Honou Productions

Anime – Rurouni Kenshin OVA 1
Song – Steeleye Span – Corbies
Completed August 2001
Premiered November 11, 2001
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This video was fun to do, though the long instrumental at the end was quite difficult to find suitable video clips for. Steeleye Span is a British folk-rock group that has been around for more than 30 years and have done many really great songs that, unfortunately, are too long to make AMVs for con entry out of (7 to 15 minutes long). This video came from me wondering what would happen if Kenshin had been set in feudal Europe instead of in the end of feudal Japan. Then came the idea that Kiyosato might be the knight slain in the early verses, and the rest of the lyrics suggested video clips all by themselves. The instrumental took a lot longer, but eventually came together in mid-August 2001, as I was getting ready to go back to college. This is also the first video since Raiyuki that used digital effects other than transitions, in the sequence of the flaming swordfights, where I overlayed it with the opening shot of the moon from the series. I think it worked well, as did the rest of this video on the whole.

Convention History:
MindWarp 2001 Fall/Winter AMV Contest – Entrant

Anime – Shinesman
Song – Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
Completed August 2001
Premiered November 11, 2001
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This was a lot funnier as an idea than it came out as a video. Only knowing about one other Shinesman AMV (Argonaut’s to Dizzy by the Goo Goo Dolls), I started hunting through my rather vast collection of music for an appropriate song to use. It took me three passes through to finally pick Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl, with the sequence at “And when she’s walking/She’s looking/So fi-yi-ine” jumping into my head. Unfortunately, other pieces of the song were very hard to pick video for, so parts of the video I’m still not completely happy with. If I get more ideas for it, I might come back to this one.

Convention History:
Katsucon 8 – Finalist

Anime – Princess Rouge
Song – Bon Jovi – Livin’ On a Prayer
Completed July 2001
Premiered October 26, 2001
Remastered August 2008
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Princess Rouge (AKA Legend of the Last Labyrinth) was the first DVD I ever owned, and even though it’s incomplete, I really liked the story and characters. It’s a shame it never got continued. I’m not sure, but I think this is the first Princess Rouge AMV ever created. This video, finished in late July 2001, is one of the fastest of my videos so far, with most of the video coming together in only one day, and the fine-tuning, effects and intro piece taking another day and a half. Still, for all its speed, I think it’s my best video from that summer and was my entry at NekoCon FLASH.

Convention History:
Nekocon FLASH – Finalist

Anime – Gunsmith Cats
Song – Scandal – The Warrior
Completed July 2001
Premiered October 26, 2001
Remastered August 2008
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I owe the inspiration for this video to my younger brother, who suggested it after I showed him the OVA set in early July 2001. I was still stuck on my Bubblegum Crisis video at that point, so this idea kicked around in my head for a few weeks before I started going through the video looking for scenes to use in mid-July after I finished the BGC video. This video came together quickly, helped by the fact that I had far more ideas for this one, and kept a better record of them. This video was my second entry at Nekocon FLASH, but was cut because of time constraints.

Convention History:
NekoCon FLASH – Entrant, non-Finalist

Anime – Bubblegum Crisis 2032
Song – Alphaville – Big in Japan
Date Completed June-July 2001
Premiered November 11, 2001
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My first full-length video, I started this one in late June 2001, but ran out of ideas before doing the instrumental sections, so it sat around until mid-July before it got finished in a burst of inspiration. Alphaville’s been a band I’ve liked for a long time, since I was in seventh grade and heard their Forever Young at one of my summer camp’s dances. I later found out that Forever Young was one of a group of songs called The CTY Cannon, played during every dance at all of the sites the summer camp was at. After my last year at the camp, I picked up Alphaville’s self-titled CD in a fit of nostalgia, and got hooked on Big in Japan. After watching BGC2032, I got the idea of focusing on the “fame” of Priss, Vision, and the Knight Sabers for this video.

Convention History:
Not Entered to Conventions

Anime – Magic Knight Rayearth
Song – Tokuyama Hidenori – FOR REAL
Completed March 2001
Premiered March 4, 2001
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My first video, done just after Katsucon 7, where I parodied the opening to Gensoumaden Saiyuki using Magic Knight Rayearth. I thought that the irony of such a bishonen series’s opening using an almost-magical girl series would be funny. It works well for a first video, I think, but has a lot of little problems like frame holds that didn’t work.

Convention History:
Not Entered to Conventions