Backing track by Karaoke Diamonds and purchased on iTunes. Original song performed by Kyu Sakamoto, and written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura.
----- Next stop, Tokyo. The audience there loves The Beach Bears so much, they kept asking for more songs, even after they had run out. Dipper manages to provide them with a show stopper.
----- I had always wanted to sing this song, and having Dipper do it fit well, as his voice is similar to the original artist. I found a phonetic spelling of the words and checked my pronunciation with my wife, who is Japanese. I impressed a number of her friends with this, too. The song itself, while sounding very happy and perky, is actually quite sad. Sukiyaki is not it's original name, but Ue O Muite which means I Look Up. The first lines means "I look up when I walk to keep my tears from falling, remembering those happy spring days, but tonight I'm all alone." This is actually typical of Japanese songs, which are quite often very sad. The idea of turning The Flower Girl into a guardian was inspired by peterandcompany. I have no idea if my guardians are anything close, but the idea has stuck, and other characters seem to get a guardian as the story unfolds.
kittybird
