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Anything to avoid writing what I said I'd write, right? I heard this song on the radio and thought it was a music video song, but then I needed to match it with something, but then Loveless was the first thing that came to mind, but then I needed to download the anime because I um. Never got past the third epsisode.***

I had no plan for this video. Or no I did have a plan, it looked like this:

1. Lyrics-matching *
2. Maybe a running montage during the instrumental bridge?
3. Avoid scenes that get a lot of play in other Loveless music videos (I've seen three!) *
3. Lots of clips of Ritsuka's crazy mom *
4. Soubi doesn't show up until the line "One says it's true love until the end of time / Another runs away" *
5. Explosions *

* FAILED.

I started yesterday afternoon and finished five minutes ago. Enough of that time was spent cursing my laptop for not having enough contiguous free memory to edit music videos without crashing every five minutes that I actually read all the way through The Complete Letters of Arthur Rimbauld while waiting for Windows XP to restart and Windows Movie Maker (WMM) to load.

( Here's what I learned about WMM )

IN SHORT see if I ever make another music video. XD. Ignoring the crashes, it is ridiculously easy to make music videos with WMM. On the other hand getting the timing of cuts right is incredibly frustrating: the preview alternately lags and jumps ahead and the timeline doesn't subdivide smaller than whole seconds, rendering much of the editing work guesswork.

I thought about naming this AMV "Ritsuka's Pain," but I decided that, the last two days aside, I am not that masochistic.

EDIT: fixed the video following suggestions from rabbitprint (thank you!), who assures me it is not as bad as I think it is.

Loveless - It's All that You Can Do FINAL VERSION

Please tell me what you think. I shouldn't need to say this, but I will: this is my first (last?) music video.

***About Loveless:
Some of you might remember how that last time I talked about this show, I said it was unfair for something so awful to be so pretty and have such great vocal talent. I stand by those comments. On the other hand I like the manga A LOT. The difference is:

The anime is so much more ernest. How am I supposed to appreciate the story of an abused, amnesiac sixth-grade catboy who is molested by his super-submissive university-student stalker "servant" -- with whom he fights psychic battles aginst other, similarly screwed-up pairs -- when I am asked to take it seriously?

Which is not to say that there are no serious themes in the manga (they're the same as in the anime), but the manga has, how should I put this, more of an exploratory spirit. Loveless Anime is not shonen manga bad but it does occasionally stray into TODAY'S MORAL LESSON IS territory. My default setting is "serious"! I need to be told it's okay to just relax and enjoy something before I can just relax and enjoy it. The anime's combination of incredibly screwed up characters and expectation that the audience will learn something from them really got to me. On the other hand all the incredibly screwed up things I couldn't stand in the anime, I love in the manga, if that makes any sense.