January 15, 2008

Lyrics bleg

Workin' through Lucky Star volume 2. Fun stuff, by and large.

Only one snag so far... I'm poking at the ending song for ep 5, which is the venerable "Cha-la Head Cha-la!" opening from DBZ. As near as I can tell, it wasn't ever used on the domestic releases of the TV series, even the "uncut" versions, but it -was- used on Pioneer's release of the first movie. Anyone seen that release and know if the song has official lyrics out there? I'm not particularly dissatisfied with what I have, or anything, but if I can look up the official lyrics for Fumoffu, I can do it for DBZ...

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at 05:58 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/dbz/dbzchala.htm

Not official per se, but they seem to match the official ones that I have (and can't be bothered to transcribe).

Posted by: Andrew F. at January 15, 2008 06:59 PM (sUicM)

2 Well, but that's the entire point of the exercise. I already have a more or less competent translation of the song. What I'm looking for is exactly the official translation - if I don't have that, meh, I can stick with what I've got.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at January 15, 2008 08:01 PM (LMDdY)

3 D'oh! Didn't realize you meant the official English translation...

Posted by: Andrew F. at January 15, 2008 09:45 PM (sUicM)

4 I've heard that song, but I'm not really sure where and when. Over the course of the series there were really quite a lot of different OP songs, and of course different ones for Dub and Sub.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 15, 2008 11:33 PM (+rSRq)

5

It was used in the American releases, for the Japanese versions of the OP in the early part of the series. I found it on the beginning of the first episode of Garlic Junior, which is like 93 episode in. It was also at the beginning of Movie 5, "Cooler's Revenge". Both of them had exactly the same translation:

Break through the shining clouds, and fly away, (fly away)
As a panorama spreads itself throughout my being.
The Earth, having been kicked in the face, gets angry, (angry)
And makes one of its volcanoes explode!
If, within the thawed polar ice,
there is a dinosaur, then I want to train him to balance atop a ball.
CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA
No matter what may happen, I feel as though nothing can bother me.
CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA
However hard your chest pounds, the Genki Dama will roar!
CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA
The emptier your head is, the more room there is to pack with dreams.
CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA
With a cheerful face and an Ultra-Z, today is ai-yai-yai-yai-yai...
Sparking!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 15, 2008 11:55 PM (+rSRq)

6 Excellent! Incorporating. ;p

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at January 16, 2008 12:00 AM (LMDdY)

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