How remiss of me

[HoagieOfDoom]

These were the winners of the Anime Boston 2006 AMV contest. There were a lot of *damn* fine AMVs this year, and except for the drama winner I was rooting for all of these.
Drama: Lost Ones - "Change the World" by Anberlin, set to The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
Fun/Upbeat/Other: Foxman Begins - Batman Begins trailer audio set to Naruto. This one had the entire crowd laughing hysterically.
Romance: Conter Les Heures - "Halleujah" as covered by Rufus Wainwright set to Chrono Cross. Very well done, however beware the spoilage.
Comedy: Fullmetal Hell - Various clips set to the Fullmetal Alchemist movie. Even for someone like me who has zero interest in FA this was incredibly funny.
Best Editing: true:FICTION - "Das Omen" and "Lauf der Zeit" by E Nomine set to various anime. The sheer amount of clips and technical wizardry in this AMV is astounding.
Action and Best of Show: Hold Me Now - Hall Om Mig by Nanne Gronnvall set to Princess Tutu. My friends and I were ecstatic that this won; in fact, it is quite possibly the best AMV any of us had seen. Watch it. NOW.
Side note: strangely enough, there were a large number of Bon Jovi AMVs this year; at least three or four.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
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[Sweno]

Foxman, Fullmetal Hell, and True:Fiction deserve the laurels that have been heaped on them.
I didn't get Hold Me Now, but I haven't seen the he series either.-Terry
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Mary Sue's theme music
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
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[robkelk]

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Romance: Conter Les Heures - "Hallujah" by Rufus Wainwright set to Chrono Cross.

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Just being pedantic - that should be "Halleujah as covered by Rufus Wainwright". (It's one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs.)

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I didn't get Hold Me Now, but I haven't seen (Princess Tutu) either.

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I strongly recommend Tutu - it's magical girls done right, with ballet as the theme. It's also a faerie tale (as opposed to a "fairy tale"), so the older folks have something interesting to watch...
-Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
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[M Fnord]

Fullmetal Hell wins everything, if only for "ZOMG SUBTEXT" and Leeeeeroy Jenkins. That one just totally caught me off-guard, had me giggling like a nitwit for five minutes flat. %)---
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[Bob Schroeck]

Damn. I knew I forgot to follow up on something this weekend. I'll have to check these out tonight.-- Bob
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I loot faster. -- Peggy Schroeck, D&D game, in response to a crisis situation that arises while she's searching the bodies of four recent opponents.

[HoagieOfDoom]

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Just being pedantic - that should be "Halleujah as covered by Rufus Wainwright". (It's one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs.)

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Noted and corrected. I'm only familiar with this version and another one done with guitar and vox by... Jeff Buckley? I can't remember. Whoever it was done by, it was in Shrek. Thanks for the heads up.*********
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[The Hunterminator]

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Action and Best of Show: Hold Me Now - Hall Om Mig by Nanne Gronnvall set to Princess Tutu. My friends and I were ecstatic that this won; in fact, it is quite possibly the best AMV any of us had seen. Watch it. NOW.

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Whoa. I never watched that anime (didn't even hear of it before today) and I now have the unbearable need to watch it.
*Heads off to Discount Anime DVDs to see the prices*
-Edit-
And now that I've watched the AMV a bit more, I must say that video clips coincide quite well with the music. I particularly like the transitions between White Girl and Black Lady from 0:50 to 1:00 (roughly)

[Valles]

Wow.
The video by itself doesn't actually make me want to see the show, but it goes a goodly distance towards that decision... which the Wikipedia article on about the series completes.
Thanks for leading us to it!
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

[HoagieOfDoom]

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Whoa. I never watched that anime (didn't even hear of it before today) and I now have the unbearable need to watch it.

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It's really good. I've watched up to episode 7 or 8 and I have a friend who's seen up to 22. It's actually kinda reminds of Revolutionary Girl Utena, but geared more for every audience rather than a purely adult one.

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Thanks for leading us to it!

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You're welcome!*********
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www.venganza.org

[robkelk]

(Princess Tutu)

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It's really good. I've watched up to episode 7 or 8 and I have a friend who's seen up to 22.

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I've seen the entire series. Your friend who's seen up to episode 22 may want to be prepared for the roller-coaster of emotions that's coming up in the next four episodes. One spoiler: Don't expect everyone who should get a "happily ever after" ending to actually get one. That wouldn't be true to the story so far.

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It's actually kinda reminds of Revolutionary Girl Utena, but geared more for every audience rather than a purely adult one.

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As I mentioned earlier, it's a Faerie Story rather than a Fairy Tale. Those were definitely aimed at adults...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012