AMV battle, 3 per Round.

please finish your vote when you have time, I look forward to reading it.

Glad you appreciate that one.

I had not properly given a full viewing to the adieu AMV when I stated my favourites earlier on. I stand by ranking it 100% that is essentially a music video in every sense.

Couldn’t be...

"Could just give numbers, but they aren’t going to mean much without explanation."
I have a hypothesis that this was written by a scientist.

I think I’ll hold off for now. Suffice it to say that my rating system is more involved, and I don’t want to give it here before others have had a chance to employ their own. Could just give numbers, but they aren’t going to mean much without explanation, so I’ll wait until the end.

I will just score them. Note that my scoring system (which I will explain later when the voting period is over) isn't based on my own 'feeling' alone, that's a significant factor but not the only one. I rank based on if I could spot things about it that I'd improve, if it's very difficult for me to truly say I could improve it, I default it to 100% (so I work from 100 down instead of 0 up and gauge it like that).

My R1:

97%
95%
94%

Your R1:

84%
66%
88%

My R2:

98%
100%
100%

Your R2:
91%
73%
84%

My R3:
95%
100%
98%

Your R3:
92%
83%
100%

My R4:
98%
92%
96%

Your R4:
97%
81%
97%

I’d be up for doing that at the end. Feel like it might just be a nice opportunity to rate ourselves and each other without risk at that point.

do you want me to leave an RFD and score the AMVs? I think I won obviously but I am curious if you wanted that. I would want it from you too but I understand the problem it poses because we both could influence voters.

If we make it to the nearest 0.1 out of 10, I average 8.8/10 so far and Whiteflame averages 8.6/10 on your scores

toxic: wow, that's chilling, winner winner chicken dinner indeed. 100/100

cradles: glitchy effect got a bit overboard near end but fine 80/100

animal: good try given the difficulty to fill the violin chorus, though some parts were kind of awkward. 90/100

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awaken: reasonably nice stuff, not bad at all 95/100

Oz: Just seemed another lot of flashes of random similar scenes without stronger flow... 80/100

Madoka: not a big fan of the song but the animation was fine 80/100

I could probably go a few more debates before I had to start reusing AMVs, though my choices for subsequent rounds of this sort would probably include more repeat anime and/or editors. I still try to keep up with new ones, though I'll admit that my scope is somewhat limited by my previous finds. I trend more towards anime than AMVs, though I like them for different reasons, so I can see why you might prefer the latter to the former. There are some examples (I didn't post them in these rounds) of AMVs that did such a good job portraying the best parts of an anime that I actually preferred them to the series after watching the full thing. I've loved a lot of different kinds of anime, posted a favorite list here a little while back, and yeah, prefer mostly subbed myself with a few exceptions (mostly 90s anime, which I started watching dubbed and which had amazing dubs). No shade on the manga vs. anime front. There are some series (One Piece comes to mind) where the pacing of the anime is just garbage, but it's much better in the manga. Then there are series that just take what's in the manga and portray it way better on screen, like Kimetsu no Yaiba. There are even a few examples of series that have taken massive liberties with the story and come out with something better than the original, like Dororo. Also, just somewhat depends on whether you like the drawing style or the full motion animation. I usually prefer the anime, personally.

That was another thing I think we did differently. Though, I admit 'poor taste judgement' may be a better way of putting it (in the past from me).

If you notice, I think maybe only one of these AMVs are ones I've used before, most are recent. I wanted to explore many new ones and this gave me the opportunity to. I don't want to offend weeaboos but I am not the biggest Anime junkie, I often prefer AMVs to the actual Anime, though I haven't watched enough of most to be able to truly say that. I love the art of Anime more than the general style of it. The kinds of Anime I love the crap out of have brilliant storylines and character development AS WELL AS great graphics and voice-acting (I only judge this on subbed, dubbed is unbearably cringe for me most of the time).

I am also more of a watcher than a reader, I completely disagree with the notion that smarter people enjoy books while dumber people enjoy movies and series, in Anime especially I have found no real correlation like this because often Mangas are tedious to read and require far too much piecing together of the storyline from the reader.

Good to see a solidly-made Baki AMV. I'm caught up on the series, it's pretty good.

Maybe so. I honestly picked my list based on what I felt were my absolute favorites mixed with a few I appreciate quite a bit based on certain elements. Can't say that there was a specific tactic to my choices - it was honestly just a lot of fun going through some of the AMVs I've appreciated over the years and picking out a set of 12 that represent some of the best I've seen. Didn't really think much on the order except to keep each round diverse with genres and minimize the number of AMVs that include the same anime, were done by the same editor, or included songs from the same artist. I was surprised how easy that was - if you took a look at my overall list, there's a lot of One Piece, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Naruto in there.

As for this being Rated, it's not that big of an issue for me. I don't do this kind of debate (same with the one I did with Supa) to get a win. It's honestly some of the most enjoyable stuff for me to do, and if it comes at a cost to my rating, I'm good with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUsCGh5-wNI

This is an AMV that I extremely enjoyed but I opted out of using as I was sure it's a high-risk medium-reward AMV vs most audience members on this website.

did RM read my song review site and find Animal had a ridiculously high rating? well, let's see how the amv's are

Warrior: tired of the song but decent animation 85/100

Blood/water: excellent syncing and well done overall 95/100

Lovely: feels slightly unfitting but ok 80/100

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steel: good war scenes and set ups, I see nothing wrong here 95/100

Let it go: a bit too many flashes and weird transition effects... 75/100

anohana: Neat timing of ideas and cool stuff overall, not bad... 90/100

Based on supadudz's taste you'd probably have edged out the win if you chose that over one of your weaker pics in his eyes.

I set my choices up to hit a wide range of voters just in case, so we will see.

The main thing I remembered throughout is that I am picking AMVs to please the audience, not necessarily myself. I think you just went with both at once.

There are ones I dropped that I'd prefer over these but I chose these for audience pleasure, predicting what people like a lot or dislike and how to hit them hard as well as structuring my picks so I win Rounds not just overall points (because some people vote like that).

I also ordered the AMVs in rounds so that they begin with a hard-hitter that somewhat shocks you each time as it wasn't quite what you were expecting, then the middle choice is much more 'straightforward' and easy to watch while the closing pick is again meant to impress you and surprise.

I also had less than you to lose since this is Rated and I regularly 'buffer' my rating with debates, assuming I maintain as fairly 65/35 kind of winrate as things progress and my rating is also (at present) lower than yours. So, I figured even if I lose this, it was worth the gamble. It's also why I don't let myself get hooked on winstreaks like Ragnar and Oromagi, I just go for the hell of it and if it gets boring I take a break and even forfeit debates. This way, I am always in a position to 'tear down' a better rated debater quite significantly and noone can really accuse me of 'gaming the system' as I maintain one account, I just don't care as much about Rating as others do.

Even if I hadn't won the 'king of the hill' medal, I'd just roll with the punches, I was fortunate to rise fast and hard before the hardcore ones surpassed me.

Another AMV I was very close to selecting:

https://youtu.be/VF3TDPhj_Bs

Oh ok. I had to change the perms then. WF said he couldn't view it and I thought I accidentally shared Croc v Gugigor

the URL in your RFD is correct while your link in the comments, correcting it, are to Croc vs Gugigor

Yeah but technically speaking it’s based off an American production. studio with american writers and artists. It does take lots of elements from Japanese art

LoK is an anime btw, it just has American producers and artists. The style is definitely Anime.

I am shocked at how you scored some of both mine and WF (in terms of what really stood out to you and what didn't) and also what your critiques were because I misjudged your taste. The Korra one was actually specifically chosen in the hopes you'd vote but I accept your feedback. Your 10/10 and such were things I'd agree were fantastic. To me, most were 10/10 in their own way but I'll keep my opinion to myself.

Thanks for your vote.

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