Means To An Endgame

   The editor Shin has done it once again, blending just the right song with finely picked clips from just a single anime. Have yet to see the Code Geass series, and even though this anime music video contains spoilers, am sure it will still be thoroughly enjoyable.

Infinite Darkness - Sail (remix)

    When ever hearing this song, the first thought that pops up are the videos of guys in wing-suits jumping off of mountains, that just happens to be the first time I heard this song so that's probably why. Wing-suit jumping aside the song also goes really well with this AMV, the sound quality is good, the visual effects and the timing for them are right on as well, and the clips chosen go good. Enjoy.

Born to Survive

    Nothing like a good anime music video, and nothing like some bad broads ready to cut stuff up. The name of the anime used for the this AMV translates to Garden Of The Sinners, which appears to suite it well with regards to all the violence in the video. This anime looks pretty interesting from what is shown in the AMV. It is actually a series of 7 movies, 1 special, and 2 side-story movies all based off a series of light novels with the same name.

Magic Eye

    Shin has another top notch anime music video, featuring Steins; Gate. Thought the name of the anime was a typo, after looking it up on myanimelist.net found out it is actually spelled with the ";". The anime looks interesting too, adding it to my watch list for sure. The story is about a couple of people who found out how to send text messages to the past by putting a cell phone in a microwave.

Manga Music Video - Berserk

It's a pretty rare occasion when a new chapter of Berserk comes out, this calls for a Manga Music Video

Confused Memories

    This AMV is made from one of my favorite animes, the Higurashi series. The Higurarshi series is a mystery, horror, and psychological thriller anime where the story is told in a series of different scenarios. The song isn't to bad either, it set's the mood just right. The editor KOCTONPAB did an amazing job with this AMV, and look forward to exploring more of his work.

Paranoia Drift

    This AMV isn't related to the anime movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki wo Kakeru Shojo), but the creator used the scenes so well to portray feeling they were going for. An excellent AMV with psychedelic visuals, character profiling, seriousness, and horror.





About the Anime
    If you suddenly gained the ability to quite literally leap through time, what would you use it for? The sheer fun of it? Getting better grades? Or something else? What if you merely wanted the present to continue; to still live out those memorable days with your friends, playing around and having fun; rejecting the future and not wanting things to change? In Toki wo Kakeru Shojo, a girl is presented with this exact possibility. She suddenly finds out that she has been granted the ability to travel through time, and uses this ability for the purposes mentioned above. At first she tries to correct all the mistakes she made that same day she got the ability; from preventing making a mess out of things in cooking class to dodging people being hurled towards her. And before soon, she tries to keep the times from changing, undoing love confessions and other events which can change her and her two friends' lives.

However, everything has a consequence. 

    Even the seemingly most insignificant and puerile of acts can have grave consequences, as such acts are often made out of ignorance or selfishness; both which are traits that rarely bring out a good result if actions are based on them. Our heroine has to learn this the hard way, as she sees how fateful her so-called insignificant acts are, and how wrong she is in her childish beliefs. What she want is merely to keep the fun times around; with her and her two beloved friends. She wants time to stop, to remain in the present. However, time is inexorable; the future is relentlessly closing in on us. And she has to learn this the hard way. But she learns. Through hardships, through death, and most important of all, through love, she learns that the future is not something to be avoided. Rather it is something to be cherished; something one should embrace.

    And that is the basics of the plot and characters in this story; a girl who repeatedly travels back in time to keep the times as they are, and actually learns during this process that it is better to look forward and into the future rather than intransigently dwell on the present. Her two friends aren't focused on that much, but both are portrayed beautifully when they are, both the though-shelled Chiaki and the obliging Kousuke. Accompanying the beautiful plot is a standard-fare movie animation; which means beautiful and detailed landscapes, cityscapes and backgrounds. And while character movements are fluid, the designs themselves are a bit lackluster, and should have been more detailed. The soundtrack which follows on top is equally beautiful, with serene piano tracks accompanying the at times laughter-provoking and at times melancholy story, and a somewhat expected, yet beautiful ending theme.

    Toki wo Kakeru Shojo is a beautiful movie, which is good for many things, but especially its underlying hints about looking towards the future and accepting that the present will change as well as the simple message that every act has a consequence; especially childish and ignorant acts at that. And even if such themes does not interest you, I think this beautiful story is well worth spending one and a half hour of your life watching ( Source: MAL)