Essential What Anime are you currently watching?

[storyteller]

Any given FMAB Opening. Hard to choose one but if I had to


It's Yu Yu Hakusho


Everythng Akino Arai does is perfect


It's Mushoku Tensei. Maybe not revered as a classic now but it will be eventually and the OP is a part of it.


and a most recent good one that I'm often going back to

That Yu Yu Hakusho opening is DEF an all-timer. The "thank you for waking me up" at the close takes me back every damned time. Plus it's top-5 all-time for me on my personal favorite anime.

Mushoku Tensei's definitely on it's way to top-tier status. What I like about the OP is that the animations were new each episode. You'd get a bit of progression through the journey with the OP playing, and it always felt like crossing into that other world to me.

Oshi No Ko's opening slaps! For recent piff, I've got a few.

Spoiler

Heavenly Delusion


Vinland Saga season 2 (first cour aka River)


Ranking of Kings


Odd Taxi


Ya Boy Kongming or Paripi Koumei

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

my hot take is that all OPs get annoying and become instant skip status after like 3 times max. it really seems extra to have full credits two times in a 20 something minute show

one of my favorite things about jobless reincarnation was how it used the OP time for worldbuilding and storytelling instead. wish other shows would go that route

this one in particular had me

 

[tripleaamin]

my hot take is that all OPs get annoying and become instant skip status after like 3 times max. it really seems extra to have full credits two times in a 20 something minute show

one of my favorite things about jobless reincarnation was how it used the OP time for worldbuilding and storytelling instead. wish other shows would go that route

this one in particular had me

My only problem with OP's is when there are obvious spoilers. Like one of the OP's for FMAB.

But MT was a great change of pace with how OP's are usually done.

 

[It is a mystery]

my hot take is that all OPs get annoying and become instant skip status after like 3 times max. it really seems extra to have full credits two times in a 20 something minute show

one of my favorite things about jobless reincarnation was how it used the OP time for worldbuilding and storytelling instead. wish other shows would go that route

this one in particular had me

You'd be a fan of Black Clover then, since it gets a new OP damn near every 3 episodes

Jujutsu Kaisen really got everyone with it's storytelling, leading people to think that junpei would be hanging with the crew on the regular

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

You'd be a fan of Black Clover then, since it gets a new OP damn near every 3 episodes

Jujutsu Kaisen really got everyone with it's storytelling, leading people to think that junpei would be hanging with the crew on the regular

yeah JJK had a good one but I was skipping it pretty quick too. black clover was when it really hit me that these OPs are just marketing tactics to get some random jpop song on the charts lol

I really just think they're a waste of time in general. I actually get more excited when an episode skips the OP cause I know some real shyt is about to go down. the final ep of cowboy bebop with just the logo on a black background at the start was

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

my hot take is that all OPs get annoying and become instant skip status after like 3 times max. it really seems extra to have full credits two times in a 20 something minute show

one of my favorite things about jobless reincarnation was how it used the OP time for worldbuilding and storytelling instead. wish other shows would go that route

this one in particular had me

I usually skip OP/ED in general after 1 but if I like the song a lot I’ll listen to it every time. Certain 1s I don’t ever skip like Durararas first OP/ED

Hunter X Hunter 2011 used the same OP the entire time, that joint got old real quick They were changing the EDs I was like dang y’all just gonna keep using the same OP for the whole show, switch it up

 

[storyteller]

My only problem with OP's is when there are obvious spoilers. Like one of the OP's for FMAB.

But MT was a great change of pace with how OP's are usually done.

I got mad at Hell's Paradise for sneaking in a spoiler. I remember One Piece's Wano arc had a big spoiler that even the manga hadn't fully revealed yet.

But with anime that have good OP's, I feel like watching the opener becomes part of my viewing ritual...hell, even the Studio Mappa opener feels like part of watching a new episode for some stuff for me (I feel the same for Blumhouse horror movies).

 

[winb83]

 

[AStrangeName]

Word is that One Piece dubs hopefully will be arriving to Crunchyroll soon as the Funimation excusive streaming license is completed in a few months. Can't find the tweet because it got deleted sometime after people found the tweet, but r/Animedubs brought it up.

The director said, hopefully, cause you may never know when the contract is done that someone else might try to get it before it transfers over or the transfer might take longer than they already expected.

 

[Mr. Negative]

I was talking about the Serial Experiments Lain hack at MyAnimeList and someone reminded me about how iconic the opening song to that anime was. There's a few obvious ones like Cowboy Bebop and FLCL, but I think Lain's opening is up there as one of the best.

Yall got any personal favorites? Particular nostalgia-driven joints?

Everythng Akino Arai does is perfect

that, first and foremost.

And YES Duvet by BoA is an iconic themesong and OP

And I'm waaaay more partial to ending themes (got multiple posts in here being teary eyed and waxing poetical nshyt about them), but I'll give it a shot.

 

[Mr. Negative]

oh, and special shot out to shyt I'll listen to til this very day to shake off downer feels and depression.



two songs that'll instantly make me wanna knock yo ass the fukk out: TTGL OP theme and Ante Up Remix

 

[Mr. Negative]

2 things I'd like to add:

I can't find a "Rascal Dreams of Bunny Girl Sempai" OP. I watched that in full every single ep I watched.

Elfen Lied..... the only OP I can say I hear and I'm like "turn it off.

I SAID TURN IT OFF "

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

It’s time to get back into anime, like heavy.

I’ve been watching Vinland Saga tho

 

[tripleaamin]

@LordDeathwatch we Back

 

[abominable1]

@LordDeathwatch we Back

got 6 weeks to watch the final 5 eps of season 4
then i can watch the greatness live.