Arcane: Hands

I noticed something while editing Arcane: the animators really love hands. The symbolism of hands seems really important to them, because I found over a hundred close-ups of hands in season 1. So I decided to tell the story of Arcane with just those clips. There weren't quite enough clips to fill up the whole song, so this is a shortened, 30 second version.

In Arcane, hands are used to represent connection. Connection with people, with the world, with magic, and with the self. There are shots of hands at every pivotal moment in the story, because connection is at the heart of the show. Even the blue and violet nail polish on Jinx's fingers represents her connection with her sister (a chipped and well-worn connection at that).

Hands are not just for aesthetically pleasing shots that break up the visual language of Arcane. They weave intentional threads of connection through the entire story. Letting go, offering, insisting, touching, losing. I really love this element of the show and I hope you enjoy the video!

omfg

I need everyone in the Merlin fandom to watch this and suffer with me because this hurt my soul to watch 😭

this manga is actually good, you'll question everything

i hope naoya dies nex chapter :3 (would probly shift to the others' perspective tho)

let's fucking goOOOoOOoOooooOOoo

literally me the whole time reading jjk 148

nothing is more satisfying than slicin up ur sht father

R.I.P. Mai :'< but then Maki is Mai and Mai is Maki

for real though this panel from chainsaw man fucks me up REAL HARD i absolutely need to talk about how the figure in the distance is the devil embodying the primal fear of the dark and it manifests amidst a row of astronaut corpses praying for salvation. astronauts are meant to explore and shed light on creation’s greatest unknown: space. but it’s the unknowable and infinite quality of space that makes it so overwhelmingly terrifying. space is the ultimate darkness and therefore one of mankind’s greatest conceptual enemies as no amount of progress has ever, or could ever, vanquish the fear of the dark or the dark itself and therefore humanity’s pioneers are strewn in an altar of gore to illustrate that futility and limited, fragile existence in the cosmos in one of the most terrifying panels ever put into manga.

"heaven"

we march on

they do be carryin the zenin trademark look

heavenly restriction

vibin with maki's mikasa-like glow up മ◡മ

also i hope nobara is okay :<<<

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY *kinda worried* OKKOTSU IS

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY OKKOTSU IS

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY OKKOTSU IS

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY OKKOTSU IS

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY OKKOTSU IS

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY OKKOTSU IS

Levi with streaks of light across his face is such an exquisite and lonely view

o͡͡͡͡͡͡╮༼;´༎ຶ.̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̨̨̨̨̨̨̨.̸̸̨̨۝ ༎ຶ༽╭o͡͡͡͡͡͡

i miss them already 🥺

bonus: embarrassed megumi 🙈

I NEVER DOUBTED YOU YUUTA AAAAAAH

He is well aware

Naysu

EVEN THE DOG