Negai (Concept)

List of instances of nega- and negai in Sound Horizon songs. English taken from translations by Defade except for Ema ni Negai Wo's teaser, which is by Murkki. Some of what is listed may be from other words that can be rendered as "wish" in English; not all are verified.

Chronicle/Chronicle 2nd

Tsukiyo ni Ochiro Mono

A bonus song video from Chronicle.

"Her feelings shall drive the world into madness
Her wish
Shouldn't have been granted"

Arbelge no Tatakai

From Chronicle 2nd.

"If it were allowed, he even wished that he could return
To that time of ignorance
Even if history wouldn't change one bit..."

Thanatos

Soko ni Aru no Fuukei

First song in Thanatos.

"A toy of wishes. The hourglass of the cycle of death and rebirth. A poem under a starry sky."

Thanatos no Gensou

Last song in Thanatos.

"An incomplete wish. An arbitrarily tilting balance."

Lost

Mahoutsukai Sarabande

"It was said that the spirit would appear to those who wiped the lamp and grant them three wishes
On the condition that he saved one wish for the man, he was told of its whereabouts"

"Allow me to grant your wishes."

"Once three wishes were granted, the girl would be swept beneath the cold sand again"

"And he made his wish..."

Reloaded

Ori no Naka no Hana

"...but, regrettably
Her wish was not granted during her lifetime."

Rein no Sekai

"Even if you wish to wrestle fate and make it obey you
That arm which reached out to grasp the future is much too short...
"

"If your wish be granted, may you never find yourself in the world of Rein."

Elysion

Ark

"...Love wishing to the Ark"

Sacrifice

"I'm sorry, God, that wish of mine was false"

El no Rakuen: Side A

"Wishes that are entrusted to the ark..."

"El is tired, El mourns, and El is the abyss of wishes"

Shounen wa Tsurugi wo...

Shuutan no Ou to Isekai no Kishi ~The Endia & The Knights~

"This is not a world where all your wishes come true→ That's why → The boy will spread his wings wide... Ah...embracing both hope and despair in his two hands"

Kamigami ga Aishita Rakuen ~Belle Isle~

"He shall still sing to that sky…the foolish《People’s》wishes…"

Roman

11-moji no Dengon

"This is your foolish mother's last wish...please
B・e・c・o・m・e・ H・a・p・p・y"

Seisen no Iberia

Shinryakusuru Mono Sareru Mono

"If Granada← falls, our longstanding wish will be fulfilled,
『Reconquista』at last!"

"It is my dearest wish that the neighing of the war-steeds from afar
Will not cross the fortified borders - the summit of mount Pyrenees..."

Moira

None.

Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido

Kanojo ga Majo ni Natta Riyuu

"Your mother wished for you to live within the sunlight of spring and smile"

Marchen

Sei to Shi wo Wakatsu Kyoukai no Furuido

"I’ll grant your wish of homecoming. Holle!"

Takkei no Seijo

"I wished for the wild roses we found
To embrace you, so I planted them around the grave
But even at the very end, they didn’t bloom, did they…"

Ema ni Negai wo!

Teaser Song

"But I never let go
Of that final wish of mine, and continued running up"

Halloween to Yoru no Monogatari

"《My Beloved》[Diana]....I wish to see you...once more..."

Vanishing Starlight

None.

Nein

Ori no Naka no Hakoniwa

“Once, the wishing stars were spread all over the sky of July. Thus, the different horizons were linked as one.”

Namonaki Onna no Uta

"Is it so wrong to wish for day to day <happiness>?"

Shokumotsu ga Tsuranaru Sekai

"But even then, I simply…wished for you to smile until the very end…"

Seiyou Kottou 💋 Yaneura Dou

"You’ll get any three wishes, just like magic!!!
A golden lamp, home to a genie"

Ai to Iu Na no Toga

"There are wishes we want fulfilled, even at the cost of someone’s misfortune"

Rin∞ne/ad921d60486366258809553a3db49a4a

"no ad921d60486366258809553a3db49a4a does not wish for that
ad921d60486366258809553a3db49a4a wishes for something beyond birth"

"ad921d60486366258809553a3db49a4a knows for some reason
that the younger brother needs hearing
and will become someone who loves the world and is in turn loved by the world
that is ad921d60486366258809553a3db49a4a’s wish"