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• Member: Second Element
• Studio: Second Element Video
• Title: The Other Side of Time
• Premiered: 2003-09-21
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Serious
  • Romance
• Song:
  • Mary Fahl On the Other Side of Time
• Anime:
  • Inu Yasha (TV)
  • Inu Yasha: Affections Touching Across Time (Movie 1)
• Comments: I almost feel guilty, as there are at least 2 videos more than 3/4ths finished and I put them aside to do this one. However, we all know these kinds of videos. The kind where inspiration hits, you know exactly what you want to do and how you're going to do it, and you just take it and run with it and don't stop until it's finished. That's how this video came to push itself ahead and out before about 8 other video projects we're working on.
  
  Most people will say, without admiting it's mostly for fan-service reasons, that the second Inu Yasha movie is better than the first ( although I have borrowed some scenes from it for this video). I strongly disagree. There is something completely endearing and touching about the first Inu Yasha movie, "The Love that Transcends Time". Everything from a stolen Kirara mauling into Sango and sending her flying rag-doll style into the air among a cascade of her own tears, to the motif of winter and snow to represent seperation and decay, to Inu Yasha using the very tree he was slain upon years before to communicate with a disraught Kagome.
  
  This video is about remorse, sorrow, suffering, and yet raw hope and forgiveness. The hauntingly gothic and beautiful voice of Mary Fahl, most well-known for her years as the lead singer of "October Project", performs this simple but symbolic theme about two souls being lost in time with only the forgiveness in their hearts and the hope to one day meet again on the same plane in time.
  
  I've included here the lyrics:
  
  "Snow falls, silent and slow
  On the unforgiving land
  You stand clutching your coat
  Red twig dogwood in your hand
  I see your face unchanged, unlined
  No trace of age
  No tracks of time
  Walking over the fields
  Tiny figure on the plain
  You turn into the wind
  And you seem to call my name
  So long you've been unheard, unseen
  Now here you are
  Inside this dream
  Once in a golden time
  We stood beside the river
  And spoke of true things
  We knew would last forever
  Wild promises
  And heartless laughter
  No whisperings
  Of what comes after
  Broken ties
  And unquiet years
  You forget who you are
  I still remember who you are
  You live here in my dreams
  Land of images and signs
  Sleep now, I'll see you there
  On the other side of time
  We all are just
  Points on some line
  We'll meet again
  We'll meet in time"