Well since the other topic is dead and I want to use the AMV for a school project (of course giving proper credit) I'll just start a new thread.
Can anyone tell me what all the animes are that appeared in the AMV? And maybe their "I walk alone" story as well? Thanks a lot in advance.
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Who said life isn't a game?
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Did it not list all the anime in the topic? Or here?
As for the "I walk alone stories" for every character, there's no perfect way to answer that... every character has their solitary shell, for some reason or another. For example, all of Trunks' friends and family are being torn away from him. Slaughtered. Maybe somebody else might feel like listing their lonely backstories, but... it might be the wrong way to go about it. They're really too similar to list separately, and you'll probably end up with little on some characters. That's all I can really say.
God, I love Dream Theater.
As for the "I walk alone stories" for every character, there's no perfect way to answer that... every character has their solitary shell, for some reason or another. For example, all of Trunks' friends and family are being torn away from him. Slaughtered. Maybe somebody else might feel like listing their lonely backstories, but... it might be the wrong way to go about it. They're really too similar to list separately, and you'll probably end up with little on some characters. That's all I can really say.
God, I love Dream Theater.
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Hey, a discussion about a video of mine that I didn't start. Neat.
I don't mean to come off as arrogant (or maybe I do, I dunno!... haha), but we intentionally made the video to really be something that can be analyzed with all of its comparisons and meanings. So that's cool that someone wants to do something like that with it! I'll do my best to describe where the video's coming from, in terms of *our* perspective on it... which is completely up in the air and able to be different than your own interpretation of the video (that's the beauty of the whole fandom of AMVs).
First off, I'm going to mention the award the video won at AWA, because it sums it up perfectly. The name of the award was the "Joseph Campbell Memorial Character Profile Award" (in a nutshell, "Best Character Profile"; but there's more to it). Now, personally, I didn't even know who Joseph Campbell was. I feel kinda retarded when I don't know things, and hate looking stupid, but we asked Matt Wagner (the coordinator of the AWA contests and giver of the Expo contest awards) what it all meant.
Basically, Joseph Cambpell was a "famous" author who wrote in the areas of religion and mythology, and specifically, comparative literature there-in. If you want to read anything more on him, specificially, check out the appropriate Wikipedia entry. One of his most well-known works is a book published in 1948 entitled The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Unfortunately, I have not read the work myself, so I can only comment on what I read ABOUT it. Quoting its own Wikipedia entry, "It traces the stages of a hero's archetypal journey and transformation through many traditional mythologies of the world. In the process, it uses many of the theories of Carl Jung, such as the concept of the collective unconscious." From what I undertstand, the basis of what's being said is that every hero ever is exactly the same. Underneath it all, every hero you've ever heard about has the same underlying motivations, goals, weaknesses, etc.
(In fact, if you're a Star Wars fan, you probably know that the book was a basis for George Lucas' franchise. Not being said fan, I had no idea.)
So getting back to our video... what is I Walk Alone about?
Pain is universal. Death is universal. Regret is universal. Love is universal. They know no boundaries, including that between the world of adults and the world of children.
Every hero is the same.
While a working knowledge of the specific characters and the shows in our video may indeed help your understanding in a basic sense (IE - "Oh yeah, I know who they are and what's happening in that scene"), I really hope that it's not *essential* for the understanding of the video. In fact, I don't believe for a second that it is. What I love about comparative character profiles is that if you do it well, there can be characters you're *not* familiar with, and still get a sense that you *are* familiar with them just by immersing yourself in the context of the video. For example, I've had a few people tell me that they haven't seen FLCL, but understand what's going on with that character (Naota) via our video.
The video is really more "thematic" than story-driven. The narrative flow of the video is more focused on introducing the characters, and slowly comparatively-showcasing how they became the (screwed-up) people they are, rather than linearly showcasing beginning-to-end each character individually. Each character is introduced, and you begin to see more and more of their past catching up with them (either through current actions or past events). Of course, the entire enormous ending is an extravaganza of finally cracking and showing those *specific* events that brought them to... er... insanity. In that sense we play a bit with the presentation of timelines, but I think it's obvious enough what's going on (or maybe it's not...?).
I thought I had a lot more to say, but I guess I don't.
Here's a list of the characters (in order of appearance) and the shows they are from (names presented in "American" order, with family name last):
Thanks for checking it out!
I don't mean to come off as arrogant (or maybe I do, I dunno!... haha), but we intentionally made the video to really be something that can be analyzed with all of its comparisons and meanings. So that's cool that someone wants to do something like that with it! I'll do my best to describe where the video's coming from, in terms of *our* perspective on it... which is completely up in the air and able to be different than your own interpretation of the video (that's the beauty of the whole fandom of AMVs).
First off, I'm going to mention the award the video won at AWA, because it sums it up perfectly. The name of the award was the "Joseph Campbell Memorial Character Profile Award" (in a nutshell, "Best Character Profile"; but there's more to it). Now, personally, I didn't even know who Joseph Campbell was. I feel kinda retarded when I don't know things, and hate looking stupid, but we asked Matt Wagner (the coordinator of the AWA contests and giver of the Expo contest awards) what it all meant.
Basically, Joseph Cambpell was a "famous" author who wrote in the areas of religion and mythology, and specifically, comparative literature there-in. If you want to read anything more on him, specificially, check out the appropriate Wikipedia entry. One of his most well-known works is a book published in 1948 entitled The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Unfortunately, I have not read the work myself, so I can only comment on what I read ABOUT it. Quoting its own Wikipedia entry, "It traces the stages of a hero's archetypal journey and transformation through many traditional mythologies of the world. In the process, it uses many of the theories of Carl Jung, such as the concept of the collective unconscious." From what I undertstand, the basis of what's being said is that every hero ever is exactly the same. Underneath it all, every hero you've ever heard about has the same underlying motivations, goals, weaknesses, etc.
(In fact, if you're a Star Wars fan, you probably know that the book was a basis for George Lucas' franchise. Not being said fan, I had no idea.)
So getting back to our video... what is I Walk Alone about?
Pain is universal. Death is universal. Regret is universal. Love is universal. They know no boundaries, including that between the world of adults and the world of children.
Every hero is the same.
While a working knowledge of the specific characters and the shows in our video may indeed help your understanding in a basic sense (IE - "Oh yeah, I know who they are and what's happening in that scene"), I really hope that it's not *essential* for the understanding of the video. In fact, I don't believe for a second that it is. What I love about comparative character profiles is that if you do it well, there can be characters you're *not* familiar with, and still get a sense that you *are* familiar with them just by immersing yourself in the context of the video. For example, I've had a few people tell me that they haven't seen FLCL, but understand what's going on with that character (Naota) via our video.
The video is really more "thematic" than story-driven. The narrative flow of the video is more focused on introducing the characters, and slowly comparatively-showcasing how they became the (screwed-up) people they are, rather than linearly showcasing beginning-to-end each character individually. Each character is introduced, and you begin to see more and more of their past catching up with them (either through current actions or past events). Of course, the entire enormous ending is an extravaganza of finally cracking and showing those *specific* events that brought them to... er... insanity. In that sense we play a bit with the presentation of timelines, but I think it's obvious enough what's going on (or maybe it's not...?).
I thought I had a lot more to say, but I guess I don't.
Here's a list of the characters (in order of appearance) and the shows they are from (names presented in "American" order, with family name last):
- Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
- Vash (Trigun)
- Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
- Shinji Ikari (Shin Seiki Evangelion)
- Naota Nandaba (FLCL)
- Trunks (DragonBall Z)
Thanks for checking it out!
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And a very fine job you did at thatVegettoEX wrote:While a working knowledge of the specific characters and the shows in our video may indeed help your understanding in a basic sense (IE - "Oh yeah, I know who they are and what's happening in that scene"), I really hope that it's not *essential* for the understanding of the video. In fact, I don't believe for a second that it is. What I love about comparative character profiles is that if you do it well, there can be characters you're *not* familiar with, and still get a sense that you *are* familiar with them just by immersing yourself in the context of the video. For example, I've had a few people tell me that they haven't seen FLCL, but understand what's going on with that character (Naota) via our video.
I haven't seen most of the anime's, but I could still familiarize. I'll be doing the assignment soon (I wasn't expecting such great answers so soon 
) so I'll ask you then when I still need something.Who said life isn't a game?