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caliber goes up, caliber goes down
wow... you know that your fandom is low on the Scale of Intellectualagism when most of your fandom's songs are set to bands like... hmm... Linkin Park... Korn... "click click boom"... and most of the AMVs are just really long cut scenes...
I searched my "other" favorite anime on YouTube this morning and was astonished at the phenomenally high caliber of Akira AMVs. Akira was Absolut Vodka's Absolut Anime, and I understand it's considered by many (including myself) the best anime in the history of time, but damn, all these AMVs are amazing, and it's such a refreshing and slightly sad change from the crap I have to wade through to find one decent DBZ AMV. Oddly enough many of the creators of these amazing Akira AMVs have names or sigs that derive from DBZ. Ah well. That's not too surprising, given they have the same basic themes.
Does Akira lend itself to good AMVs because of its cinematography? Or does Akira just have smarter, more competent fans?
I feel like sharing some, so here y'all go, thank me later.
1. Evangelion and Akira: "Apocalypse Now" by Muse - phenomenal, that's all I have to say. I need to buy End of Evangelion, because I love that movie more and more everytime I think about it. This AMV = why I watch anime. You can't pull this shit off in 3D.
2. Akira: "Come Out and Play" by the Offspring - much more lighthearted than the former but still fantabulous with amazing lipsynching. My favorite part is when Kaneda is pumping his fist at Tetsuo to the song's, "Hey man, you disrespecting me?"
3. Akira: "Right Now" by Korn - yes, it's Korn, but it's a very well-done AMV, and captures the whole "teenaged boys shouldn't have power" thing that Akira makes plaintively clear. Shut up, shut up, shut up I'll fuck you up!
4. Akira: "Exit Music (For a Film)" by Radiohead - yeah, Akira actually gets AMVs done to Radiohead. You don't even want to know how bad the result is when you put Radiohead to DBZ. This one is very sad and depressing and tragic.
5. Akira: "Boom" by P.O.D. - the great choreography continues, this time excelling in the motorcycle chase scenes and the devastating hits to the head, as well as our favorite cocky bastard, Kaneda.
6. Akira: "Out Comes the Evil" by Lords of Acid - the techno/rock juxtaposed with "pop goes the weasel" and the freakiness that is Akira = perfection. I mean, come on, Akira sometimes plays like it was made on acid.
7. Akira: "Wonderboy" by Tenacious D - really funny AMV that casts Kaneda as Wonderboy and Tetsuo as Young Nasty Man. The end is a little weak in comparison to the rest of the video, but the part where they say, "oh, yeah, how about the power of flight?" and you see Tetsuo flying above Neo-Tokyo is priceless.
I searched my "other" favorite anime on YouTube this morning and was astonished at the phenomenally high caliber of Akira AMVs. Akira was Absolut Vodka's Absolut Anime, and I understand it's considered by many (including myself) the best anime in the history of time, but damn, all these AMVs are amazing, and it's such a refreshing and slightly sad change from the crap I have to wade through to find one decent DBZ AMV. Oddly enough many of the creators of these amazing Akira AMVs have names or sigs that derive from DBZ. Ah well. That's not too surprising, given they have the same basic themes.
Does Akira lend itself to good AMVs because of its cinematography? Or does Akira just have smarter, more competent fans?
I feel like sharing some, so here y'all go, thank me later.
1. Evangelion and Akira: "Apocalypse Now" by Muse - phenomenal, that's all I have to say. I need to buy End of Evangelion, because I love that movie more and more everytime I think about it. This AMV = why I watch anime. You can't pull this shit off in 3D.
2. Akira: "Come Out and Play" by the Offspring - much more lighthearted than the former but still fantabulous with amazing lipsynching. My favorite part is when Kaneda is pumping his fist at Tetsuo to the song's, "Hey man, you disrespecting me?"
3. Akira: "Right Now" by Korn - yes, it's Korn, but it's a very well-done AMV, and captures the whole "teenaged boys shouldn't have power" thing that Akira makes plaintively clear. Shut up, shut up, shut up I'll fuck you up!
4. Akira: "Exit Music (For a Film)" by Radiohead - yeah, Akira actually gets AMVs done to Radiohead. You don't even want to know how bad the result is when you put Radiohead to DBZ. This one is very sad and depressing and tragic.
5. Akira: "Boom" by P.O.D. - the great choreography continues, this time excelling in the motorcycle chase scenes and the devastating hits to the head, as well as our favorite cocky bastard, Kaneda.
6. Akira: "Out Comes the Evil" by Lords of Acid - the techno/rock juxtaposed with "pop goes the weasel" and the freakiness that is Akira = perfection. I mean, come on, Akira sometimes plays like it was made on acid.
7. Akira: "Wonderboy" by Tenacious D - really funny AMV that casts Kaneda as Wonderboy and Tetsuo as Young Nasty Man. The end is a little weak in comparison to the rest of the video, but the part where they say, "oh, yeah, how about the power of flight?" and you see Tetsuo flying above Neo-Tokyo is priceless.
