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On youtube and elsewhere it's frequent to find "MAD" video, a sort of Anime
Music Video (AMV) composed by anime sequences on a music track. Are MAD and
AMV synonyms? If not, how these differ from each other and what MAD means?


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Are MAD and AMV synonyms for Anime Music Video?


MAD are probably refer to a broader classification of AMV from Japan.

According to the [Nico Nico Pedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/mad):

MAD refers to video and/or audio created by editing and rearranging existing
video or audio, to give it new meaning. Basically, they are derivative, fan
creations.

The name is [probably derived](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/mad)
from "MAD Tapes" from [the
80s-90s](http://web.archive.org/web/20050212172315/web.ics.purdue.edu/~milliken/anime/mad.html)
which was the fad in which people uses cassette tapes and mess around with the
audio. The acronym for MAD predates the popular usage of the term "anime."

MAD can be used to describe the the Japanese underground media community.
However, MADs can be mush-ups of anything from audio clips, edited pictures,
to wholly originally created content (e.g. custom animation). While not all
MADs are associated anime or manga, most of the more popular ones typically
are.

AMVs on the other hand typically describe the American media subculture of
editing bits of anime with music, though similar in content the scope tends to
differ.

Lets compare this AMV: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dHD1JvUXo>

to this MAD: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRHItX-zQCo>

The MAD mashes up a lot more custom together compared to the clips in the AMV.


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I think MAD and AMV is one. MAD is shorted for "music anime douga", similar to
"anime music video" aka AMV. There's lots of pages saying that these two are
actually one kind of fan-made video, too.


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