Sora, Kaze (Kotani Kinya)
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About the short movie:
I will not share the actual video of the short movie because of the reason stated above, but I made many snapshots of it, which should give you a pretty good idea of how it is ;)
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>> It last as long as the Sora Kaze song, meaning around 4min. What you see above on the snapshots is all of it, literally. The animation is low and hardly worked on, the movements of the chibis were limited to the bare minimum, we are at the limit of mediocrity. The CD/DVD was not expensive, but as a product that was actually put on sale in stores (not just, say, an animation that would have been put online for the fans to watch freely, or aired the day of the festival in public view), I expect more. Well, that was my opinion as someone who watched thousands of episodes of hundreds animes.
Now, as a Clamp's fan, of course, I enjoyed watching it anyway ^^ All the chibis are really adorable, we got to see bigger views of some of the new illustrations on the Clamp 2013 desktop calendar, watching Holitsuba's latest addition Anzu Nekota and Naomasa Goushi *sort of* animated was nice too, and the song Sora,Kaze matched quite well with the whole thing. But even with my biased view, I still think the 2 mokona were too badly drawn ^^;
>The short movie started with black and white pics of some of Clamp's most famous series, went on with the title, continued with the chibis posing and making little movements, they maybe had 2-3 different positions each max. It then goes on with both Mokona fighting for the deck of cards, each trying to get them for themselves, and in the end they all go flying, scaterring around.
We go through chess pieces now, all representing Clamp's characters, and Anzu/Naomasa facing each other off and throwing chess pieces, until the moment their faces go closer and these 2 tsundere get embarassed and separate ahaha~ Continuying on, the 2 mokona cast some magic on those 2, and they turn into musicians! Playing and singing around while more black and white panels appeared in the BG, until they switched back to more chibis. Finally, the 2 mokona are yet back again in the picture and fly off toward the Tokyo Tower. The last shot is Anzu and Naomasa holding hands, so sweet ^^
About the CD:
There are 6 song tracks:
01. Sora Kaze - CLAMP Festival 2012 theme song [download]
02. Junketsu Paradox - BLOOD-C theme song
03. Platinum - Card Captor Sakura theme song
04. Sora Kaze (off vocal ver.)
05. Junketsu Paradox (off vocal ver.)
06. Platinum (off vocal ver.)
>> I was geniunely surprised when I suddenly heard a male voice singing Platinum, even though I knew that it was Kinya's CD, somehow my brain didn't register that he would be singing it: when I saw 'Platinum' on the list, I distractingly thought "aaahh, they put that song again, here goes Maaya Sakamoto". It felt really different, but not in a bad way :D Maaya Sakamoto's voice is still the best though, no offense Kinya, but she's a legend! :P Great job singing Sora,Kaze though, I liked it ^^
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