lyrics: Seki Masao
music: Mashita Izumi
arrangement: Akasaka Tohru
pre-song monologue author: Tomita Sukehiro
voice: Furuya Tohru (Mamoru)
romanization: Alex Glover
translation: Alex Glover

Toki wo Koete - Download Section:

.mp3 file of Mamoru's monologue preceding the actual song - 351K

here's a translation of Mamoru's monologue

the full .mp3 file of "Toki wo Koete" - 4.6MB

lyrics and translation for "Toki wo Koete"

Toki wo Koete - Ganymede's Blatherings:

I love this song... It sounded cool enough as an .mp3 on my computer, but when I hooked up my computer to the awesome speakers my mother has in her apartment and played the sound file again, it was then I truly started to enjoy and appreciate the song. Furuya-san's voice is great in this - he doesn't sound like he's singing his best while he's singing in the lower registers but he goes all out during the high chorus parts and the song is great overall. Even the cheesy background vocals are superbly done, and the verses, bridge, and chorus all fit together so well. I highly recommend you download this song... and if you have a mom with a huge, expensive stereo and you know how to connect your computer to it, even better. ;)

The content of the monologue by Mamoru is sort of lame in my opinion, but Furuya-san's voice is so pretty/sexy in it that it's worth you taking the time to download and listen - for an .mp3 file it's quite small. Try listening to the monologue with headphones, and then it sounds like Mamoru's whispering his secret feelings into your ear. o_o *heheh*