[Stripey] 2D Life-goal #05 – I want to make an anime music video

After 3 rounds of retrenchment and a pay cut at my company last year, I've learnt to be thankful/grateful to remain 'gainfully' employed for the sake of my livelihood/2D expenses. But that doesn't stop me from fantasizing about the good times 'good' use of time if I were to be put in-between jobs. In fact, I had it all thought out. Besides, brushing up on culinary skills, becoming a trimmer tanuki and catching up on backlog anime/reading, I would devote also a substantial amount of time/effort into making my first anime music video (AMV), featuring Shirakawa Kotori.

Of course the footages would have to come from DCSS and Kotori's very own insert song 'Andante' in DCSS would be used for the AMV. (Incidentally, I've always thought that many AMVs lose their inherent flavour/charm when non-Japanese songs are used. That's just me of course. Oh, I also heartily support the use of music from the related-series's very own OSTs - lends a certain consistency to the MV.)

Anime BGMs :: Non-Mio headphone test drive

I'm still learning to get the best out of my recently acquired ATH-ANC7. For starters, turning on noise cancelling for a fuller sound, regardless of background noise, bears out a common theme in the reviews. Also an excuse to post about the medley of favourite anime BGM tracks which I used for the headphone test drive as well as an aural pick-me-up. I have even less musical knowledge compared to dear sweet slothy Yui so corrections and level-ups will be much appreciated.

Ginme no Majo (Masanori Takumi | Claymore)

This background music track always reminds me Galatea's deliciously wicked musing as she walked off into the darkness of the forest towards the end of Ep 11. And also when Riful intervened against Jean's attempt coup de grace against Duff.

The dramatic drum beats right at the start are a great hook, thereafter the strings carried me to the embarking on a new adventure, announced by a triumphant brass section. The stirrings of mystery and conspiracy are heralded by piano keys against a background of bass notes and eerie synthetic animal-like calls. The various sounds come together, moving in and out, building into a crescendo that made such a great background to the above-mentioned scenes.