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OPENING PROJECT - In-Depth Analysis (PART 2)
🕑 Added 2025-03-21 22:30:51 +0000 UTCThis breakdown is a companion piece meant to be viewed after watching our Top 100 list in "The Search For the Best Anime Opening" video. We recommend checking that out first if you haven't seen it yet!
This post contains the middle third of the video, covering openings 93 through 41 as well as a few bonus openings not on the list at all that make for good examples.
The rest of the list can be seen here:
PART 3 - #40-#1 ($15 Patrons only)
Feel free to use the timestamps below to skip to specific openings you are interested in seeing. If we talk about SPOILERS for the show in question, there is a * after the show's name.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - #93 Fruits Basket
3:37 - #92 Naruto: Shippuden*
6:36 - #91 OddTaxi
8:15 - #90 The Great Pretender
9:56 - #89 My Hero Academia OP2
12:13 - #88 FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OP2*
15:13 - #87 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
16:49 - #86 Vinland Saga S2*
22:30 - #85 Drifters
24:32 - #84 Hyouka
25:37 - #83 Black Clover OP10
28:54 - BONUS Black Clover OP13
30:26 - #82 Sk8 The Infinity
32:38 - #81 Pokémon Johto
34:09 - BONUS Beyblade Burst Turbo
35:31 - #80 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya OP2
37:07 - #79 Death Note
39:08 - #78 My Dress-Up Darling
41:39 - #77 Great Teacher Onizuka
43:55 - #76 Inuyashiki
45:54 - #75 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S
47:22 - #74 Komi Can't Communicate
52:00 - #73 Millionaire Detective: Ballance Unlimited
53:55 - #72 Beastars
56:57 - #71 Paranoia Agent
58:05 - #70 A Place Further Than the Universe
59:13 - #69 The Tatami Galaxy*
1:03:00 - #68 Deadman Wonderland
1:04:48 - #67 Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign
1:09:05 - #66 Blend S
1:11:19 - #65 Arakawa Under the Bridge
1:12:54 - #64 Serial Experiments Lain
1:15:02 - #63 FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP4*
1:17:09 - #62 Kekkai Sensen
1:20:35 - BONUS Dungeon Meshi*
1:23:22 - #61 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
1:25:30 - #60 Anohana*
1:27:28 - #59 The Fire Hunter
1:31:13 - #58 Digimon Frontier
1:32:49 - #57 Kageki Shojo!!
1:34:55 - #56 Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) OP2
1:36:29 - #55 Erased
1:38:01 - #54 Rust-Eater Bisco
1:39:02 - #53 Wasteful Days of High School Girl
1:40:53 - #52 Neon Genesis Evangelion
1:42:32 - #51 Bleach OP10*
1:45:09 - #50 Psycho Pass OP2
1:48:32 - #49 Jujutsu Kaisen*
1:52:27 - #48 Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
1:57:14 - #47 Vinland Saga S2 OP2*
2:01:13 - #46 Attack on Titan
2:03:16 - #45 Jujutsu Kaisen OP4*
2:05:40 - #44 Urusei Yatsura (2022) OP2
2:08:06 - #43 Death Parade
2:09:56 - #42 Ya Boi Kongming
2:11:53 - #41 High Card
Comments
K. Verklärung
Yall going hard for Kageki Shōjo speaks volumes and moves mountains for me
pictrable
the recent "witch watch" op is done by the same studio as one piece op 26 and like, it's kind of the same opening functionally but god they just make the most gorgeous stuff
Vic Cutting
Good list yayyyyyy I might make my own list tbh since I love the criteria but respectfully disagree on a few absentee sooo yay:3 good list
Chandler B
Also Specialz has grown on me so much and I hate it
Chandler B
I like the second spy family op; that’s a bump of chicken
Icemage11
I’m so glad you guys talked about how good Gotcha is cause no one ever talks about it for some reason
T1ggles
Also it’s Season 2 OP are amazing and everyone who dropped off because it wasn’t edgey enough doesn’t DESERVE it
T1ggles
Vinland Saga is one of the greatest manga I have read in 16 odd years and I would be THRILLED if you did a book club on it. It’s from the author of Planetes and so many parts of this anime and manga fuck me up like nothing else
Adam Stansbury
Bummed it wasn't higher but I'm thrilled to see Serial Experiments Lain get some spotlight. BECAUSE IT WAS ME. I WAS THE ONE WHO SAW IT AT TWO IN THE MORNING WHEN I WAS ELEVEN. AND YES, IT DID EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID. I honestly struggle to enjoy anime as an adult because my tastes were defined by the style/tone of darker, grimier, experimental stuff of the late 90's and early 2000's like Lain, Ergo Proxy, Boogiepop Pantom, etc. which has completely gone extinct as you said. I sometimes wish I got into anime through Adult Swim or Toonami like everyone else, because nothing has hit quite the same as Tech TV's late-night anime block. I'd HIGHLY recommend Serial Experiments: Lain. It's so unsettlingly weird.
Psycho
Cant believe asta took note from zoros post time skip design
dollqueen
I was stoked for Millionare Detective to make it bc the OP & ED are so GOOD
Flaming Olive
For the Oddtaxi shot that Yam points out as having bad credits, there was a moment in the associated Mother's Basement video which always stuck with me where he talks about the story reasons he infers about whose faces do and don't get covered up by credits/for how long. I could see contesting that rebuttal though because I wouldn't be fully confident in saying his claim there tracks with how things actually end up.
