{"id":2246221,"date":"2022-03-05T01:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2246221\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T01:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T01:20:01","slug":"bubble-yakuza-0-japanese-intro-english-and-japanese-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2246221\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble | Yakuza 0 Japanese Intro | English and Japanese Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GV3mvVH0zb0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis song is very clever with its lyrics. Some translation notes below.<\/p>\n<p>Gokumi: Kumiko Goto, an 80\u2019s idol<br \/>\nKabuchimono: Flamboyant samurai gangs of the Edo period, some historians believe the yakuza to have originated from them<br \/>\nThe chorus contains some word play on Japanese historical eras:<br \/>\n&#8211; Image (imeeiji &#8211; \u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8) sounds like Meiji (\u660e\u6cbb)<br \/>\n&#8211; Constrasting (taishouteki &#8211; \u5bfe\u7167\u7684) sounds like Taishou<br \/>\n&#8211; Show wa (Show \u306f) : Shouwa<br \/>\n&#8211; Serene (heisei &#8211; \u5e73\u9759): Heisei<br \/>\nWasshoi: dictionaries translate this to \u2018heave-ho\u2019. May be used for example, if you were doing a strenuous task.<br \/>\nLike a Dragon: as in Ryuu ga Gotoku, name drop of the series title<\/p>\n<p>Also an ammendment, the second line of the first verse should say &#8220;not uncool&#8221;  rather than &#8220;uncool&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song is very clever with its lyrics. Some translation notes below. Gokumi: Kumiko Goto, an 80\u2019s idol Kabu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2246222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[53],"tags":[1115],"class_list":{"0":"post-2246221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-1115"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}