| My Favorite Music Videos | ||
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LOTR/NIGHTWISH Movie: Lord of the Rings Artist: Nightwish Song: Ghost Love Score Maker: TomHen77 An epic undertaking befitting an epic trilogy. It's not just a video, it is a sweeping journey through the emotional landscape of Middle Earth. The song flows seamlessly with the footage and, if I didn't know better, I'd swear it was made for this video. There are many dramatic changes in melody and TomHen77 takes advantage of every one of them to tell this story. | |
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NINE SPIRAL Movie/Game: FFVII: Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus Artist: Gackt Song: Nine Spiral Maker: Surfinpika This video gave a virtual orgasm when I saw it at Yaoi Con '06. "Nine Spiral" is a very fast song and the timing here is flawless. Hooray for hyper editing!! It is a blitzkrieg of some of the best fight scenes ever made. Cuts from Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus are blended together smoothly to create the ultimate Final Fantasy experience. | |
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DIE FOR ME Anime: Berserk Artist: Tool Song: Eulogy Maker: Wonka "Haunting" and "Hypnotic" are some of the words that come to mind describing this video. The pacing is sometimes leisurely and sometimes blinding fast, but all works together to create layers of memory and emotion that define the relationship between Guts and Griffith. | |
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HIDDEN MEMORIES Anime: Pandora Hearts Artist: I:Scintilla Song: Taken Maker: CilkaMilka This epilepsy-inducing spoiler reel does an incredible job of capturing an impressive amount of plot detail from the anime. The scenes flash by very quickly, yet they remain very coherent if you know what's going on. Finally a video that runs as fast my brain! Really shows off the epicness of the story. | |
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WONDERS AT YOUR
FEET Manga: Berserk Artist: Dark Tranquility Song: Wonders At Your Feet Maker: Sir Lagsalot It takes skill to make a manga music video entertaining, but it takes a whole different kind of skill to make a manga music video move. I don't know how many tedious hours it took Sir Lagsalot to layer and animate these manga panels, but the results are fantastic! Behold Guts' wild ferocity in all its uncensored gory... err, glory! | |
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AWAKENING Game: Devil May Cry 3 Artist: Godhead Song: The Hate In Me Maker: PharCry This premiered at Tales of Anime '07, and Reuben Langdon (Dante) and Dan Southworth (Vergil) themselves voted it to be the winner of the music video contest. I agree with them. Aside from my bias towards the subject matter, it has perfect timing and a great beat. | |
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THE PAIN OF
LOSING INOUE Manga: Bleach Artist: Rascal Flatts Song: What Hurts The Most Maker: emaline Lets face it, it's hard to make an engaging drama music video, and even harder to make one from static pictures. Yet this video does just that. Let me put it this way: I HATE INOUE!! And the last thing I want is to see her with Ichigo. Yet, despite that, I was moved to tears. For the duration of the video, I could sympathize with her longing to be with him. That's saying something. | |
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SHATTERED Manga: Pandora Hearts Artist: Trading Yesterday Song: Shattered Maker: MyVampireEyes A beautiful video revolving around the intense rollercoaster of emotions between Alice, Oz, Gilbert, and Jack. It probably makes more sense if you know the plot, but I get chills every time I watch this, and have to try very hard not to cry - sometimes from sadness, sometimes from the sense of warm comfort. | |
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EGO TRIP Anime: various Artist: Right Said Fred Song: I'm Too Sexy Maker: Arigatomina This video is pure, shameless fun! It is a nonstop parade of anime's finest prettyboys strutting their stuff. What more could you ask for? |
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DISCLAIMER: All artwork, characters, stories, and anime are Copyright their respective owners. They are NOT of my making. | ||
