It’s almost that time of the years when Through the Shattered Lens switches gears and goes into full dark fantasy and horror. While there will be the smattering posts that doesn’t dabble in all things dark and scary, it’s a month that’s become a yearly tradition and one that several writers on-site seem to enjoy. Though no one enjoys October at Through the Shattered Lens more than co-founder Lisa Marie Bowman. She’s the dark mother to all the writers at the site.

While it’s still not that month of darkness here’s a small taste of the sort of dark themes many of the posts will end up having during October.

The latest AMV of the Day comes courtesy of video creator Chiisus. The video manages to take the dark aspect of what too many outsiders to the anime scene as a light and kiddy cartoon: Sailor Moon Crystal.

This particular amv (anime music video) is titled Moonlight Requiem and combines the more dark fantasy side of Sailor Moon Crystal with the symphonic metal band’s Within Temptation and the melodic vocalizing of it’s frontman Sharon den Adel. The song chosen by Chiisus is one that many other amv creators have used in the past: “See Who I Am.” In fact, it’s the song to one of my all-time favorite anime music video: “Alchanum” by Rider4Z.

This time the song is used for Sailor Moon Crystal and, boy, if the song doesn’t fit in well with the scenes chosen for the video.

Anime: Sailor Moon Crystal

Song: “See Who I Am” by Within Temptation

Creator: Chiiisus

Past AMVs of the Day

• Just Funkin’ Dandy (Space Dandy)
• Clarity (various)
• Skyfall (Cowboy Bebop, Fate/Zero)
• Chained (Princess Tutu)
• Breaking (Various)
• Another Fanny Service Video (Kemeko DX)
• Cosplay Bargain Bin (various)
• Can Can Pantsu (various)
• Warriors (Various)
• Sweet Dreams (Various)
• Carnivore (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Sweet Dreams (Another)
• Ship Happens (various)
• Evangelion 2.22 [Lights]
• Snowball Genocide (various)
• Iwatobi Weather Service (Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club and Attack On Titan)
• Otaku Paradise (various)
• The Breath of Spring (Bakemonogatari)
• Spiral Ascension (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
• Strangers Like Us (Gargantia on the Verdorous Planet)
• The Gore Never Bothered Me Anyway (Elfen Lied)
• Valor (Kill la Kill)
• Time Falls Away (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0)
• Don’t Stop (Nichijou)
• Left Us Falling (Clannad and Clannad: After Story)
• Devil’s Game 2.0 (Puella Magi Madoka Magica Series and Films)
• Animegraphy 2013 (Various)
• See Who I Am (Various)
• Demons of the Past (Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail)
• Ride or Die (Redline)
• Yurei (Another, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Mirai Nikki)
• Bloody Ayase (Oreimo)
• The End of My World (Clannad/Clannad: After Story)
• Life Is Fantastic (Nichijou)
• Event (Nichijou)
• Star x Crossed (Romeo x Juliet)
• Protectors of the Earth (Shingeki no Kyojin)
• Let Them Eat Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Sorry for being Hercule, Sincerely Mr. Satan (Dragonball Z)
• Fidelity (Wolf Children Ame and Yuki)
• Nothing to Lose (One Piece)
• Affective Schoolgirls (Nichijou)
• RadioAkshun (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Danger Zone (Macross Plus)
• Maid to Kill (Black Lagoon)
• A Thousand Years (Clannad/Toradora!)
• Careful What You Wish (Black Lagoon)
• Ash vs Gary (Pokemon)
• Just Can’t Get Enough (Bakemonogatari)
• Our Miracle (Sword Art Online)
• Dead End (Mirai Nikki)
• Am I Not Human? (Another)
• Moves Like Jagger (NSFW)
• Mayoi Calling Araragi (Bakemonogatari)
• Troll of Hearts (The World God Only Knows)
• Written in the Spirals (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
• The Way You Are
• Means to an Endgame (Code Geass)
• Azumanga Daioh 1985
• Safety Dance (Nichijou)
• Cherry – Chronicles of PHOTOpanic
• Remember My Name
• Futuristic Lover (Bakemonogatari)
• Sexy and I Know It
• Everytime We Touch (Toradora!)
• War (Valkyria Chronicles)
• Hold On To That Feeling
• Disco Heaven
• Hands Up! (Dragonball/Z)
• A Little Late
• Sexy
• I Heart Tsundere
• The New Era (One Piece)
• Fairytale of Lies
• Calling
• Alchanum
• This Is War (One Piece)
• Move Along (One Piece)
• Party Rock (One Piece)
• Remember the Name (One Piece)
• Imagica
• Maya and Company
• Who’s That Chick?
• Just The Way You Are
• My First Kiss
• Death Romance
• Furor (Oreimo)
• Highschool of the Dead Game
• Kobato – Ring A Bell
• Devil’s Game
• Mahou Shoujo Requiem
• A Prelude to Dreams
• A Thousand Miles (Macross Frontier)
• Instinct
• Hold Me Now (Princess Tutu)
• The Beautiful People of Black Lagoon
• SugardanSen & Attack of the Otaku
• Fairy Tail Teenage Dream
• Repeat (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Toradora! Rough Love (Grow A Pear)
• Black Lagoon…To Be Loved
• This Is War (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Danse De Raven
• Azumanga Daioh – Little Girls
• Something Fishy
• And Now, A Word From Our Sponsors
• Against All Odds (Macross Frontier)
• A Thousand Miles (Todaradora!)
• Toradora Fireflies
• Spinning Infinity
• Have You Got It In You?
• Azumanga Daioh Portal