Honestly, sequel and spin-off movies should be able to stand on their own even without the prior knowledge of the previous movie(s). Think Judd Apatow's This is 40, Ryan Coogler's Creed, or Ridley Scott's Prometheus.

To an extent, think Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz, too; it's not Cornetto: Hot Fuzz.

(However, me citing Star Wars opens a huge can of worms re the retitling of movies for marketing or chronology; see Star Wars vs. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. I prefer Star Wars.)

I only see this kind of thing in movies. You don't see TV show spin-offs titled as such. Imagine--Friends: Joey, Cheers: Frasier, or even Andor: A Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Make it known it's part of a franchise, but don't dumb down movie titles by adding a series subtitle.

It's just dumb.

Nooooo. Not the deep magic.

that's actually a fun anime to watch. very unserious

My concept for Thalanir stemmed from two ideas: I want an elf with a beard, and I want his eventual full power manifesting as an astral presence and not just an extension of the body (i.e., JoJo stand).

I'm thinking of tiering out Thalanir to Tier 4; it's been too long since I first played him.

Early outfit concept was him in billowy clothing, reminiscent of Chinese martial artists in Wuxia films. It then evolved into outsider in plain clothes and an then an edgier, man of the earth kind of guy.

He used to wield Harengon's Freedom, which I gave to another character of mine, Lilac.

The music video was beautifully animated by Australian animators Ari Gibson and Jason Pamment in 2011. Eventually, Gibson created the critically acclaimed Hollow Knight series (as part of Team Cherry) and Pamment created the award-winning graphic novel Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures.

Tears dropped again. The way that the music video recontextualizes the song into an coming-of-age story of a wild child "adopted" by a herd of magical beasts and having said herd silently accept the child has to grow with humans is so beautiful and tragic in a loss of innocence kind of way.

The first time I listened to Bronte, the moment it clicked, tears dropped. It's a song about loss. It's seeing someone you love at their last moments—in this instance, a pet. Gotye wrote and named the song after Bronte, the late pet of his close family friend.

I then watched the music video.

Bronte is the beautiful closer to the ahead-of-its-time album Making Mirrors by Australian indie rocker Gotye. This album, best known for Somebody That I Used To Know with Kiwi songstress Kimbra, is one of the albums that shaped my music-listening experience because of its eclectic art-pop songs.

Honestly, having grown in an era of animation where anything goes made me "resistant" or "desensitized" in a sense. It has, however, made me look past certain art styles that aren't considered "the norm" though.

... except for dance sequences. I want them fully animated, not mixed with 3D models.

I can't really speak thoroughly about this topic as I'm not a professional graphic designer or visual artist, but it's stunning how artists can create such artwork that encapsulates what an album's about with such a finite canvas to work on.