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AMV Hell Ultimate Collection

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About

AMV Hell was an Anime Music Video that was created in 2004 which was made up of a collection of incomplete comedy AMVs. It became fairly popular, and eventually spawned an entire series of multi-editor projects, bringing together work from hundreds of AMV creators. A later spin-off called AMV Minis continued the fun. Both series are no longer active. AMV Hell serves as a time capsule of anime fandom, pop culture, and internet memes.

AMV Hell Information and History

AMV Hell was originally created as a collaboration between two AMV (Anime Music Video) editors, Zarxrax and SSGWNBTD. This is written from the perspective of Zarxrax.

Me and SSGWNBTD would often chat over AOL Instant Messenger. He would frequently send me short clips and incomplete AMVs that he would never finish. Sometimes he would just tell me a song title and an anime, and that was all. Then one day I thought, "why not take all of this incomplete stuff and combine it together?" I also had a lot of random ideas in my head that I knew I couldn't make a full AMV out of. So between the two of us, it seemed like we might be able to bring together at least a few minutes of content.

I wanted to be able to send the video to some AMV Contests, so that meant we would have to keep the video fairly clean in order for it to be shown in front of convention audiences. This was a bit of a problem, because we already had several ideas that weren't exactly "convention friendly". We quickly came up with the solution of making two completely different videos–only one of which would be sent to conventions.

AMV Hell

Premiered: 05-28-2004

This is the video that started it all. We entered it into contests at three conventions, and it won prestigious awards at all three, bringing us fame and fortune... or, it at least got us cheap trophies and inkjet-printed award certificates.

Contest Award

Otakon Best In Show

Otakon Best Humorous/Satirical

Fanime Viewers Best of Show

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