A Vampyre Story, the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game.
Address Verification System, a security measure in credit card processing. It is the way that the bank verifies that the address provided in an online transaction matches the one registered to the card.
Advanced Visual Systems, a company specializing in visualization solutions, and their software package AVS/Express.
An abbreviation sometimes used for the Abbotsford Virtual School, a British Columbia Distributed Learning School.
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AV has enough wit and offbeat humor to make it worthwhile, and the fact that it was conceived and shot in a short span of time gives it heavy cred.
They need about 2.5 million yen to hire their chosen AV dream girl (Manami Amamiya, who just so happens to be a real AV girl), so they assemble what they can, then get a sizable chunk through an entrepreneur loan given to young people with a dream.
AV is intriguing and involving for the majority of its running time, and though some of his choices could be perceived as disingenuous, misogynist, or just plain insulting, there's a wit and darkly funny edge to the proceedings that make the whole strangely enthralling.
The humour in AV is very much male-oriented, and although it tends to laugh at the laddish behaviour of the characters, it doesnt demean these poor guys who are strung along by their raging hormones too much.
AV is released on DVD in Hong Kong as a 2-disc Special Edition by Mei Ah, a company have certainly improved the standard of their releases from what they were like a few years ago.
AV doesnt really have that much to say about the young generation, nor does it have anything particularly new to add to the teen-comedy genre, and although it is not a laugh-a-minute, the film is nevertheless reasonably well-paced and delivers on its premise through a number of very funny sequences and movie-fan references.
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