that.

@*littlelambOh no, your posts were very helpful and not cringey at all! There was this one about Gara's radio dorama that still makes my day any time I think about it. (If you remember that, would you happen to have a link to the actual recording still?)

By the way, recently made subtitles for the BURST EP DVD concert, the translation a mix of my imperfect efforts, mitsu's and Dely's (Russian) translations. If it could be useful to anyone, here (video here).

@*littlelambOh no, your posts were very helpful and not cringey at all! There was this one about Gara's radio dorama that still makes my day any time I think about it. (If you remember that, would you happen to have a link to the actual recording still?)

By the way, recently made subtitles for the BURST EP DVD concert, the translation a mix of my imperfect efforts, mitsu's and Dely's (Russian) translations. If it could be useful to anyone, here (video here).