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• Member: WesW
• Studio: Classic Rock Productions
• Title: Wayward Son
• Premiered: 2008-06-27
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Other
• Song:
  • Kansas Carry On Wayward Son
• Anime:
  • Wolf's Rain
• Comments: This is a video about searching; searching for paradise for the wolves, in particular Kiba, who plays the role of the "wayward son", and searching for enlightenment for the singer of the song. There are some nice action scenes during the instrumental portions, but at heart this is a drama about searching for enlightenment and love and all those things that life is really about.
  Carry On Wayward Son (there is no "My" in the title) has something of a split personality; on one hand the instrumental riffs, which probably occupy at least half the song's length, are pure 70's rock numbers. A guy I used to know, who was a teen when this song came out, described this as a party song. They probably weren't listening to the lyrics, since those aim to be deep and philosophical. Just trying to find imagery to half-way fit them was a challenge, much less trying to integrate them with the imagery of the riff portions. Whether that integration, or lack thereof, matters much depends upon the viewer.
  Btw, the ending of the vid is different than the series, which is why I didn't check the spoiler tag.
  There are two versions of the vid available; the Local download simply has the song, while the Direct, extended version contains prologue and epilogue scenes which contain the title and credit info, but more importantly serve to emphasize the vid's theme of searching for paradise, as well as a touching message from Cheza at the end.
  I'd recommend getting the Local version, and if you like the vid, view the extended version at least once, for the touching scene at the end if nothing else. Forum thread.
  
  Video notes: The vid had a surprising amount of noise and banding when I rendered the mp4. I tried several different combinations of filters, and finally settled on one which still contains some noise and banding in certain scenes, epecially night scenes, but doesn't lose hardly any detail.
  It also makes a big difference upon which player you view the vid. My default is the KMplayer, which I recommend. Compared to it, the VLC player had richer colors, but at the cost of significantly increased noise and color banding.
  
  Audio notes: The song starts out loud, so to get the song at its richest, it should actually sound a little too loud at the beginning. Just bear it out until that first chorus is over with.
  For the extended version, the show audio is a bit too loud, too. I managed to get things balanced for the master copy, but when I rendered the mpeg I found that the listener would have to turn off the normalizer setting on their player, and then the portions which I had lowered in volume sounded way too low, so I just decided to normalize the mpeg and give you a heads-up on these relatively minor issues.
  
  If the video won't play, get this codec pack.