Nintendo DS: Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2

My last day in Tokyo, I had a little yen left on me. Not wanting to get charged for exchanging it back into dollars, I headed to Akihabara to pick up some more used "ソフト" for my DS.


The yen stayed in my wallet, but my credit card made a few appearances.


So basically I have to justify the expense of all these games I bought, in terms of studying Japanese. They're pretty good, but the two standouts are Electroplankton (a music "game") and Ouendan 2. Electroplankton is purely audio/visual, so there's not much studying that can be done with it. Ouendan is a little different.


Ouendan is a rhythm game, in which you tap the stylus in beat with the words and music of a Japanese song. It's much more fun than it sounds. Imagine a crazy Japanese amalgam of Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero for your fingers. It's funny and completely over the top, and I love it.


So how does this fit in with benkyou? Although the songs are hard to hear over the whistling and grunting of the Ouendan dancers, because you must repeat the songs over and over to get through them, the songs stick in your head. And you might as well study what they're saying.


Below are the lyrics to a song I've been stuck on for a while. Interesting lyrics. They're from a band called Kishidan, and the song is called Zoku.

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OLE ! OLE ! Oretachi OLE ! OLE ! Jônetsu
OLE ! OLE ! Samurai ! OLE ! OLE ! Nihonjin

OLE ! OLE ! Oretachi OLE ! OLE ! Jônetsu
OLE ! OLE ! Samurai ! OLE ! OLE ! Nihonjin
OLE ! OLE ! Taiyô no ko OLE ! OLE ! Tomodachi
OLE ! OLE ! Sukina hito ! OLE ! OLE ! Hitori janai
Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Mô ! !
Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Mô ! !

Atsumare ôkami yo Hokoritaki hi no maru no moto ni
Tatakae ôkami yo Hokoritaki « Zoku » no akashi

Tôsan wakatteru otoko to wa atsuku tsuyoku mamoru tame umareta n darô
Kaasan wakatteru ai su to wa shinji machi yurusu koto to wakachiau koto
Nakama yo ore wa iku ichido kiri mônetsu ni ikitemitai to omowanai ka
Koibito yo jinsei wa sayonara dake sa
Get up and go ! ! Guts on goaaaaaaaaaal ! !

OLE ! OLE ! Oretachi OLE ! OLE ! Jônetsu
OLE ! OLE ! Samurai ! OLE ! OLE ! Nihonjin
OLE ! OLE ! Taiyô no ko OLE ! OLE ! Tomodachi
OLE ! OLE ! Sukina hito ! OLE ! OLE ! Hitori janai

Oretachi wa matteru Kimi ni mo todokeba ii
Oretachi ga motteru Saigo no tokken
Yume miru koto dake Sore shika dekinai
Yume miteyarô janai Inochi o kakeyô janai

Hitori de umarete Shinu toki mo hitori
Sore nara naosara Omae to ikitai
Mijime mo majime mo ijime mo kejime mo
Chikyû no matataki Kujikenu kagayaki

OLE ! OLE ! Oretachi OLE ! OLE ! Jônetsu
OLE ! OLE ! Samurai ! OLE ! OLE ! Nihonjin
OLE ! OLE ! Taiyô no ko OLE ! OLE ! Tomodachi
OLE ! OLE ! Sukina hito ! OLE ! OLE ! Hitori janai
Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Mô ! !
Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Ore ! Mô ! !
« O-re ! ! »

(Romaji lyrics were all I could find, from this site: http://kishidan.free.fr/index2.htm)