So, finally back from a near week of anime and manga festivities at this year’s Anime Boston. One of the things I’ve enjoyed while attending these anime conventions have been the creative AMV’s which come out during the the event’s AMV contests. This year the crop of AMVs which won the different categories were very unique and inventive. One such AMV which seem to think outside the box was in the Best Romance category. This AMV combined the Ke$ha song, “Grow A Pear”, with the romantic comedy anime series Toradora! with an end result that was quite funny and charming.
The video took the give-and-take and very hostile early relationship between the two main characters in the series, Taiga and Ryuji. The song matches up pretty well with these early scenes of tsudere hostility from Taiga towards Ryuji but it does finally build-up towards the inevitable admittance from both characters of their true feelings for each other. This video had won the Best Romance category and could easily have won the Best Comedy category as well, but with the quality of romance AMVs being quite lacking during this year’s Anime Boston it wasn’t a surprise that this particular AMV won.
Song: Grow A Pear – Ke$ha
Anime: Toradora!
Creator: l33tmeatwad
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That’s a sweet match. 🙂 Reminds me of Kagome and Inuyasha, and the song’s pretty catchy.
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This video just didn’t do it for me for a romance entry. Largely from the song. The song was catchy enough, but it just didn’t suit a romance AMV. I dunno, largely the AMV winners this year were pretty disappointing to me. But, the majority of AMVs suck, so if there’s even one decent one made per con, that’s a good rate. And even that is probably asking too much.
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