Rorschach wrote: Well, of course, if it weren't any good, no one would care to vote for it. There would also be a built-in incentive not to produce total crap in that rare and unusual footage, as well as rare and unusual songs, are something you'd tend to want to show to the best advantage;
Ok. I know what you mean here Rorscharch, when you have an obscure Anime that you like alot, you don't want to slap something together half heartedly, you want to do something that is worthy of the Anime, and it does mean something about knowing, and being able to get your hands on more unknown titles, as well as putting it to good music that may not be as well known, but it is still what you do with it that counts, and that is what I think Sarah is saying.
SarahtheBoring wrote:I feel like I saw 57 Metropolis vids in the finals of Otakon 03 alone. If you think it's obscure, I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong.

I have to agree on this point with Sarah here. Metropolis is not obscure, and never has been. In fact, it was reviewed on national TV by Ebert & Roper, and its soundtrack is listed on Rhapsody's top 100 movie soundtracks. (It is also one of the biggest selling Anime DVD's at Wal Mart)
Now classics like Studio Ghibli's "Only Yesterday" would fall in the more unknown works, and "Robot Carnival" or "Huminoid" under the harder to get a good dvd quality footage of. These are the kinds of things I think that you may have had in mind. Hard to get and hard to make a vid out of.
But,
Sarah, I think you need to realize that this catagory, which I agree does not have a chance of being accepted, is more in the spirit of bringing out to the public eye Anime that would not normally be seen as much, and commend people for putting together good videos using that anime. It is not rewarding them for finding the most obscure Anime and just slapping it together, but making good original videos that make you say, "Gee, what Anime is that from. I have to check that out!" as Kevin Caldwell's <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=802"> Phantom of the Opera</a> did for the still hard to find "Memories" (I think you can order the Chinese DVD version of it, but I have never seen it released in America)
With that said, lets end the conversation and continue enjoying these wonderful AMV's people have made, both common and uncommon.
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