Learn Japanese with Hikaru Utada

9 sets · 233 words · meanings in English

Sets

BAD MODE

24 words

Fantôme

24 words

Heart Station

32 words

Ultra Blue, Part 2

20 words

Ultra Blue, Part 1

25 words

Deep River

27 words

Distance, Part 2

24 words

Distance, Part 1

25 words

First Love

32 words

About these sets

BAD MODE. BAD MODE (2022) is Utada's most recent Japanese album. Kimi ni Muchuu is written from inside a career - 副作用, 栄光, 付き纏う, 損得, 序盤 - One Last Kiss, the Evangelion theme, works in mechanism and loss (歯車, 喪失, 焼きつく, 即ち), and PINK BLOOD closes the set on plain everyday words: 上等, 無駄, 癖.

Fantôme. Fantôme (2016) was Utada's return after six years and her mother's death, and the writing is the most literary of her career. Michi and Sakura Nagashi work in a formal register - 岐路, 標識, 如何なる, 健やか, 木立 - while Manatsu no Tooriame keeps to the plain vocabulary of a summer shower: 瞼, 汗ばむ, 若葉, 芽吹く.

Heart Station. HEART STATION (2008) is Utada's most playful Japanese album. Fight The Blues and Stay Gold are written in plain spoken Japanese - くよくよ, 憂鬱, 深呼吸, 就職, 常識 - Kiss & Cry borrows courtroom and pop-psychology words (被害者意識, 共犯, 上目使い), and Nijiiro Bus closes on school vocabulary: 遠足, 寝不足, 留学.

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