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She Wants Me To Be Loved - Danganronpa Raw Valentines MEP
updated
sauce:
https://x.com/seiran_yoroz/status/1921982488663969800
https://x.com/sanshen_yain/status/1920876900240519447
danbooru.donmai.us/posts/9284486?q=sumino_takumi
danbooru.donmai.us/posts/9367159?q=sumino_takumi
danbooru.donmai.us/posts/9346185?q=aotsuki_eito
https://x.com/youuthu/status/1924140210759283099
https://x.com/arcuskurenai/status/1921142582622515367
https://x.com/ashitanoyoka/status/1925492782627791271
https://x.com/misamxsa08/status/1923884572825223309
https://x.com/fishung3/status/1901003755853934832
https://x.com/izumi_481/status/1923312102615245089
Parts for this MEP still available here: youtube.com/watch?v=m9YeT2DaMyI
Proud to announce I went completely insane by signing up for and then completing this MEP part today. In my defense I love editing musicals, and I have been obsessed with the Wicked lyric videos (that is some quality typography and you should all check them out stat).
@stbusstudio5122
Excited for the DR 15th anniversary, idk how they can top the 10th but I'm looking forward to it already.
Sendspace: sendspace.com/file/l6vm9r
Would you all believe me if I told you this was actually one of my favorite Danganronpa ships. I've wanted to edit them for uhhh probably years at this point. This is MY Komahina okay!
I am continuing to be normal about Ikuina/Towa, I love them so so much... I was considering taking a second part for this MEP with these two for months and I'm so glad I went through with it and committed to them. They are the hanahaki ship of all time. Tropes that were Made for Characters.
I love them so so much ;;M;;
Have I mentioned lately that I love Kanon Nakajima because I do... the prompt for this MEP was "family problems or problematic characters and ships" and, well. She hits on all three of those, doesn't she? I love her so so much.
Art by blanko-white, jus-draws, Pixiv ID 1291771, Pixiv ID 58462750, Pixiv ID 47102095, Pixiv ID 48519847.
for @jxstmxki !
Oh jeez, this was a LOT to take on with a short deadline, and it shows, but it's done. I've had the vision of a celes/hifumi part with those clips for texting back and forth for ages and ages, and somehow that one needed less masking than the toxicandy part.
anyways i hope raw with typo is appropriate, everyone else so far is doing pure fx and AHH!
also look i know transitions that aren't hard cuts, okay people
Did you think I was done editing these two... I seriously cannot even begin to express how much these two mean to me. The Slow Damage experience is getting utterly hooked on how amazing these two are in Chapter One and then every 20 hours or so watching the game drop a bunch more lore and narrative parallels that make these two one of the most fascinating ships I have ever seen -- and you cannot explain it to anyone because they are so tied to the overarching plot of the game that explaining why they work is major endgame spoilers.
please consider playing slow damage thank you nitroplus chiral
WARNING for minor cutting imagery. Which is to be expected with these characters but. You know.
Hey, why do I enjoy Ikuina/Towa more than any of Slow Damage's actual official routes? Why aren't they an actual route? Legitimately they have as much (or more) reason to get together as any of the official routes. The PARALLELS between these two... legitimately one of the top tier Nitro+ Chiral pairings, and they deserved so much more exploration than they got. I adore them.
why do NONE of my favorite ships get ROUTES ahhh
Sometimes you take an entire MEP part because of one potential lyric match and this was a prime example of that ("I'll make you sing" had me instantly). Honestly not too much to say about this beyond how very obviously manip-heavy this was. It is shocking to me how much little workable editing footage these two have.
MEP here (parts still available): youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4nbyIBvlU
If no one else is editing sweet pool (2008) I am editing sweet pool, if no one is editing sweet pool I am dead etc, oh my GOD I love Makoto Mita so much and none of you can stop me. The man makes me break out all the character animation. I am a raw editor at heart and you will NOT make me stop thinking about character performance ever, we are ACTING.
Anyways, this wound up being Makoto vs Zenya/Youji instead of the more canon-typical Tetsuo/Youji in part because there was a panel from the manga featuring the former three characters that I wanted to squeeze into this somewhere. And then I couldn't find anywhere to use that panel, even using the relevant CG.
I will absolutely be editing the rest of the cast at some point (I have plans for Zenya in particular), but Makoto is my Baby and I will not be freed. This is Important work I am doing on the sweet pool AMV front okay.
may I work up the energy to edit proper overly emotional dedications to people again soon.
If sweet pool (2008) has one fan it is me, if sweet pool (2008) has no fans I am dead okay. The gays are CATHOLIC.
I think it is hilarious that I dislike editing still footage so much that I had to do a bunch of overcomplicated character animation and compensate with stock footage. I have terminal raw AMV editor brain and this game is just about the only thing that will break me out of that because I adore it. Just... this is one of the smartest transgender allegories I have ever read. It's a beautifully minimalist VN that uses its small size and simple UI design to its constant advantage. It's an incredibly honest game about what trauma looks like and also Makoto Mita is in it. HOLY SHIT, every character in this game is amazing but Makoto might be the standout of an incredibly well-written cast.
Anyways I love this part, I have been sweetpilled. @evnathie
Friend, I cannot believe it is 8 days until I have known you for Three Years and to celebrate I made you This. I hope you enjoy.
Anyways, I'd laid the clips for this out at least a year ago, probably more than that, and I am so glad to have this finalized... Akane is super underrated (danganronpa fans please) and I'm glad to have edited her.
Absolutely SO me that my first live-action edit is theater. American Psycho: the Musical is probably my #2 theater play of all time (Sondheim's Passion is #1, I have to maintain my cred as pretentious somehow), and I was SUPER excited to edit with it. You can see my Patrick Bateman/Evelyn Williams toxic het otp agenda leaking through this part.
Anyways, PLEASE go watch this show, I've been thinking about hosting a MEP to one of the two Killing Time versions for years and you all. should get onboard my Vision.
oh god oh no oh fuck I am head over heels for this boy. To be clear, I'm not sure I've fallen for a character this fast since UDH did its retcon magic on Leon. I adore this game, and he is hands down my favorite character of the cast, and it is daylight robbery we only got one ending for him. He is everything.
MEP is still open, parts available here: youtube.com/watch?v=s6K8PF0D8Q0
RIP Ruruka, she would have loved the whole coquette aesthetic SO much. I love an excuse to play dress-up with DR characters SO much, and the theme of this MEP gave me an ample excuse to put heart-shaped sunglasses on Ruruka. I think coquette is incredibly cool, but also the look is very much more maximalist than my usual style. Hopefully this passes for enough stuff going on.
(I am currently covering my ears and chanting "clip-based FX is not raw, clip-based FX is not raw")
Despaircest is the intention here but you can definitely interpret this one as a Somewhat Less Fucked Up familial relationship if you want to, i'm not the boss of you.
More vent editing? Yes, but shhh, typography. I'm honestly really really happy with how this video turned out. I think it's very effective while also being very, very obviously a video I made, which is neat.
My part got mistimed in the final MEP, which has happened to me only twice and both times with despaircest... cursed ship :'3. I'm not 100% content with how this part turned out, but I did some intense compositing for it (replacing those posters was insane) and I have always, ALWAYS wanted to edit these two to this song, so I'm happy overall.
Made myself a little tritoned Despaircest raw edit like it's 2019 again... this is my favorite video I've done for them in a while. Lil Nas X songs are for the genuinely problematic gays, I'm sorry to say.
Happy birthday Leon... I would not be the person I am today, with the values that I hold and the personal successes I've achieved without you. Thank you for being my muse, for always inspiring me to create; thank you for the friends I have made through those creations. Thank you for your brief presence in Ultimate Despair Hagakure, and the role model you set there. Thank you to Kodaka and the entirety of the Danganronpa team for creating you, and to Yoichiro Koizumi for his contributions to Leon's character in particular. And thank you, dear reader, for listening. Thank you for always listening.
Thank you for introducing me to this version of the song, which I adore. Merry Christmas, go watch Madoka I beg you, and know you are very loved!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Folgers to my dearest friend... thank you for being in my life. As I'm typing this, it's the 22nd, and I've been working on this like mad for about 5 days because I wanted to have this ready for you for Christmas! I hope it will bring you some joy today.
I know my other videos dedicated to you have been a bit more serious and introspective about what our relationship means to me, so I wanted to make you something more goofy and fun this year that also captured some of the best parts of being your friend: sharing the things we love with each other. So this is my tribute to lots of things you like! It has truly meant the world to me to have you like... help me find Interest and Joy in Things again.
It took approximately FOREVER to make this part look good, but I'm actually very happy with the end result! The entire video was conceived around that Junko tearing the paper transition -- it's a concept I've had in mind for ages, and it took forever to find a MEP it would work with. Olivia Rodrigo songs are pretty much perfect for that edgy scrapbook look, and I am so glad I wrangled this part into submission.
The Light Junkomaeda Vibes in this part are very intentional. One of my friends loves that ship and their messed up dynamic, so I've always wanted to make something for that pairing because of that... I'll do a proper video for them eventually, but this will do for now.
Feels GOOD to be editing again, man
I am always so glad to edit Natsumi/Leon... this is my beloved crack ship and no one can take them away from me, I am going to put them in so many horrible situations and it makes me so happy. This part is set in the same AU as the one I first edited them for, where Natsumi is selected for the Izuru Project instead of Hajime. One day, I'm really going to have to sit down and actually write fic about this AU... one day I will have to link my AO3 and my YouTube. not today, i am Shy.
My computer fan broke a while back, and I had to sit on this part mostly finished for much of August and September because I couldn't safely run AE. I'm so, so happy to have my beloved editing software back, and I'm going to have so much fun editing lots of goofy Danganronpa stuff again.
for the lps studios: uhhh hi. I've been making AMVS for what... 4 years now? And never had the courage to jump into LPStube before, even though I've always wanted to. please be nice I had like 48 hours to make this. Also I really, really love Danganronpa and I am not sorry for that.
for my regular viewers: i fucking love lps and. might start editing them more. will probably get a second channel for that because this is my DR Channel. But I really, really love LPS and I am not sorry for that.
depending how you count, this is either the third or fourth time I've edited this song.
Coincidentally, happy birthday Mikan! This is some Excellent timing on my part.
EVERYTHINGGGGGGG about this.
Vid just for fun, I actually really really like how this turned out! Simple to make and the story is pretty clear. Happy Easter if you celebrate.
I actually really strongly dislike this song but it is perfect, PERFECT for Alecto. The Alecto song, maybe? I. I had to do this part, so so bad. SPOILERS BELOW I AM SERIOUS DON'T READ THIS MY ONE DEAR FRIEND
But first, fanart credits:
d0ublele0.tumblr.com/post/708408932427776000/ey-locked-tomb-fanart-someones-probably-done
deviantart.com/monatoradraws/art/The-Locked-Tomb-Alecto-and-Jod-Fan-Art-935010353
tumblr.com/hatepotion/711536852073578496/unleash-intergalactic-chaos-in-style?source=share
Okay so, SPOILERS: Alecto is the spirit of the Earth, and she's dying because of pollution and all that jazz. So she is like "oh I have a smart idea I will give an extremely boring academic the power to use necromancy. What could go wrong." So John (he's the dude in this vid), who is otherwise delightfully boring, starts a cult, murders a shit-ton of cows, and eventually winds up nuking the planet. He keeps Alecto from dying at the last second by merging their souls and stuffing her into a Hollywood Hair Barbie. He later stuffs her into a tomb even though he's in kinda love with her. Anyways, 10,000 years later an immortal gay nun who is also in love with Alecto's Barbie corpse unlocks the tomb. Alecto proceeds to make the fuck out with said nun but it is full of blood and graphic violence. Then Alecto fucks off to murder John, who is now the emperor of a sexy necromancer space empire.
I'm being a little flippant but I promise that is all canon. TLT is what other YA novels dream they could be.
I think posting the other Junko/Mami part was a sign to the universe to let me post this one, I'm so happy... anyways I love this part very much, even though editing this song kind of brutally murdered me by the end.


