The Otakon 2015 Mega-thread

[dragontamer5788]

Very good contest this year people!! Impressed at the variety of styles. I was a little bit worried when I heard about the only 90 submissions or so... but the finalists really kicked it up a notch this year.

Specific shoutouts go to trailer, especially holding its own with only 4 videos.

Also, 'wicked' soundtrack seems to have a tradition at Otakon. Defying Gravity... Popular... and now 'Loathing'. Shoutout to that video for continuing the Wicked tradition in a nice and unique video.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Posting winners on the twitters @basharoftheages

[Parodic Productions]

[hamstar138]

Congrats to the winners!

[milesprower05]

Whoa! Did Upbeat finally upset Comedy for Best in Show?!? Congrats for pulling of a first in recent Otakon memory Alexmichur00 and Dragontamer5788!!!

It really was a beastly good video and the crowds really resonated with it.

[dragontamer5788]

Thanks to this post on Twitter for bringing forth the contest sheet:



Its been a few hours, so I am going to do this off the top of my head. Apologies if I get something wrong.

Trailer / Parody:
2nd Place: Project: Steins;Gate / Corsair
1st Place: Nekos & Inus Trailer / MycathatesyouAMV

Drama / Serious:
2nd Place: Call to Arms / Nekokitkat
1st Place: When I See You Again / Drabaz

Action:
2nd Place: Transmutayshun / Ileia
1st Place: THROWBACK / BecauseImBored (Also Iron Editor winner)

Romance/Sentimental
2nd Place: Maybe / VivifxAMV
1st Place: The Sound of my / Warlike Cygnet

Upbeat / Dance
2nd Place: Yato's God Complex / Rider4Z
1st Place: A Salty Stick / BakaOppai

Comedy
2nd Place: Hot Dog Condom Style / MammiKunniaan
1st Place: Yup, Still Single / Parodic Productions

Best Overflow: ??? I forgot It's not on the contest list. It was the Yurikuma Arashi anime though
Vik's Pick: Let It Let It Chopper / SuperJujuAwesome
Best in Show: / alexmichur00

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As promised, I've already begged alexmichur00 to put my name onto the AMV. Oh yeah baby.

I thought this was a great contest btw. But I'll want to give specific shoutouts to the following videos for entertaining me greatly.

* Floating in a Tin Can / Under the Box Productions -- Creepy and weird, but that's anime right? I never heard this particular cover of "Rocket Man" / Space Oddity, but it was great and worked.
* All That Matters / BasharOfTheAges -- Pretty much the only video that represented the "Sentimental" side to the category. Great editing to Usagi Drop.
* Don't Stop Anime Now / Mike Henschel -- While all of Upbeat was excellent, I was actually most scared of this video when it popped up. Absolutely superb editing, great concept, great scene selection. Classic Rock set to classic Anime.
* (C)Loathing / Miracle Falcon -- As noted before, this continues the "Wicked" streak at Otakon. Lovely editing, solid concept. Its one of those things that was obvious in hindsight, but it took Miracle Falcon's creativity to bring this video together.

* All of the Trailers/Parody vids: Seriously. Watch them all.

Just a few videos I wanted to give particular recognition to... in case anyone is curious what my tastes are like.

[XStylus]

Edit: Derp.

[neko kitkat]

Congrats to all the finalists and winners! It sounds like this was a great contest! I have to go and look up all these entries ^_^

[Parodic Productions]

Congratulations to all the videos this year. Despite the low number, we had a tremendous turnout. Quality > Quantity.

Oh, and my video's up.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Yay and congrats to the winners! If anyone wants to see my new video on my new channel I just made because youtube hates me, it can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKw5t9zhAiM Any sub help is gladly appreciated.