seasons wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:58 am
This AMV could have been made 20 years ago (I wrote this comment
before reading Zarxrax's comment!), but the higher quality video and the subtlety of the visual gags and how you employ them also makes this a video that really
couldn't have been made back then, if that makes any sense. I know this song, everyone does or thinks they do, but I had to check the official lyrics online because I had no idea if you were really playing them straight or making changes. And I love how you really played them very straight but only made changes when it was necessary and you did it in a way that felt clever and believable, never tipping your hand when you were doing it.
On the higher quality video: A Blu-Ray version of the series was released in Japan a few years ago. Here's hoping that Sentai would have a stateside release of it sometime down the line (as I would definitely pick that up day 1).
On playing the lyrics straight: That was a big reason why I chose Yatta as the audio source for the video: reading the English translation of the lyrics, I realized that this song would fit Azumanga perfectly.
I don't know what changes you made since the last time I saw this but I know that I enjoyed it much more this time around.
The main changes I did were as follows:
1. I replaced the two jokes that would fly over the heads of people who aren't familiar with the AWA Pro contest (Upbeat Category and Saxophone) with a nod to
Ya Boy Kongming (which has getting a lot of buzz this season) and the Super Mario anime (I had wanted to include that in the original video, but had to wait until a HD version was made to incorporate it).
2. For "Turning Eighteen", I swapped the source footage from
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei to
Komi Can’t Communicate to make it easier for viewers to get (Zetsubou-Sensei was a basic reference to Kikuko Inoue, whereas Komi's mother, along with being voiced by Inoue, also tends to make reference to how she's "forever seventeen").
3. To avoid dating the video too much (too late, now that
Berserk is starting up again
), I swapped out
Marcoss Frontier with
Saint Young Men in the "American Release" joke, as the subject matter of that makes it less likely for the anime to get release stateside.
4. While
Inferno Cop is indeed known for it's very limited animation, that was obviously intentional, whereas the opening minutes of
Twinkle Nora Rock Me clearly shows that its animation budget was very limited.
