I guess simply showing me a repetitive list doesn't strike me as parody--or as comedy, either, for that matter. When I watched this video, I didn't laugh, I just enumerated in my head all the examples that were left out.CodeZTM wrote:Explain to me in detail how EAOEM isn't a parody.
A parody AMV is [ideally] something created as a means to mock/comment/ridicule the oirigin. Anime openings is the original aspect, and it is mocking the overly used scenes that every anime opening seems to use, showing how unoriginal and repetitive that anime seem to use. It's more or less a "GET OFF YOUR UNCREATIVE LAZY ASSES AND TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR ONCE" sort of thing. Which, in the original context, is what a parody was intended to do. Mock in order to bring about change in the way people think/behave.
A parody AMV doesn't have to parody another AMV for it to be a parody.
All this video does is provide a visual laundry list. It says, "Hey look. They use this trope in this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime. And this anime..."
Explain to me how that's clever, or mocking, or providing any commentary whatsoever.