Take Your Hand to Hell
The past week's been a bit hectic for me so I'm unwinding with another listening activity. This is the final boss theme for Postal: Brain Damaged , a game I played over spring break. I wasn't expecting to hear any Japanese, so it was really funny to realize I was listening to sarcastic nonsense while fighting for my life. It appealed to both my middle school nostalgia and my adult shut-in sensibilities. Because it is standard for anime songs to have random English, there are a few phrases like, "Let's go!" and "My heart!" which for some reason I couldn't tell were English until I listened a few times. It could be because of the accent, or maybe it's just that my brain only expects to hear Japanese. As for the rest of the lyrics, I was surprised that I could understand the majority of it without help. The casual masculine form is difficult for me since we haven't studied it much, but I knew enough vocabulary to fill in a lot of the gaps. ...
