You really do love hope, huh?

Alright guys I’ve also translated the second song 残桜 (Zanka) in the CD,

According to Ogata, Birthday is how Ko feels outside and Zanka is how he feels inside.

Zanka (Withered Sakura)

“I can see you again tomorrow, right?”, I said with a smile

In my heart, the fragile sakura that withers before blossom

seduced by the brilliant colors of the dusk cloud, finally reached the destination

shadow of the flower on the ripples, shuddering and falling under the water

sakura blooms, as if to convey the warmth

the life of ordinary blooming and ordinary withering

where would it fall

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…Um, so… my friend has bought the Danganronpa 3 Despair Arc ending theme CD and we were looking at the lyrics of 絶対希望バースデー (Absolute Hope Birthday) and… I strongly felt like I should share this so I made a crude translation… (still in shock… so this is what Ogata called “sexual implication”…)

Absolute Hope Birthday

Keep waiting for you late at night on campus, my heart flutters,

at the moment I thought, “I was born to meet you”,

so boot up, warm up, hang up… make up, mess up, down up

I want to completely give myself to you,

so just think up, pop up, pull up… brush up, 

if it can be protected, the last and strongest light of hope

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