Best in Show Winner - The Beat Will Continue Until Morale Improves

After "Sweet Dreams" received recognition in 2013, we wished to return to the "upbeat" category with a similar concept video. We aimed to create a fun, highly rhythmic song set to virtually every anime we own.

At a major East Coast convention, after a very fierce Upbeat section (perhaps the best collection of Upbeat seen in a long time), this video managed to climb to the top with a "Best in Show" award.

A big thank-you to VicBond007 and all the other coordinators who put effort into this contest!

Full download available on The Org.

We hope you enjoy this contest-winning AMV: "The Beat will Continue Until Morale Improves".

[mandio]

Almost a decade since I saw this at an otherwise uneventful Otakon & it still makes me smile. Thanks.

[collinbrunk]

If morale has not yet impoved please press the replay button.

[mewpudding]

Dude! This makes me smile on so many levels. The anime combination of old and new, the song (dude I sang through the entire thing) the editing. I love this video dearly. Just so much love and respect for this. QwQ I am overjoyed...seriously.

[NightmareQueen]

"If you don't like the way I look, well I just don't give a damn." _LOVE_ that line SO much, and the editing for it is PHENOMENAL!😂

[ChaosLilyCreations]

2021. Still coming back here. Thank you.

[bquine]

This will always be the greatest AMV of all time. Time will respect this because holy fuck.

[tacitakoe]

It's always a good time when this pops back into my recommended.

[SilverSwordsman]

There are way too many reasons that this rocks. I have not enjoyed a Youtube video like this for a long time. HAnds down the best AMV I've seen

[duddude]

"Challenge Accepted."
*pulls the speakers' power line from the socket*
*beat stops*
*angry crowd forms*
*beatings start*

[killereria]

We need a 10 hour loop of this exactly

[willie]

Thank you for this video . IN the middle of quarentine this has helped me put a Huge smile on my face.

[aniki]

October 2019, and I'm still revisiting this video, sharing it whenever I can. God, I fucking LOVE this AMV, I have not found a dance themed AMV that excites me as much as this one does even today.

[MASTERCHIEF]

When I saw this at otakon, it was astonishing.  After it finished the entire crowd went wild and my friend said to me "definitely best in show" and I couldn't agree more.  You had my vote.  Congratulations and keep up the good work.

[GermansLikeBeer]

If the criterion by which one determines the "best upbeat AMV" is the AMV which causes the most feelings of happiness, then this is the best upbeat AMV I have ever seen. This fills me with such incredible joy; you definitely deserved the win!

[LockmanCapulet]

They screened this at MomoCon just a few minutes ago. Fantastic work!

[primepm]

Fantastic.  Truly worthy of Best in Show.

Even moreso since this song's from the Baltimore musical "Hairspray, " so this truly makes it an Otakon video.

[firestorm]

Well deserved honor. I believe it is accurate to say when I saw this, it wasn't an amv, it was a GRAND SPECTACLE! Congrats!

[jaxonian]

I was in the front row. Me and my best buddy both had to hug each other and cry happy manly tears of pure epic fangasming while watching this. This deserves to be in every single closing ceremony ever from now on at Otakon.

[ShinOpaque]

Finally, an amazing amv to go with this song~

[neko_]

Best amv I've ever seen, gorgeous job!