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• Member: extraterrestrial elephant
• Title: Love is Unconditional
• Premiered: 2022-06-26
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Romance
  • Sentimental
• Song:
  • Kendrick Lamar Mirror
• Anime:
  • 5 Centimeters per Second (Movie)
  • Anthem of the Heart, The (Movie)
  • BELLE (movie)
  • I want to eat your pancreas (movie)
  • Kiznaiver (TV)
  • Koe no Katachi (movie)
  • Maquia - When the Promised Flower Blooms (movie)
  • Ride Your Wave (movie)
  • Weathering With You (movie)
  • When Marnie Was There (movie)
  • Wolf Children (movie)
  • Wonder Egg Priority (TV)
  • Your Name. (movie)
• Comments: From Youtube Desc :
  
  This song is about self-acceptance, independence and finding your own inner peace. It's about letting go of past trauma, insecurities, and baggage. It comes at the end of Kendrick's new album, "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers" where he goes through his experience in the last 5 years going through therapy. The best thing was that this song in particular was improved drastically and just hit harder after everything else prior in the album. It's easily my favorite album of this year and I have like 100s of listens to it already.
  
  Getting into the making of the AMV, I basically just had the idea after I saw a comment saying the song was like a tune for the end of a movie where everyone is like gathering together at the end credits and all that. So I thought of just having a bunch of anime and showcasing all of them with this core message of putting yourself first which could apply to a ton of anime. Obviously I couldn't have all and lowered it a lot and then lowered it even more when actually doing it because fitting so many storylines is too hard. Even now there's quite a lot to follow if you don't really know the anime in here, could be a good thing though. Vivy, Summer Wars, Tenki no Ko, Bakemono no Ko, ReLife, Tokyo Godfathers and ton more just couldn't really be fit and I just chose as a priority stuff I watched more recently like Belle and Maquia. The actual anime used : Belle, Maquia, Silent Voice, Your Name, Tenki no Ko (for like 1 sec lol), Wolf Children, Kiznaiver, Wonder Egg Priority, When Marnie Was There, Anthem of the Heart, 5 Cm Per Second, I want to eat your pancreas, and Ride Your Wave. Technically took like 3-4 days but like 1 month of procrastinating and thinking about it at times.
  
  As with most of my AMVs, it's also built up/ based on the bridge of the song. So, I already had in mind what to do in the part of the song with the quote, with the characters realizing they have people that really love them and love them unconditionally regardless of circumstances, part of it being because of a familial/motherly bond for a lot of them but also friends that don't judge based on your shortcomings and all that. Also after that quote, it's about Kendrick finding independence and of course in anime like Wolf Children, Maquia, Wonder Egg, and other anime that's also a very big theme, explored in different ways.
  
  It's a little weird but the AMV sort of feels like it only starts at the second chorus when Kendrick repeats the main line from the first chorus, "I choose me, I'm sorry" but with more swelling and bright violins. Basically the idea is to choose scenes where the characters are very happy, almost manic, but where they come back to reality quickly. So, with Silent Voice, Ishida is at an amusement park and is very happy and enjoying himself and the x's on people's faces are disappearing so it seems like he is cured and he is free. But, it's temporary as he meets one of his old bullies working there and the thoughts of shame, regret, and anxiety come back. Same for Wolf Children, with the male wolf kid realizing the beauty of the outdoors only to realize that he needs to come back to school, and human life. It's happiness but then bitterness and anger for that confined feeling that is only amplified after temporarily experiencing what it feels like to be free for himself and embrace his animal side. Also with Pancreas, where it's always not sure to the viewer, to herself and to Shiga (the MC), of how much her smile and happiness is truly just that and how much of it is just masking her own fear of her impending death and knowing basically when it will happen. And finally with Kiznaiver where we see the smile from Sonozaki but we know it's one that's forced as she is literally taking the pain from everyone else of her friends. When we see that smile and the smile of the others, there's like a feeling that it's as a breaking point or boiling point before a crash.
  
  So after that sequence, is a drastic shift in the song with the first sign of a kind of dramatic and tense synth section that for me was a way to show that sharp crash and the various conflicts in the shows. And after that is when Kendrick finally starts rapping and really it's great that he could just have straight bars while talking about things like therapy. And for this section it was just building events to basically the climax point of each show and coinciding it with the bridge of the song. Helpful that in that rapping section there are like 3 parts where the instrumental just starts coming back and building. And yeah after that bridge, was just what I had in mind initially which is just like montage scenes of the characters finding themselves with a happy ending for themselves.