The Many Translations and Mistranslations of mimi no aru robot no uta

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mimi no aru robot no uta (best known as Song of the Eared Robot) by mimi-roboP currently has 2 main translations (1, 2) in addition to a couple of other lesser-known ones floating around, and I have problems with each and every one of them, but I think their flaws are worth analyzing and I want to discuss them here rather than just posting my own translation and leaving it at that. I hope that, in articulating my feelings about these translations I will be better able to convey what this song means to me and why I chose to retranslate it the way I did. After all, isn’t it at least a little interesting that such a definitive UTAU song has languished from lack of a proper English translation for over a decade now?

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( My Song of the Eared Robot Retranslation )