no more heroes video script from 2024

07 Jan, 2026

Disclaimer: This also isn’t a video essay
I didn’t research whatever I’m talking about as much as I am basking in the memory of it
Consider this a video journal I guess
Don’t worry
Relax
It’ll be okay
Let’s see how far we can take this
And for you there holding the Wii remote right now
Press the A Button

“It’s like poetry sort of, they rhyme”
-George Lucas

The lightsaber has always felt like the quintessential fantasy wishlist item
People want lightsabers
Whether it’s toys or more expensive display models
People want lightsabers
Hell people even want the experience of making their own lightsaber, having input on their own little individual customizations on it, being absorbed by set dressing to make it feel like they are about to construct an actual for real lightsaber for themselves
I still have my own toy lightsaber from when i was a kid kicking around in my closet somewhere
The hilt was based of off Anakin’s lightsaber, with the plastic, sectioned beam in it being green
I got it as a gift from a science after-school program I participated in while in the 5th grade about space
I forget the name of it, not sure how far it reached across the US, but I knew it was at least an east coast thing
Premise was that students would design and prototype a useful tool to be used in space
My group made an extendable arm for reaching and picking up objects
We called it the WOOFER, standing for When Outside Of spaceship Fetches Every Resource We even made a smaller, shorter version and called it a Sub-WOOFER
We ended up winning a trip to Washington DC because of it, which to be honest wasn’t the most exciting thing
I lived about an hour away from DC with my family at the time and my dad worked at a university there, so I already made frequent trips
The group I was in and I had received those gift lightsabers from the teacher that had worked with us because we had used a gutted out lightsaber toy for some of the parts of the WOOFER
I had the typical childhood dream back then of wanting to be an astronaut, and was a big fan of Star Wars at the time with the then recently release movie, Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith
I wanted a lightsaber too, and knew that if I wanted one, I’d have to make it real
The WOOFER felt like a version of making it real and turning it into something useful for a job I aspired to at the time
About a year or two later
The Nintendo Wii came out
And one of the of the first things that came to people’s minds when Nintendo unveiled their console featuring motion controls was
I want to use this to wield a lightsaber in a video game

No More Heroes came out in 2007 for the Nintendo Wii
The game was originally planned for the Xbox 360 apparently, but changed focus to a Wii release instead to take advantage of the motion control capability
I wouldn’t play the game until 2012, when I was a junior in high school
I started diving into some of the lesser known titles of the Wii at that time, stuff I could pick up for pretty cheap
Ended up playing Mad World and Muramasa this way too
Similar to Mad World, No More Heroes filled the niche of being a violent, bloody rated M game for the Wii, a console that was mostly defined by being family-friendly
No More Heroes opens on a monologue from protagonist Travis Touchdown
He tells a story about how he realized he was broke and needed to get some cash, he meets a woman at a bar that introduces him to the occupation of assassination, he successfully takes down his first target, then the woman introduces herself as Silvia Christel, an agent with the United Assassins Association, and with that kill Travis is now ranked as the 11th best hitman, and goads him into aiming for the number one spot “I wanna be number one. How's that? Short and simple enough for you? It's gonna be a long, hard road. But who knows? Could kick ass... Could be dangerous. Could totally suck. Whaddaya say, bro? Join me. Let's see how far we can take this. And for you there holding the Wii Remote right now... Just press the A Button. Let the bloodshed begin”
And so No More Heroes begins as Travis brandishes his beam katana and works his way up the assassin rankings
The game’s rhythm is you go out as Travis into the city of Santa Destroy to make money from odd-jobs and assassination jobs in order to pay the fee required to take on the next ranked match, spend some cash to upgrade your beam katana, go visit your master Thunder Ryu to train at a gym to get stronger, and maybe find some cool new threads in a dumpster
Travis gets around between all these locations on his motorbike, the Schpeltiger
This isn’t the rhythm one would typically expect from a game like No More Heroes
Looking at the game’s cover we just see Travis wielding his beam katana, sporting a big grin on his face, ready for action Wouldn’t be a reach to expect this game to be nothing but non-stop fights to rise up the ranks, but naw, we got chores to take care of, a veritable routine before we can reach the big over the top boss fights the series has become known for
This was the most tedious part of the game for me, grinding out money by driving around what was a pretty empty city
I just wanted to dart straight to what I considered “the good stuff”
Schpeltiger didn’t feel like most video game vehicles either, it was easy to crash by bumping into buildings and other objects in the city
The act of going around the city just felt tedious and unnecessary, an excuse to have an open world and make people navigate it to go between places that could’ve just been in a menu
The only other thing the city offered was a few collectibles so removing wouldn’t take away from the experience, right? Despite my issues, I still loved the game overall
Was really into anime at the time, and my basic reaction to the game was “wow, it’s just like my japanese anime”, and recommended it to people on that basis
I loved Travis too
Loudmouthed, arrogant, piece of shit otaku that I saw him to be, I adored him
I played the sequel No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle right after I finished the first game
The first game teases the player by having Silvia say a sequel will never happen, which then gets nearly immediately contradicted with a Back to the Future styled “TO BE CONTINUED” card right at the end
High school me loved the sequel even more
It went even more ridiculous and over the top than the original with things such as a mecha fight, other characters being playable for certain levels, being able to dual wield beam katanas, it had it all
It fixed a lot of problems I had with the first game as well, including the open world
NMH2 cuts out the open world entirely, opting to just use menu navigation
Gone was the fee required to progress to the next ranking fight, the only thing money was needed for was to upgrade the beam katana and power up Travis at the gym
All the minigames were shortened into cute little 8-bit retro style minigames
The experience was smoother and made to make it easier to just get to the big moments
Ended up loving it even more the first game

Hey, sorry to interrupt I’ve got something a little different for this video
There’s a lot i’m keeping from the last one structure wise, me talking while some game footage plays
Then we’ll hit a bit more of a personally focused story, I’ll tie my personal experience back in with the game, and then there’ll be some text to introduce a song
Sound good?
But I wanna spice things up a bit
While playing No More Heroes again when writing this I wrote some small fan fics
They’re mostly just exploring what Travis might be thinking at certain moments of the story so they’re done as internal monologues
I’m gonna sprinkle em throughout the video
That cool with you?
Let’s go

[Fic #1]
How long have I been sitting here already?
The automatic lights just turned off
Been still here for a while
The darkened stall is helping me rest my fucking eyes for once
They don’t warn you about what holding a beam katana for a living does to you
All the lotion I have to use with how dried out my skin gets
Shit hurts to fucking look at, I’m holding a goddamn fluorescent bulb inches from my face
At least I got these sunglasses
Used to think they just looked cool but now they’re necessary for the job
I could go for some more quiet for a bit though
Who’s the asshole I’m taking out today?
Dr. Peace?
I can hear his singing from here
Dr. No Peace and No Quiet more like
Still though, guy’s got decent pipes
Wrong career choice ending up being a ranked assassin instead of a charting musician though sounds like
Why’d he become a killer?
I wouldn’t be here if I had talent like that
Couldn’t turn wrestling into stable living
Then again
Maybe I would always end up here
Maybe he feels what I feel
Maybe he’s got the bloodlust too
This line of work always gets people killed, but fuck it, what line of work is safe nowadays outside of being a fucking pig in blue
If I die it’ll be with a fucking lightsaber in my hands, who gets to say that?
That Dr. Peace
He feels it too
We’re the same kind of fucked
Who gives a shit about stability
It doesn’t exist anymore
We get to lay it all on the line to be the coolest motherfuckers in the world for a few minutes
Alright Doctor
Bathroom break’s over

Fast forward to 2020
I’m waiting on No More Heroes III’s release
It was announced in 2019 and was expected in 2020 but had been delayed due to the pandemic
In an attempt to tide people over as well as get newcomers caught up on the series both No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle got ported to the Nintendo Switch
I immediately jumped on this new release of both games
My commute to and from work at the time involved a pretty lengthy bus ride of nearly an hour each way, so I usually brought my Switch with me to keep myself occupied
I started playing No More Heroes on the bus
I mostly just played the side jobs and missions of No More Heroes 1 while on the bus, opting to leave the more bombastic moments for when I was playing at home
Going around Santa Destroy on the Schpeltiger felt different this time
I don’t know why exactly
If all it needed was a replay to realize how the pieces of the game fit together
Or if being an adult working a 9-5 was the context I had been missing playing it originally as a high schooler
But either way it felt different
No More Heroes’ city of Santa Destroy might not be exciting compared to the usual open worlds
But it perfectly facilitates a routine for Travis, and the commute he takes to accomplish it
Drop a save in the bathroom of your room at the No More Heroes motel
Check your answering machine for the fee for the next ranked match
Go check out the video store around the corner for what new wrestling videos they’ve got in stock
Go visit Dr.Naomi to upgrade the beam katana
Visit your master to train at the gym
Check in at bar plastic model to learn some new special techniques from local Russian drunk Randall Lovikov in exchange for the red Lovikov balls that can be found throughout the city
Take a peek into the clothing store Area 51 to see if they’ve got anything new that catches your eye
Go to the job center and pick up a side gig collecting coconuts, picking up trash, mowing a lawn, or whatever else is available to grab some cash and get introduced to some more unsavory work
Head to K Entertainment to accept an assassination mission more worthy of your talents Keep working till you have enough to pay off the ranking fight fee, then deposit it into the atm across the street from the motel
Go back to your room to take a phone call from Silvia christel giving you the location for the next ranked fight
Go to the ranked fight, fight for your life, win, and then start the process from the beginning again
Between each step is a commute as well, riding the Schpeltiger down the streets of Santa Destroy
Not much happens during these rides
It’s possible to boost and quick turn through the streets, but it has to be done carefully to avoid crashing and falling off the Schpeltiger
Better to take things slow at first as you get used to handling the Schpeltiger and learn the streets of Santa Destroy
There isn’t really anything else to worry about while riding aside from just getting to where you’re going
Sure a collectible might catch your eye but those are mostly marked on the map anyways so those become another stop along the way
There’s ritual in this routine
Much like a real life commute And it’s easy to become frustrated when focused on optimizing time
But Santa Destroy isn’t a video game level
It’s a city
Travis’ commute became my ritual during my own real life commute
Watching the scenery of Santa Destroy pass by as the scenery of my own city passed by through a bus window\

[Fic #2]
How do dead bodies feel so light
Yeah, sure, her body is missing her head now… but still
I fucked up
This isn’t a goddamn game
We don’t get to walk away from this
Mercy isn’t real here
We’re assassins
We kill
There’s no winning or losing
It’s killing or dying
Seeing her bite down on that grenade…
What a crazy bitch
And yet it was the most sane thing I’ve seen since I started these ranking fights
She sure knew her stuff, huh?
Had a whole routine down
Traps planned out perfectly
Precise throwing arm too
I’m just an asshole barging in jerking off a lightsaber
Fuck, I only started going to the gym again recently
Don’t worry Holly
I’m gonna make sure you get buried properly
I gotta atone somehow, right?
And don’t worry
I won’t give anyone waiting ahead the same courtesy
I thought I was walking the walk well enough
I thought having bloodlust was enough for this line of work
But I haven’t given in to it yet
Time to start the game
For real this time\

No More Heroes III releases
I worked that day but picked it up once my shift was over
I worked at a big box retail store so I picked up my pre-order right where I worked once I clocked out
Took a short bike ride to hop on the bus towards what was still home for a little bit longer, popped in some earbuds and started playing it on my switch
The strongest memory I have of the game while on that bus ride back home was of the Deathman section
A game boot-up screen starts, but instead of it being for No More Heroes III, it’s for Deathman, a retro looking old school beat em up
Travis starts talking about the game while going through different online videos about it, expressing nostalgia for the game
The story of Deathman has some obvious parallels to that of the No More Heroes games, there being 10 Death Aliens that the protagonist Deathman has to work his way through in order to save the Earth
Travis talks about how the big reveal at the end of Deathman is finding out Deathman’s true identity, but he can’t remember it
He forgot
But there’s good news for Travis, the remake just came out, he’s ready to find out who Deathman really is again
No More Heroes III came out 13 years after the original game, so listening to Travis talk about his nostalgia for a game he played growing up feels appropriate
Travis talking about forgetting the big reveal of the game is similarly appropriate
It’s been so long since people first played the first two No More Heroes games, there’s a lot that gets lost over time, no matter how fondly someone might think of it still
The true identity of Deathman, huh
Travis seems almost like a different person entirely each time we see him
Colored by the different ways in which we experience his story each time, and hey, I was a different person after 13 years as well
There was a big change in my life that had just hit right before the release of No More Heroes III
Went over it in the last video so I’m not gonna repeat it here, but I was gonna be moving soon
At the time I didn’t know where I’d be able to move to yet
I was in a limbo
Between two places
It was hard to imagine where my life would be able to possibly go next
Any kind of plan I could’ve had was gone
I had been where I thought I might possibly be for the rest of my life
The No More Heroes series shows Travis again and again working his way through the rankings of the top assassins, taking them down one by one each time he becomes presented with this challenge
In each one he gets shown in one way or another, taking care of his cat, Jeane, doing some odd jobs for extra cash on top of his main job as assassin, gradually collecting stuff for his room at the No More Heroes motel to deck it out in his style with the stuff he wants to be surrounded by
There’s a kind of unexpected relatability from the guy
He’s almost aspirational
Who is Deathman
Who is Travis Touchdown
The one that constantly sticks out in my mind is the 27 year-old we see in the first No More Heroes
The one adapting to this new life of being an assassin
The one that really has to work his ass off in order to pay off the fees required to work through the assassin rankings
Riding his Schpeltiger through the streets of Santa Destroy not for any kind of sightseeing or video game-based tourism, but as his daily routine for the life he has there
And above all, succeeding through it all, while still being human
Sparing Shinobu
Hoping to spare Holly Summers
Coming to his senses at the end and coming face to face with deep seated family trauma that he only unpacks and remembers near the end of the game
There are no heroes
Just people

[Fic #3]
Fuck
That really was close
Fuck me and my cocky ass for thinking this wouldn’t happen eventually
I was scared for my life there
How the hell did that crazy bitch manage to keep hitting me with a fucking beam katana in her stomach
Fuck
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
FUCK
I’m gonna be feeling this for a while
“It’s just a job. The daily grind” she said
I only started this shit recently
Is that what a lifetime of this turns you into?
Not like I’m any better right now though
Pretending to give a shit
I’m still killing, just like her
I’m stuck in this now
Not like this would help my resume
No switching career paths
A living’s a living, and life is violence
I couldn’t be placed into a stuffy office anyways
As much as I keep on trying to deny it, I’ve still got this bloodlust
Let me lay here a bit longer
One more left to go…
And then what?
Once I’m at the top
Who do I stab this beam katana into next?\

Travis picked up a beam katana and immediately after became an assassin by trade
For a lot of No More Heroes he excuses him killing for a living as just being due to kind of person he is
He becomes more reflective on this over the course of No More Heroes and in Travis Strikes Again and No More Heroes 3 as well
In Travis Strikes Again he reflects on killing a childhood hero
How he couldn’t empty his head the same way he would taking down other targets
His capacity to kill gets referred to as the bloodlust in No More Heroes III fairly regularly
As if it’s some kind of innate unstoppable force
Trav manages to find a good amount of times to use his talents for good, but at the end of the day he doesn’t get to dictate the fights that get arranged
The UAA does
A corporation that for the most part still feels like an enigma
A large unknowable entity that exerts control over Travis and every other ranked assassin in the series
Are his morals truly his or whatever the UAA allows them to be?
There’s a lot of different things I’ve wanted to be in life
Inspired by media I’ve consumed I’ve flirted with actually doing some of it
Heck, that’s why I’m making this video right now
But can I say that creating this is how i really live?
It’s not what I’m doing 40 hours a week
It takes up a decent chunk of my free time here and there, sure
But that’s temporary
I don’t know how much more of this I’m gonna do
This could be the last
Who knows
I’m allowed to live due to working a job where I’m encouraged to make people’s lives harder and more expensive on a daily basis
I never wanted to be this
But I’d be dead without it
Might still end up dead with it
It’s certainly something that has made me want to be dead from time to time
The ache in my legs most nights from standing shift after shift
The constant draining of a social battery that’s already fairly limited in the first place
I wish I had the energy to do more
To interact with people more
To be an active part of a community
Violence in media is useful
What could be possibly be a better metaphor for capitalism
The act of living is violence against those that want you dead
I wanted to be an astronaut
I wanted to be an engineer
I wanted to be a computer scientist
I wanted to be a game designer
I wanted to be a comic book artist
I wanted to be a writer
Now
I just want to live
I hope I get to one day
By the way
That childhood hero Travis had reflected on killing being specifically difficult?
One important piece of context for that
It wasn’t a real person
It was a character in a video game he entered
Travis got a beam katana
Which lead to him killing one of the fictional heroes that in part inspired him to live the life he ended up living
Why do we want lightsabers?\

[Fic #4]
This apartment
The clean-up jobs
Going up head to head against another to make a name for yourself
I know this life, Smoking King
Not as a drag racer, but as an assassin
I’ve lived it twice now
That first time was a high like no other
I thought I knew what it meant to be a killer
Thought all it meant was I was fucked up enough to take a life and keep going, that I was able to turn this infectious bloodlust into a paycheck
You ever watch Jackass?
I don’t even know if it exists in your world here I guess
It’s a show that started out on MTV and got some movies on top of that
It’s basically just a group of dumbasses doing really stupid shit on camera
They got paid based on how risky the stunt was
My favorite guy on the show was always Steve-O
Fuck that asshole Johnny Knoxville
Anyways, the way these guys got through these stunts was by being some combo of drunk and/or high for it all
Which feels obvious looking at the shit they did, getting branded, swimming with sharks, all looked like fun and games under the influence
Then Jackass 3D happened
Steve-O was working on himself and getting sober
Rest of the cast even including that smug fuck Johnny Knoxville stayed sober in solidarity with him while working on this one
Good for them, genuinely, that ain’t easy to do, kicking a habit like that
Point being though, that substance fueled high was gone for them now and they just had the reality of the shit they were doing
No more fun and games
You can see it on their faces in this movie
That’s what working through the assassin rankings a second time felt like for me
No more high
No more dumbass delusions of a higher purpose in the killing or that it was a return to some base nature I had
The warmth of bloodlust left me
I was getting revenge in a shitty roundabout way
It wasn’t about Bishop
I even hunted down the guy that did the hitjob outside the fucking UAA rankings
Turns out he was just a normal fucking guy, not like any of the cracked-out characters that fill the assassin rankings
I realized what the scariest thing about being an assassin is
At the end of the day, this is just a fucking job for me
I kill people to make money
That’s it
Just like how that fuck-up Johnny KNoxville gets run over by bulls to make a living
I’m no fucking different
God this room really takes me back
Trailer living has been a much needed break
Hard to not feel like it’s just a break before I get back to it though
This song’s pretty good
“Cold Rice”, huh?
From one video game protag to another
Here’s hoping tomorrow brings you a better day

Hi
Cool if I share another song?
This’ll kinda be like last time
Might not be something you’re expecting though
Did you ever play the original release of No More Heroes for the Wii?
Not the newer ports
It was a lot of fun swinging the wiimotes for those finishing slashes, huh?
Sorry for getting off track
Point is the Wii version had a song that was removed from the later releases
They didn’t wanna pay to license it again I guess
Here it is
My name is Chyler, thank you for watching
I’m tired of fighting
Let’s find that exit they call Paradise\

[Travis audio to lead into amv]
It's gonna be a long, hard road.
But who knows?
Could kick ass...
Could be dangerous.
Could totally suck.
Whaddaya say, bro?
Join me.
Let's see how far we can take this.\

Irl footage with lightsaber, an A button prompt appears to turn it on

Blank screen for just long enough

[Fic #?]
Watching these let’s plays of Deathman feels so weird
I played this game as a kid
Obsessed over it
Spent days in front of my Death Drive hooked up to the family TV
Eyes glued to Deathman taking down Death alien after Death alien
It took a while since it’s a tough game, but after a long while I beat General Death and got to see the ending where Deathman’s true identity gets revealed
I remember playing the game but I’m totally blanking on the big reveal at the end
I remember my time with it so fondly, why can’t I remember this?
Was it disappointing?
Was it because I was just a kid back then?
I’m the fucking Otaku Assassin goddammit
I should be on top of this
I picked up the remake immediately on release but I haven’t even touched it yet
I took the shrinkwrap off and just threw it on my shelf alongside everything else
I’m surrounded by games, figures, movies, posters, CDs, records, manga, comics
How much of it still exists in my memory
Is it all taking up more physical space than space in my memory?
The last time I’ve touched most of this shit was when I moved into this place
Most of it is stuff I’ve picked up for myself too
I’ve got some keepsakes from past relationships and friendships
A few from current ones
But there’s so much around me that feels cold to the touch
There’s a shirt I have from someone I still wear, it started getting holes over time, so I just use it as a sleep shirt now
The important stuff is slowly but surely fading away
But I’ve got this stack of games and movies that’ll be here for basically forever
I picked up the launch edition of Deathma-

No More Heroes III for the Playstation 5 when it got a port
Figured it’d be a good way to replay the game
I never touched it
Even when I was replaying the No More Heroes series while writing this video I didn’t even use it, I just used the Steam copy I grabbed on sale like a year ago
No More Heroes III came out at a time that was really difficult for me
I’m surprised I didn’t kill myself back then
The only thing that stopped me was thinking that doing it would be too much of a problem for others to deal with
Too much clean up
Too much shit laying around to deal with
But No More Heroes III helped reinvigorate something in me
I wanted to live to see more art like this
And despite No More Heroes III instilling a will to live in me
There was so much about the game that escaped my memory
How?
How did I let myself forget so much about something that important to me
How important is any of this shit around me if I’m able to forget like this
Am I broken?
Is this a normal part of growing up, of time passing?
I started journaling while making the last video
I mostly did it cause I thought it’d make for a cool segment to to look through a journal
I stopped journaling for a bit after I finished the video, but I picked it up again for this one
When I was in school I remember taking notes I would never read, but the act of writing those notes made the info stick in my mind more easily
I’m hoping journaling can do the same now
I’m finding myself longing for a lot from the past
Stuck in certain memories
Hey bleep
Remember that game we were gonna make?
Lola?
I think that was the name
I still remember the design and concept
Point and clicker adventure that took place in a kind of pop-up book
Turning pages to try and solve puzzles
I remember when we said bye to each other before each heading off to college
I remember I said I was gonna make sure to go to school for something that would make sure we could work together on something in the future
It was a good thought at the time
Hey bleep
I know we usually just did a lot of voice calls
But that time we both went on video still sticks in my mind
My heart fluttered a bit
Things felt still and good in that moment
Eyes meeting through a screen
Hey bleep
Do you remember when we went to that concert
I know the night ended badly for you which sucked
But I remember being in that crowd with you
Jumping up and down to the music Was my first concert
I’m glad you were with me for that
My next concert wouldn't be for years after that
Wasn’t bold enough to be in the crowd for it
I’d stand where I could have some space in the back
Went to concerts like that for a while
Until one a few months ago
A friend of mine was in my thoughts and helped push me in
Heck, I even ended up on stage
I’m happy it happened
But I think I might need to go stand in the back again next time
Things still feel harder right now
But I promise I’ll try to hang onto what I can in my journal
Hope you’re well
Actually
Nevermind
I don’t need to say that
I know you’ve got plenty of good people in your life that’ll make sure you’re well
Good job
Proud of you
I wanna be proud of me too one day
Thank you for being you

Ever think about how Travis lives in a motel?
He’s essentially living in it like an apartment
But it sticks in my mind
Him living in a place meant to be temporary
He’s made the best of it
Especially in No More Heroes 3
But still
What a symbolic lack of stability\

KILL THE PAST

To-Do:
Write
Record voice
IRL footage (commute home, lightsaber maybe?, walking callback?, no more heroes cover?)
Record NG+ NMH1
Record some NG for NMH1 too? (for gym stuff)
AMV sequence (kick it up a notch after the last one)
Put fics into type\

Amv ideas
Travis walking around santa destroy fading out as irl walking fades in
Journal maybe??? Maybe for fics?????
Star cutouts of screens rising up (Thinking wind waker credit bubbles)
Start with travis getting up from toilet, getting dressed, then walking out of motel room\

General video ideas
Travis fanfics scattered through video
Video text start “It's like poetry. It rhymes.” George Lucas Life is violence
Why do we want lightsabers?
Nmh1 bosses are the people capitalism creates
Star Wars title chapter cards where i scribble out what i dont use (A New Dopeass video game???, Santa Destroy Strikes Back, Return of the lawnmowing, make chapter 4 completely scribble out a full random star wars title like the acolyte or something “How Do You Live”)
Cassette tape load start\

Fic ideas
Not sure if i should keep it to just nmh1
Travis strikes again golden dragon fic, travis hanging out in the room for a bit feeling nostalgic between the drag racing and fights, seeing himself in smoker king
Record fics onto cassette?
What to use for bgm, nothing?
Maybe cold rice for the last one
Irl footage
The fics are technically the most personal part of this video so i think i need to make sure it ties back to me appropriately
Record fics on cassettes, use footage of loading cassette for intro of fic, film taking the cassettes from shelf with other cassettes
Final fic is a fakeout/transitions into me talking, starting sith travis lamenting his memory of deathman fading away, to my memory of nmh3 fading, use a tone shift in voice and footage swap to sell it, place at end to subvert expectations of video structure, end on footage of me at computer, turn around then pick up phone, stick tongue out, video over\

Romantic vivisection amv
Flcl

Title ideas
Desperate Struggle
It’s just a job. The daily grind.

Afterword I guess???

Wow
Been a while since I looked at this
I really did intend for this to be a video
I think I burnt myself out by working on this immediately after the Kingsom Hearts video
I still like that I wrote this
A lot of the ideas are cool
But I don't think I could turn this into a video as I am now
This script came from me being in a very specific place in life that feels far removed from where I am now
I moved out of where I was living at the time
Got a better job
I'm way more social now too due to a newly developed addiction to shiny cardboard
Catch me at my local game stores playing the One Piece Card Game every other night
Things have been way better for me this past year or so since I wrote this script
Hope you all are doing well too