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• Member: Second Element
• Studio: Second Element Video
• Title: How Many Stars
• Premiered: 2004-07-17
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Serious
  • Romance
• Song:
  • Preeya Kalidas and Raza Jaffrey How Many Stars?
• Anime:
  • Inu Yasha (TV)
  • Inu Yasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale (Manga)
  • Inu Yasha: Castle Beyond The Looking Glass (Movie 2)
• Comments: This video was born from the frustrations of my own RL relationship "goings-on" and some of my own personal feelings. I felt that the relationship that Inu Yasha and Kagome have reflected some of the same things I was feeling. Here we have two people, so obviously in love with another but at a stalemate as to how they should assert themselves in their feelings towards one another. They constantly meet one another half way, move forwards, move backwards, and sometimes even pass one another by in their relationship. Of this is born an empty kind of frustration that they both feel. Just how much longer can they honestly play this game with another? How much longer can they keep their deepest feelings to themselves? How much longer do they have until their unwillingness to be forward results in either a burst of emotions or a silent death to what could have been? It's all only a matter of time, and time is being measured in stars.
  
  This video was originally started last January and was about 90% finished when a partition in my computer collapsed and I lost everything. No amount of expensive data recovery equipment could save any of my AMV files, and so "Stars" was lost. After our group got together and purchased a brand-new, top-of-the-line computer engineered specifically for video and graphic work did the video get resurrected. By this point in time, both LIT and R.C. came aboard the video project and
  contributed some of their own writing and ideas. So now, more than half a year later, "How Many Stars" is finished and we can finally get back to wrapping up some of our other video projects.
  
  
  **Video is best received if viewer has at least seen up to episode 126. There are a few scenes from this episode that accompany certain lyrics where episode footage doesn't illustrate what's being said, but "episode moment" does.
  
  Lyrics:
  
  "How many stars have to shine
  Before your eyes meet mine
  How many stars must I see
  Before you dream like me
  
  How many tides have to turn
  Before you turn to me
  How many stars have to shine
  Before my heart is free
  
  How many stars
  
  How many stars have to shine
  Before your hands hold mine
  How many stars must I see
  Before you come to me
  
  How many tides have to turn
  Before you turn my way
  
  How many stars have to shine
  Before you say you'll stay
  
  Everyone needs a sense of belonging
  Someone there who always understands
  That precious gifts can come
  From empty hands
  
  Precious gifts can come from empty hands
  
  How many stars have to shine
  Before we find our way
  How many stars have to shine
  Before we love each day
  
  How many stars have to shine
  Before we find our way
  How many stars have to shine
  
  Before we love...
  
  How many stars?"