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.