Show #051 Direct Download: 
OP: Mamboleo by Elisa
NPR Story Excerpt (played in full at the end of the show)
Mummer’s Dance by Loreena McKennit.
ERIN’s List
- Vlad Pohnert – Memories Dance
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK3VYEKANs - istiv – Shonen Bushidou
Spirit Never Dies by Masterplan
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3eIsyTORRk - Right Now Someone is Reading this Title – dokidoki
Right Now by Van Halen
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZujpIv8_pmQ - Kevin Caldwell – Engel, Engel – Rammstein
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVQaixvlMwo - Absolute Destiny – I Wish I Was a Lesbian
I Wish I Was a Lesbian by Loudon Wainwright III
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptC9N9YJ24Y
NOAH’S LIST
- Jigoku no Video – Shirow Learns to Fly
Learning to Fly – Pink Floyd
*UPDATE: *remastered youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5f8JP8_wA this was remastered by yoshi1013 (un-remastered available here) - (Cornpone is/was an early fan video group… from way back when!)
- Kevin Caldwell – Believe
Believe by Franka Potente
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu35zNVrB2w - Vlad Pohnert – Memories Dance
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK3VYEKANs - – Hold Me Now
Håll Om Mig – by Nanne Grönvall
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9197GTl1ASg - MousePotato (Black Sun Productions) – Nightmare (Cut the Zac reference)
Counting Bodies like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums by Perfect Circle
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iziK7pXej0g
Jigoku no Video = Rich Lather
Promo: Fear the Gooberzilla
(Oktoberfest) – The Big Month of Dick
Promo: Animefe.com – note that after a long downtime, they’re not hosting our forums, apparently.
Decoy – Naruto’s Technique Beat
Seizure of Power (instrumental) by Marilyn Manson
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52FFA2_flo
NO SUBTITLES IN YOUR AMV – unless they are funny
CHARACTERS SHOULD NOT TALK UNLESS LIP-SYNCHING
(SkyeBox, we’re looking at you!)
Simpson’s Cosby Quote (remix)
(quote originally from Simpson’s episode 2F32 ‘Round Springfield
ERIN’S HONORABLE MENTION
- Religion X – Mai Time is Running Out
Our Time is Running Out by Muse
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOksHxc8Q0M - DarkXPower – Pokemon – Bitches
Bitches by Mindless Self-Indulgence
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyb-fqnN28 - Big Big Truck – Crazy-Ass Violence –
Mama Said Knock You Out by LL CoolJ
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktq5Q-a72Jc - Lost Boy – Rhythm Animation
Rhythm Generation (Red Monster Mix) by TWO-MIX
*same video on youtube:….? - Studio Hybrid – Jinnai and the Bugrom LIVE!
Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot by Caramba
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oml89-BS7c0 El Hazard - Aokakesu – Mamboleo
Mamboleo by Elisa - (We don’t like Trouble Chocolate)
- Perfect Blue Does not make just any dance video good.
- Nostromo – FMA Always Hardcore
Always Hardcore by Scooter
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZUquFacpc - Scintilla (Aqualine Studio) – Alternate Eva Opening: Eva Bebop
Tank! by Yoko Kanno
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61O5wRCk44 - doki doki – Lollipops, Sunshine, and rrrRRRrrr
The Bullet’s Breath by Iniquity
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHg9tIOCIDA
ED: NPR Show Featuring AMVs
Mamboleo (reprise)
Wow, I agree with both of you!
I’d also throw in some Kusoyaro classics, like Utena “Bachelorette”, Fushigi Yuugi “The Ballad of Yui Hongo”, and “Desperate Youth”.
Ninja Consultant hits the DS?!?
Unrelated to the new show (haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet) but I was watching a trailer for this DS game Ninjatown, and was suprised to see this – http://www.ninjatown.com/cast.php?id=8 have you heard about this yet?
Re: Ninja Consultant hits the DS?!?
A friend of mine got me a plush ninja consultant two years ago from that website!
Re: Great show
Of course it’s incredible, that’s why it’s our favorite!
Re: Great show
It’s all, remember how awesome Ghibli is? You forgot? LET ME REMIND YOU.
Now I want to go back and rewatch all my Ghibli.
At Anime Weekend Atlanta 07, I got to see the Nausicaa AMV with “Why Me” for the first time. It held up well! (Now I really should watch the actual movie…)
While re-watching “Odorikuru” at that con, I realized that only a few other people in the room recognized the footage from Magic Users Club [aka Mahotsukai Tai]. That’s a really stupid harem comedy which I like.
The AMVs that I watched when I was a flaming n00b… only a few of them hold up. The Ranma video with “I Would Walk a Thousand Miles” is still pretty good, but I can’t think of much good to say about “Ugly Girls of Anime”…
Finally, I should add that I think the El Hazard OAVs are dumb but very watchable. Just pretend the sequels/spinoffs don’t exist.
I have no idea who you are, and thus may regret saying this — but I endorse more or less everything you said in this comment. Flamey-o, sir.
And yes, do watch Nausicaa.
I saw that “Right Now” video when it premiered at AX so many years ago, and the insane laughter and applause it got – from both me and the audience. It is a fond memory and a perfect example of what you were talking about last time with a video sometimes capturing a specific moment in a specific culture.
Watching that again made me miss those days.
It makes me nostalgic for those days too, even though at the time I was renting Bebop on VHS and hardly qualified as an anime fan…
That was one of the few Anime Expos that I went to.
2001: Good times.
2002: Bad times. They screwed up the AMV contest, and other stuff, and I never went again.
But I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
As soon as my time machine is fixed I am so going to both AX and Otakon in 2001. It was the tip of the iceburg! I think I’d also hit AWA the same year…
Something Wicked
I can’t believe you left out the Something Wicked This Way Comes AMV which is a rehash of Totoro as a horror. That’s talented editing.
It’s YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cidG3DGkHR0
—
Patrick McNamara
Podcast: http://podcastping.blogspot.com
Re: Something Wicked
Didn’t that just come out this year?
I purposefully avoided very new videos on my list, and tried to keep it to AMVs that had stood the test of time.
Cool Choices
I agree with a lot of choices there, lots of great videos… wow, even after 6 years people still like Memories Dance. Cool.
Vlad
Re: Cool Choices
I am curious to see the one piece/naruto opening redo you guys mentioned. any title for this AMV?
~animulder
Re: Cool Choices
BOOSH!!
Couldn’t have found this without
Re: Cool Choices
Thanks Doki!
Holy crap! I’m honored… ^^>
But by the way, it’s “Aquiline”, as in http://www.aquilinestudios.org
(Thanks to for pointing this out; otherwise I never would have found it.)
HOLY SHIT YOU MADE EVA BEBOP!!! And also Waka Laka for Osaka, which I have watched an unhealthy number of times….!
You win 10,000 internets forever.
We probably should’ve notified the AMV community somehow of our impromptu awards.
He also made “Eikoden Trailer”, which makes for a better DDR video than what Konami could ever put together. 🙂
Some of these videos you chose I don’t really care for; “Shounen Bushido”, like “It’s Tricky to Make an AMV” the year before and “Jihaku” the year after, is strictly a “pander to the anime fan” video. I strictly hated “Naruto’s Technique Beat”; oddly enough, I liked and preferred Ileia’s “BTB” (same concept but set to Bleach and to much better music).
Although you mentioned the Evangelion “Nightmare” video, I would be remiss not to mention “Floyd’s Nightmare”, which parodies that video using Azumanga Daioh.
Almost everything else you mentioned, I definitely approve. I can only aspire to be as good as several of the editors that are featured in those videos you chose.
Dude, you are totally contradicting yourself, calling Shonen Bushidou derivative, and then liking the Bleach Technique Beat better than the Naruto one.
I did mention Floyd’s Nightmare in the show, if you listened to it…? I may not have known it was called that.
Which is why I prefaced my thought with “oddly enough” — I actually liked the execution of “BTB” much better than the Naruto one, even though BTB came the year after the Naruto one. I still maintain that “Naruto’s Technique Beat” was a study in visual diarrhea, and solidified the fact that most anime con goers are suckers for that, given that in 2005 it stole the Best Action award at Otakon from “Phenomenon”, another Naruto video, which was IMO much better than “Naruto’s Technique Beat”.
Full disclosure: I don’t listen to the show, I’m not a regular listener – I was alerted to this post by‘s mention on his LJ.
If you listened to just this one episode (and maybe the previous one) you’d find out why I like Naruto’s Technique Beat better, and why I don’t think much of the awards given out at Otakon.
A few things I meant to mention before now…
– The little girl in “Right Now” is dancing to an “Akazukin Chacha” fansub, not “Pokemon”.
– Caldwell hates “Believe”. I don’t mean to change anyone’s opinion of it, I just find it interesting.
– “IWIWAL” is actually the #3 most downloaded AMV from the org.
– “Bitches” was even linked from Penny Arcade one day.
– It’s “oh-doh-ree-koo-roo”. (more or less)
– I believe the frogs are from “Kero Kero Chime”.
– A couple of years before “Eva Bebop”, I downloaded this parody by a Japanese group. From stuff I’ve downloaded and posts I’ve seen on Japanator, this type of thing is rather popular.
Re: With the Hippin’ and the Hoppin’
Hmm, you guys have probably seen Cosby Bebop…