Kiwi Musume - Links

Links

Got a Jpop site you'd like people to see? Send me a link and I'll post it here!
In exchange, though, you have to post a link to my site too.

Megchan's J-Pop Pages
This is one of the biggest romaji and translation website online, with more than 2000 romanised lyrics and 1000 translations. The webmaster is a professional translator, so you won’t get any more accurate translations than here. You can also buy copies of any of the CDs in her huge collection, as well as PVs of a large number of artists.

Cori's Jpop Lyrics Homepage
This is THE biggest romaji site I have ever come across. There’s easily several thousand songs on here, and she’s constantly updating, so this is the place to go for lyrics for the latest singles and albums. You can also see reviews for some of the latest singles and albums.

Project Hello
This site has kana and romaji lyrics for pretty much every Hello Project song ever sung. They’ve also translated many of the songs, especially the latest ones, and the romaji lyrics of each song is colour coded to show who sings which part.

Uta Map
Kana lyrics for a huge number of artists.You need Flash to view the lyrics, and you can’t print or copy them, but it’s updated more quickly than Uta-Net (see below) and is much better organised too.

Uta-Net
Another huge kana lyrics site, which now also requires Flash to view the lyrics (Which is kind of stupid, because the whole reason I, and probably others too, used to overlook their slower updates and higgledy piggledy organisation was because I could c&p their lyrics to Word, or into an online dictionary if necessary, which made romanising so much easier.) They seem to have more lyrics for older songs than Utamap do, though, so if you're looking for an old song and can't find it on Utamap, they're worth a look.

Mikotokun's Jpop Lyrics
This is the lyrics blog of one of my biggest translation contributors. He mostly covers romaji, and he specialises in hard-to-find lyrics, so if you want the romaji for a song but can't find it anywhere, he's the guy to go to.

Goo Lyrics
Megchan put me onto this kana site after Uta-Net started using Flash. Unlike the two Uta sites, you can copy/paste and print their lyrics, which is extremely helpful. It's a little harder to navigate than the Uta sites at first, especially if you can't read Japanese, but you get the hang of it pretty quickly. Also, if you live in Japan, you may be asked to register first (this doesn't seem to be a problem for people who live outside Japan.)

Evesta Kashi Toru
Megchan recommended this kana site to me as well. I don't know much about it except that it doesn't have Flash (yay!) and appears to be as easy to navigate as the Uta sites, but apparently doesn't display properly in Firefox.

Anime Song Nara Koko Ni Omakase?
Huge kana site for anime songs. It's searchable both by title and by anime, which is useful. Another site that you need Flash to view.

Kirin No Kashi
Romaji site for a huge number of Jpop and Jrock songs. It's particularly good for Jrock songs, as it has songs that other sites don't tend to cover. The webmaster prefers people to link to the main page (the one I've linked to above) but if you're having trouble accessing the lyrics from there (like me, for some reason it doesn't like my computer) you can access them here.

Acid Grunge
Romaji site for a variety of artists Se.ems to have a huge number of the latest singles and albums in particular, and can be navigated in English and Russian.

The Fan Lyrics Spot
Blog featuring English sing-along versions (not translations, but English versions that can be sung to the original tune) of various Japanese and Korean songs.

Twilight Paradise
Group of Jpop/anime sites containing kana and romaji lyrics for numerous artists, as well as fan sites for Morning Musume, AAA, AKB48 and Kirarin Revolution, banners and a forum.

Riiyuki's Blog
English covers of various Japanese songs. (And having been asked to make an English cover of a song myself, I can tell you that it is not as easy as it looks!)

Euphoria -- Muse City
English translations of lyrics, interviews, manga and more.

Melodea, A Hoshimura Mai Fansite
Great Hoshimura Mai fan site featuring translated lyrics (mine, lol!), scans, wallpaper and audio samples.

MonoKrome - A Miho Komatsu Fan Site
This is a Miho fan with a mission – to make this singer known in the Western world, where very few people have heard of her. Miho’s a great singer with an acoustic pop/rock sound and beautiful, deep lyrics, so check out some of the audio samples on Bri’s website. She’s got samples of all Komatsu Miho’s songs, including songs she wrote for other artists, such as Kitahara Aiko’s “Message”.

We Are For The Future
I've been meaning to post a link to this site for ages, but never got around to it. ^_^;; This is a Do As Infinity fansite by the same people as MonoKrome. This site has all the thoroughness we saw in MonoKrome, with information, discographies, translated lyrics and samples of not only the group itself, but of the groups and solo projects the group's members became involved in after DAI split up.

J-Music Ignited
This site has just about everything you could want to know about your favourite singers, or that singer whose latest song you've just heard and liked. Profiles, discographies, and even interviews that some artists have done. This site covers all kinds of genres, from pop to hip hop to visual kei, and there's even a forum where you can chat about all things Jpop. Well worth a look.

Secret Kamiki
French fansite for Kamiki Aya. Contains interviews, avatars, French translations of all the songs on her first album, and even a forum.

Depapepe Mania
Fan site for the group Depapepe, containing information on all their singles and albums (with download features for those who register as members) as well as numerous interactive features including a chat box and various polls.

JPop Express
I can't say it better than this quote from the webmaster: "Jpopexpress.com is your complete Japanese entertainment portal site - featuring shopping, news, and interactive Web community, focusing on all aspects of Japanese pop-culture: Japanese pop/rock music, animation, games, toys, movies, and more! If it's Japanese and cool, look for it here!"

Shimatani Brasil
1st Brazilian forum dedicated to the Japanese singer Hitomi Shimatani.There you'll find news,lyrics,downloads and pictures of her.

The webmaster of this site also helped me transcribe one of my favourite, favourite scenes in America's Next Top Model (from 6:26. Eva and Ann from Cycle 3 get tired of Cassie leaving a mess in the kitchen all the time and write a message in some brownies she's baked saying "Clean up your shit" (because they can't fit "dishes".) Cassie is not amused and soon the whole house is talking about it. Yaya, a model who has Brazilian relatives and speaks Portuguese fluently, contributes to the discussions at about 8:53 by putting on a T-shirt saying "Respeito" and going off on a lecture in Portuguese about how there is no respect in the house. I've always loved quoting that part, but never knew how to spell it. But now, thanks to the webmaster of this site, I do! It's Respeito! Em Português,quer dizer 'respect'. É falta de respeito, in this house there is no respect.

And if you haven't seen America's Next Top Model, you SO have to. Best. Reality show. EVER. (For those who live in America, there is a new cycle starting in a couple of days, on March 4. It's also usually posted on several accounts on YouTube, so check it out! :D)

Melody Cafe
Music blog with news and commentary on a variety of the latest releases, as well as translations for some songs.

YesAsia
Jpop mail-order site that sells CDs, DVDs, books, comics and more from Japan, China and Korea. It’s very easy to use – it’s in English, and all prices are automatically adjusted to the currency of the country in which it is being viewed. Plus, if you spend more than US$50, shipping is free.

Amazon Japan
Unlike YesAsia, this site is primarily aimed at Japanese buyers rather than English speakers, so even if you select the English option, much of the site, like the album information and reviews, remains in Japanese. However, it is extremely useful if you are interested in older or less well-known artists, which may not be available on YesAsia.

Music_and_More
My all-time favourite community! All the latest releases, with an extensive archive of songs from the past few years. They're one of the stricter communities I've seen (I'm not sure what the process is now that they've switched hosts, but when they were on LiveJournal you needed to go through this process to join, and keep these rules while a member) but it's well worth it for the prompt posting of new releases, great quality of mp3s, extensive and easy-to-search archive, general ease of use, and the fact that they don't clog up your friendspage like some of the open communities do.

Jpop_uploads
The other community I use. This is an open community, so anyone can join, provided you have a LiveJournal account. It's a huge community, which means that not only can you count on tons of music every day, but if you've got a song you can't find it's very likely that somebody will have it.