Anime Music Videos, The Best of Both Worlds are found here.

So, I'm starting an AMV recommendation thread, 'cause I know we all have some stuff we want to force people to watch. Of course, some people like getting AMVs recommended to them, and some don't. So, recommend AMVs that PEOPLE MUST SEE OMG here, and people that feel like seeing something new might download them. Nice, eh?

I think I'm going to strongly suggest that you not recommend more than, I dunno, 10 AMVs in one post. Maybe that's a stupid 'rule', I dunno. I just figure, you should really make your AMV recommendations the BEST ONES. It's nice to have less to sort through when AMV hunting, believe me.

Also, to get a better idea of what AMVs people may have already seen because they've been hugely popular for a few years, check out amv.org's top 10% list and its many settings! If you don't have an account at http://www.animemusicvideos.org yet, I suggest you do so before you even BREATHE YOUR NEXT BREATH. 'Cause I mean, it's only a week or so wait until you have access to all the local downloads your heart could possibly desire, right?

I'd also like to say we can use this thread to recommend AMV-watching video players. A lot of AMVs nowadays are getting put out in all sorts of weirdo high-def formats that good 'ole DivX and Windows Media Player can't deal with, so bring on the video player recommendations, by all means.

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Without further ado, here's my first recommendation. I'll make a nice meaty post later on with my top ten or whatever.

"Skittles" :: by Koopiskeva
Song: Heartsdales Feat. SOUL'D OUT :: "Candy Pop"
Anime: The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
Genre: Dance/Fun/Romance

Reasons for recommending:
- You guys love this anime.
- You guys need to hear some fun, bouncy, Japanese-with-some-English rap.
- I want to imagine you, Teresa, dancing around in your Japan apartment once you've seen this video. ISN'T IT ADORABLE AND FUN. AND THE ENGLISH IS SO CUUUUUUUUTE~
- Its title has nothing to do with the video, besides describing it. You'll understand once you've seen it.
- You really should see every AMV Koopiskeva has ever made.

Knights of Fate
Anime: Fate/Stay Night
Song: Knights of Cydonia
Theme: Action


WARNING: Contains moderate spoilers for Fate/Stay Knight, if you care.
Mostly, though, the song is freakin' awesome. It's in Guitar Hero 3!


Kaizoku no Bouken 2
Anime: One Piece: Movie 6
Song: 88
Theme: Awesome


Props to Maria for showing me this one. I want to see this movie HARD.
(It's the 6th One Piece Movie, and it's kind of a little spoilery? I have no idea what's going on in it, but it's pretty.)


ENOZ feat. S.O.S. Brigade: Forever
Anime: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Song: 4ever
Theme: Double Awesome


Again, thanks, Maria. More Haruhi, in the awesomest way. Spoilers, but you've all seen it.


Also, VLC works wonders for playing all those .mp4 files floating around these days.

I LOVE getting amv recommendations! I have one request. Please give a short description with each amv you recommend. Something as simple as:
Anime: Naruto
Song: Sexy Back
Theme: Comedy
Or whatever.

Fista - Fire Starter
Anime: FLCL
Song: Learn to Crawl
Theme: Naota/Mamimi


Just discovered this one. It's probably the only FLCL AMV worth watching that doesn't spoil the ending! Ever!

I know many of you have seen this, but not having seen it is just a crime.

America, Fuck Yeah!
Anime: Various
Song: America
Theme: Hilariously awesome

I really want to see this but for some reason my japanese internet, which has been perfect in every way so far, for some reason keeps taking two hours to download the video and just when it's about to get done is has an error. O_o I'll try to figure something out....

I really want to see this but for some reason my japanese internet, which has been perfect in every way so far, for some reason keeps taking two hours to download the video and just when it's about to get done is has an error. O_o I'll try to figure something out....

Royal RAINBOW!

Wow yeah that was pretty cute and hilarious XD I'm surprised how well they picked up some of the English rap slang, but some of it was so funny too.

I found it!

Elvis vs. Anime
Anime: Various
Song: A Little Less Conversation
Theme: Good stuff

Addicted to Stress (link)
Anime: Cowboy Bebop (spoilers for the last episode! just in the last 20 seconds of the AMV)
Song: "Stress" by Jim's Big Ego
Theme: Comedy, Action
My comments: Cowboy Bebop is so wonderfully AMV-able.


Visionary (link)
Anime: Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, Sailor Moon (series and spoilers for R movie), Shamanic Princess
Song: "Dreaming" by BT (uses two different remixes edited together)
Theme: Action
My comments: This is one of my favorite AMV editers, Silver Moon. She's a girl, she likes to use a lot of (GOOD) Christian music in her AMVs, and she's got a great sense of momentum and flow in her editing style. I recommend ALL of her other stuff.


"hmm" (link)
Anime: Hand Maid May (probably spoilers; I don't really know 'cause I've never actually seen the series)
Song: "Ross' Concert" from the "Uncorked" soundtrack
Theme: Romance, Drama
My comments: Simple editing. That's what More Than Toast AMVs were all about, and many other AMVs as well, because the Koop came onto the scene. This is one of my favorites by Kwasek, one of the four members of More Than Toast. I also recommend anything of that studio's.


Spectacular Anime (link)
Anime: TOO MANY TO LIST, but it includes Trigun, Cardcaptor Sakura, FLCL, Fruits Basket, Cowboy Bebop, Fushigi Yuugi...
Song: "The Pitch" from Moulin Rouge
Theme: Comedy, Parody, Action
My comments: Some people might hate this if they hate the song, but I was tickled silly by it. :3 Anyway, this AMV is the reason I looked up FLCL and ended up however many years later buying it. Also, it has Kero sound REALLY WEIRD.


Right Now Someone Is Reading This Title (link)
Anime: TOO MANY TO LIST, but it includes Evangelion, Ranma 1/2, Slayers, Golden Boy, My Neighbor Totoro, Outlaw Star...
Song: "Right Now" by Van Halen
Theme: Comedy, Parody, Commentary
My comments: Is it weird that in some weird way, this AMV kinda...moves me? I think it's 2:35-3:40 that does it. XD Anyway, it's another slightly old one, so change the Dragonball Z to Bleach and the video casettes to DVDs.

Wooo. New place to talk to people, find!

Comments:

1 - The fate/stay video isn't mildly spoiler, it's hugely spoiler. Also good.

2 - The Hand Maid May video is spoiler, but only mildly so. Human sized May shows up about halfway through the show, and her existence is spoiler.

Suggestions:

Mostly Fatal blood by Top Tier Gas - I want the fighting game featured in this AMV (the fate/stay one) badly.

Code Monkey - OMG AWESOME the footage is Black Heaven, I don't know the artist etc because the file doesn't list them. *grumble*

Kevin Alpha introduced me to those two.

Ones I found on my own time:

Sail On - Many Lemons : One piece AMV Set to Sail On by Masterplan. Totally win.

Sorry for the lack of imbedding and whatnot, but I don't have the skillz or the time... Mostly the time. *grumble*

Jason

So it is - hadn't seen the whole series when I posted that, so the full impact was kind of missing.

Then again, Fate/Stay strikes me as the kind of show that doesn't really suffer that much from spoilers.

It's just so silly.

Well, now we can all watch it, having been spoiled by you!

I'll watch these some time when my roommate isn't sleeping.

Swing by the Introductions thread! How did you find us?

The code monkey AMV is wrong, but the other two are correct, thanks. The song is right on code monkey, but the one I have is set to the

Anime Black Heaven: Hard Rock Save the Space

Guess I'll bebop over to the selfintro page.

Wyldlock/Kairn/Hatguy/Jason

Replaced with the correct one... I think?

Anyways.

Infinite Continues
Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (spoilers)
Song: Invincible, by Ok Go
Theme: Action, Fun


I recommend looking up some of Copycat Revolver's other videos, particularly Drink More Bleach, which I couldn't find on Youtube.

The Powerthirst Alchemist
Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (minor spoilers)
Soundtrack: POWERTHIRST
Theme: Comedy