Talk:Anime/@comment-110.175.59.199-20150116035808/@comment-26009184-20150118003927

I would've expected the English to be quite easy to understand because Akino's English is generally quite natural, she was born in America after all. The lyrics writer and composer probably weren't though, and I doubt Akino had much of a say in either of those areas. This might have lead to issues in the amount of beats/syllables allowed for each word to be sung and odd intonation in some of the words due to how the music rises and falls. It kind of reminds me of the Persona 4 BGM; all of the lyrics are in English, yet if you try to sing it normally it sounds really weird.

In comparison, the Arpeggio OP theme was written and composed by the singers of the song, one of which was born in America and the other being the younger brother of a guy obsessed with singing in English. The English ends up sounding fairly natural, at least in my opinion.

To go off in a somewhat different direction, I wouldn't be surprised if the OP was originally within a Kancolle context, the lyrics writer is the same one that did all of the character songs, as well as the ED which has random ship names in it.

At any rate, we'll have to wait for the CD to be released so someone can check the lyrics card. Until then I doubt we can be 100% sure, if native speakers can't really tell then I highly doubt the Japanese will fare any better.