Aural Vampire - 69 Balloons (Original)

[MyThiNg94]

they're still a band?

[Toxilicks]

Best Band From Japan Ever.

[shadow6662114]

im in mexico and when i watch the video wow! i think this girl is amazing and the music is fabulous

[Zayashuku]

the symbol ヴ when seen is assumed "V" when Japanese people DO see this Katakana. It's used a lot despite others saying. It's usually a quick slur of the Japanese sounds "U" and "I" UI. There is nothing wrong with this Katakana. Most Japanese teachers in the states, will not teach it to you, so to assumed it's not used often because it was not taught to you, is just haughty. Most people don't know that "WI" has a character in Japanese which is: ゐ. ←　This is use less than ヴ.

[BldAgl]

this sounds just like the version thats on zoltank

[mana12012]

@BldAgl Yes like the song Darkwave surfer

[xXnovababyXx]

I saw her live! < 3 Just tonight. : D She is gorgeous.

[henkycd]

hellyeah this is gowning to play when i play l4d

[GinchiyoAzumi]

Awesome music! =D

And Onechanbara the movie Vortex is awesome too! =D

[cassiaro]

Does anyone have any idea what the lyrics mean? This is my fav AV song, just saw them live yesterday woot!

[highwayman756]

@cassiaro You Lucky Fucking Motherfucker!!!

[pinoswine]

last weekend i saw them perform at animecon, ik bought their cd and got their autograph at the meet and greet.

she complemented on my cosplay though, so i was like WOOOOOT

[YaStarz]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH ! that song is great *.*

♥

[sansweet]

Great song! Too bad Onechanbara 2 sucked so much!

[Teeshikins]

日本語でいてもいですか。

[Mondtaenzerin]

Great!

[PhilMcLane]

Cool, its the ending theme of Zombie Killer Vortex!

[MangaBrina]

Omg!!! I fucking LOVE Aural Vampire, and this song is one of my favourites!!!! 8D <3 <3 <3

[Emokidpro101]

オーラルヴァンパイア II

[SakuralovesSatoko]

o_O?

huh? xD

[Emokidpro101]

its the names of one of the songs in japanese

[SakuralovesSatoko]

but you mustn't post this on my videos. (two) <.<

[Emokidpro101]

no problem

[DigitalWorldy]

@Emokidpro101 It's actually "aural vampire" in katakana

[trunkuza]

@Emokidpro101

That's actually the Album name. And the artist name, as the case may be.

The album name is Aural Vampire 2. It's their second digital self-titled.

It's written in Katakana, which technically means it's foreign words, written in a way that the Japanese can read, yet still distinguish it from their standard written language of Hiragana...

The symbols... "letters", if you relate it to English... are:

O~ ra ru vu a m p i a.

[winn3317]

@trunkuza actually its O-ra-ru-bu-a-n-pai-a :)

8 years of Japanese

[trunkuza]

@winn3317

Beg to differ. ヴ is the katakana for U, with a diacritical mark that has been used in times to change it to a V sound.

"bu-a-n-pa-i-a" would be "ブ ア ン パ イア"

Source:

Knowledge of Katakana

-and-

Wikipedia: (Aural Vampire (オーラルヴァンパイア)

[demonmike05]

@trunkuza ヴ Is not commonly used.

Many Japanese still spell foreign words with a 'v' sound with a 'b'. Much like 'video' is ビデオ。'bideo', this is because they pretty much sound the same when it's pronounced.

[trunkuza]

@demonmike05

Foreign *words*

You said it right there. However, this isn't a *word*, this is considered a "direct name". Upon which, they would use ヴ. Additionally: the argument was that ヴ wasn't the proper way to spell or pronounce it.

Aural Vampire themselves use that symbol. (Aural Vampire（オーラルヴァンパイア）（エキゾチカ） Official Website)

[demonmike05]

@trunkuza Ah it's used for direct names? Cheers, that's helped a lot of confusion on my part on it's usage.

[demonmike05]

@trunkuza But just to clarify, you are correct with using 'ヴ' in the spelling of Aural Vampire, as all you really need to do is look at how they spell it on their album covers.

[DakkTribal]

sweet!