Back in 2004, norskotaku released their video Illuminations I: Reflections of a Goddess, an almost-10-minute-long epic using the Ah! My Goddess movie and the “Reflections of Earth” segment from EPCOT’s Illuminations fireworks show, and I absolutely loved the video. They included in their video description that they planned to do a second video, also using the Ah! My Goddess movie paired with the “We Go On” section of Illuminations.
20 years later, that first video turned out to be the last one norskotaku would release (as of 2025, at least), but it had stuck with me to the point that I’d bought the audio CD for Illuminations and even made my so-far-only trip to EPCOT at Disney World to catch the fireworks show before it closed in 2019 (barely avoiding getting hit by Hurricane Dorian by only one day).
In the intervening two decades, Ah! My Goddess had also gotten two seasons of TV series and an OVA, so I decided that I wanted to both close the circle and pay tribute to the original video by making a video using the “We Go On” segment, but with the newer series instead of the movie.
Unfortunately, the period of time I had to edit it for AWA 2025’s Accolades competition directly overlapped with the preparation period for Bakuretsu Con 2025, where I was the coordinator for the AMV Contest – in fact, the AWA submission deadline was on the convention’s opening Friday. The later portions of the video ended up disappointingly rushed, and were actually edited in my hotel room at Bakuretsu Con Thursday night and Friday morning before I started my con day. I want to go back and revise those portions of the video someday, but I’ve changed primary editing programs in the meantime (from Adobe Premiere to Davinci Resolve), so converting the timeline will take some effort to set up.
While I’m disappointed in the result, I did enjoy making this one, and hopefully the revised-someday-version will be better.
Video – Ah! My Goddess TV
Audio – Kellie Coffey – We Go On (from EPCOT’s Illuminations)
Completed October 2024
1 throught on "Reflecting North"