Context

My work is best described as a video mashup, specifically an Anime Music Video, or AMV, although there are slight audio edits I make to the opening, but very minor.

The video itself is essentially a music video for a shortened Guren no Yumiya.  In the anime community, there are fans who remix the video to songs in order to tell a story, either it being the story of the anime or give the footage an entirely different meaning.  This includes remixing footage from a single or multiple series, and can use jpop or any other kind of music.  And in similar fashion I tried to make a video with meaning to go along with the music.

The song itself, Guren no Yumiya, is about being a hunter, not the hunted, and in general is a song about fighting.  However, while the original song pairs more with the plot of the original show (killing giants while not being killed by them), I thought it would be funny to recontextualize that as a fight song against one specific female character from a different anime, Bakemonogatari.

The show itself is a harem show, a show where a male main character has relationships with multiple female characters with most, if not all, with some kind of romantic interest towards the male character.  And the opening that uses Renai Circulation is a particularly cutesy opening with an equally cutesy song behind it.  In summary she would be the last character that a viewer would find innately threatening simply from appearance, and in many ways the opening embodies the cutesyness that anime tends to have depending on the genre.   Therefore, I though that paring the cutesy context with battle music would provide a decent level of comedy.

Technically, the song itself is a remix, in the loosest definition.  The entire video is 1:51, 21 seconds longer than a standard anime opening.  That is because I decided to use the actual song from iTunes and cut it down, as there are some lyrics cut from the anime version which I felt made the song boring.

The opening itself can seem to follow the plot of the sequelbait monster movies.  It starts with the monster approaching, the people wary.  Then it appears, and it proceeds to ruin the people's day.  And then with one more strong push, the monster is pushed back to where it came from.  Except... at the end, a cliffhanger scene.  This is what I remember being the framework for a monster movie plot, and with that in mind, I framed the story of the opening alongside this.