King Gnu - SO BAD
King Gnu


KING GNU IS DEAD
KING GNU IS DEAD
BUT THE KING IS NOT
BUT THE KING IS NOT
BECAUSE IT'S YOU
BECAUSE IT’S YOU
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
konse dou narou to
No matter what becomes of this life

  • 今世こんせ /konse/：
    this life; the present world
  • どう /dou/：
    how; in what way
  • 成なろうと /narou to/：
    from naru; volitional form plus to, here meaning ‘no matter how it turns out’
ichirentakushou yo
We share the same fate

  • 一蓮托生いちれんたくしょう /ichirentakushou/：
    sharing the same fate
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
urei nado wa muyou
There is no need for worries

  • 憂うれい /urei/：
    sorrow; anxiety
  • など /nado/：
    such as; things like
  • 無用むよう /muyou/：
    unnecessary; useless
kono jinsei gekijou
This theater of life

  • この /kono/：
    this
  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life
  • 劇場げきじょう /gekijou/：
    theater
  • 人生じんせい劇場げきじょう /jinsei gekijou/：
    the theater of life; life viewed as a drama
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
yoso wa yoso
Other people are other people

  • よそ /yoso/：
    elsewhere; other people or households
  • よそはよそ /yoso wa yoso/：
    others are others; do not compare yourself with them
uchi wa uchi
We are who we are

  • うち /uchi/：
    home; one’s own group
  • うちはうち /uchi wa uchi/：
    we are ourselves; we do things our own way
meta wa soto
Meta stays outside

  • メタ /meta/：
    a self-referential or outside-the-work perspective (English: meta)
  • 外そと /soto/：
    outside
  • メタは外そと /meta wa soto/：
    a wordplay on the Setsubun chant ‘demons out,’ sending meta commentary outside
oni wa uchi
Demons stay inside

  • 鬼おに /oni/：
    demon; ogre
  • 内うち /uchi/：
    inside
  • 鬼おには内うち /oni wa uchi/：
    an inversion of the Setsubun chant, saying ‘demons in’
rokudenashi no seigi wa
The justice of good-for-nothings

  • ロクデナシ /rokudenashi/：
    good-for-nothing; scoundrel
  • 正義せいぎ /seigi/：
    justice
oyobi janai
is not wanted here

  • お呼よびじゃない /oyobi janai/：
    not wanted or called for; janai is the colloquial form of dewa nai
manabanu arasoi no rekishi
A history of conflict from which we never learn

  • 学まなばぬ /manabanu/：
    from manabu, to learn; nu is a literary negative equivalent to nai
  • 争あらそい /arasoi/：
    conflict; dispute; from arasou
  • 歴史れきし /rekishi/：
    history
saitee no tomodachi to
With my terrible friends

  • サイテー /saitee/：
    an emphatic spelling of saitei: awful; the worst
  • 友達ともだち /tomodachi/：
    friend
hottarakashi yoru no hajimari
Leaving it all unattended, the night begins

  • ほったらかし /hottarakashi/：
    leaving something unattended
  • 夜よる /yoru/：
    night
  • 始はじまり /hajimari/：
    beginning; from hajimaru
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
namida ga afuresou
My tears are about to overflow

  • 涙なみだ /namida/：
    tears
  • 溢あふれそう /afuresou/：
    from afureru, to overflow; the verb stem plus sou means ‘looks about to’
itsu no hi kara darou
I wonder since what day

  • いつ /itsu/：
    when
  • 日ひ /hi/：
    day
  • から /kara/：
    from; since
  • だろう /darou/：
    probably; here, an expression of wondering
  • いつの日ひから /itsu no hi kara/：
    since when; from what day
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
yume haruka shinkirou
The dream is far away, a mirage

  • 夢ゆめ /yume/：
    dream
  • 遙はるか /haruka/：
    far away; far beyond
  • 蜃気楼しんきろう /shinkirou/：
    mirage; something elusive
kono jinsei gekijou
This theater of life

  • この /kono/：
    this
  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life
  • 劇場げきじょう /gekijou/：
    theater
  • 人生じんせい劇場げきじょう /jinsei gekijou/：
    the theater of life; life viewed as a drama
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
makkuro na taiyou
A pitch-black sun

  • まつくろ /makkuro/：
    old-style spelling of makkuro: pitch-black
  • たいよう /taiyou/：
    the sun, usually written 太陽
  • まつくろな /makkuro na/：
    pitch-black; na links a na-adjective to a noun
kagerou yurayura yureru toukyou
Heat haze shimmers, and Tokyo sways

  • かげろう /kagerou/：
    heat haze; shimmering air
  • ゆれる /yureru/：
    to sway; to shake
  • とうきやう /toukyou/：
    historical kana spelling of Tokyo
iu hodo warukunai wa
It is not as bad as they say

  • いふ /iu/：
    historical kana spelling of iu, to say
  • ほど /hodo/：
    extent; in hodo...nai, ‘not as...as’
  • わるくない /warukunai/：
    negative form of warui, bad: not bad
  • わ /wa/：
    sentence-ending particle adding softness or emphasis
saa endorooru de aimashou
Now, let us meet in the end credits

  • えんどろーる /endorooru/：
    end credits (English: end roll)
  • あいませう /aimashou/：
    historical kana spelling of aimashou, ‘let us meet’; from au
yoso wa yoso
Other people are other people

  • よそ /yoso/：
    elsewhere; other people or households
  • よそはよそ /yoso wa yoso/：
    others are others; do not compare yourself with them
uchi wa uchi
We are who we are

  • うち /uchi/：
    home; one’s own group
  • うちはうち /uchi wa uchi/：
    we are ourselves; we do things our own way
shizumiyuku kono kuni
This country sinking away

  • 沈しずみゆく /shizumiyuku/：
    from shizumu, to sink; verb stem plus yuku expresses an action continuing away
  • この /kono/：
    this
  • 國くに /kuni/：
    country; the old character form of 国
kuruwaseru kumo no ito
The spider’s thread that drives us mad

  • 狂くるわせる /kuruwaseru/：
    to drive mad or throw out of order; from kuruu
  • 蜘蛛くも /kumo/：
    spider
  • 糸いと /ito/：
    thread
  • 蜘蛛くもの糸いと /kumo no ito/：
    a spider’s thread; possibly an allusion to Akutagawa’s story The Spider’s Thread
kaya no soto tsunehigoro
Left out, day in and day out

  • 蚊帳かや /kaya/：
    mosquito net
  • 蚊帳かやの外そと /kaya no soto/：
    left out of the loop; excluded
  • 常日頃つねひごろ /tsunehigoro/：
    usually; day in and day out
esoragoto no matsurigoto
Politics made of empty fantasies

  • 絵空事えそらごと /esoragoto/：
    pipe dream; fabrication
  • 政治まつりごと /matsurigoto/：
    politics; governance, read with the literary reading matsurigoto rather than seiji
hottarakashi yoru no hajimari
Leaving it all unattended, the night begins

  • ほったらかし /hottarakashi/：
    leaving something unattended
  • 夜よる /yoru/：
    night
  • 始はじまり /hajimari/：
    beginning; from hajimaru
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
konse dou narou to
No matter what becomes of this life

  • 今世こんせ /konse/：
    this life; the present world
  • どう /dou/：
    how; in what way
  • 成なろうと /narou to/：
    from naru; volitional form plus to, here meaning ‘no matter how it turns out’
ichirentakushou yo
We share the same fate

  • 一蓮托生いちれんたくしょう /ichirentakushou/：
    sharing the same fate
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
urei nado wa muyou
There is no need for worries

  • 憂うれい /urei/：
    sorrow; anxiety
  • など /nado/：
    such as; things like
  • 無用むよう /muyou/：
    unnecessary; useless
kono jinsei gekijou
This theater of life

  • この /kono/：
    this
  • 人生じんせい /jinsei/：
    life
  • 劇場げきじょう /gekijou/：
    theater
  • 人生じんせい劇場げきじょう /jinsei gekijou/：
    the theater of life; life viewed as a drama
saiaku de saikou
The worst, yet the best♡

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best
SO BAD
SO BAD
I WANT THIS SO BAD (kore mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO BAD (I want this too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THAT SO BAD (are mo hoshii)
I WANT THAT SO BAD (I want that too)

  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (kore mo hoshii are mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (I want this too, I want that too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
nanimokamo SO BAD
Everything is SO BAD

  • 何なにもかも /nanimokamo/：
    everything; absolutely all of it
I WANT THIS SO BAD (kore mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO BAD (I want this too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THAT SO BAD (are mo hoshii)
I WANT THAT SO BAD (I want that too)

  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (kore mo hoshii are mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (I want this too, I want that too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
kireigoto wa SO BAD
Pretty platitudes are SO BAD

  • 綺麗きれい事ごと /kireigoto/：
    pretty but unrealistic talk; a platitude
I WANT THIS SO BAD (kore mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO BAD (I want this too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THAT SO BAD (are mo hoshii)
I WANT THAT SO BAD (I want that too)

  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (kore mo hoshii are mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (I want this too, I want that too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
I WANT THAT SO BAD (are mo hoshii)
I WANT THAT SO BAD (I want that too)

  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THIS SO BAD (kore mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO BAD (I want this too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THAT SO BAD (are mo hoshii)
I WANT THAT SO BAD (I want that too)

  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (kore mo hoshii are mo hoshii)
I WANT THIS SO, I WANT THAT SO (I want this too, I want that too)

  • これ /kore/：
    this
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
I WANT THAT SO BAD (are mo hoshii)
I WANT THAT SO BAD (I want that too)

  • あれ /are/：
    that over there
  • 欲ほしい /hoshii/：
    wanted; to want
SO BAD (saiaku de saikou)
SO BAD (the worst, yet the best)

  • 最悪さいあく /saiaku/：
    the worst
  • 最高さいこう /saikou/：
    the best