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2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (10 – 1)
10. Karmelin – DOUBLE DUTY Anime: Patlabor 2: The Movie Song: “DOUBLE DUTY” by Karmelin Nothing much happens in this video. If you discern any kind of drama…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (20 – 11)
20. dylann – things I have written down Anime: Various Song: Various CW: Flashes, glitch & color effects Sometimes, I struggle to accept the fact that there is…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (30 – 21)
30. Leafa – Jadeite Anime: Various Song: “Lost (feat. Chelsea Jade)” by Jai Wolf Jadeite is a video that I could easily criticize for being too trite, for…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (40 – 31)
40. Lux – Tokyo Anime: Oniichan wa Oshimai! Song: “Tokyo” by Leat’eq For some of you, this AMV may demonstrate how thin the line can be between “cute”…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (50 – 41)
Here begins my Top 50 — these are my favorite AMVs from 2023! I want to once again urge you to at least skim through the ineligible videos…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
Hello everyone! Since this is right at the top of the post and you’re more likely to actually read these words than the wall of text this will…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (ineligible videos)
Hello everybody, and welcome to my yearly look back at my favorite AMVs and (in the case of this particular post) AMV-adjacent videos from 2023! Before getting to…
2023 in retrospect: introduction
Hello strangers, acquaintances, and friends, and Happy New Year! You have found your way to the tenth iteration (holy cow) of what has become my favorite yearly nerd…
flying low #27: the air in my lungs
I’ve been wanting to write about Malificus on this blog for years. In my early days of editing, back when I was much more interested in and enamored…
flying low #26: absolution
I have been extremely lax in my original, well-intentioned design for this blog post series, which was to share overlooked or forgotten AMVs that don’t deserve either of…
the way forward is back: on amv burnout (and a purple bell)
It seems like, every year for the past several years, a creeping feeling of AMV burnout has seeped into my emotional state for the first several months of…
2022 in retrospect: top 30 amvs (10 – 1)
10. SilkAMV – T.A.P.P. Anime: Magical Witch Punie-chan Song: “LORD” by Smokey Robotic Look, people, what do you want from me? A three-paragraph commentary breaking down how an…
2022 in retrospect: top 30 amvs (20 – 11)
20. Edit Station – Untitled Rush Anime: Various Song: “Untitled” by ev.exi No, this AMV is not the kind of thing I can indulge in too often —…
2022 in retrospect: top 30 amvs (30 – 21)
Today starts the ranked countdown of my 30 favorite AMVs from 2022. As a reminder, this post and the following two (which will be posted over the next…
2022 in retrospect: top 30 amvs (honorable mentions)
Hello everybody, and welcome to my yearly look back at my favorite AMVs of the past 12 months! Normally I would take this opportunity to talk a little…
2022 in retrospect: introduction
Hello everyone! Happy New Year! I hope your 2023 is off to a good enough start (I mean, we’re only 0.2% of the way through the year —…
hyper light drifter
Art by Narciso Espiritu Jr. I’ve become kind of fed-up with AAA games. Well, maybe “fed-up” is too strong a phrase — let’s go with a less intense…
my 100 favorite albums (part 5 of 5)
Well, we’ve reached the last post in this series. Let me just reiterate how much fun I had in putting this list together — I mean, I got…
my 100 favorite albums (part 4 of 5)
Taylor Swift – 1989 Released in 2014Genre(s): Pop, synthpop It didn’t take long — when those sparkling synths started playing on “Welcome To New York”, the tale…
my 100 favorite albums (part 3 of 5)
Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala Released in 2007 Genre(s): Chamber pop, indie pop, twee pop I was introduced to Jens Lekman through this AMV, which utilizes…
my 100 favorite albums (part 2 of 5)
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles Released in 1999 Genre(s): Alternative, rap metal My parents never gave me many boundaries, although to their…
my 100 favorite albums (part 1 of 5)
Hello everyone! Welcome to the biggest blog post series/project I have ever done. And this is not an exaggeration; putting this together was between 7-9 months of work,…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (10 – 1) // editor of the year
10. SakuraBipolar – 0:00 深夜 Anime: Various Song: “0:00” by husky CW: Flashes/strobing It kind of kills me that I only discovered this editor a week or two…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (20 – 11)
20. Kireblue – Into the Madness Anime: Soul Eater Song: “Dive Into the Madness (Little Nightmares Rap)” by Dan Bull If katranat’s video Reset the System, featured earlier…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (30 – 21)
30. UnluckyArtist – Starlighter Anime: Urusei Yatsura Song: “Levitating” by Dua Lipa If the title of this video is ringing a distant bell, that’s probably because you’…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (40 – 31)
40. TnAdct1 – Chasing the Dragon Anime: Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid // Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid SSong: “There She Goes” by Sixpence None The Richer Raise your han…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (50 – 41)
Just a quick reminder to those who may have skipped or skimmed the Honorable Mentions post that these are my favorite AMVs of the year, no one else’s,…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
2021 was an…interesting year for AMVs. For me personally, I experienced a kind of AMV burnout in 2021 that I don’t think I’ve ever really experienced before. I…
2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (ineligible videos)
Hello everybody! As we prepare to take a look at some of the best AMVs that 2021 had to offer, I want to start as I normally do…
2021 in retrospect: introduction
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to what is hopefully something you’ve come to look forward to reading as much as I look forward to posting them — my…
flying low #25: an infiniti of feelings
This may be a short entry, simply because I feel like I’d probably be repeating a lot of the usual song and dance that so many of my…
bioshock 2
I don’t think it’s being gratuitous to say that the original BioShock is, perhaps, one of the most influential video games in the last 20 years, if not…
flying low #24: perfect day
Over time I’ve built up a small list of videos that I’d like to someday write about on this blog, so that whenever the mood strikes me to…
child of light
Over the past decade, I’ve managed to build up a staggeringly large library of digital games that have mostly just collected digital dust since I clicked ‘Buy’ —…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (10 – 1) // editor of the year
10. TRUTH CRAB – M4 Lema Anime: Science Fiction New Century LensmanSong: “M4 Lema” by Autechre TRUTH CRAB’s work is, typically, edited extremely lightly. In fact, there are…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (20 – 11)
20. Tommy-Dawg – Journey to You Anime: A Place Further Than The Universe // K-ON!Song: “Free Spirits” by Khalid I discovered this video on the day that I…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (30 – 21)
30. VideoBeats – 6 AM Anime: VariousSong: “Alarm Clock” by Feed Me Taking viewers through the doldrums of an ordinary day as shown through the eyes of multiple…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (40 – 31)
40. Apus – Made Anime: VariousSong: “Made” by Dub FX One of the challenges of working with multiple anime in an AMV is figuring out a way to…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (50 – 41)
Real quick, before we get stated with the Top 50, in case you skipped the Honorable Mentions post, I just want to reiterate that the videos listed and…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
We made it everyone. 2020 is officially behind us, and although it’s getting cliché to point that out by now, there’s undoubtedly something refreshing about moving into a…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (ineligible videos)
We start this year’s AMV retrospective with a handful of ineligible videos. These are videos that, for various reasons, I couldn’t justify including for consideration on my actual…
2020 in retrospect: introduction
Happy New Year dear readers! If there was any year that definitively does not need yet another postmortem written about it, 2020 was that year. Unfortunately I’ve gotten…
flying low #23: trinity rising
I don’t remember when or why I first watched this video, other than that it was at some point in the last 3-4 years. I was immediately captivated…
filling in the gaps #9
Filling In The Gaps is an ongoing series of blog posts I’m working on, where I’m listening through all the music from CDs I’ve purchased over the years…
leberate – fail parts
There’s a chasm of depth to the AMV community; for all that it admittedly relies on preexisting media in the form of anime and music to exist in…
filling in the gaps #8
Filling In The Gaps is an ongoing series of blog posts I’m working on, where I’m listening through all the music from CDs I’ve purchased over the years…
kimikiss pure rouge
Mid-2000s slice of life is probably not a style of anime most people nowadays turn to for their fix, and it wouldn’t surprise me if this is the…