Even without reading your comments about the video, it's noticeable that it was put together by experimenting with effects. (It's good to experiment on your first couple of videos though, so you can improve!

) In my opinion, some of the effects worked very well and some of them not-as-much. I think the paint colors and sketch effects didn't go well enough with the live-action type of footage, but how you quickly went from desaturated color to normal color near the beginning seemed to fit pretty nice. I was not expecting the purple and red tint change from about 3:10 onwards. It created a whole different feel to the video and with the text, made it seem almost like a trailer. It was different, but nicely done and it made me wishing you had made it into a trailer or had done that effect more in the video. I noticed as the video went on, you got better and better.
You are really off to a great start!

The timing and feel of your AMV was well overall.

Good job.