Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This video was created purely as an exploration of a very specific mood, inspired by a very specific other AMV that I won't mention here simply because I don't think I came anywhere close to achieving what I was after and so I'd rather not link this one to that one. Nevertheless, I'm happy with the result. I have not actually watched this movie, but all the same I was very sad for days after I completed this video. Maybe you'll watch this and wonder why that was, and that's ok.
Technical notes:
Edited in Magix Vegas 15.0. Total editing time was, I dunno, let's say like 12 hours or something.
Anime: Alice and Therese's Illusion Factory
Song: "Aubrey Plaza" by Nick Ward (2020)
This video was created purely as an exploration of a very specific mood, inspired by a very specific other AMV that I won't mention here simply because I don't think I came anywhere close to achieving what I was after and so I'd rather not link this one to that one. Nevertheless, I'm happy with the result. I have not actually watched this movie, but all the same I was very sad for days after I completed this video. Maybe you'll watch this and wonder why that was, and that's ok.
Technical notes:
Edited in Magix Vegas 15.0. Total editing time was, I dunno, let's say like 12 hours or something.
Anime: Alice and Therese's Illusion Factory
Song: "Aubrey Plaza" by Nick Ward (2020)
![Touch the Sky [AMV edited by aerialesque]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SZcEqByvwPw/mqdefault.jpg "Touch the Sky [AMV edited by aerialesque]
First of all THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO. This video was edited by a friend of mine who goes by the username aerialesque (you can find a link to her channel below). She entered this video into Nan Desu Kans AMV contest in 2016, and it ended up being one of my favorite videos in the contest. She sent me the video file so I could have it myself shortly after, but she never actually released the video publicly. Over the next five years, any time I would see her in person (and several times through Discord and other means) I would hound her to release it, but she never did (per aerialesque, due mainly to wanting to re-edit this using the actual series and not the OVAs...she never got around to it though). Finally, she gave me permission to upload this video to my YouTube channel and give her credit.
I cant tell you how happy it makes me that this video is finally out there, available to the world. Its one of my favorite AMVs from aerialesque, who already has a really strong catalog of videos from over the past 15+ years. I love its simplicity and sincerity, not to mention the editing the lyric sync in this is simply top-notch, the energy is perfect, the visual rhythm as satisfying as anything shes ever done. I really cant praise it enough, and its been a staple video for me these past five years but only me! Now you get to share in it as well, and I hope you love this video as much as I do.
Editor: aerialesque (https://www.youtube.com/user/AerialesqueAMV)
Song: Here I Am Alive by Yellowcard
Anime: Little Witch Academia")
