Iron Chef

After finishing my Assassin video for the Class Warfare event, I had about a day before the deadline, and I knew that there weren’t a lot of Shielder entries yet at that point. I’d considered a sports-themed video for my main idea, but couldn’t find any song that seemed to fit. Searching around on a whim after submitting the Assassin video, I stumbled across “Goalie Goalie” from the 2018 FIFA World Cup and thought I could throw together a garbage video very quickly, just for a laugh.

I think it may have taken longer to rip the BluRays of Pride of Orange than I spent actually editing the video, which was just every shot I could find of a goalie character in the first five episodes slapped together in a ten-second video.

It got a few laughs in the streams, which is all I can ask for out of such a zero-effort project.

Anime – Pride of Orange
Audio – Arash Nyusha Pitbull Blanco – Goalie Goalie
Completed May 2025

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I’d had this idea on my list for a while, since right after Frozen 2 was in theaters. I’d picked up the soundtrack and heard this cut song – my brain immediately suggested Poppy Hill as a pairing, and it marinated on my idea list for a few years.

After rushing to finish and submit Reflecting North to AWA 2025’s Accolades on Friday morning from my hotel room at Bakuretsu Con 2025, I spent most of the rest of the day at the con. I got back to my room around 8PM, several hours earlier than I had planned, and since I happened to have had the footage with me, I decided to see if I could Iron Chef it into a submittable form in the four hours before the deadline at midnight.

I did manage to get it complete in time, but there were a few compromises along the way. I ended up using a lot more solo walking shots than I intended, mainly to avoid having to spend any of my limited time removing lip flap.

Overall, a fun challenge to tackle and a decent result. I’m glad to have the idea out of my brain and to have used one of the more obscure Ghibli titles in making it.

Video – From Up On Poppy Hill
Audio – Kristen Bell – Home (from Frozen 2)
Completed October 2024

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This was my entry to the second half of AMV Sashimi’s Iron Remix 2 event in 2021. The idea was that in a few hours, one editor would edit a video, Iron Chef-style. Another editor would be given just the audio track (no video) and the title of the video to use as the basis for a new video they would have a week to edit.

I was given the audio and title from Opner’s Just the Good Times video, and I still had I Want to Eat Your Pancreas ripped from the first Iron Remix handy, so that’s what I went with as my combo, focussing on the happy moments of the movie and avoiding the heavier dramatic moments.

It was a fun one to make and came out pretty nicely, I think.

Anime – I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Audio – Ichika Nito – When you hit 1million subscribers
Completed July 2021

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This was my entry to the first half of AMV Sashimi’s Iron Remix 2 event in 2021. The idea was that in a few hours, one editor would edit a video, Iron Chef-style. Another editor would be given just the audio track (no video) and the title of the video to use as the basis for a new video they would have a week to edit.

A conversation in Discord about Cool Runnings had had the track from the final run in the movie stuck in my head for several weeks, so I decided to do a sports video and chose the Battle Athletes OVA for my video source.

This was pretty rushed, even for an Iron Chef video, but I think it at least came out pretty coherently.

The audio and title were remixed in the second half of the event by Katranat for their video.

Anime – Battle Athletes OVA
Audio – Hans Zimmer – The Walk Home (from Cool Runnings)
Completed July 2021

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This was my entry to the second half of AMV Sashimi’s Iron Remix event in 2021. The idea was that in a few hours, one editor would edit a video, Iron Chef-style. Another editor would be given just the video track (no audio) and a theme to use as the basis for a new video they would have a week to edit.

I was given the video to Troubleclef’s “Battletits” and the theme of Action as the base for my video.

Since the source video was so short, I needed an even shorter piece of music, which took me quite a while to find. I ended up settling on a snippet from the soundtrack to The Wizard of Speed and Time.

It’s not my best work, but with the limited source and time, it still came out pretty well.

Anime – Keijo!
Audio – John Massari – Wizard Run (from The Wizard of Speed and Time)
Completed April 2021

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This was my entry to the first half of AMV Sashimi’s Iron Remix event in 2021. The idea was that in a few hours, one editor would edit a video, Iron Chef-style. Another editor would be given just the video track (no audio) and a theme to use as the basis for a new video they would have a week to edit.

The audio for this one was a lucky find. I had thrown every audio file on my computer under 3 minutes long onto a playlist to see what sparked inspiration, and on that list was a shortened version of Night Ranger’s “Goodbye” I had made back in 2013 for a possible AMV that I ended up never starting. Since the original version of the song is 4:30 long, it never would have been on the list of possibilities without that shortened version. I actually went back to the original and made a differently-shortened version for the video.

For the video, with the short time to edit, I wanted to use a movie to reduce the amount of scene hunting I’d have to do, and had recently rewatched I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, which fit very well with the mood of the song. 

Overall, I like it, especially for an Iron Chef video made in about three hours.

It was eventually remixed in the second half of the event by Future_Vantas using the theme “Trailer” into their Love Story Trailer video.

Anime – I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Audio – Night Ranger – Goodbye
Completed March 2021

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This was my entry for Otohiko’s group in the CDVV Iron Chef competition. After hearing the various songs, this was the one that stuck in my head, and I was thinking of Space as a possible theme. 

Thinking about the idea for a while, I remembered the Saturn V launch from Battle Athletes and came up with the idea of incorporating NASA archive footage as a contrast, paired up with scenes from anime that were inspired by the shot, and I was actually surprised at how well it worked. Finding the lunar surface shots from Rocket Girls was a lucky thing, I’ll admit, as I hadn’t watched the series yet. 

I’m not entirely happy with the “future” segment, since that was the last one I did and was running out of time to submit, but it still works fairly well.

Anime – Banner Of The Stars, Battle Athletes, Bubblegum Crisis 2032, Crest Of The Stars, Gunbuster, Millennium Actress, Moonlight Mile, Project A-Ko, Rocket Girls, Starship Operators, Voices Of A Distant Star, NASA Footage
Music – Explosions in the Sky – So Long, Lonesome
Completed February 2013

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