Gunslinger Girl AMV: "Collect The Set"

[kapparomeo]

Video: Collect The Set (Preview)
Category: Action, Drama.
Anime: Gunslinger Girl
Song: Gotta Catch 'Em All ("Pokemon Theme Song") / Funiculi, Funicula
Artist: Pokémon / Luigi Denza
Creator: kapparomeo

Gunslinger Girl is perhaps my favourite anime of them all, and so a homage to it was nothing short of necessary. It's an unusual pairing of anime and audio, admittedly, but I think you'll agree that it's twistedly fitting given the subject matter. In the video description on its profile page I witter on about very high-minded ideas like the juxtaposition of dark qualities that the song helps to bring into relief, but really it takes its inspiration from this picture, found while browsing Danbooru:


(Part of a larger collage seen here)

Anyway, enjoy! Comments & criticism are, as always, warmly appreciated and always considered seriously.

[CodeZTM]

Now this looks like it has some potential.

/snags

[Kireblue]

.........This was edited good............but the song/anime combination made me upset at first . Up until the halfway mark, I assumed that the girls were "pokemon" and the handlers were "trying to catch them all". But when I figured out that the terrorist were the "pokemon", the video started to make sense. But even so, combining Gunslinger Girl and Pokemon is a big stretch. It probably would have worked if you had cut the song and just made this a 30 second AMV-hell-ish video, but keeping it 3 minutes long kinda kills the joke.

[Laerium]

songlolwhut xD; hmm... nice?

[post-it]

.. screw Pocket-Monsters; THAT theme works better for Gun Slinger Girls

but .. it did seem a weeeeee bit toooooo long for an AMV T_T

[S.A. Robert]

Nice clip, I liked it, a parody of Pokemon came out)

[kapparomeo]

Thanks for the comments so far, everyone, your interest is greatly appreciated.

kireblue: I see your point, but while there's definitely a sense of irony to the choice of audio and anime I didn't really intend this AMV to be an out-an-out parody. That said, though, it does actually have its origins in AMV Minis - the period 0:06 to 0:46 in the video was originally intended to be its own Minis clip. It was scuppered by its overrunning length and Zarxrax closing submissions, but that did give me an opportunity to review and reflect on it - I decided that the conceit of the clip could be taken more seriously and was strong enough to stand on its own, so I cultivated the germ of an idea into something larger and expanded the clip into the full-length AMV that you can see here.