HATSUNE MIKU - GLOW - Magical Mirai 2015 (English and Romaji Subtitles)

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Song written and composed by keeno

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Hi fellow Vocaloid fans,

Miku For Life, Miku For Love!

Hatsune Miku's Magical Mirai 2015 concert was located in Nippon Budokan International Convention hall in Tokyo, Japan. The very large, sprawling, multi-level theatre provides the one of the larger venues possible in Japan for "THE" Vocaloid concert each year - the Magical Mirai Concert series - always held around August 31 of each year. As all Vocaloid fans well know, August 31 is Hatsune Miku's "Birthday", and in 2015 she turned 8 at the Magical Mirai concert.

The concert itself featured 24 regular performance and 3 encore performances by mostly Miku, but also Rin, Len, Kaito, Meiko and of course Luka was there, as well. Granted, and to the consternation of many, Miku is "the" star of the MM concert series, with the other Vocaloids making appearances, but only for short periods of time.

"Glow" was performed by Miku at the MM 2015 concert as the 18th song performed that evening.

Now about the song: "Glow" was keeno's VERY FIRST VOCALOID composed song, and what a ballad he started out with! It was also his first composition that entered the venerable "Hall of Legend" of Vocaloid hits. It peaked on the Nico Nico charts in mid-2010.

However, there are precious FEW Hatsune Miku ballads out there. And even fewer that have the depth of feeling and richness of Miku's V2 Voicebank that can match "Glow".

A personal confession now: I have been tortured by "Glow" for over a year. Although I enjoyed the song's performances for the past several years, only in 2016 did my RL circumstances push me to hear "Glow" in an all new light. And it's tortured me throughout 2016.

Based on the strong attraction to the song, and - at the time - only the venerable Googoo888's DIVA version out there with an English translation, I started subtitling my version of "Glow" nearly ELEVEN months ago! However, I was just "too close" to the song, and always set it aside, opting for "feel good" subtitling work like "Hand in Hand" and "Yume Yume" (find them under Miku Fan USA channel). Basically songs that made me feel good. "Glow", after 2016 RL experiences of losing people out of my life, dashed hopes and dreams, and even loss of future ambitions and goals at times, the "Glow" project entered my life again.

I dusted it off the project, tried not to cry too much, and got down to subtitling work. The result is here.

How does "Glow" effect you? Let me know in the comments. For now, I hope you enjoy my "American English" and Romaji subtitled version of keeno's classic Vocaloid ballad.

If you would like to leave me a message here, please do!

If you wish to see the entire Hatsune Miku Expo Chicago 2016 concert, head to my YouTube Channel - Miku Fan USA.

- Miku Fan USA

Oh and PS: Note (again) how long the song is in YouTube ;)