AnimeNEXT 2023 AMV Contest (It's Over!)

[TritioAFB]

did you receive my videos?

[Scintilla]

did you receive my videos?

We have you down as having entered two videos back on March 20. Thanks for being such a longtime supporter of our contest! I think you are one of the few who has entered every year since 2012 (when I started running it)

[TritioAFB]

Well since 2011 and excepting the 3 year hiatus from 2017 to 2020. Anyway thanks. ToraCon, AnimeNEXT and SMASH! are the most successful contests for me.

[Scintilla]

Congratulations to this year's finalists! Each category is sorted alphabetically so as not to spoil the play order.
(Updated 5/22 due to an oversight -- thanks to those of you who wrote in to correct me on this!)


TRAILER/PARODY
CamiChan19
Drewaconclusion
Gestalt
Rider4Z
The_McLaughlin
ZeonicFreak

ROMANCE/SENTIMENTAL
HaloKami Productions
Hamstar138
HyperTails
PiercedSky
ResyAMV

HORROR
Gina Nelson
Seasaltmemories
SilkAMV
Speedy180

DRAMATIC/SERIOUS
Lelani
MadMegatax
Seasaltmemories

ACTION
Nekokitkat
SilkAMV
Speedy180
SpuddStaaa
Synæsthesia Productions
Trenzilla

UPLIFTING/FUN
Glory Questor
Lara Harb
MoonieAMV
ResyAMV
Shark Tooth Goosie
SonsofKorhal9

COMEDY
Char
Drewaconclusion
MadMegatax
Sayoria


As a side note, I can't remember the last time Dramatic/Serious was our smallest category...

[Scintilla]

Hi everyone,

With just two weeks to go before the con, here's the AMV department schedule of events! All of the following are in the Garden State Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick -- if you are at the New Jersey Convention & Exposition Center (NJCEC), there will be a lot of fun AnimeNEXT events happening, but none of it will be AMVs. Fortunately, there will be free shuttles between the NJCEC and the Hyatt for all attendees. (Also, the Hyatt is across the street from the New Brunswick NJTransit train station, about a 5-minute walk.)

(EDIT, 6/14: Non-finalist block times have been updated to reflect the shorter playlist this year.)

FRIDAY

• 1:15 - 3:30 PM: Friday AMV Non-Finalists
• 4:15 - 6:15 PM: Synced Together: AMVs and Their Editors (Documentary) by MinetChan and StarTrinity009! Five years in the making, the only feature-length documentary about the history, community, and future of the art form we call anime music videos. After circumstances prevented our intended showing of this film in 2022, we are beyond thrilled to finally get to share it with you all in 2023! See https://syncedtogether.com/ for more information.
• 8:00 - 10:00 PM: AMV Contest Screening

SATURDAY

• 12:30 - 2:30 PM: AMV Contest Screening
• 3:00 PM: Ballot deadline - if you did not turn in your ballots on the way out of the contest screenings, then make sure you submit them at the info table in the Hyatt Regency by this time so they can count. And remember, you can tear off and keep the bottom portion as a souvenir, to look up all your favorite videos when you get home.
• 4:00 - 5:30 PM: AnimeNEXT AMVs 20-Year Retrospective, featuring our former longtime AMV department heads MeriC and VegettoEX! Now that AnimeNEXT is of legal drinking age, it's time to dig back into those archives and see just how far our corner of the convention has come.
• 5:45 - 8:00 PM: Saturday AMV Non-Finalists
• 9:00 - 10:00 PM: AMV Contest Awards Show, where we announce this year's winners as chosen by YOU, the voting fans... and maybe present some medals and prizes personally.

SUNDAY

• 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM: AMV Contest Encore - no voting, but feel free to stop by and take home a souvenir ballot!
• 1:45 - 2:45 PM: AMV Sing-Along! Now in its sixth annual (if you ignore the pandemic years) iteration, it just wouldn't be Sunday of AnimeNEXT without this one. As always, we'll have captions for any lyrics you might not know. Come along and unleash your voices with us as we end AnimeNEXT 2023 on a high note!

[Irregular013]

Will the order of the non-finalist videos be posted somewhere?

[Scintilla]

Will the order of the non-finalist videos be posted somewhere?

I'll be talking with Bill shortly to finalize plans for the non-finalist blocks, and I will post back here once we have more information.
If there's a set schedule, then it will be emailed to all participants (Bcc'd for everyone's privacy, so please make sure to whitelist amv@animenext.org !) and posted outside the door at the event, as in past years.

[Irregular013]

Any updates?

[Rider4Z]

Convention is next weekend

[Scintilla]

Any updates?

I just got back from having been in Canada and away from my computer since Sunday, which I forgot to warn people about here -- that's 100% my fault.

I would like to apologize sincerely for the lateness of the non-finalists playlist; those of you who have been following AnimeNEXT for a while know that this is a rare occurrence. I'd like to thank everyone again for all your patience with us this uniquely challenging year, as a recent family emergency's been affecting our staff and some of them won't be able to make it to the convention (I suppose I'm lucky that this is the first time that's happened in the 10 years I've been doing this).

EDIT: I should also add that the following playlist will be only around 2 hours, 15 minutes in length, not the entire 3 hour block that I originally reserved (I am reaching out to our scheduling/info folks to have this updated). So please keep that in mind if you're aiming to see certain videos and they're towards the end!

The playlist for the non-finalist blocks will be as follows (video titles only to preserve anonymity):

Take My Breath
Those Anime Moments Vol. 6
Wizardry
Living Life in the Night
Turmoil
Robin vs Black Maria AMV
When the sun goes down
Nana x Takumi
War of Solitude
You're One in a Million
Flip Flappers
The Maid Who Loved Me
Welcome to my nightmare
The Retired Yakuza
Extreme Hearts
Mortifer
Bloody Mary
The Nomad
I Suffer
Liberated Woman
A Thousand Bops
Rubberneck Family
Cross Zone
Summer Holiday
Best Girl
Southern Fried Telenovela
Slay the Slayers
5 Minutes To Save The World
The True God
Horny Dance
Fractions
honeythief
Left Outside Alone
Rebirth
Be Crazy For Me
You Can (not) Imagine Dragons
Steady
The Yassification of Disney
Super Loid Bros
Freaky Game
Horsing Around
Bocchi the Video Star
Killing Kind
Sway
Always by your side

If anyone has any other questions, I'll be here the rest of today in last-minute panic mode before heading to the convention tomorrow -- feel free to ping us here, via email, or on Discord. Thanks again!