Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150626042307/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150626042440

To get the ball rolling:

• 樹の乙女～千年のヴィーゲンリート～: Currently, “Wooden Girl ~Thousand Year Wiegenlied~”, I propose changing it to “The Maiden of the Tree ~Millennium Wiegenlied~”, as “Wooden Girl” makes much less sense in context and while it’s certainly not unheard of to use の to make nouns (the noun being 樹, meaning “wood” or “tree”) into adjectives it’s very likely not what’s going on here. I propose changing “Thousand Year” to “Millennium” because she becomes the Millennium tree.

• 置き去り月夜抄: Currently “Abandonment on a Moonlit Night”, I propose changing it to “A Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night”, as the final kanji in the title basically means an excerpt, and remains unaccounted for in the title we have.

• 待ち続けた手紙: Currently “Kept Waiting for a Response”, I propose the title “The Letter She Kept Waiting For” because “Kept Waiting for a Response” has very little resemblance, if any, to the title’s actual meaning. 手紙 means “letter”, 待ち続けた means to have continued waiting for something, placed as such that it’s used as a descriptor of the letter.

• 箱庭の少女: Currently “Miniature Garden Girl”, I propose “Girl of the Miniature Garden”. While the title we have is not incorrect, it carries too much ambiguity in the meaning. It’s very clear by the Japanese that the garden is what’s miniature, not the girl. The title we have can, to some people, suggest it’s calling the girl miniature. Even if she is miniature, that’s not what the Japanese is saying.

Note that this thread covers more than just song names but that’s all I have at the moment.