lyrics for japanese songs in japanese not romaji and copyable!

thegeezer3 Member

From: manchester - uk Registered: 2005-11-05 Posts: 122

Why is it that everything in life has to be an uphill struggle Ive been to a number of sites looking for rip slyme lyrics and all i want is for them to be in japanese (ie. kanji and kana) and for me to be able to highlight them to copy and paste or use rikaichan on them. So far all the japanes lyric sites present the lyrics under flash so rikaichan wont work nor can i copy paste them. There are loads of romaji sites as well which are copy pasteable but again rikai chan wont work due to romaji. Surely there must be a site that allows me to use rikaichan!

Ive searched the forums but not found a good link... does anyone know of a good site?

Cheers

Ramchip Member

From: Canada Registered: 2006-09-22 Posts: 108

What I often do is find the lyrics in romaji and type a line or two into kanji/kana with the IME (or just do it by ear if it's not too hard). Then I take the line and google it with quotes "like this". This way you'll likely find some random blog or website with the typed out, copyable lyrics (google won't return flash lyrics since it can't search through them).

chamcham Member

Registered: 2005-11-11 Posts: 1444

http://www.corichan.com

You'll find that newer albums are often in kanji and romaji (side-by-side)
For example, here are lyrics to Crystal Kay's new single "Anata no Soba de" (http://www.corichan.com/lyrics/singles/ … html#anata)

There's even an urban section for stuff like R&B and hiphop (although it's
not as comprehensive as their j-pop lyrics).

Also,
http://lyricz.info (for some Japanese hiphop lyrics)

Last edited by chamcham (2007 May 26, 3:19 pm)

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thegeezer3 Member

From: manchester - uk Registered: 2005-11-05 Posts: 122

nice ideas ill look into that now and thanks for the corichan link as well. It looks good.

lerris Member

From: Orlando Registered: 2006-06-17 Posts: 44 Website

There's also http://www.cherryblossom-garden.com/ - as far as Rip Slyme though, I only see one single's lyrics up there but overall it has a fairly large selection of lyrics.

Istvan Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-06-10 Posts: 18

I have found this site to be very helpful

http://www.mognet.net/index.php

It has English translations, Romanji, and Full Japanese version of many songs.

synewave Member

From: Susono, Japan Registered: 2006-06-23 Posts: 864 Website

I was spending ages (well 15 minutes or so)looking for the lyrics of the song "The Real Folk Blues" (closing song from Cowboy Bebop) but only finding romaji versions. Then I remembered this thread.

Ramchip wrote:
What I often do is find the lyrics in romaji and type a line or two into kanji/kana with the IME (or just do it by ear if it's not too hard). Then I take the line and google it with quotes "like this". This way you'll likely find some random blog or website with the typed out, copyable lyrics (google won't return flash lyrics since it can't search through them).

Worked brilliantly! I now have the Japanese version I was after. Cheers Ramchip!

sutebun Member

From: Oregon Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 172

Try http://music.goo.ne.jp/genre/japanese.html

thegeezer3 Member

From: manchester - uk Registered: 2005-11-05 Posts: 122

just like to say the google suggestion worked just fine for rip slyme! nice tip!

thanks

thegeezer3 Member

From: manchester - uk Registered: 2005-11-05 Posts: 122

For more copy and pastable lyric sites i would like to add the following site i just stumbled upon via googling some rip slyme lyrics

http://ko0601.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2007/08/index.html

It has embedded youtube vids as well of the songs so you can browse for a cool song and then immediately study its lyrics (rikaichan friendly!)

Its more a blog than anything and im not sure it goes not that far back but if your into stuff like rip slyme, monkey majic, orange range etc then it should be useful.

I found the site by googling one of the rip slyme lyrics - shows how good that method is.

icekid17 New member

Registered: 2011-10-11 Posts: 1

A bit lat to this - more like very late - but a great website you can use rikkaichan with is j-lyrics.net
However, like all the other sites, it's not copy and pasteable(?).

Last edited by icekid17 (2012 October 03, 7:42 pm)

comeauch Member

From: Canada Registered: 2011-11-04 Posts: 175

Hey, for almost all of those websites, simply view the page source. On Chrome, Ctrl+U (sometimes it won't appear in the contextual menu, but the shortcut still works).

From there it should be easy to simply copy-paste. Only problem is that sometimes there are "<br>" tags that you'll need to remove but hey, 3 seconds on Wordpad

comeauch Member

From: Canada Registered: 2011-11-04 Posts: 175

Oh God... just realized this thread was started in 2007? Hahah wtf icekid17 XD

Rael89 Member

From: new york Registered: 2008-07-26 Posts: 103

icekid17 wrote:
A bit lat to this - more like very late - but a great website you can use rikkaichan with is j-lyrics.net
However, like all the other sites, it's not copy and pasteable(?).

Actually you can since the text can be highlighted. They've only disabled right clicking. Just use ctrl+c to copy the lyrics .

Daichi Member

From: Washington Registered: 2009-02-04 Posts: 450

There are a few tricks to avoid romaji when searching for music lyrics. You can be sure your searching by the Japanese title of the song. You can usually find an artist's discography on Wikipedia or the artist's site. You can search with the Japanese word for lyric "歌詞". And you can narrow your search results by Japanese region or Japanese language in the advanced search panel. There are probably other ways, but the main point of the matter, is you need to be searching on Japanese sites if you want Japanese lyrics.

As for the lyrics not being copy-able. You should be able to get the lyrics via the html source code as the other people here above me say.

Tzadeck Member

From: Kinki Registered: 2009-02-21 Posts: 2484

Daichi wrote:
There are a few tricks to avoid romaji when searching for music lyrics. You can be sure your searching by the Japanese title of the song. You can usually find an artist's discography on Wikipedia or the artist's site. You can search with the Japanese word for lyric "歌詞". And you can narrow your search results by Japanese region or Japanese language in the advanced search panel. There are probably other ways, but the main point of the matter, is you need to be searching on Japanese sites if you want Japanese lyrics.

An easy way to search by Japanese region and language is to go to www.yahoo.co.jp. That way you don't have to go to advanced search or anything.

I usually type in: (name of song) 歌詞
And click a few links until I find one that works with rikaichan (after a while you'd probably get used to which sites aren't flash. I don't remember because I only look up lyrics if I'm learning the song on guitar).

Last edited by Tzadeck (2012 October 04, 4:12 am)

Sebastian Member

Registered: 2008-09-09 Posts: 582

If you don't know them, check these:

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Last edited by Sebastian (2012 October 04, 3:29 pm)

tashippy Member

From: New York Registered: 2011-06-18 Posts: 566

i'm not having perfect luck with your 'view source' trick @comeauch

here's what i got:
http://music.goo.ne.jp/lyric/LYRUTND130657/index.html

and here's the source:
view-source:http://music.goo.ne.jp/lyric/LYRUTND130657/index.html

but the whole lyrics aren't printed out. line 11 shows the beginning of them.
i don't typically look behind the scenes of a website, so maybe i'm missing something obvious...

gdaxeman Member

From: Brazil Registered: 2007-06-19 Posts: 278 Website

tashippy wrote:
i'm not having perfect luck with your 'view source' trick @comeauch

here's what i got:
http://music.goo.ne.jp/lyric/LYRUTND130657/index.html
...
but the whole lyrics aren't printed out. line 11 shows the beginning of them.
i don't typically look behind the scenes of a website, so maybe i'm missing something obvious...

It doesn't work in that website because the lyrics are drawn inside a canvas — so they're images, not text. If you are interested, you can get those same lyrics in text format from this excellent Chinese website:

チャットモンチー Yes or No or Love
http://mojim.com/twy105520x26x6.htm

Other lyrics by the same artist:
http://mojim.com/twh105520.htm

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