Anime Opening & Ending Themes
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Re: Anime Opening & Ending Themes
The Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt OP is really nothing special, the ED however...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhAaDdQFY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhAaDdQFY0
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I always loved the jaunty tip of the halo at the end of PSG's credit sequence. You can tell that the show was designed consciously with merchandising opportunities in mind, though - the happy, bobbing heads are pretty much Nedondroid prototypes!
Gainax's plan worked, too - I have the OST CD on the desk beside me now!
Gainax's plan worked, too - I have the OST CD on the desk beside me now!
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FLY AWAY NOW FLY AWAY NOW FLY AWAAAAAAAAAYRJFrazer wrote:Gainax's plan worked, too - I have the OST CD on the desk beside me now!
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Ranma 1/2 first opening: Jajauma ni Sasenaide
Spice & Wolf first closing: Ringo Hiyori
Cowboy Bebop opening: Tank!
Spice & Wolf first closing: Ringo Hiyori
Cowboy Bebop opening: Tank!
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Artificial does not mean obtuse! ~Uno from Paperinik's New Adventures.
It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale. ~Iroh
You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others. ~Tarquin
The skin stretched and tanned, the striped suit sown into the flesh itself, the killer donned a new body, giggling to no one, "Wears Waldo."
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It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it become rigid and stale. ~Iroh
You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others. ~Tarquin
The skin stretched and tanned, the striped suit sown into the flesh itself, the killer donned a new body, giggling to no one, "Wears Waldo."
This is here for future reference.
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I'll try not to make my list too long
OPs
Aria The Animation - Undine
Tales of The Abyss - Karma
Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Inner Universe
Baccano! - Gun's & Roses
Azumanga Daioh - Soramimi no Cake
RahXephon - Hemisphere
Soul Eater - Resonance
EDs
Aria The Animation - Rainbow
Samurai Champloo - Shiki no Uta
Welcome to the NHK - Odoru Akachan Ningen
Ah! My Goddess - Flights of Fancy - Koibito Doushi
Black Cat - Namida Boshi
Soul Eater - Strength
OPs
Aria The Animation - Undine
Tales of The Abyss - Karma
Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Inner Universe
Baccano! - Gun's & Roses
Azumanga Daioh - Soramimi no Cake
RahXephon - Hemisphere
Soul Eater - Resonance
EDs
Aria The Animation - Rainbow
Samurai Champloo - Shiki no Uta
Welcome to the NHK - Odoru Akachan Ningen
Ah! My Goddess - Flights of Fancy - Koibito Doushi
Black Cat - Namida Boshi
Soul Eater - Strength
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As opening, i would pick either the op of Samurai Champloo ("Battle cry") or the one of Eden of the East ("Falling down" duran duran). As ending, Wolf's rain one ("Gravity") or Ken Shiro's 2°season ( i think it's called simply "Love song"). I'm taking in consideration only the musical, not aesthetic, aspect.
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Current fave is the end to Genesis Climber Mospeada- "Blue Rain". Really catchy blues song.
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Ending theme of squid girl. Lovely and melancholic.
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Yuzu: "Ugh... I knew mentioning it around Otakuro would be a bad idea..."
Atsuro: "Otakuro!? What's with that all of a sudden...? What's wrong with being an otaku!?"
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Hemisphere is a song that's replayed a LOT on my iPod. It's perfect.Hakumei Hizoku wrote:I always thought that RahXephon and Cowboy Bebpop had perfect opening that matched the anime well and the animation used matched. You can till they took their time with picking the right music.
Yakosu wa Irenai fit the mood for Escaflowne fairly well.
...Actually almost all the music for Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop is awesome.
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It's pretty safe to say that if Yoko Kanno had anything to do with it, it's gonna be awesome
Yuzu: "Ugh... I knew mentioning it around Otakuro would be a bad idea..."
Atsuro: "Otakuro!? What's with that all of a sudden...? What's wrong with being an otaku!?"
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IMO, the best anime opening ever is ROD the TV. (Unfortunately, that's the OP to the later episodes, not the much more awesome one from the early episodes that didn't have the Read or Die characters (except Nenene and the VERY brief shot of Joker)...course I consider the part where the Read or Die based plot took over to be when the series dropped from Awesomemazing to merely good...)
Other great ones. Simoun.
Ichigo Mashimaro/Strawberry Marshmallow.
Powerpuff Girls Z second OP. (It should be noted...pretty much none of that stuff ever, ever happens in the show.)
For endings...nothing will ever top Lucky Star's 'girls doing karaoke' endings - particularly Konata's attempt at Monkey Magic.
Other great ones. Simoun.
Ichigo Mashimaro/Strawberry Marshmallow.
Powerpuff Girls Z second OP. (It should be noted...pretty much none of that stuff ever, ever happens in the show.)
For endings...nothing will ever top Lucky Star's 'girls doing karaoke' endings - particularly Konata's attempt at Monkey Magic.
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