Anime Openings
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It's clear that a bunch of allies love anime, but what about their opening sequences? What are some of your favorites? What makes a good opening?
To me, a good opening gets you excited about watching the show, It should capture the soul of a series. Some of my favorite anime, like Durarara, have really slow starts and I might have stopped watching if not for the opening. I know that I ususally prefer super upbeat intros so It'll be interesting to see what other people like.
Durarara!
Lupin III Part IV
Norgami
Mob Psycho 100
(Also Naruto Shippuden's "Size of the Moon" but I couldn't find video of it.)Edit: Totally forgot the amazing openings to these anime.
Soul Eater
Samurai Champloo
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Last Exile
Serial Experiment Lain
Haibane Renmei
Excel Saga
Death Note (2nd opening)
Attack on Titan
GTO
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Space Brothers openings 1 & 2. Sadly not on youtube due to copyright, but the episodes themselves are on Hulu and Crunchy Roll
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Cowboy Beebop needs to be mentioned just because of the song TANK!
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I wanted to put FLCL's opening here. Then the internet made me remember the harsh reality... it didn't have an opening. Time to go watch those six episodes all over again.
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@SabotageTheTruth Hahah, right?! It's the great music by The Pillows episode to episode that fools ya!
I still love the American DBZ opening. Simple, short and full of metal guitar. Joyous.
And while everone seems to love Jojo's credits, the first season's opening was amaaaaazing! "A fate determined by his blood," just feels good to read in rhythm (in English) to Tominaga Hiroaki belting that line out in Japanese. Always give me goosebumps.
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The Jojo one is really well crafted. I like how it emphasises the fact that it's the wacky "oh Japan" manga from way back before anyone watching the show right now had any right to know what was the wacky "oh Japan" manga in the 80s. You get all the information about the show that you need. Excellence.
I like the Durarara "here's some story in random lines throughout the opening" thing, and how it's entertaining enough to not make you bored watching it every time to hear the background lines and scenes. Good stuff.
Steins;Gate's op holds a place in my heart, even though I recognise that it's probably only there because the anime is amazing and the actual song was so kickass I had to learn how to play it on guitar. Visually, though, to someone who hasn't watched it it's pretty bland and even though the theme of it all becomes apparent after you're most of the way through the series by that point you're either skipping it or just jamming out to the tune.
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@descendfromgrace Oh man, that 1st Attack on Titan opening is great. It's one of the few things my wife pulls out of anime to quote at me from time to time, just for giggles, because she likes the German language.
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Best opening that gets me hyped every time is Haikyuu!! S2 OP2. This is some quality stuff here and the song is so addicting:
I usually skip OPs but I never skipped this one.
Also, every Gintama OP and ED because the songs are amazing! Notable mention:
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXyNpw6-ck
Uverworld - Dtechnolife from Bleach
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hPp9xYR6s
L'arc en ciel - Ready Steady Go from Full Metal Alchemist
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KoL7__Bmyg
Vision of Escaflowne
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrz0e9BGaJs
Fushigi Yuugi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0DOfE3Hso
Slayers
Well I have started down an anime rabbit hole....
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@descendfromgrace
Excel Saga has a fun opening, but to this day that ending is my favourite. Also great since I never forget the lyrics.
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The obvious one is Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, that's just simply one of the all time greats.
Then I'd say that the opening for Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto would also be really high up there, but sadly I can't link to it since they have muted or taken down every opening or song uploaded to YT of it.
So instead I'm going with Wolf's Rain.Other noteworthy ones include
Macross 7
Cowboy Bebop
Gundam Wing
One Punch Man
The Skull Man (I like this one because it uses live actors)
Death Parade
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My favorite anime just so happens to have one of ym favorite anime openings
Youtube Video
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It's just too good. And here's another opening so 80s it hurts.
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Really love anime OP so I name a few that currently comes to mind.
Digimon Adventure - Butter-Fly Rest in Peace Kouji Wada. He really made awesome OP that got me hyped
Street Fighter II V - Kaze Fuiteru I just love the song
Inu Yasha - Grip! Was really into Inu Yasha back then and this theme stuck with me
Detective Conan - Magic Only stills unfortunately but her voice is so beautiful and fitting for the song
Detective Conan - Shoudou the series have some amazing artist and one is the band that made the Dragon's Dogma OP
Blue Exorcist - Pride
Full Metal Panic!: The 2nd Raid - Minami Kaze
The Secret of Blue Water - the 1st and my favorite GAINAX series.
Baccano - Guns n' Roses Very upbeat music and love theway they link pictures to other scenes like their other series DRRR!
One Piece - Kokoro no Chizu My favorite ark of the series
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Here's a few of my favourites, I hope that even if you arent familiar with the animes, you'll check them out
Blue Gender Rare occasion where I prefer the dub OP
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These are so goood
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP1
Attack on Titan
Evangelion
Soul Eater OP2
Tokyo Ghoul's first opening is beautiful even though the anime's not that great compared to the manga, same with Deadman Wonderland
91 Days (haven't seen the anime yet tho)
Psycho Pass2
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@Blueturtle 91 days is a great anime to match that great opening. And Papermoon is amazing.
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You guys are making me sad. Their openings were so good, I wish Psycho-Pass' season 2 and Soul Eater's ending were more... conclusive.
Anyway, Soul Eater's first opening is also great. It has some amazing animated sequences. I like how it doesn't shy away from showing Maka as this just awful rage monster, as opposed to making her all kawaii for kawaii's sake.
