Azumanga Daioh: The Lord of the Yen Trilogy

Altecha · Post by **Altecha** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:11 pm

One IBM T40 Thinkpad Laptop…

One man’s insanity…

Altecha Chan Studios proudly presents:

The Lord of the Yen Trilogy: Fellowship of the Yen, The Two Pigtails, and The Return of Sakaki-san

(A Azumanga Daioh Parody set to the audio from the LOTR trailers)

Starring:

Osaka’s Ten Yen coin as The One Ring,
The School as The Lands of Middle Earth,

The Forces of Light
Osaka (Ayumu Kasuga) as Frodo Baggins,
Chiyo Mihama as Samwise Gamgee,
Nyamo-sensei (Minamo Kurosawa) as Gandalf the Gray and Gandalf the White,
Yomi (Koyomi Mizuhara) as Elrond of Rivendale,
Sakaki as Aragorn,
Kagura as Legolas,
Yamayaa as Gimli,
Chiyo’s Elementary School Friends as Merry and Pippin,
Karoin as Arwen,
Chirio as Eowyn,
Tomo Takino as King Theodon,
Tadakichi as Eomer and the Riders of Rohan,
Kimura’s Wife as Galadriel,
Random Professor (Episode #1) as Boromir,
Bruce “Three” as an Anonymous Elf

The Forces of Darkness
Yukari-sensei (Yukari Tanizaki) as Sauron and Saruman,
Kimura-sensei w/ “Daddy Hat” as Gollum,
Kimura (going berserker) as Mt. Doom,
Chiyo’s “Dad” as the Witch King and Shelob (the Spider),
Yukari driving her car as The Ring Wraiths,
Chiyo in Penguin Costume as the Uruk-Hai,
Yukari and Kimura in P.E. clothes as the Bel’Rog,
Nekoconeco Doll as an Oliphant,
Tomo in Cat Costume and assorted Cats as Goblins/Orcs/etc.

Video Length: 9 minutes 14 seconds
Video Dimensions: 720 x 480
Bitrate: 700 kbps
File Size: 90.7 megabytes
Video Codec: X-Vid

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=47379

This is my second parody video, and the first that I've ever shown to the public. I'm sorry about the wordy intro, but I guessed that it'll be easier to know the above in advance when watching the video. I will deeply appreciate feedback about this video, particularly what I could have done differently, what I did wrong, and how I can do it better in the future.

Thank You.
-Altecha Chan

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:12 pm

So is this the parody everyone was talking about before?

/downloads now

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:17 pm

I TOLD y'all there were definite character matchups in this one!

Altecha · Post by **Altecha** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:21 pm

My apologies, the video is an mpeg.

V1pr3X · Post by **V1pr3X** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:22 pm

well, first of all, the video is excellent, and you did an awesome job of matching up characters in the trailer with Daioh characters and staying fairly consistant.

If you want a bit of criticism:

This is probably partially due to it being the low quality trailer, but it looks like the syncing (esp the lip syncing) could be just slightly better. In some scenes characters are speaking and only part of them is on screen, and when they turn around and you can see their face they're not speaking, although you'll have the lip sync correct in for the next line.

Altecha · Post by **Altecha** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:59 pm

Yes, lip syncing was one of the harder aspects of making the parody. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to be as precise as I wanted to before the Otakon deadline. I would regard the awkward lip syncing at parts, the bad Photoshop animations, and the ending of the whole trailer as the most difficult stages of the project. Those parts I will immediately agree needed more work.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:50 am

Oh holy crap, that was fun. I couldn't keep Arwen and Eowyn straight for some reason, but otherwise that was great. Gollum in particular had me laughing every time. And Sakaki does "heroic" very well, heh.

Never would have guessed the concept, very cool.

Quiet Cannon · Post by **Quiet Cannon** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:27 pm

Sorry, but I didn't think it was good. I really like trailer videos and how they can match an anime to a movie to make them seem similar, but here it looked like it was just trying to match the sound effects and dialogue without trying to match the feel of the Lord of the Rings movies. It didn't leave me with the feeling that this really looked like a trailer for the actual movie it was portraying like other great trailer videos do. These were obviously two completely different sources, and I don't think they went well together. Maybe that was the whole point in trying to make a comedy video, but I don't find it funny to just watch a strange voice attatched to a wierd looking character.

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:10 pm

Was trying to respond last night, but didn't have the time.

Anyway though, I loved it. I was laughing so hard (that I... hmm). I loved the casting of Gimli.

Gandalf was awesome too.

I agree with Quiet Cannon that this doesn't really feel like a trailer though, but the comedy still worked quite well for me.

<--- Good grief, that's a dopey emoticon.

My dad commented that he thought it might be better if he'd actually seen the show, but since I've read the manga, I was fine.

...
Isn't it funny how I'm always posting my parents' comments? I think it is anyway.

Altecha · Post by **Altecha** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:58 pm

On hindsight, I really have to agree with Quiet Cannon.
After rewatching the video with that perspective, I discovered that I was so caught up with matching up the characters that I didn't maintain the "trailer-feel" of the video.
Perhaps I should do a "Remastered" version of this video... just a thought. Thanks for the input^^