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Incredible, award-winning rotoscoped anime mashup combining footage from over 100 anime movies to create a "Whacky Race." Music by Weezer and Island in the Sun. See http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=78914 for more. Here's a list of the anime and music this film draws upon: Music: * Weezer Island in the Sun * Wiseguys Ooh La La ! # Anime: * Ai Yori Aoshi * Angelic Layer * Animatrix, The * Argento Soma * BECK, Mongolian Chop Squad * Berserk * Bleach * Boboboubo Boubobo * Captain Future (Kyaputen Fyuuchaa) * Captain Tsubasa * Chobits * City Hunter (TV) * Condor Hero * Cowboy Bebop * Detective Conan (Case Closed) * Doraemon * DragonBall GT * DragonBall Z * Eat-Man * Excel Saga * Fruits Basket * Full Metal Panic * Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu * Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) * Gankutsuou * GANTZ * Gatekeepers * GetBackers * Gokusen * Great Teacher Onizuka * Grenadier * Groove Adventure Rave * Gundam Seed * Hanada Shonen-shi * High School Kimengumi * Hikaru no Go * Hunter X Hunter * Inu Yasha (TV) * Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu * Last Exile * Love Hina (TV) * Lunar Legend Tsukihime (Shingetsutan Tsukihime) * Lupin III: First Contact (2002 Special) * Monster (TV) * Mysterious Cities of Gold, The * Naruto * Neon Genesis Evangelion * One Piece * Otogizoushi * Paranoia Agent * Pokémon (TV) * RahXephon (TV) * Rurouni Kenshin (TV) * Saint Seiya * Saiyuki * Samurai 7 * Samurai Champloo * School Rumble * Scrapped Princess * Shaman King * Shingetsutan Tsukihime * Slam Dunk * Tenchi Muyo! (OAV) * Tenjou Tenge * Tenshi na Konamaiki * Trigun * Twelve Kingdoms * Twin Spica * UFO Robo Grendizer * Vision of Escaflowne, The * Wolf's Rain * X (TV) * Yakitate!! Japan (TV) Here's the producer's summary: The idea to do such a video came on a discussion with Tyler. We were talking about the numerous scenes of people running in animes. I also had instantly the idea to use this to do a sort of marathon of anime characters. I started so to prospect for concepts to put into this race. The first difficulty was to find a sort of scenario to this video. As i often say, one of my goal in amvmaking is to do more scenaristic videos, like Vlad did wih "Transcending love" [réf.] or E-ko in "Tainted Donuts" [réf.]. I realy wanted to do something different from "Shounen Bushido" or "Project Love united". So i search for a story that can motivate the characters to participate to the race. I had the idea of a mysterious Great Prize that no one know what it is. So the participants are imagining what they wondering deeply in their own anime story. And one of the stress i put on me was to absolutely not do another "singing" video. Now i have the background of the video, i started to search the characters. The first character wich came in mind was Spike from Cowboy Bebop since i already saw him running in "Tainted Donuts". To say the true, it is possible that this video indirectly influenced me in making this video. But i really wanted to do something different evan if it was still people running inside. Then i think about Luffy of One Piece on second. Because, every funny thing ou need in AMV, you can be sure Luffy did it. Naruto, Kirua from Hunter X Hunter, and Edward of Full Metal Alchemist came after that. Once i had my main charcters, i started to edit the scenes, and see what can i do with the different piece of anime i had. After a few minutes of editing i realize that, just putting characters in a race, make them run from a point to an other, should be boring. So i had the idea to put in it some "Chibi Things"-like fighting. Now my race became a fighting race. A sort of "Wacky Race" with participants, tricking, cheating, to win the great prize. I was prepared to do a lot of rotoscoping, but at this point i never imagined how much of cutings i'm going to do, to complete this project. After 1 year of editing, and many stops caused by boringness, world of warcraft or my Ph D. rush ... i finally finish the vid. I would like to thanks some editors for the help they provided: Kirua for making me discover the song, and for the sequences i lacked of and he sent it to me ; and Laria for reviewing my beta version and tell me where i needed to correct some misshaps. If you have time, go look their videos, and let an opinion ;). I would like to thanks [R]ay and Ayor which are not amvmakers but that helped a lot by providing me some stuff i didn't have in my stock of anime videos. I hope you'll enjoy the video. Video Encoding: Divx 5.1.1 - 2pass - 3000 KBps Audio Encoding: MP3 - 44 KHz - 160 KBps ************************************************************** Anime USA (Vienna, 2005) - Viewer's Choice Award - Upbeat Runner-Up AC Cubed (Ottawa, 2005) - Best Overall Anime Week-end Atlanta XI Pro Contest (Atlanta, 2005) - Best Fun/Upbeat - Best Technical - Best in Show - Nominated in 3 categories Connichi AMV Contest (Kassel, 2005) - Best Fun