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Favorite AMVs of 2023 (#10-#1)
10. Killing Me Softlyeditor: jankenanime: Kare Kanomusic: Perry Como – “Killing Me Softly” Some Kare Kano AMVs purely focus on the series’ sense of humor or most hyperactive…
Favorite AMVs of 2023 (#20-#11)
20. Starstruckeditor: alchemyminiAMVanime: Bocchi the Rock!music: Skye Sweetnam – “Sharada” Outside of the biggest shonen series, which sort of have a life of their own outside of…
Favorite AMVs of 2023 (#30-#21)
30. The Argonautseditor: MegaAMVanime: Made In Abyssmusic: Steve Reich – “Three Movements – Movement I” I’ve read the editor’s description of “The Argonauts” sev…
Favorite AMVs of 2023 (#40-#31)
40. Run Makoto Runeditor: qwaqaanime: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, variousmusic: Apollo 440 – “Don’t Stop the Rock”VPR Warning: All qwaqa’s return to editing was n…
Favorite AMVs of 2023 (#50-#41)
50. SakuraBipolar 2023 AMV Compilationeditor: SakuraBipolaranime: variousmusic: variousVPR Warning: Severe flashing, strobing, high contrast Wasting absolutely no time in starting off this countdow…
Favorite AMVs of 2023 (Introduction/Special Mentions)
Welcome to the latest installment of my favorite AMVs of the year. Over the next five (5) days I will be counting down my favorite AMVs from 2023.…
What’s the most popular song to never be used in an AMV?
I’d been hoping to use this week to actually work on a new AMV of my own or at least pursue some other creative endeavor, but since my…
Favorite AMVs of 2022 (#30-#21)
Surprise! I should have posted this five months ago but… better late than never? You already know what topped my list of my favorite AMVs from last year,…
Favorite AMVs of 2022 (#10-#1)
10. Hands – A Unico Tributeeditor: Arthas Jamesanime: The Fantastic Adventures of Unico, Unico in the Island of Magicmusic: Jewel – “Hands”VPR warning: flashing images This …
Favorite AMVs of 2022 (#20-#11)
20. Congratulations! You Deserve a Prizeeditor: Kanada Jinanime: Neon Genesis Evangelionmusic: Matt Maltese – “You Deserve an Oscar” Kanada Jin’s “And I Run” is …
Favorite AMVs of 2022 (introduction/special mentions)
I’ve been writing annual lists of my favorite AMVs since 2015. For most of 2022, I planned on taking a break from the process and regrouping next time…
AMV chronicles #087: Rock N’ Roll McDonalds AMV
As the relevance of Internet memes and transformative works have grown over the past decade from silly niche concerns into something that engulfs every conceivable piece of media…
AMV chronicles #086: One Shot Juanita
(VPR warning: strobing at 1:54) The July 1997 premiere date for this AMV, as listed in its entry on animemusicvideos.org, easily makes this one of the oldest AMVs…
abandoned AMV projects, a list
I began editing AMVs in 2009, never coming close to becoming one of those creators who regularly release a new AMV every few days or every few weeks…
AMV chronicles #085: All of The Above
Their similarities aside, I don’t believe for a second that HiikariAMV’s “All of The Above” (2018) was anything close to a deliberate rip-off of “Neapolitan” (20…
Favorite AMVs of 2021 (#10-#1)
Here’s my top ten AMVs of 2021. Once again, real life got in the way of me finishing this on the overly optimistic schedule I tried to stick…
Favorite AMVs of 2021 (#20-#11)
20. she lost controleditor: Ethel Gummvideo source: Balan Wonderworldmusic: Polygon Window – “Quoth (Hidden Mix)”warning: SEVERE flashing/strobe effects I’ve watched this video se…
Favorite AMVs of 2021 (#30-#21)
30. Drowning in the Kiddie Pooleditor: drewaconclusionanime: Nichijoumusic: There I Ruined It – “Bodies (Kids’ Edition)” Every year since I’ve been doing this list (an…
Favorite AMVs of 2021 (#40-#31)
40. Transparent S O U Leditor: UnluckyArtistanime: variousmusic: Willow – “t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l” Not the first…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (#50-#41)
This is the first entry in my top 50 AMVs of 2021. More will be posted every day this week, hopefully. In the event that this does not…
Favorite AMVs of 2021 (special/honorable mentions)
I haven’t prepared much to say here, at least not in terms of accounting for this past year and all it meant for me personally. That’s pretty weird…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (#10-#1)
This is the final post of my list of my favorite AMVs released in 2020. For the whole thing, check my archive of all my past lists or…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (#20-#11)
20. BALD!editor: Salt AMVanime: Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelionmusic: JPEGMAFIA – “BALD!” This isn’t a feelgood AMV, but it makes me laugh. And when I laugh, I…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (#30-#21)
30. Mister Fahrenheiteditor: illdieanime: Promaremusic: Queen – “Don’t Stop Me Now” This is the first Promare AMV I’ve seen and I watched it literally an hour after finishing…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (#40-#31)
40. This is (not) the greatest song in the world.editor: camhcomanime: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.0, Neon Genesis Evangelion 3.0music: camhcom – “This is (not) the…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (#50-#41)
These are my fifty favorite AMVs of 2020. I needed a little extra time to put this list together at the end of the year, which meant that…
Favorite AMVs of 2020 (honorable mentions)
Let’s just scrap that wordy intro I had written for all this and get straight to the biscuits. This is my annual list of my favorite AMVs of…
AMV chronicles #084: Super Are Shinji
“Super Are Shinji” is an AMV that’s almost eighteen years old. I was not aware of its existence until about a week ago. Or perhaps I had come…
AMV chronicles #083: Conet
One of the strangest AMVs ever made, the experience of watching “Conet” might feel even weirder today than it was to the eyes and ears of viewers who…
Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou
Set in Shibuya, one of the hippest wards in all of Tokyo, Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou serves as a lighthearted and irreverent introduction to the fertile dance music scene…
AMV chronicles #82: Sunlight
Silk_SK released “Sunlight” in mid-2009, several years after I first got into AMVs but around the same time that I finally got involved in them, both in terms…
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest spits in the face of the endless untapped potential of animation, digging its heels deep into the most callous cynicism of our…
AMV chronicles #081: favorites of 2019 (#10-1)
A complete YouTube playlist of my 50 favorite AMVs from 2019 can be found here: Here are my top ten favorite AMVs from the past year. Thanks for…