Best Anime Music Videos

I enjoy anime music videos (AMVs) very much because they are unique works of art. An editor has to make a story based on footage from one or several anime and add appropriate music. It is not an easy task.

I find that very few AMVs have appropriate music or good story. Yet there is something particular about AMVs. While musical clips is a similar medium, they serve to illustrate and amplify the song first and foremost. I believe the best AMVs elicit the emotions we felt when we saw the original anime.

Some AMVs can be enjoyable even when you have not seen the anime it was based on, but the effect is much greater when you know who the characters are and what they go through. While other AMVs don’t have any particular story to tell and just look pretty.

Over the years I saw many AMVs, but liked only very few of them. Since I posted about 50 AMVs, it might be a daunting task to go through them all at one time. Thus, I wanted to make a subset of the AMVs that I consider the best. Please tell me if you liked any of these AMVs 🙂

Drama/Sentimental

– Rurouni Kenshin OVA – Trust and Betrayal
– Now and Then, Here and There – Hope
– Haibane Renmei – Hello
– Cowboy Bebop – Call Me, Call Me
– Neon Genesis Evangelion – Faithless
– Do You Remember Love – Show Must Go On

Comedy

– Azumanga Daioh – Lord of Rings Trailer
– Azumanga Daioh – Are you still preoccupied with 1985?

Action

– Escaflowne – Path

Romance

– Millennium Actress – Storm
– Haruhi Suzumiya – Ever the Same

Special Effects

– Haibane Renmei and Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien – Reflections
– Memory Flash – Multieditor project
– NieA Under Seven – Silence

Performance/Singing/Dancing

– Haruhi Suzumiya – God Knows
– Elvis and Anime

Ghibli Tributes

– Walking in the Air
– Ghibli Collection

You can see other AMVs under my Anime Music Videos category or check out the Vodpod widget on the sidebar.

What other AMVs are your favorites?