Anime Boston 2026 AMV Contest (deadline 2/21/26) - Last Day to Submit!

[LantisEscudo]

Hello, everyone!

I'm happy to announce that submissions for Anime Boston's Anime Music Video Contest are open for 2026!

The quick high points:

• Submission deadline is 11:59 PM Eastern Time, February 21st, 2026
• Freshness limit is one year before the convention - Videos may not have publicly premiered before April 3, 2026
• Videos must adhere to a PG-13 content rating
• Videos must be between 60 seconds and 5 minutes in duration (15-60 seconds for the Shorts category)
• Editors may submit a maximum of two videos to the six full-length categories (either as an individual or as part of a collaboration), and up to five videos to the Shorts category
• Editors may only submit one video per category (other than Shorts)
• Generative AI content is prohibited

You can find the full rules here.

There are separate forms for the full-length categories and the Shorts category to make it easier to submit multiple videos at once:
Full Length Category Submission Form
Shorts Submission Form

I know I say it every year, but it's still always true that every year that I'm surprised by what people come up with to submit, and I can't wait to see what new surprises are coming this year.

Thanks in advance to everyone, and best of luck to all of you.

[LantisEscudo]

Hi, everyone!

Just a reminder, there's just under 24 hours left to submit, so please get your entries in as soon as possible!

As a heads up, spam filters have been blocking the upload instructions email for a larger number of people than usual this year, so if you don't get it within a few minutes of submitting the form, please reach out to me to have it manually re-sent to you.

Thank you to everyone who's submitted so far!

[b4nanaeel]

Hello! Is the submission server down? I submitted the online form but never received an email with the submission instructions and the same thing happened to my friend who also filled out the form. Thank you!

[LantisEscudo]

Hello! Is the submission server down? I submitted the online form but never received an email with the submission instructions and the same thing happened to my friend who also filled out the form. Thank you!

As I mentioned in my earlier post, spam filters have been blocking the instruction email for a decent number of people. I've manually resent the email to you; please ask your friend to reach out to me to have theirs resent as well.

I'll send a blast round of manual resends to everyone who has submitted but not uploaded later this evening as well, just in case.