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• Member: LantisEscudo
• Studio: Honou Productions
• Title: Visions of Disaster (Shabu Showdown 2023 Week 1)
• Premiered: 2023-11-08
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Serious
• Song:
  • Two Steps From Hell Mercy in Darkness
• Anime:
  • Millennium Actress
  • Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (movie)
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Sailor Moon
  • Sailor Moon R
  • Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV)
  • Weathering With You (movie)
  • Wind Rises, The (Movie)
  • Your Name. (movie)
• Comments: The theme for the first round of Shabu Showdown 2023 was Owl House Covens - editors had a week to create a video illustrating one of the covens from the show Owl House. The only one that sparked an idea quickly for me was the Oracle coven, which dealt with fortune-telling, clairvoyance, divination, etc.
  
  I had recently been thinking about Sailor Moon, and remembered Rei (Sailor Mars) and her divinations using the sacred fire in her home temple, but it took me longer than I expected to find the footage I needed. I had forgotten how much was in the Doom Tree arc and had been looking in the S season instead. I interspersed the Sailor Moon footage with footage from a bunch of other series and movies that showed the aftermath of major natural disasters to indicate what she was seeing visions of.
  
  For audio, I went back to my familiar well of production music and Two Steps From Hell, which worked for the video, but I decided after this round that I wouldn't use TSFH for the rest of the event, wanting to break out of that familiar rut.
  
  Reactions to it were pretty positive, and I'm pretty happy with the result.