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by Vicious Knives » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:02 pm
Congratulations to all the winners!
None of you may care about what I have to say, but here are my thoughts on a few of the winners:
Most Expected: AMV Hell 3 for Multi-Editor and Always Hardcore for Dance. I wanted Reflections of Style 2 to win Multi-Editor, but AMV Hell 3 is plenty deserving of its win. Same for Always Hardcore (which I voted for in the Dance category).
Most Surprising: Jihaku for Best Sentimental. I thought In My Mind had that one in the bag, but I was wrong.
Most Baffling: You have your "normal" surprises ("Hmm, didn't expect that."), and then you have those surprises that leave you utterly dumbfounded ("WHAT?! How in the... Why is that... HUH?!"). Naruto's Technique Beat for Best Instrumental was just such a head-scratcher for me.
Now please understand that I don't mean to offend the artist behind this video. It looks like some very hard work went into the development of it, but the ridiculously high color saturation and the (in my opinion) needless abundance of effects annoyed me. It gets a point for nostalgic value for making me think of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (the first anime film I ever watched). But other than that, I found it way too effects heavy and not all that fun to watch. Maybe you have to be a Naruto fan to really appreciate it. Speaking of which, perhaps its win isn't all that baffling when one considers the legions of Naruto fans out there. It's the only explanation I can think of for how it could have beaten the beautiful and uplifting I want to Fly.
Winning in the Wrong Category: Dead to the World for Best Horror/Terror and Still Preoccupied with 1985 for Best Character Profile.
I'm glad Dead to the World won something, but I've never thought it was right for the Horror/Terror category. It should have been in Artistic instead.
Still Preoccupied with 1985 is a great video, but a character profile? Say what? It surprised me when I saw it among the nominations for that category and I thought it surely wouldn't win. If Still Preoccupied with 1985 is a character profile of Yukari, then I guess Revenge is a character profile of Spike. In my opinion, the Bowling For Soup song used in Still Preoccupied with 1985 doesn't fit Yukari at all. She doesn't have a husband, she doesn't have two kids, I don't remember her ever aspiring to be an actress, and we have no evidence of her ever being preoccupied with the 1980s. Still Preoccupied with 1985 works very well in the other categories for which it won, but (in my opinion) it doesn't work as a character profile.
The video I really wanted to win in the Character Profile category was The World At Large by Kwasek. Unfortunately, it couldn't even be nominated in that category because Kwasek didn't list it as a character profile video for some reason.
Most Satisfying: Jihaku for Video of the Year. This was my third favorite video of the year (next to Dead To The World and Reflections of Style 2) and I was really hoping it would win in at least one category. I was quite surprised when it won in four categories. I knew it was a great video, but I didn't know if it was popular enough to win Video of the Year. I'm glad it did.
GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!!! 
