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• Member: CrackTheSky
• Title: Always Wanted
• Premiered: 2020-04-01
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Romance
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • For Tracy Hyde Halation
• Anime:
  • Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! -Heart Throb- (TV)
• Comments: This is the second of three Chunibyo videos I edited in order to show off my love of the series -- it's a super special anime to me and I really wanted to do it justice in AMV form. As a result, I found that it made the most sense to make three separate videos -- one for the first season, one for the second, and a third for the movie. This video uses the second season, Heart Throb.
  
  This was originally going to be a very different video. The idea I had for it had a completely different tone and pacing, and used a different song. After a lot of thought, I worried that it would feel too similar to the first Chunibyo video I made, so I scrapped it. In addition, as I was making clips, I found myself drawn to Satone's character way more than I ever was while watching the anime itself. While I liked Heart Throb overall, it was definitely the low point of the whole franchise. A lot of the dialogue felt shoehorned in, and blunted a lot of the awkward charm that so defined the first season. And while I thought the overarching story was (mostly) great, Satone's character especially suffered from some of that bad dialogue, which kind of undercut her whole arc. However, I found that while I was making clips and basically re-experiencing the anime in the process without hearing/reading any of that dialogue, none of this factored in and I was able to connect with her character emotionally way more. I decided that I wanted to make the video about her and her relationship with Yuuta. I've never seen a Satone character profile before (not that I've looked too terribly hard), and while I'm sure they're out there, this video ended up having a different feel from pretty much any other Chunibyo video I've seen.
  
  I had a heck of a time settling on a song, too; finding the right mood was incredibly difficult and I waffled between four or five different ones. I spent a day or two before I started editing just trying to find something; this is not my preferred way to operate, as I typically know a song backwards and forwards before I start editing, but in the end I came across "Halation", which I had saved in a Spotify playlist at some point in the past after hearing it once, and after listening to it again, I decided that it was exactly what I was looking for. This hasn't worked too well when I've done this kind of thing in the past, but in this case I couldn't be happier with the result.
  
  This is a very bittersweet video. Although it had everything going against it when I started editing, in the end I think this is my favorite of the three. It's not the most fun, or the most rhythmic, but it really hit an emotional chord with me in a way I didn't expect and made me come to appreciate a character I had otherwise kind of written off. Although I've made plenty of melancholy videos in the past, this one just feels different for some reason I can't quite pinpoint and I feel like I could live inside it for days.
  
  Thank you for reading if you did, and enjoy the video!
  
  Technical notes
  Edited in Vegas Pro 15. Total time was...uhhh...let's say about 12 hours or so, most of which was done in a single, long sitting.