#idk maybe some day i might redo bits of it but i think its awkward charm comes from looking so bad xD

[yaminerua]

for those who haven’t had the misfortune of being shown it, the video im talking about is a thing i did back in 2008 into 2009-ish. When I started it I was equal parts still into my previous obsession Tokyo MewMew as well as Naruto and briefly toyed with the idea of a crossover of sorts and mostly just having fun with the fact Taruto from TMM’s name was so similar to Naruto.

The video itself is just lots of repeated bits of Taruto singing, terrible MS Paint drawings, art of my OCs and my friends’ OCs and random pointless sequences that make no sense. I was just having fun putting whatever to the music and the whole thing is a mess. I didn’t have any art programs other than MS Paint  and my only video program was windows movie maker so everything is extremely unquality.

what matters is i had fun I guess and it’s the only video I still have on hand from the good old first naruto phase all those years ago so there’s a lot of nostalgia packed into it. and sometimes i show it to friends who weren’t around to see me at peak naruto phase so they can get a taste of the kind of shit I did back then xD im sure it’s on this blog somewhere from being posted YEARS ago but if i remember right the playback’s timing was off when viewed on tumblr

anyways

classic quality fails in that old vid include, terrible MS Paint drawings done at varying sizes so the line quality is mostly just absolutely terrible

images scaled badly in Paint so they’re distorted to hell and back. but you can still relatively clearly see the ‘gallery player’ watermark on some bgs oh man..

every image was a jpeg because I  didnt know what png did back then and the compression shows

getting lazy and tracing over scenes but just tweaking it to another character

overusing the ninja naruto font a lot

uncreative attempts to make new characters, or tweak characters from another series into ninjas.. (seriously one just looks like a brunette hinata and another’s like a pointy-eared green-haired sasuke. that one started out as kisshu from tmm but he’s named differently cos i ended up completely changing him into an unrelated OC eventually. likewise with the hinata look-alike, she ended up looking completely different in the end. just. not in the vid pfff)

no actual coherent linear progression through the vid. it’s just a bunch of things thrown together because lol

killing off ‘taruto’ half way through because by the time i got half way through making it i’d left my tokyo mew mew phase in the dust and my life was consumed by naruto obsession. i think he dies a total of 3 times through the rest of the vid.

after ‘killing’ him, the repeated shots where he sings the chorus are turned sepia..... lmfao???

my oc looks completely different in the middle of the video than in the latter half which was done much later when i returned to it. pfff aoki came back ‘darker’ and ‘edgier’ and also a really bad and blatant mashup of fav characters...

a gaara caramelldansen trace briefly happens

naruto spray painting the ‘taruto’ logo back into ‘naruto’

i bring in friends’ ocs towards the end and there’s a lot of random art off google used in the bg... god dammit past me why are you like this.

and other shit.. but you get the idea. also i couldnt animate for shit either.

also when i open it in VLC it still shows the old filename from when i worked on it in movie maker lmfao ‘tarutonarutoishcrud’ taruto/naruto-ish crud lmfao at least i knew i was making shit xD

basically the whole thing is terrible but... it still means a lot to me and i still get immensely amused when i look at it again