Yuri on Ice Wins Best Opening and Ending category???
How??? Honestly the opening song is really pretty, sure, but for the visuals it’s only figure skating. We get it. That’s the show and apparently that’s all it can show us. But how did it win over all the other great enteries? Now I guess I am being biased because I really did want mp100 to win these, but I have to call bullshit. Lots of the other enteries held hidden details, references, beautiful animations, and a sense of character dynamics all from a minute long sequence. Yuri on Ice definitely takes the cake on best musical score I’ll give it that, but really the opening AND the ending were both underwhelming. Very underwhelming. Might I remind you that the Yuri on Ice ending was literally frames of the main characters light fireworks, and then an instagram montage, followed by more fireworks. That’s it. Nothing special or deep about it. We saw a collage of characters basically. I definitely agree Mp100 should not have won all the catagories it was placed in, but the painting on glass animation was so stunning and seamlessly perfect in the way it transitioned, and the clever way it depictrd the main characters in the opening was so dazzling that I couldn’t look away. I personally think it definitely should’ve won these two spots by a landslide.
Every celebrity or a band has a fan base. Others just call themselves enthusiasts, fans or aficionados but in the case of My Chemical Romance, they don’t have a fan base, they have an army.
I first heard of the army back in high school when I was just starting to like the songs of the band. I actually never thought of being a part of it, really. I was a kid and back then I thought fan bases are for sissies. But when I started to join in the fan forums and talked to some people from the army, I realized that they aren’t just an ordinary fan base who can only talk about the band and never shutting up about it. It wasn’t a club of fan girls who only adore the band because of their style and their looks. No, MCRmy is something else because they aren’t just there for the band, they are there for each other as well.
It’s a well known fact that most fans of the band are those kids who are having problems with their existence. To put it simply, the army is full of kids who are depressed, suicidal and just downright feeling hopeless. But it wasn’t just the band that helps them through it all and encouraging them to carry on. The army is also there for those who needed someone to talk to and it helps that someone there understands exactly what you’re going through because they have experienced the same thing. We aren’t just bonded by the music of My Chemical Romance, we are united by our differences and our similarities, by our scars and by our wounds because we can see ourselves in each other and we all want all of us to survive and keep marching on through life.
` Honestly, MCRmy is kind of like a support group for me. Sure I have friends but having friends who share the same love for the band that you’ve been a fan of since you were 14 is different. It’s like having that friend who you can have meaningful conversations with without them judging your opinion or questioning your views; that friend who you can passionately talk to about music, bands and endless number of interests and most specially, that friend who understands your love for My Chemical Romance and also knows how it is to be hated because of it.
MCRmy has been called a lot of awful things but the worst one is being labeled as a cult. Imagine, we are just a bunch of kids who like rock music and suddenly we are a cult promoting self-harming and suicide when that’s the exact same thing that we’re trying to prevent everyone in the army from doing. It hurts, of course. It hurts to get judged and ridiculed by some people, especially those who are close to you. It hurts that the people who are helping you cope gets hate because of misinterpretations and the harsh labeling of people who don’t even give a damn about you and what you’re going through but hey, that’s what the army is for. We stand side by side and get through it all like the brave soldiers that we are.
Even though My Chemical Romance is no more, the army remains, standing tall and proud despite everything. In fact, I believe that it made the army stronger than ever because knowing that we are sharing the grief helps us cope with it somehow. We are hurt, of course but we all know that all good things come to an end and we are lucky enough to have 12 years of it. I am forever thankful and proud to be a soldier of the MCRmy and it is an honor to have known the soldiers I’ve met. We are MCR’s legacy and the living proof that they fought for our lives with their music. To all the soldiers, the killjoys and the kids of yesterday, I salute you all, with all my heart, I salute you.
