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あなたは今何処で　何をしていますか？
この空の続く場所にいますか？

今まで私の心を埋めていたモノ
失って初めて気づいた
こんなにも私を支えてくれていたこと
こんなにも笑顔をくれていたこと

失ってしまた代償は
とてつもなく大きすぎて
取り戻そうと必死に
手を伸ばして　もがくけれど
まるで風のように　すり抜けて
届きそうで　届かない

孤独と絶望に胸を締めつけられ
心が壊れそうになるけれど
思い出に残る　あなたの笑顔が
私をいつも励ましてくれる

もう一度　あの頃に戻ろう
今度はきっと大丈夫
いつもそばで笑っていよう
あなたのすぐそばで

あなたは今何処で　何をしていますか？
この空の続く場所にいますか？
いつものように笑顔でいてくれますか？
今はただ　それを願い続ける


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I decided to type it out since that Higurashi video with the lyrics is too bloody. Ok, it's nothing compared to say, Mnemosyne, but a machate vs baseball bat duel is still pretty distracting when you're trying to sing along.

Watched the 2nd ep of Mnemosyne a few days back. Rie doesn't appear in this one, but Mimi (the other Rie) was feeding Rin (Noto Mamiko) vodka mouth to mouth so i guess it's not a bad episode. And Rin had to dig a thumbdrive-like thing out of her informant's, urm, orifice, which was interesting. i don't think thumbdrives were around in 1991 right? i still remember playing games on 5.25 inch floppies. And i have like 10 times more RAM now than i had hard disc space back then. Listening to Mimi rant about that PC with the 16 bit 40MHz CPU, 128 Mb RAM and 300Mb Hdd sure cracked me up.

(I went back to watch that digging scene again. It's not like i'm interested in the anatomical excavation or the naked boobs or anything, just checking if it really was a thumbdrive. No, it wasn't.)

Talking about the 2 Ries, Kugimi won Best Supporting Actress at the Seiyuu Awards for her role as Nagi. Haha, the real heroines of Hayate no Gotoku are Maria and Ayasaki Hermione you see. Nagi is a supporting character. And i still can't believe Choco Coronet won for Best Actress. I was rooting for Nodame... I wouldn't have minded if Hirano won best singer for Sora Ga Ai Deshou or Chala Head Chala though. =p

One more thing. There was a Misuzu look-alike in Clannad 19. One of Sanae's students. She appeared at about 15:55. It might have been Kawakami Tomoko who voiced her too, haha. I would make her do it if i were in charge. I mean she did go down to record 2 lines as The Girl anyway.