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• Member: Qyot27
• Studio: ASI Digital Chaos Studios
• Title: Bittersweet Sentimentalities
• Premiered: 2007-10-19
• Categories:
  • Sentimental
  • Instrumental
• Song:
  • Crush 40 Never turn back
• Anime:
  • ToHeart2 (OVA)
• Comments: Overall, this is just meant as a simple, sentimental video set to a nice piano segment. Initially I had just wanted to do the overlays to evoke a sort of picturebook or memory-related nostalgia, but I knew that it'd look strange to be constantly fading to black, so I edited a video layer to sit underneath it. Problem was, I liked the way that layer flowed by itself. So I decided to include both versions in the final release.
  
  As mentioned, the overlay-heavy version of the video is meant to draw on the idea of reminiscing or being rather nostalgic for the kinds of things experienced in high school. That's really as far as it goes without the context of ToHeart2 coming into the equation (and even when it does, I really don't know the full extent of this particular scenario because I've not played the game nor can read Japanese to do so, so take what I'm about to say with that in mind, as apart from the game, the 2nd and 3rd episodes of the OVA are the only places the character of Ikuno has been featured thus far).
  
  Minor spoilers ahead - if you want to just skip this, go ahead to the next set of bold text.
  Basically, Ikuno - i.e., the girl wearing the huge hat in the beach scenes - has only recently gotten healthy again from a prolonged illness (this much I was able to pull from the game CG and the mention of it in the 2nd episode). Presumably, this also means having been away from school until very recently. Alternating back and forth between the beach scenes where she is with her sister and her sister's friends and the scenes in the high school (often featuring those same characters) is supposed to get across the things she's 'missing', I guess - like I said, probably a rather poorly constructed theme especially with how little the character has been featured sofar, but I think this is fairly accurate to the actual plotline. And yes, some of the at-school shots do feature her, and yes, that is intentional.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Note: VLC does not play the video correctly. Its support for dual video/multiple angles absolutely sucks. The audio also seems to abruptly cut off if Media Player Classic is set to normalize the volume - so if you use MPC, shut off the Normalize function in the audio switcher if you don't want that annoyance. Also related to MPC is that the internal MP4/MOV splitter needs to be disabled and Haali's Media Splitter needs to be used instead - that way both video streams won't show up at the same time.