Does anyone know the Japan Opera?

[DJZen]

Yes, Ted Woolsey added references to Locke's situation to make the opera scene a little more interesting and relevant.

...Demo disk?

[MJN SEIFER]

i think that "i wont age a day" line is a reference to rachel who is being kept in a suspended animation. on the version of the game where it comes with a free FF10 demo disk it has that line.

That was my theory. Obviously it's false now as It wasn't in the J version

[KoShiatar]

Hum, I don't know how to transcribe the lyrics with notes under them because I don't know music, but I'd like to so you'd see my point. Makes no sense to argue over a thing like that, anyway...

[Avarice-ness]

*staggers in durnk and pisses on the fire. Unfortunatley she set fire to the electric box. After the tear stop, het turns and says *

"I like the American lyrics far better, as I like the coincidental tie in to the story. IT also points to how humans always desire to be like the stories we see, and how we can identify our meager lives with those of heros as in FFVI as they do to Maria and Draco."

Zips up and runs off stage. Leaveing a puddle of water.

*shakes fist*
One day Bip... One Day and POW! RIGHT TO THE MOON or other satelite that may circle the lovely world of FFVI

[DJZen]

Hum, I don't know how to transcribe the lyrics with notes under them because I don't know music, but I'd like to so you'd see my point. Makes no sense to argue over a thing like that, anyway...

Just sing the lyrics over the song, you'll see what I'm talking about on those particular lines. Especially the oddness of "Arigatou watashi no", there's no way to fit that into the line because there are too many syllables.

A-ri-ga-to-u-wa-ta-shi-no = 9 syllables
That line only contains 8 notes

similarly

A-na-ta-to-o-mo-i = 7 syllables
That line also contains 8 notes

[Avarice-ness]

Hum, I don't know how to transcribe the lyrics with notes under them because I don't know music, but I'd like to so you'd see my point. Makes no sense to argue over a thing like that, anyway...

Just sing the lyrics over the song, you'll see what I'm talking about on those particular lines. Especially the oddness of "Arigatou watashi no", there's no way to fit that into the line because there are too many syllables.

A-ri-ga-to-u-wa-ta-shi-no = 9 syllables
That line only contains 8 notes

similarly

A-na-ta-to-o-mo-i = 7 syllables
That line also contains 8 notes

The reprise is the same as the first.
the 'tou' in Arigatou counts as one syllable.
I agree with Arigatou watashi no
Note in Blue, they might not match up over the note but you can see it does match up.

E F G C E F# G B
A- ri - ga - tou Wa - ta - shi no

The Anata to omoi part, is difficult to judge with the game. On the game the "ee" sound would have the higher note to it and it's hard to tell if she sings that note in the game, where as that note is sung in the itallian version, but not sung on the More Friends english version. It's an -extremely- hard note to judge with the voice synth in the game due to the fact that the strings synth for the song hits it hard there.

BUT!

Singing it outloud the Japanese version works fine, if you know where the note transition is you'll know that some of the syllables have more than one note, it's common musical sense.

As someone who has a pretty nice musical background and a potential proformance music major I tend to get annoyed by people who thinks notes go with Syllables, look at the song 'Think of Me' from Phantom of the Opera, after the reprise when she says 'Think of me' at the very end, the 'of' has a good 20+ notes but is technically one syllable. Making everything go to a slyllable would basically be as if you staccato'd every single note to make the syllables fit and eventually the syllables and the notes would be off that's why they have a lovely thing called slurs, you can slurr the 20+ notes in the song and it's still all one syllable. Or to make things more difficult you could even glissando the note like the last two notes do in 'Think of me' from the highest to the lowest, It would be -EXTREMELY- hard to jump that range so a glissando is put into make it easier on the voice. The 'Tou' in this song and many other 'syllables' get the slurs, it's hard to jump certain notes so you make it easier on the voice, go from a middleC# to the Fnatural above the staff and things will suck. First because C# to an Fnatural is extremely rare seeing as it throughs off the key, plus F in general is a good note for soprano's but hard notes for people with lower vocal ranges. ... I'm Rambling.

[DJZen]

Thank you, avarice, you proved my point.

[boys from the dwarf]

i think that "i wont age a day" line is a reference to rachel who is being kept in a suspended animation. on the version of the game where it comes with a free FF10 demo disk it has that line.

That was my theory. Obviously it's false now as It wasn't in the J version

not neccasarily. they could have deliberately put than in the english version as a reference.

[MJN SEIFER]

It would be good if they did.

[Tainted Angel]

The Italian real voice opera in FFVI Grand Finale is pretty superb, and the timing is good.

Linky to YouTube/Googlevid?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It's a song, not a video.