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[kaigou]

It works as an AMV (by my standards) which is above & beyond any basic artistic value: does it make me curious about the series/movie? In this case, definitely. Even if I hadn't already seen the series, I probably would want to, after seeing this.

cosplayeriori for the win! It's Yoshida Brothers' Storm [TM Remix].

Btw, if you're wondering about the series, it's called Mo No No Ke, which is a spin-off of Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales: a combination of Japanese folklore/myth about demons, ghosts, a dose of mystery and a heaping of horror, put through a blender of neon-colored pop art posters, kabuki, cinematic homages to the Shining and Hill House, crammed into a visual of ukiyo-e meets Peter Max meets the cover of the Sgt Pepper album*... And for all that frenzy, at heart it's incredibly layered, subtle, and at times quite chilling.


*a description cobbled together when CP and I watched the first episode and tried to put our fingers on just what was so bizarre/familiar about the visuals.

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

That's a possibility, but given the quality of the remixed voices against the pace of the rest of the song, I suspect the inclusion is during the editing stage and not part of the original song. The cadence and volume is off compared to what I'd expect from a professional-level mix -- and having done such post-production dialogue-into-song mixes myself, I know it's a very very hard thing to get seamless.

So I suspect that's part of the video-editor's flash, to include the dialogue (and I think it works really well) but I'd be very surprised if it's original to the song. Must finish listening to the official Mo No No Ke soundtrack first, before I declare that definitively, I suppose!