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• Member: Kaiba57
• Title: For the Title of Strongest: Toguro's Hidden Side (fixed)
• Premiered: 2004-08-19
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Serious
• Song:
  • Switchfoot This is your life
• Anime:
  • Yu Yu Hakusho
• Comments: Note: This video requires a XivD codec to play. You can get a the free version at http://www.doom9.org/ Just go to the download section and it should be there.
  
  *I had to re-enter this video because the first time I uploaded it i didn't realize the timing was off between the audio and video. The new video is a smaller file size and the the timing didn't get messed up. I tried to use a direct download from the old video info, but the site I uploaded it on kept on screwing me over.
  
  Thanks again for taking the time to read this^_^
  
  This Video is about my favorite Yu Yu Hakusho character, Younger Toguro.
  
  *spoilers *
  Toguro was not your average bad guy, as he was first introduced as a fighter for hire working with Sakyo. Later as the story progressed we find out that he and Genkai were in love and were also old teammates in a previous Dark Tournament 50 years ago. Back then, before Toguro became a demon, he was known as a powerful demon killer and was training many young students at his own dojo. Three months before that Dark Tournament, a demon named Kairen, who was the reigning champion of the Dark Tournament, slaughtered every one of Toguro's students while he was away. Toguro was devastated by this and went into intense training until the day of the Dark Tournament. Toguro killed Kairen in the final round and his wish was to become a demon with absolute power.
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  Video Concept:
  At first this was supposed to be about Toguro's relationship with Genkai, but near the beginning/middle I decided to focus more about how Toguro became a demon and persevered to be the most powerful. The video is set in the time frame of after Toguro was killed by Yusuke and is now looking back on important events in his life.
  
  Introduction: In the very beginning I put a scene and sound from the show like in some other Yu Yu Hakusho vids, but instead of putting the exact same scene I used different clips that I felt better showthe introduction better. I dunno if I should of added this part to the
  video but to me it let the audience understand the video a little more.
  
  Comments on some scenes that I thought were important:
  
  Beginning part, the instrumental
  -I used the very beginning as a recap on what had happened with the fight between Toguro and Yusuke in final round of the most recent Dark Tournament.
  
  "Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead"
  -When the lyrics start out with "yesterday" I put clips of where Toguro was still a human. In this particular scene Toguro is walking away from his dead students into the darkness. The main purpose of this scene is to help support the next one.
  
  "Yesterday is a promise that you've broken"
  -This is where Toguro and Genkai won their first Dark Tournament. I took the lyrics meaning that Toguro broke his promise to Genkai in that he didn't stay with her as a human rather that he became a demon and went away never speaking to each other until 50 years afterward. The scene beforehand was help show that Toguro would of probably never become a demon if Kairen hadn't killed his students.
  
  "Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes"
  -Throughout most of the series Toguro had his signature sunglasses on when he was a demon, but when he was a human he never wore anything to cover his eyes. Since we could almost never see Toguro's eyes as a demon I thought that this clip went pretty well in the scene.
  
  "This is your life and today is all you've got now"
  -To keep up the pattern I did with the "yesterday" lyrics, when a lyric had "today" in it I put in clips of where Toguro was a demon. Since this was the first lyrics with "today" in it I flashed back and forth two scenes of human Toguro and demon toguro.
  
  "And today is all you'll ever have"
  - Same as above, except it was a back and forth clip of Genkai and Toguro.
  
  "This is your life, are you who you want to be"(Rpt 2x)
  -This scene shows the first time we see Toguro as a demon with his encounter against Yusuke and Kuwabara. I thought that I should put a fight scene in because this is where the song picks up in tone.
  
  "Is it everything you dreamed that it would be,when the world was younger"
  - I tried to show this scene as if looking through Toguro's eyes. On "is it everything you dreamed it would be " I put a clip of Toguro as a demon fighter and on "when the world was younger" I put a clip of Toguro as a human fighter.
  
  "Yesterday is a kid in the corner"
  This is where I put part the river scene of young Genkai and Toguro and it was flashed back and forth between a scene from the Genkai and Toguro fight. I wanted to show of what happened in the past and how it was related to the future as in the two clips Genkai and Toguro are on the same spot.
  
  "Don't close your eyes"(Rpt 4x)
  -Similar to a previous scene I tried show to this part as though looking through Toguro's eyes. I put the clips as a kind of like a timeline of some of the important events in Toguro's life from him walking in to see his dead students and Kairen right there in the middle of it, to Toguro killing Kairen and becoming a demon.
  
  Final part
  - This was the final scene of the series of where we see Toguro as he is walking towards the afterlife. The scene seemed fitting for the end of the song because Genkai and Toguro make amends for what happened in the past and say their goodbyes. This is also the only time we see Toguro remove his sunglasses intentionally, the other time was when it got blown off by Yusuke's Spirit Gun. This is probably my favorite scene with Toguro and Genkai
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  The compression seems kinda small(32mb for a 4:38 video) but I think that happened because I resized the video to 320x240 and the audio was at 192 kbps. I made it so that people without high speed internet could download it easier.
  
  The song I chose for this video seemed fitting, as I wanted a Toguro video with slow and fast paced scenes. At first I was going to go for a more faced paced song since "This is Your Life" by Switchfoot has already been done to other videos, but in the end I chose this one.
  
  It was very hard to come up with a title for this video as I didn't want to just use the title of the song. I eventually chose "For the Title of Strongest" as some of you may know is also a title of a Rurouni Kenshin episode. The name fits pretty well as Toguro sacrificed everything to become the strongest fighter there was.
  
  I really did enjoy making this video, as I got to base it on my favorite Yu Yu Hakusho character. I spent more time and energy on this than on any of my other videos, as this is the most important one to me.
  
  
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  Software used:
  Adobe premiere
  DVD Decryptor
  Dvd2AVI
  VirtualDubAVS
  TMPGEnc
  AviSynth
  *The video is encoded with XivD*
  -Opinions are greatly Appreciated-
  
  Thanks for Reading^_^
  Hope you enjoy the Video ^_^