Source suggestions please

[Angelic86]

I have this really pretty song I want to set an AMV to, but I don´t know which Anime to use... It should be some kinda gentle love story with fantasy... Since it´s a love song and such... No big fighting scence, just some pretty romance

The song is <a href="http://www.lastfm.de/music/Wir+sind+Hel ... o">Echolot by Wir sind Helden</a>

As you can tell, it´s german... I suck at translating, especially the songs from this band because the lyrics tend to be a bit... strange. I have no idea how to put it XD But this is one of my favorite songs and I WANT to use it somehow D:

So any help would be greatly appreciated

[JaddziaDax]

interesting way to link a youtub<b></b>e file :3

oh and it's a very pretty song, I don't know the lyrics but I can see multi-anime to it, or maybe multi-magical girl stuff...

I'd suggest Fruits Basket, Shugo Chara, or Ouran Host Club or maybe Cardcaptor Sakura but those are becoming over done...

hmmmn Karin?

[JaddziaDax]

i don't know if babelfish is any accurate with the lyrics page but in it's translation the song talks about the ocean, perhaps Air would be a better choice?

[Angelic86]

*googles Karin* Hmmm, I have seen that before... Dunno what it is about other than Vampires *read wacky written summary* but I´ll check it out ^^ I was thinking about CCS as well, but I haven´t seen Shugo Chara yet...

I don´t think AIR has the right atmosphere for this song, hmmm... However, babelfish isn´t the most reliable way to translate this band´s lyrics, imo XD

But thank you very much, magical girl or multi-source should do the best... Though I still don´t know WHAT source... Oh well...

[JaddziaDax]

i donno i could really imagine air to it but thats just me... I tend to take babelfish as an approximation more than accurate... some of the lyrics were like caught between the stars and the sea, and that is what reminds me of air.

if you could give a better translation than babelfish then that would help...

either that or go with the multi way.

by the way, thanks for the song, I like it a lot and I got it from iTunes :3

[Angelic86]

Okay, here you go:

Keep still
The bed is our raft
And I want to be out on the sea
Come, cut it
Look, liquid lead beneath us
Grey shadows drift by lazily

Stars and water
And we in between
Come, we swim
With the big fishes

Chorus:
I see your heart
Your echo sounder
Causes a stir in the sea.
I see your heart
This little bit of red
It won´t hurt for long
I see your heart
Don´t stop
I´m hanging at your mouth *
I see your heart
I know we go
Deeper to the ground

Here
Beneath us glittering dust is dancing
We sink
Blessed and deaf
Silent, Waiting and
the shadows drawing closer circles
Stars and water
And we´re in between
Come, let´s swim
With the big fishes

Chorus repeat

* This "I´m hanging at <insert>" is a phrase often used in the Helden-Songs. I think it´s just their way of talking about "being clingy"

Hope it makes any sense XD I told you I was bad at translating... But I think this is pretty accurate (with some aweful grammar, oh my)

Yeah, spread the Helden love... They make such great music <33333

[JaddziaDax]

thats actually rather similar to the babelfish translation >.> just with better grammar O:

either way yea throwing around ideas and such :3 good luck... Karin probably wont work unless you do some multi-anime thing

[Ijexis]

Hm...what about using all of Makoto Shinkai's movies? I keep picturing those when I hear the song. Could go the multi-anime root too. If so, Munto and Mushi-shi should fit nicely at some parts.

[Ijexis]

I just thought of one, came to me out of the blue. Spirited Away.

[MishaGirl]

How about Honey & Clover? Or Fushigi Yugi? Magic users club (Sae/takeo)?