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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 (10 – 1)
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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…
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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,…
2020 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (ineligible videos)
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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 (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…
2024 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
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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…
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…
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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…
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’…
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.…
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 (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 (honorable mentions)
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2021 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (honorable mentions)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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50. SakuraBipolar 2023 AMV Compilationeditor: SakuraBipolaranime: variousmusic: variousVPR Warning: Severe flashing, strobing, high contrast Wasting absolutely no time in starting off this countdow…
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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…
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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 (10 – 1)
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