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Title: Come, O Eclipse
Fandom: Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer,
Song: Ready For The Storm by Dougie MacLean
Contains: Brief shots of violence and self-harm/seppuku preparations
Notes: Premiered at con.txt 2021.

Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer is perhaps the best movie you'll ever see about calendar-making. It's got love! Mathematics! Astronomy! Go! Lots of sangaku (mathematical puzzles left at temples)! Intense Edo-era politics over calendars! Extremely dramatic eclipses!

My parents and I loved this movie, and it reminded me strongly of this song, perhaps because of the prevalent metaphor of space as a sea, or perhaps because of my association of the song with this Apollo 13 vid. The last minute of it came out first and went down quickly and easily; some of the middle parts gave me more trouble. I also experimented a bit with effects (mostly layer modes) because of all the lovely astronomy shots, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Youtube's compression seems to have wreaked a bit of havoc on the video quality - sorry about that!

Download: Click here (contains softsubs for song lyrics)
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