This past weekend saw myself and fellow site contributor pantsukudasai56 over in Seattle attending Sakura-Con 2015. One of the activities we ended up participating in (meaning we sat down and watched) was in the AMV panels. While we never made it for the AMV Contest panel itself where people got to vote on the videos themselves we did manage to sit down and watch some of the videos. One of these days I will dedicate an entire con to just watching AMVs (well, at least go to the contest itself).

So, for the next week or so I shall be posting the videos we did catch and the one’s which ended up winning awards.

The first “AMV of the Day” Sakura-Con 2015 Edition made it as a finalist for the “Best Fun” Category. It’s “Cosplay Bargain Bin” by TarageAMV and is an amalgamation of over 30 or so anime clips edited to the tune of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop.”

While it didn’t win in the end, this video from TarageAMV was actually quite funny and does a great job of spoofing the hardships and stress that cosplayers must go through to get ready for the next anime convention. As someone who broke his cosplay cherry this year with a simple enough costume (and I was still stressed that I couldn’t get all the pieces) I think I have a much better appreciation of the lengths and dedication cosplayers put into getting their cosplays ready.

Anime: Acchi Kocchi, Aquarion Evol, Attack on Titan, Baka and Test – Summon the Beasts, Black Butler, Black Rock Shooter, Bleach, Bodacious Space Pirates, Chobits, Clannad, Code Geass – Lelouch of the Rebellion, Cowboy Bebop, Daily Lives of High School Boys, Darker Than Black, Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor, Dragon Ball, Neon Genesis Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Neon Genesis Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, Genshiken Second Season, Gj-Bu, Golden Boy, Great Teacher Onizuka, Hayate the Combat Butler, Heaven’s Lost Property Forte, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere II, Inu Yasha, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Kill la Kill, Log Horizon, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Mayo Chiki!, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, My Little Monster, Naruto Shippuden, Occult Academy, One Piece, Ouran High School Host Club, Plastic Nee-san, Robotics;Notes, Sailor Moon: Crystal, Spice and Wolf, Stein:Gate, Yuru Yuri

Song: “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Wanz)

Creator: TarageAMV

Past AMVs of the Day

• Can Can Pantsu (various)
• Warriors (Various)
• Sweet Dreams (Various)
• Carnivore (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Sweet Dreams (Another)
• Ship Happens (various)
• Evangelion 2.22 [Lights]
• Snowball Genocide (various)
• Iwatobi Weather Service (Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club and Attack On Titan)
• Otaku Paradise (various)
• The Breath of Spring (Bakemonogatari)
• Spiral Ascension (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
• Strangers Like Us (Gargantia on the Verdorous Planet)
• The Gore Never Bothered Me Anyway (Elfen Lied)
• Valor (Kill la Kill)
• Time Falls Away (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0)
• Don’t Stop (Nichijou)
• Left Us Falling (Clannad and Clannad: After Story)
• Devil’s Game 2.0 (Puella Magi Madoka Magica Series and Films)
• Animegraphy 2013 (Various)
• See Who I Am (Various)
• Demons of the Past (Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail)
• Ride or Die (Redline)
• Yurei (Another, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Mirai Nikki)
• Bloody Ayase (Oreimo)
• The End of My World (Clannad/Clannad: After Story)
• Life Is Fantastic (Nichijou)
• Event (Nichijou)
• Star x Crossed (Romeo x Juliet)
• Protectors of the Earth (Shingeki no Kyojin)
• Let Them Eat Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Sorry for being Hercule, Sincerely Mr. Satan (Dragonball Z)
• Fidelity (Wolf Children Ame and Yuki)
• Nothing to Lose (One Piece)
• Affective Schoolgirls (Nichijou)
• RadioAkshun (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Danger Zone (Macross Plus)
• Maid to Kill (Black Lagoon)
• A Thousand Years (Clannad/Toradora!)
• Careful What You Wish (Black Lagoon)
• Ash vs Gary (Pokemon)
• Just Can’t Get Enough (Bakemonogatari)
• Our Miracle (Sword Art Online)
• Dead End (Mirai Nikki)
• Am I Not Human? (Another)
• Moves Like Jagger (NSFW)
• Mayoi Calling Araragi (Bakemonogatari)
• Troll of Hearts (The World God Only Knows)
• Written in the Spirals (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
• The Way You Are
• Means to an Endgame (Code Geass)
• Azumanga Daioh 1985
• Safety Dance (Nichijou)
• Cherry – Chronicles of PHOTOpanic
• Remember My Name
• Futuristic Lover (Bakemonogatari)
• Sexy and I Know It
• Everytime We Touch (Toradora!)
• War (Valkyria Chronicles)
• Hold On To That Feeling
• Disco Heaven
• Hands Up! (Dragonball/Z)
• A Little Late
• Sexy
• I Heart Tsundere
• The New Era (One Piece)
• Fairytale of Lies
• Calling
• Alchanum
• This Is War (One Piece)
• Move Along (One Piece)
• Party Rock (One Piece)
• Remember the Name (One Piece)
• Imagica
• Maya and Company
• Who’s That Chick?
• Just The Way You Are
• My First Kiss
• Death Romance
• Furor (Oreimo)
• Highschool of the Dead Game
• Kobato – Ring A Bell
• Devil’s Game
• Mahou Shoujo Requiem
• A Prelude to Dreams
• A Thousand Miles (Macross Frontier)
• Instinct
• Hold Me Now (Princess Tutu)
• The Beautiful People of Black Lagoon
• SugardanSen & Attack of the Otaku
• Fairy Tail Teenage Dream
• Repeat (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Toradora! Rough Love (Grow A Pear)
• Black Lagoon…To Be Loved
• This Is War (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Danse De Raven
• Azumanga Daioh – Little Girls
• Something Fishy
• And Now, A Word From Our Sponsors
• Against All Odds (Macross Frontier)
• A Thousand Miles (Todaradora!)
• Toradora Fireflies
• Spinning Infinity
• Have You Got It In You?
• Azumanga Daioh Portal