Brief History

    The Anime Song Lyrics Archive began originally as the Ranma 1/2 Song Lyrics Homepage sometime in December 1995 when I started translating songs from DoCo FIRST and DoCo Second for personal understanding and enjoyment as well as to learn more Japanese.  I felt other fans (esp. of Ranma) would appreciate translations to their favorite songs and so, I thought, why keep them to myself? ^_^  Thus, the Ranma 1/2 Song Lyrics Homepage began.  After the completion of the "DoCo Project," I began to expand into other anime music and began translating songs from various series such as Macross 7 and Magic Knight RayEarth.  To accomodate this expansion, I renamed the Ranma 1/2 Song Lyrics Homepage to the Anime Song Lyrics Archive.
    Since then, the Archive has been continually growing and expanding.  It was impossible for me to translate all the anime songs as well as to maintain their webpages, but fortunately, I met Mak Kum Shi from Singapore through rec.arts.anime (now known as rec.arts.anime.misc) who has been working with me to accomplish this goal.  He and his anime club maintain the Mach 3 Anime Radio Station, and our webpages have been crosslinked to provide an extensive source for lyrics.  I have also been linking to other sites which contain lyrics due to server space limitations as well as reduce the maintainence responsibility on me so that I can concentrate more on translating lyrics.

    I would like to thank everyone who has visited my webpages and have found it to be of use.