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2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (10 – 1)
I’ve never felt the need to do this before, but I feel like not acknowledging this somewhere would be a missed opportunity, so I’m going to take the…
2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (20 – 11)
20. SonsofKorhal9 – Heart Beats Anime: Various Song: “Butter” by BTS I like to see editors push themselves and tread new ground as they grow into the hobby…
2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (30 – 21)
30. perks of being an alien – the sea and the stars will be there, waiting Anime: Various Song: “The Atoms of the Sea” by The Telescopes Lush,…
2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (40 – 31)
40. RAMON [ラモン] – It’s Your Heart Anime: Tamako Love Story Song: “This Orient” by Foals It’s a real struggle to start a write-up about a Tamako Love…
2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (50 – 41)
Here begins my ranked list – I will be posting 10 videos per day for the next five days, ending on my favorite AMV of the year. In…
2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
Hello AMV fans, and thank you for your patience – welcome to this year’s countdown of my favorite AMVs from 2025! Before I go any further, I really…
2025 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (ineligible videos)
Hello, and welcome (finally) to the start of my annual look back at the best AMVs from the previous year! Well, I guess technically that starts tomorrow –…
2025 in retrospect: introduction
Hello everyone, happy New Year and welcome to my blog! I’m going to make this intro post a bit briefer than normal, simply because I’m actually quite tired…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (10 – 1)
10. Squiped_Mew – United in Grief Anime: Puella Magi Madoka MagicaSong: “United in Grief” by Kendrick Lamar Sad videos don’t all hit the same. Some bowl you over…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (20 – 11)
20. pack – Rylee & I. Anime: Sing “Yesterday” For Me Song: “Rylee & I” by Mk.gee The song’s minimalist approach — bare electric guitar strums, reverb-heavy vocals,…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (30 – 21)
30. janken – Last Summer Whisper Anime: Yume Kara, SamenaiSong: “Last Summer Whisper” by Anri It’s entirely possible that I just wasn’t looking in the right places, bu…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (40 – 31)
40. ElFamosoDemon – Golden Hour Anime: Spriggan Song: “Golden Hour” by Bonus Points The fun of being an ElFamosoDemon fan is getting to experience bipolar mashups like this.…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (50 – 41)
Alright, let’s move into the Top 50! If you are just tuning in, I would strongly recommend taking some time to read through both the non-anime and Honorable…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
Hello everyone, and welcome to my annual countdown of my favorite AMVs from the last 12 months! In today’s and the next five days’ posts, we’re going to…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (non-anime videos)
As is often the case, we kick off this year’s retrospective with a look at some of my favorite “other” music videos of the past 12 months. In…
2024 in retrospect: introduction
Hello reader! Happy New Year! While I say that with the posture of hesitation that I’m sure a lot of you have as well (visually, it looks a…
AMV Tracker v2.0.0 released!
This post marks a fairly significant achievement for me, although this won’t have been the first time I’ve said this here — over seven years ago, I first…
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…