Eve (Japan) - 廻廻奇譚 (Kaikai kitan) (English translation #3)

Eve (Japan) – 廻廻奇譚

English translation

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Cycling Mystery

The swarming masses, promotion to mankind

Bluff, mental image, inhuman, ah it's like a ghost

With an open and clear mind, harboring life

The rest is a mindless, hollow human

Anticipations nearing fulfillment, an unfair life

Talentless Mahayana as extraordinary as it is

A lack of individuality in mutual grudges

Memories that I explore because I have nowhere else I belong

Don't cry between dreams

I know what kind of face I should put on

But still, please answer me

Exorcise the darkness, exorcise the darkness

Once the veil of darkness descends, that's our cue.

Conflicting in a revolving loop

You spit such nonsense

Don't stop yet, don't stop yet

Imagine being born into a town where you surpass everyone else

Now only imagine my future being cursed with a curse

Running and falling,

I'll embrace this pain that won't disappear

The world lies in wait

Of this moment

Ah good feelings, take back the future

Punishment for flaws that we obediently obeyed

My line of sight in its accuracy, I need the right path

Just as I can't voice it

Ah, the oathless night parade of a hundred demons

Ah, to the end of hell without any jujutsu

Paradise, samsara, reality, failure, let it die down

Don't abandon life

Shine through the weakness in your words

I know what kind of face I should put on

But still, please answer me

Explain the Gojou, explain the Gojou

An idea that sets your uncertain voice straight

Conflicting in a revolving loop

After that, now raise your hand

Just chase after it, just chase after it

I wish to be stronger than anyone else

Your faith even now is just that

In the dark of the gloomy night, deeply deeply feel down

Can't you see it in misshapenness?

This is the current me

It's a corpse that can't be tamed by anyone, go on, laugh!

I quit just running away from everything before my eyes

With these repeating images, go past your imagination

Exorcise the darkness, exorcise the darkness

Once the veil of darkness descends, that's our cue.

Conflicting in a revolving loop

You spit such nonsense

Don't stop yet, don't stop yet

Imagine being born into a town where you surpass everyone else

Now only imagine my future being cursed with a curse

Running and falling,

I'll embrace this pain that won't disappear

The world lies in wait

Of this moment

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ScrubRekr on 2020-10-25

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Natalia Arlovskaya on Fri, 07/02/2025 - 16:54

Author's comments:

This has many prominent Buddist motifs.

Mahayana is (according to Google) "one of the two major traditions of Buddhism, now practiced in a variety of forms especially in China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea. The tradition emerged around the 1st century AD and is typically concerned with altruistically oriented spiritual practice as embodied in the ideal of the bodhisattva."
百鬼夜行 (hyakki yagyou) is mostly literally the "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" or more simply a nightly procession of monsters or spirits. I translated in the context of the sentence as "...night spirits that parade...".
Samsara is the endless cycle of passing on to the next life. Gojou is the five cardinal Confucian virtues (justice, politeness, wisdom, fidelity, and benevolence). Jujutsu is the magic used in the anime.

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