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centrally-unplanned:

memecucker:

World’s First Anime AMV Creator Has Passed Away

I remember reading about this guy when I was researching about the early weeb fandom in the US. Like the article says he was one of the main organizers in the 1980s NYC anime fandom and iirc AMVs were directly inspired by the legendary Daicon III opening animation and Kaposztas\u2019 desire to make similar music video style anime-mashup shorts but obviously didn\u2019t have access to an animation team so he did the next best thing and used his video editing skills (I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he was an early fansubber)

I discussed this on the Twitter as well - in the early 2000\u2032s AMV\u2019s were the peak of\u00a0\u2018intense\u2019 fandom in Anime, they were the highlight event of cons, people learned about shows from them, memes were born from them, etc. Its niche but Kaposztas is an innovator who played a role in building a slice of culture, its a real achievement.

Also love that the Kotaku article just puts the Evangelion/Tribute Mash-up AMV in at the end just because why not, that video dominates, definitely watch it.

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