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忘れないよこの道を
I had another episode of "Deanna's brain holds a lot of useless crap" today.
Raise your hand if you played Pop'n'Music 6 and remember a song under the genre "Flanders" (フランダース), called "Yoake no Michi" (よあけの道). It was sung by Sana, and on the Shintani Sanae pop'n collection CD from like 6 years ago or so.
I remember hearing that song, way back when, and wondering why they were saying "sing, little butterfly" in German, in the lyrics of a Japanese song, and kept saying Patorasshu! (パトラッシュ!)... but in all honesty, I figured it was just some weird children's song that I wasn't getting the context for. It was a really catchy song, anyway, and I used to sing along to it in the car all the time when playing that Sana CD, which I did a lot. And since it was kind of in the middle of a lot of cool songs, it just got played through like everything else.
Then I kind of stopped playing the older Pop'n games and I stopped listening to Sana CDs all the time, and kind of forgot about the song.
Anyway, today, my student who just took a long trip to Europe, who is a huge tourist type, and about 70 years old, is showing me pictures from Antwerp, and of this "VERY VERY famous statue of 'Nero and his dog Patras', as she had labelled it in her essay about this trip. Except I couldn't read her handwriting, so I pointed to the dog's name like "what does this say?" And she says,
パトラッシュ!
And suddenly I have this huge fucking flashback to the Sana song. And I said "Huh, really? I wonder how you write that in English. Is that an English story or a German story?"
So she explains, "It's a VERY famous story about the dog of Flanders, don't you know it?"
"Well, no..." I say outside, while inside I'm like "Flanders! That's the genre of the Sana song!"
I played Pop'n after work tonight, but I don't think the song is on the current machine. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it on any machines in a LONG time, come to think of it, though.
But I get home and I look up the song. And the name. And naturally I find it on Wikipedia. And Wikipedia says, and I quote,
"A Dog of Flanders is a novel about a boy Nello and his dog Patrasche, written by Marie Louise de la Ramée under the pseudonym Ouida in 1872. It is widely read in Japan, and has been adapted into several films and anime.
The story is little known in Belgium, and then primarily because of the tourists it attracts to Antwerp."
NATURALLY of course there was a very famous anime here called "Flanders no Inu", or "the Dog of Flanders". And of course, its title song was... wait for it... "Yoake no Michi".
I guess the good part is, suddenly all of those lyrics which made NO FUCKING SENSE when I heard them 6 years ago ("Walking with Patrasche towards the road in the sky", among others), suddenly completely make sense. The story is about a very poor boy and his dog and how all of this terrible misfortune befalls him until he ends up freezing to death on Christmas Eve. NATURALLY this kind of story is totally beloved by Japanese people and tons of children read the story and cry. Or something like that, anyway, at least that's what my student told me.
It's funny, making mental connections to little orphaned pieces of information in my brain that shouldn't even really still be around, as I learn more little random things here.
Raise your hand if you played Pop'n'Music 6 and remember a song under the genre "Flanders" (フランダース), called "Yoake no Michi" (よあけの道). It was sung by Sana, and on the Shintani Sanae pop'n collection CD from like 6 years ago or so.
I remember hearing that song, way back when, and wondering why they were saying "sing, little butterfly" in German, in the lyrics of a Japanese song, and kept saying Patorasshu! (パトラッシュ!)... but in all honesty, I figured it was just some weird children's song that I wasn't getting the context for. It was a really catchy song, anyway, and I used to sing along to it in the car all the time when playing that Sana CD, which I did a lot. And since it was kind of in the middle of a lot of cool songs, it just got played through like everything else.
Then I kind of stopped playing the older Pop'n games and I stopped listening to Sana CDs all the time, and kind of forgot about the song.
Anyway, today, my student who just took a long trip to Europe, who is a huge tourist type, and about 70 years old, is showing me pictures from Antwerp, and of this "VERY VERY famous statue of 'Nero and his dog Patras', as she had labelled it in her essay about this trip. Except I couldn't read her handwriting, so I pointed to the dog's name like "what does this say?" And she says,
パトラッシュ!
And suddenly I have this huge fucking flashback to the Sana song. And I said "Huh, really? I wonder how you write that in English. Is that an English story or a German story?"
So she explains, "It's a VERY famous story about the dog of Flanders, don't you know it?"
"Well, no..." I say outside, while inside I'm like "Flanders! That's the genre of the Sana song!"
I played Pop'n after work tonight, but I don't think the song is on the current machine. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it on any machines in a LONG time, come to think of it, though.
But I get home and I look up the song. And the name. And naturally I find it on Wikipedia. And Wikipedia says, and I quote,
"A Dog of Flanders is a novel about a boy Nello and his dog Patrasche, written by Marie Louise de la Ramée under the pseudonym Ouida in 1872. It is widely read in Japan, and has been adapted into several films and anime.
The story is little known in Belgium, and then primarily because of the tourists it attracts to Antwerp."
NATURALLY of course there was a very famous anime here called "Flanders no Inu", or "the Dog of Flanders". And of course, its title song was... wait for it... "Yoake no Michi".
I guess the good part is, suddenly all of those lyrics which made NO FUCKING SENSE when I heard them 6 years ago ("Walking with Patrasche towards the road in the sky", among others), suddenly completely make sense. The story is about a very poor boy and his dog and how all of this terrible misfortune befalls him until he ends up freezing to death on Christmas Eve. NATURALLY this kind of story is totally beloved by Japanese people and tons of children read the story and cry. Or something like that, anyway, at least that's what my student told me.
It's funny, making mental connections to little orphaned pieces of information in my brain that shouldn't even really still be around, as I learn more little random things here.
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