Hi! I’m Katelyn (she/her), but you can call me vg, vgperson, or vghime. I’m the popularly-elected Princess of Vocaloid and a prolific translator of Japanese. This blog is primarily about translated content, but if there’s no source and it doesn’t look like it’s a translation of something, I probably made it myself. (An “#original ___” tag is a guarantee that it’s, well, original.) Feel free to ask me questions via Tumblr. Or you can send an email to vghimmel at gmail dot com. Donate to the Royal…
Gotta hit the streets to make some milestones. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Say “Huh?” Again! Care for Me Pho-liage Number LADY BUG If Only It Were a Fairy Tale Rainbow Morning Song End Credits Habitable 1 streetcat White Beginning Crazy Contrast Life and Nothingness Wonder Port Display Dive In, Blue. Song-Katana Conspiracy Theory MR. DANCE Miss Wobbly…
Natalie.mu Nighthawk Interview A Kenshi Yonezu interview with Natalie.mu about Nighthawk, deep ambition and desire, its symmetry with Raven, and pulling from formative experiences.
Kenshi Yonezu - Nighthawk ( Click here for my English subtitles. )
So you’re saying there’s a relation… Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== First-Class Heart Self-Decided The End? Fantasy Disco★Night Relate-a-Girl Forget, Me Unknown Planet Re! Telecaster Meteor Shower Stars in Daylight Lastrawberry Archive of You Sharing After-School Depravity Club Light Jellyfish’s Heartful Poem So-Sorry! Guiltina Poi (Toss) In Deference…
Natalie.mu Raven Interview A Kenshi Yonezu interview with Natalie.mu about Raven, admiring excitement from a distance, blowing wind through a structure, and getting back onto an old track.
Kenshi Yonezu - Raven ( Click here for my English subtitles. )
Not okay is okay! As is being pulled in like a magnet, having a leaky roof, being rejected for the position of Hatsune Miku, being seen naked, chugging rectangular bottles, and other such struggles. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Do-Shichi-Go-Samba I’m Not Okay Roof-Leak Calisthenics magnet -recall- Famous Supporting Role Like, Annoying… Character T Like I’m…
Maybe the real rookies were the songs we made along the way. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Loving way Same⇆Same (Round⇆Round) I’m Talkin’ To You Don’t End As a Puppy, Become a Kitty Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll Puppet’s Reality This is Fiction. In Broad Daylight Night:Reversi Nothing Idealism Surprise! I Alone Am the World-Honored Song Adachi Rei Let Me Out…
Something’s bugging me about this Madonna… Oh well, it’s probably nothing. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Revolve Sweet Lovesick Rain Step Dytopissho! (Dystogether!) Déraciné Still, Life Goes On Showtime Una! Something’s Wrong With Me Yurail (Shaking) Crossroad Episode Two: Unfamiliar Feelings Dadadadadaru Candy Burn Mark Tokyo Senyori Chabushi…
Select Kiss Select Kiss is a short multi-ending visual novel by nagainyu made in TyranoBuilder. NOTE: This game is intended for ages 15 and up. (This rating is Japan-centric and could be more strict by other countries’ standards.) You’ve been hired for a part-time job picking two people to lock in The Room Where You Must Kiss to Leave. Select from a cast of six colorful characters, see…
The only way to go is forward. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Petal Monologue Mortar Cortar Whimsical Trip Sell a Friend Comma Planet Love Words V Transparent Jukai Mystery Selfish The Sim Horse → Uma → Cryptid?! Melting Memory-Making Forward! Indididididividual Just Like Her Nomad Worker Loving 100 Million Years How to Gather Light Petals Elegy Monologue My Neighbor Machiko…
A world of dreams and connection awaits! Let’s go! Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Goodbye Dusk, Come Again Me. Trick Heart Adlib Changing SHIAWASE FOR YOU! Rainy Love EGOUiST Playing Immortal Love-Fuse Ra Nightmare Dinner Time Working Voice Moonlight Heaven Marionette Ballerina I’m a Ghost, You See Not Going Anywhere Gemini Sorry, Choco Latte Though It’s Good…
Some… stuff. —- My site has an RSS feed with basically everything I’ve done back to 2020, so I’ll mainly be going over things from that. In January, Kenshi Yonezu released Plazma for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX and BOW AND ARROW for Medalist. ( Natalie.mu interview , Tsuruma Ikada interview ) I spent a good amount of the following months translating and then beta-testing Absented Age…
Love and pencil boxes to all afraid humans. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Birthdays Sugar Continue the Journey! Miss Osmanthus Rosette Diagram Secret Attempt Future Disappearance Diary I Am Here On the Length of a Century Tarantula Had An Encounter! Love & P-Something Smell The Rat Human Cyan Blue Diva!! dɑ'ːrliŋ Afraid Transparent Palette Baumkuchen End Credits Pencil Box…
I just wanna stroll. This month had the Colorless Nameless Fest III, a recurring NicoNico event in which people submit songs anonymously with text-only videos, with the option to have their identity revealed afterward. Authors will often post their songs with regular videos later. I’ve included names for authors that were revealed, but a few remain anonymous. There were 4676 songs submitted…
Love may be weak to lots of other elements, but at least you get STAB on Love attacks. Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== Pentatonic Artifact I Like You, Me Love Attribute Una-tte! Fantastic! Tribute To a Life of Giving, I’m Sorry Not Not Good! Last Veranda LLiee Midnight Rose Whimsical Wandervogel Jack Daniel Graffiti Imagine Jump Can’t Star Seaside Phone Booth…
WIRED IRIS OUT & JANE DOE & 1991 Interview A Kenshi Yonezu interview with WIRED about IRIS OUT, JANE DOE, and 1991, contact with things outside yourself, shared aspects with Hikaru Utada, and the unknowable ghosts within everyone.
Natalie.mu 1991 Interview A Kenshi Yonezu interview with Natalie.mu about 1991, seeing himself in 5 Centimeters Per Second, making an impertinent song, and going it alone.
Kenshi Yonezu - 1991 ( Click here for my English subtitles. )
Are you there? It’s me, your best friend… (suddenly changing into her final boss form) H A T S U N E M I K U Highlights Archive ========== Stand-Outs ========== We Are Pico-Pico Hammers!!!! Monitoring (Best Friend Remix) The Time is 10 PM Can’t Get Motivated Song Summer’s End Jet Black Flower-Burial Parhelion Hallucination Treasure Garden Positopian As For You Goodbye…