The Good Old Days of Anime Award
'Falling in Love' by Indigo Team (Open Hearts by The Weeknd to Various)
Blatant Canadian Pandering Award
'OUR GAME' by ShadowCore AMV (The Hockey Song by Stompin' Tom Connors to PuraOra! PRIDE OF ORANGE)
You Need To Go Touch Grass Award
'Overthinker' by Luminis (Overthinker by INZO to Mind Game)
Not Enough Tea Award
'Raise You Like an Avatar' by SilkAMV (The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy to Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise)
Booktok Girlies Approve Award
'Anime Boyfriends' by BasicObservations (Book Boyfriends by Decayed Souls to Various)
Click Click Award
'A Gunmatic Irony' by ShadowCore AMV (A Dramatic Irony by HOYO-MiX to Various)
Team Anime Award
Judges' 1st Place (Best in Show)
'Uprising' by ShinRyu (Spiderverse OST to Various)
Audience Favourite Runner-up
'Frontier Psychiatrist' by Luminis (Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches to The Summer Hikaru Died)
The Haute PoCouture Award
Judges' Runner-up
Audience Favourite
'I've Created A Pokémonster!' by Sayoria (1-800 by bbno$ featuring Ironmouse to Pokémon, My Dressup Darling)
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Another year, another contest! Otafest’s 2026 AMV Contest is now open and accepting entries to anyone who wants to submit an AMV video into competition.
You do not need to be present at the event to enter, but attendance is always encouraged when possible.
FINALISTS
Here are our finalists (credit name only). The Contest will be on Saturday night in the Main Events room and the best of the non-finalists will be played Sunday in the AMV Room just before the winners are shown in Main Events. Good luck to everyone!
AbyssBreakingStudios
Bale Wayner
BasicObservations
Chiterra
Dreamerjordi
ElektricAngel
Elixir
Ileia
Indigo Team
James Blond
Josie Ø
KOCHiiKUN
Luminis (x2)
ManicMonday
mtagstyle
Reinhart AMV
ResyAMV
Rider4Z (x2)
SasukeChanx
Sayoria
ShadowCore AMV (x2)
ShinRyu
shorisquared
SilkAMV (x2)
Synæsthesia Productions
TheGreatTobeast
unaccetpable
xmssleti92x (x2)
ZeonicFreak (Lightning Bear Studios)
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, April 10, 2026
SUBMISSION RULES & ENTRY FORM
Quick Rules Summary:
- The duration limits for each submission are as follows:
- AMV Entries: 1 minute 15 seconds minimum, 6 minutes maximum.
- Trailers, Commercials or Intros: 30 seconds minimum, 3 minutes 30 seconds maximum. - No more than 2 entries per person/group.
- No subtitles, watermarks, logos, credits, references to other contests or text that is unnecessary to the concept.
- Must not have premiered before June 1, 2025
- The majority of your entry’s video content must consist of anime-styled or manga-styled content.
- Audio for all AMV entries (except Trailer/Commercial/Intro) must be majority music. No excessive dialogue.
- Must be age 14+ appropriate.
- AMV-Hell style entries will not be accepted.
- Must satisfy our technical requirements.
- No music and/or dialogue generated by voice-cloning technologies (deepfake audio).
- Entries created using Machine Learning technologies (AI) and not the creation of the entrant will be disqualified.
- Special Awards
- Up to a total of 7 special awards will be given out. - Judges’ Top Awards
- 1st Place (Best in Show) and Runner-up - Audience Favourite
- 1st Place and Runner-up
Good Luck to everyone!
Rory Mahood
Otafest 2026 AMV Coordinator