Top 20:
- Neon Genesis Evangelion — A Cruel Angel’s Thesis
- Naruto Shippuden — Blue Bird
- Dragon Ball Z — CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Gurenge
- Sailor Moon — Moonlight Densetsu
- Tetsujin 28-go — Tetsujin 28-go
- Astro Boy — Astro Boy
- Your Name. — Zenzenzense
- One Piece — We Are!
- Spirited Away — Always With Me (Itsumo Nando Demo)
- Oshi no Ko — Idol
- Attack on Titan — Guren no Yumiya
- Mashle: Magic and Muscles — Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
- GeGeGe no Kitaro — GeGeGe no Kitaro
- Obake no Q-Taro — Obake no Q-Taro
- Chainsaw Man — KICK BACK
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Ponyo — Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
- Sally the Witch — Sally the Witch Song
- My Neighbor Totoro — Sanpo (Stroll)
Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don’t see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno’s ‘Tank!’.
Agreed. Also, no Mawatari Matsuko for all the Yuyu Hakusho songs. And even with recency bias, “il vento d’oro” (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) by Yugo Kanno should also be there.
Definitely some recency bias in here.
And nostalgia bias
I’d have picked “Blue” (the final ED) rather than “Tank!”, but at that point it’s just a matter of taste.
Let’s see here—of the songs on the list, I remember four, although I must have heard three of the others at least once. There’s not just recency bias, but most-popular-series bias. Of course, if someone asked me to make a similar list, most of it would be stuff hardly anyone else remembers.
The Real Folk Blues is my pick for a Cowboy Bebop song.
I can immediately hear roughly half of them in my head. Ghibli soundtracks are usually great but I don’t think they really should be on this list, there’re many I’d choose before them including Tank and Blue.
Edit: My personal list would honestly be half yoko kanno
Nothing by FLOW?
slander
I haven’t even watched the show, but you can’t convince me the OP for Hunter X Hunter isn’t in the top five, yet alone the top 20.
Recency bias? Only one of the top 5 is less than 15 years old.
There seems to be recency bias, and classic anime , and Ghibli OPs over quality.
I’ll take Kiseki No Umi/Record Of Lodoss War OP
and
Heavenly Blue/Aldnoah.Zero OP1
and
or any of those OPs by Creepy Nuts: Call Of The Night, Mashle, Dan Da Dan
Better than Ghost in the Shell’s SAC opening “Inner Universe” by Yoko Kano? I think not.
Ts is so mid
You almost can’t get a more generic list tbh
You know what is also definitely missing from that list? 99 by Mob Choir.
This feels like a list from IGN trying to show they get anime.
Best anime opening ever: https://youtu.be/xNkmz_sF-tE Best anime closing ever: https://youtu.be/UptDZeIeVOI
