This is actually sort of in-conjunction with Sowon‘s Back-on Music Competition on the Forums, where each time, participants have to sing one particular song (TV size version) from Back-on‘s repetoire. (Please consider entering the competition, minna! :D) Usually, it does help to ‘record’ with the song in question playing in the background, which brings me to the main topic:

where can I find TV size mp3s of Back-on‘s songs?

It would probably be helpful to first provide a list of the songs, so without further ado in the order of Anime Title | Type | Song Title :

Aside from Chain, most of the mp3s are available for download somewhere on Back-on Online, and since this is a summary post, you can find the direct-links to the posts in question below:

• ヒカリサスホウ Hikari Sasuhou (FK Metal ver.)
• BLAZE LINE
• a day dreaming…

But where can you find Chain? This only happens to be one of the most popular Back-on songs ever. The answer is simple: visit Japtard.com. Or more specifically,

view the post Air Gear OST – What a Groovy Trick!

You can the entire OST available for download (at 320kbps) – either as a zip file, or individual mp3 files. Chain (TV Size) is the first song on the 34-track album. The download has kindly been provided by Frox, who has credited Nipponsei for the original release.

Hopefully this post will be helpful to those searching for ‘that’ opening/ending theme by Back-on. Almost every single one so far also has their corresponding lyrics posted on the site somewhere, so take a look at the Lyrics section if you’re interested, particularly if you’d like to participate in the competition!

These lyrics are taken from the raw version of Episode 104 of Eyeshield 21, courtesy of [l33t-raws]. You can also watch a video of the opening credits or even download the TV-size version of the song.

If you decide to post the lyrics else, please do link back to this page and give us some credit! :)

JAPANESE (Kanji)

[Verse]
うまく飛び出せない
そんな時は
感じるままに羽を広げ
途切れそうな
想いを この空に映して

[Rap Interlude]
Clash & dash! x2 強敵を撃破!
I lock the next target like the guerilla!
目瞬きしてる間に in your area!
Watch out! x2 I’m about a touch down!

[Chorus]
どんな時でも
支えてくれるキミがいるから
何度だって立ち上がって
あの光が導く
場所へ行こう

Repeat [Chorus]

The lyrics come courtesy of Yakhobian of the Crystal Nova fansub group, who also kindly shared his recording of the OP from Murder Princess OVA. His fansub group, Crystal Nova, have just released their versions of Murder Princess OVA – Volume 1-4, and they’ve done an excellent job translating the episodes imho, so I would highly recommend downloading their work!

You can find the torrent files from the Crystal Nova Forums and having downloaded the file myself, I can definitely say that the quality of the video is very good. There are two file sizes available – 200mb and 116mb. Yakhobian recommends using CCCP to watch the files as it supports the SSA/AAS subtitling format used by the group for their .mkv files.

Read on for the lyrics…

The lyrics for the OP were translated based on the original Hikari Sasuhou ヒカリサスホウ lyrics so I’m sure they’re as accurate as can be without the band’s official release. Yakhobian has kindly provided Back-on Online with the original kanji, romaji and also the English translation. You can find all 3 on this page, the kanji on page 2, romaji on page 3 and the English translation on page 4.

冷めた顔していたって
sameta kao shite itatte
I knew from the start

初めから僕は分かっていたけど
hajime kara boku wa wakatte ita kedo
why you made such a cold face, but

言葉とは裏腹に歪んでいた
kotoba to wa urahara ni hizunde ita
my words were twisted around.

この思いを消してくれよ
kono omoi wo keshite kure yo
Please erase this feeling.

Uh…glowin’ da dark　闇の中光る
Uh…glowin’ da dark yami no naka hikaru
Uh… glowin’ da dark. A brief ray of light

一筋の閃光
hitosuji no senkou
shines in the darkness.

それはまるで幻想　描く映像
sore wa maru de gensou egaku eizou
It’s like an illusion drawn into the image.

But 真実の栄光
But shinjitsu no eikou
But there you’ll succeed

そこで掴み取る成功
soko de tsukamitoru seikou
to grab the glory of the truth.

Uh…Nobody knows　答えなんて
Uh…Nobody knows kotae nante
Uh… Nobody knows what the answer is.

わからないキリがない　揺れる脳内
wakaranai kiri ga nai yureru nounai
It’s incomprensible. Forever swaying in our brains.

I’m lookin’ for the answer

いつだってそうさ So　blast out da speaka!
itsu datte sousa So blast out da speaka!
It’s always that way so blast out da speaka!

終わらないストーリー
owaranai sutoorii
It’s an endless story.

壊れないように響け
kowarenai you ni hibike
Ring it out like it won’t break.

Rock な Beat 狙う　ピンポイント
Rock na Beat nerau pin point
Aim for the rock beat and pin point.

ヒカリの射す方目指していこう!
hikari no sasu hou mezashite ikou!
Set your sights on where the light shines.

ヒカリサスホウに
hikari sasu hou ni
Even if this voice

この声が届かなくても
kono koe ga todokanakute mo
doesn’t reach as far as the light shines,

Pow! Pow! Pow!

打ち込む My flow like a 弾丸
uchikomu My flow like a dangan
Drive home my flow like a bullet

登りつめる階段
noboritsumeru kaidan
and climb to the top of the stairs.

いつだって君は
itsu datte kimi wa
you’ll always be searching

奥底で探している
okusoku de sagashite iru
in the depths of your heart.

It turns out the tags used on this site have already been indexed by search engines, so its important that the tags page works. Even more crucially, many users undoubtedly use tags to find ‘related’ content, particularly at this stage where Lyrics forms the main unique content of this site.

So a big thank you to Nalin for all his help!  More content will be added to the site soon – you may have already noticed that the Q&A already has its first question. I’ve also just noticed a display issue in IE6 at least, where the suckerfish-hover script I’m using acts up. This aesthetic problem will be resolved as soon as I can find a solution. Please don’t forget to vote in our new poll as well!