Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My first video essay! I had a lot of fun making this and I hope you enjoy it, too. Witchblade is one of my old favorites and I have a lot of sentimental feelings about it.
CONTENTS AND TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - How I got into Witchblade
01:41 - The setup
04:18 - The original Witchblade
05:34 - Production staff
07:30 - The English dub
09:35 - The soundtrack
12:14 - Theme: Family and motherhood
15:39 - Theme: Destiny
16:18 - Theme: Sacrifice
17:03 - Theme: Terminal illness
18:12 - Theme: Self-defense against sexual violence
19:55 - Theme: The military-industrial complex
22:22 - Tonal balance
23:23 - Outro
My first video essay! I had a lot of fun making this and I hope you enjoy it, too. Witchblade is one of my old favorites and I have a lot of sentimental feelings about it.
CONTENTS AND TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - How I got into Witchblade
01:41 - The setup
04:18 - The original Witchblade
05:34 - Production staff
07:30 - The English dub
09:35 - The soundtrack
12:14 - Theme: Family and motherhood
15:39 - Theme: Destiny
16:18 - Theme: Sacrifice
17:03 - Theme: Terminal illness
18:12 - Theme: Self-defense against sexual violence
19:55 - Theme: The military-industrial complex
22:22 - Tonal balance
23:23 - Outro
![CHELOVEK Человек [SynthV Mai + Kevin]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TRGiIhGiXRQ/mqdefault.jpg "CHELOVEK Человек [SynthV Mai + Kevin]
HELLO I HAD SO MUCH FUN MAKING THIS VIDEO!!! because the song is pretty straightforward i wanted to do an experiment and make my own music video for it. let me know what you think!!
i tried to use as much public domain material as possible for this vid. heres where i got all the images:
- i got SO much mileage out of texturefabrik for this video. they have a shitload of stuff for free use and i used a ton of their paper textures and x-rays (except for the last x-ray which was pulled from a random stock photo site)
- videos of abandoned buildings by crump stock footage
- book excerpts from the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, moby dick, and frankenstein
- various face cards from physogs, a british game from the 40s about the pseudoscience physiognamy (which tbh is kind of fucked up)
- illustrations from emotional anatomy: the structure of experience (1985) by stanley keleman
- i pulled the various half-screen images in the middle of the video from pinterest tbh (which isnt great lol) but as far as i know all of the sources are old as balls. lots of woodcut prints and medical books that would take me hours to try to hunt down the specific hundred year old sources of. RIP sorry
credits are at the end but here are the big ones again (mostly so that this video is more searchable haha): chelovek is by GHOST/ghost and pals, ust is by miningsquirrel.")
![All I Wanted [Synth V SAROS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1ta6aN0k-0/mqdefault.jpg "All I Wanted [Synth V SAROS]
hello i love hayley williams and i love saros. this was sort of experimental lol but i had fun even if the mixing was surprisingly difficult. yeehaw
original svp by HWAAstyle :^)")
![Spillways [SYNTHV KEVIN]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UV4_J7ESf8E/mqdefault.jpg "Spillways [SYNTHV KEVIN]
another synthesizer v cover, this time of my favorite band, wheeeeee
im having a lot of fun! the mixing for this was a trainwreck so i hope it sounds good because im not doing it again ❤️
the original svp is by ricecristpy! i edited the hell out of the octave shifted harmonies which was a fun experiment
https://ricecristpysusts.blogspot.com/")
![[UTAU] Alien Alien - Bossa Nova Arrange [Momone Momo MELLOW]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V0jwy4jELN4/mqdefault.jpg "[UTAU] Alien Alien - Bossa Nova Arrange [Momone Momo MELLOW]
This is a reupload! I didnt check the audio on the previous upload and went to sleep like a moron, and didnt realize until hours later that it was messed up. Oops.
UST by half a head, translyrics and lyric video by Oktavia!")
![[UTAU] AIRHEAD ガランド [Namine Ritsu SOMETHING IS KIRE]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VBvA9BPkz08/mqdefault.jpg "[UTAU] AIRHEAD ガランド [Namine Ritsu SOMETHING IS KIRE]
testing ritsus new voicebank! im not even sure if thats the real name of the voicebank but oh well, thats what it says on the canon-voice site so thats what im puttin down,,, anyway this song is a BOP thank u picon
TRANSLATION NOTES:
[1] 1. rōnin; wandering samurai without a master to serve; 2. person out of work
[2] tandem (adjective); having two things arranged one in front of the other.
[3] Amygdala is the integrative center for emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation.
UST from sm33207191, by 甘味 (kanmi)
art by CAFFEIN
song by Picon/ピコン
subtitling by MsCetozoa
translation by Kuroaky")
![Itsumademo いつまでも [Synth V SAROS] Bilingual Cover](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W46Qord0x4w/mqdefault.jpg "Itsumademo いつまでも [Synth V SAROS] Bilingual Cover
ive wanted to cover this for a million years but couldnt decide whether i should do it in the original japanese or if i should use the english lyrics provided by crusher in the original video. solution... both :^) english is in the left ear and japanese is in the right.
the jellyfish background is stock footage btw. heres crushers original video. i used the midi provided in the downloads to make my cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_XpLREWgmw")
![Money Money Money [Synth V Felicia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Widtl8TZBxc/mqdefault.jpg "Money Money Money [Synth V Felicia]
i bought synthesizer v version 2 and felicia (plus some other goodies) during the black friday sale and she is SO fun. what a powerhouse
svp by kaiske
character art from the vimalion project at vimalion.pro")
