Kataritsugu Koto

Kataritsugu Koto, 語り継ぐこと ( literally meaning "The Things I Pass Down") by Chitose Hajime is the ending theme for Season 1 of the anime series Blood+.

Romaji
Namida ikutsu koborete

Shin getsu no yohoru hitotsu umi ga umareta

Tooku tsumui da kotoba

Katari betachi no monogatari no naka ni

Mukashi dareka ga koko de

Harisake sou na ume o sotto hiraita

Futa ni kanadete zutto

Donna basho ni mo tazusaete yukeru yo

Kesanaite anata no naka no

Tomoshibi wa suranari itsushika

Kagayaku kara

Kataritsugu koto ya tsutaete yuku koto

Jidai no uneri o watatte iku fude

Kaze hikaru kyou no hi no sora o

Uketsui de sore o ashita ni te otoshite

Fubi ni hitari ni kami ni

Anata no mukou kaima mieru omokake

Moshimo toki no nagere o

Saka no boretara sono hito ni deaeru

Kono sekai umarete soshite

Akaerareta ara yuru namae ni

Megai kaaru

Itoshii egao ni kokoro ukashite

Arashi ni yurai de tachi tomare toki mo

Mamoritai subete o sasagete mo

Omoi wa chikara ni sugaata o kaeru kara

Kataritsu ite tsutaete yuku koto

Jidai no uneri o watatte iku fude

Kaze hikaru kyou no hi no sora o

Uketsui de sore o ashita ni te toashite

English Translation
How many tears have I spilled, 

The night of a new month was born on the sea,

Words were spun in the distance,

Telling stories

A former person here,

My chest secretly seems that it is stretching so that it will burst open,

While I play my song,

To what kind of place must I also carry this kick in my hand?

Don't die, the middle of your 

Light is stretching unnoticed,

Because you shine,

I'm given the transmission of your death, 

I boat through the winding of the epochs,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The wind shines, today's sky,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Succeed, tomorrow, deliver that.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In your fingers, in your brow, in your hair, <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I face away from you,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If time's stream,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Could be reversed, I would meet that person.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This world's birth and <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">All the names it is given,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Have desires,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Your beloved smiling face stirs my heart, <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In the storm I shake, But there is a time where I stop,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I want to protect, to lift up you up,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Because my feelings become powerful.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I'm given the transmission of your death, <span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I boat through the winding of the epochs,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The wind shines, today's sky,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Succeed, tomorrow, deliver that.

English Translation / new test version

<span style="font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">How many tears were shed on the night of the new moon to create this sea  <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Carefully woven words from the past in the tales of storytellers

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Once upon a time, somebody with badly hurt feelings opened up their heart here

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If the story is played as a song, you can bring it anywhere with you

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Don't let the fire inside you disappear

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It would survive and it shall grow into a flame some day

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Passing on the story and telling the tales, it is like a ship that travels on a river named history

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Please pass the sky we have today, in which the wind shines, to tomorrow

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Through your fingers, your forehead, your hair I see a shadow of that person in you

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If I could travel back in time, I could see this person

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Born in to this world, we are all given names, all of which are named after a wish

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">When I am moved by the adorable smile, and frightened by the storm and stop,

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I would like to protect you, I'm willing to sacrifice anything to that end.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Because my wishes change into real power.

Characters
The characters in order of appearance:
 * Saya Otonashi
 * Hagi
 * David
 * Kai Miyagusuku
 * Riku Miyagusuku
 * George Miyagusuku