– Akatsuki Records

(I’ve been trying to keep with links to the songs that are more ‘friendly’, but in this case the original link got taken down and the song isn’t popular enough to get another link, so bear with me here. 😦 )
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Lyrics Context:

The animal spirits talk about the lives that they have to live and how this is just how it is.
The Law of the Jungle reigns supreme, that’s the ironclad law and if you don’t play the game, you’re going to be eaten.
Sorry, that’s just the way it is.

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Eat, Eat, Eat or Be Eaten
Like an, Like an, Like an animal
Eat, Eat, Eat or Be Eaten
Like an, Like an animal

捕食者が今も闇から狙ってる | Hoshokusha ga ima mo yami kara neratteru
震えて見渡したってもう手遅れ手遅れ手遅れ | yurete miwatashitatte mou teokore tekore teokore
The end of the game
ケダモノだものエモノだもの | Kedamono da mono emono da mono
Even now the ones who are predators are aiming for you from the shadows
If you tremble or overlook them even once then
it’s already over, it’s too late
The end of the game
You animal -things-, prey -things- [*1]

牙を剥き出して爪で掻きまわせ | Kiba wo mukidashite tsume de kakimawase
眼ギラつかせなんて無力な猿ども！| gan(?) kiratsukase nante muryoku na saru domo!
Bear your fangs and tear them apart with your claws,
These powerless monkeys with glazed over eyes!


獣だものCrawling like an animal | Kedamono da mono Crawling like an animal
謀りあう地獄のサバイバルゲーム | Hakari au jigoku no Survival Game
生き残れ強さだけがリアリティ | Ikinokore tsuyosa dake ga reality
弱・肉・強・食Like an Animal | Jaku niku kyou shoku Like an animal
A thing that’s an beast, Crawling like an animal
Everyone, scheming all at once [*2] in this Survival Game of hell
The reality that only the strong remain
The law of the fittest, Like an Animal

言葉や祈りは力で捻伏せて | Kotoba ya inori wa chikara de nejifusete
「誰かのために」なんて、| [dareka no tame ni] nante
一人じゃ鶏じゃどうしようもない | Hitori ja tori ja dou shiyou mo nai
ケダモノだものエモノだもの | Kedamono da mono no emono da mono
Forcing words and prayers are subjugated through force,
Something like “For someone else’s sake” ? [*3],
There’s nothing that can be done for loners and domesticated chicken [*4].
animal -things-, prey -things-

牙を剥き出して爪で掻きまわせ | Kiba wo mukidashite tsume de kakimawase
眼キラつかせ利他は利用、利己的に | manako kiratsukase rita wa riyou, rikoteki ni
Bear your fangs and tear them apart with your claws,
Glare [with killer intent*] [*5] as you selfishly utilize their altruism!

獣だものCrawling like an animal | Kedamono da mono Crawling like an animal
謀りあう地獄のサバイバルゲーム | Hakari au jigoku no Survival Game
生き残れ強さだけがリアリティ | Ikinokore tsuyosa dake ga reality
弱・肉・強・食Like an Animal | Jaku niku kyou shoku Like an animal
A thing that’s an beast, Crawling like an animal
Everyone, scheming all at once in this Survival Game of hell
The reality that only the strong remain
The law of the fittest, Like an Animal

所詮、この世は弱肉強食 | Shosen, kono yo wa jakunikukyoushoku
ようこそ地獄のサバイバルゲーム | Youkoso jigoku no Survival Game
強いか、速いか、狡賢いか、| Tsuyoi ka, hayai ka, zurugashikoi ka,
どれでもないなら餌になれ！ | Doredemo nai nara esa ni nare!
For in the end, this world is the survival of the fittest
I bid you welcome to this Survival Game of hell
Are you strong, fast, or cunning? [*6]
If you’re none of those, then become the prey!

地を這え獣、夢中でCrawling like an animal | Chi wo hae kedamono, muchuu de Crawling like an animal
謀りあう地獄のサバイバルゲーム | Hakari au jigoku no Survival Game
生き残れ強さこそが真実 | Ikinokore tsuyosa koso ga genjitsu
弱・肉・強・食Like an Animal | Jaku niku kyou shoku Like an animal
A beast crawling on the earth, Crawling like an animal while daydreaming [*7]
Everyone, scheming all at once in this Survival Game of hell
The reality that only the strong remain
The law of the fittest, Like an Animal


Notes:

[*1] ケダモノだものエモノだもの – (KEDAMONO da mono EMONO da mono) means literally
“Beast is thing, prey is thing” with the subject still maintaining as “the weak (humans)”;
Mono is left ambiguous, but probably means 物 (mono – thing) which refers to an object – thing, not a person.

[*2] 謀りあう (hakari au) — hakari means to conspire or to scheme, au means 合う to group together — I would translate it as
“Everyone is scheming together all at once against each other” but I can’t think of a better way to convey the same idea in the same # of syllables.

[*3] なんて (nante) at the end of a subject means “such a…” or “something like…”, but in this context the 2nd half is left unsaid;
When she says 「誰かのために」なんて、 ([dareka no tame ni] nante), it’s like saying “As if someone would do something for someone else’s sake, are you serious? You believe someone when they say something like that?”

[*4] Domesticated chicken obviously refers to livestock — prey that are raised with the explicit intention of being eaten, but it refers to Kutaka Niwatari, the 3rd stage boss and ‘singer’ of this song. Her existence puts to question this line, so it’s a call forward to later in the album, too.
https://aeroreborn.blog/2025/02/24/step-123/

[*5] 眼キラつかせ (manako — eye kiratsukase — to glare at）has キラ (kira — killer) written in katakana — kiratsukase means to stare at something, but by writing it in katakana instead it becomes a pretty silly play on words to say ‘killer glare’.

[*6] In Touhou’s take on the Animal realm, there are 3 (and 1 more not elaborated on) Yakuza-esque clans that run the show in an endless struggle for dominance;

The Kiketsu (鬼傑) family, roughly translating “oni excellence”, believes that working within the system and attacking from blind spots/behind/being underhanded’ is the key to dominance; they are represented by Otters (if anyone knows why, let me know, all I can find is a single tale to match that — https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/73/more-jataka-tales/4972/the-otters-and-the-wolf/

The Keiga (勁牙 — Strong fang) family, represented in game by wolves, believes that strength/power itself is the key to dominance

The Gouyoku (剛欲 — Obstinate Desire, sharing the same pronunciation with 強欲 — greed) family, which believes that greed and ambition itself are the key. They are represented by Eagles.

[*7] 夢中 (muchuu de) means literally “Dream – Within” — I shortened it to “daydreaming”, but in the context of the line it refers to how humans in general live much of their lives without viewing reality as it is, instead viewing the world through a lens of idealism (dreams) in how they perceive things.




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