AMVs That Inspired You to See the Show?

kaitoujuliet · Post by **kaitoujuliet** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 11:47 am

I was just thinking that there are quite a few shows/movies I have been inspired to watch after getting a "taste" through an amv. Specifically...

- Pyro Wolf's (Cyber Moon's) "Moonlight Shadow" made me watch Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. I'm not generally into vampires, so I don't know if I would have watched it otherwise, but I enjoyed it!

- Turboneko's "Crossed Swords" made me check out Rose of Versailles, at least the first few episodes.

- And most recently, Kwasek's "A Thousand Miles" made me watch Whisper of the Heart. Wonderful movie!

So, has this ever happened to anyone else? What videos have turned you on to shows you'd never seen before?

Juliet

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:00 pm

Aluminum Studio's "Try" and Fly High Studio's "What Lie's Beneath" showed me Lain, and once I downloaded a few episodes to se what I thought, I knew I just HAD to have the series.

Turned out to be one of my favorites. ^_^

Combination of random AMVs and fan worship made me rent the first VHS of Trigun to check it out, then buy the entire boxset. (To give you some idea, I generally don't buy boxsets in stores. I go online. But, when I saw the Trigun boxset at Best Buy, I said "Fuck it" and bought it then and there so I could watch the series immediately.)

I am in the process of downloading Azumanga Daioh digisubs based entirely off of Turboneko's DDR project video. I've watched eps 1-4 so far, and I find that I'm enjoying it.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:27 pm

Hsein's Liberalli Fatalli video got me itnerested in Giant Robo
I don't know who made it but two years ago at AX there was a video called "i'll probably survive" to Gatekeepers, that was athe otehr seres I started watching due to AMVs.

And I'm glad to say I got someone interested in Blue Sub whiel another interested into Lain thanks to my AMVs.

JustAnOrdinaryPanda · Post by **JustAnOrdinaryPanda** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:44 pm

Most AMV's I've seen are of anime's I've already seen anyhoo. My friend gave me some Cardcaptor Sakura MVs and after watching them I thought it might actually be worth watching...

...-_- I was wrong.

The thing with most music videos, is that they make the Anime/show seem better or even more epic than they actually are, I've found this mainly in Eva videos...

Most anime's I only start watching through recommendations, or convenience (friend owns it, s'on TV and the such...)

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:13 pm

Some Guy With Nothing Better To Do's End Of Eva vid set to "Plowed" by Sponge got me interested in anime in general, and I figured I needed to see Evangelion after seeing it.

So I did, and everything went from there.

SSJVegita0609 · Post by **SSJVegita0609** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:20 pm

Just recently saw Indifferent Production's "The Path of Most Resistance". And now I gotta go out and see Kenshin.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 6:32 pm

Though I haven't actually gotten to see any of it, I had the same reaction to TurboNeko's DDR video- I'm working on getting Azumanga Daioh so I can watch it.

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 6:34 pm

ODORIKURUU Mambo introduced me to the wonderfull world of Trouble Chocolate. I LOVE HINANO!!!!!

Some guys X Movie Rammstein AMV intorduced me to X i bought the DVD 3 days l;ater knowing nothing of the movie. I loved It.

Those are the only 2 i would believe, there might be more, LONG LIVE TROUBLE CHoCOLATE

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 6:36 pm

Chaos Angel wrote: Combination of random AMVs and fan worship made me rent the first VHS of Trigun to check it out, then buy the entire boxset. (To give you some idea, I generally don't buy boxsets in stores. I go online. But, when I saw the Trigun boxset at Best Buy, I said "Fuck it" and bought it then and there so I could watch the series immediately.)

Luck bastard, I WORSHIP TRIGUN!

Chao · Post by **Chao** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 7:32 pm

The DDR vid also got me into the wonderful world of Azumanga Diaoh. I got into Angelic Layer from a music vid but I can't remember which one it was as it was lost in the great harddrive crash of 2002.