No mention of Evangelion? Weird.

Dan Da Dan

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I haven’t watched anime in years, I’m gonna bet Cowboy Bebop still has the best opening ever.

I absolutely love Dungeon Meshi both openings get me in a cheerful mood. Ranking of Kings also has a beautiful story and the intro gets better the more you know about the story. Both are not particularly ‘epic’ though.

The intros of Chainsawman, Heavenly Delusion and Dandadan (both of them) are also some of my favorites. Mob Psycho 100 intros (I think all of them) are absolute bangers.

Here is my anime intro playlist

Nobody’s mentioned the opening to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann? Nobody? Come on.

Runner up mention to Kuusou Rumba from the second season opening of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, especially for any players of Katawa Crash! back in the day who will probably never get it out of their heads.

Most recently I think the [Dan Da Dan Season 1 OP] (https://youtu.be/A1dnxXrpN-o) was something special! To be honest, any Creepy Nuts song as an OP goes hard. For example, I am also a big fan of the Call of The Night Season 2 OP. Those are the best two I’ve seen recently anyway!

If you like some music you heard in an anime, look up the artist and do some snowballing. That way you can easily find more music that you like.

If you want to find animes where the music is good, and not only find music to listen to, maybe (just some examples, definitely not complete):

• Hunter x Hunter (2011): Awesome endings (ed 2 for example), as well as ost. (Old pre-2011 hxh adaptation also has good music afaik.)
• Call of the Night: The op (or ed?) inspired the manga, and then in the adaptation they took the song. And the other op/ed music was then also made by creepy nuts.
• Yamato: Op goes hard, and fits great to the space fights.
• Terror in Tokyo: More sad than epic, ed/op and ost fit well.

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho-to (sp?), all op/ed performed by ACID I believe.

I love the one piece trails (not quite sure about each season)
Also Mashle and Gachiakuta

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei had banger after banger for its openings.

One Piece OP1 is a classic

Gintama’s early openings and endings are also really good. Pray and Mr. Raindrop are great.

Would be remiss if I didn’t honorable mention Eden of the East just straight up using Falling Down by the band Oasis (the guys who wrote Wonderwall).

FLCL

Tokyo Ghoul’s OP is a banger. So is the first AoT OP.

Bacxano! has the best opening in my opinion. I highly recommend looking it up on Youtube

Log Horizon had an unbelievable opening and ending duo.

Some of my personal favorite openings:

• Elfen Lied: the anime itself was kind of ok but the opening and first like 10 minutes are so memorable. Been decades since I’ve seen it so maybe the plot is better than what I remember. Doesn’t change the fact that this opening is hauntingly beautiful
• One Punch Man: such a good hype up song. The song makes you feel like you can do anything
• Pokémon (Kanto League): another great hype up song though I think a large part of it is how nostalgic it makes me since it was my first anime

And Endings:

• Inuyasha (Every Heart by BoA): like Pokémon, I think a good reason I like this song so much is the nostalgia. But even taking that out, the ending is a great example of jpop from the early 2000s. Fun fact, the singer is actually a kpop star and has also released this song in English and Korean. Growing up only hearing the Japanese version, it’s super weird to hear it in any other language especially from the same voice.
• Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1: the chill hip hop vibes and cool animation are such a fun way to palate cleanse all the gore and seriousness of each episode
• Asobi Asobase: everything about this ending is great. The psychotic visuals, the cute anime girl vocals, the heavy metal backdrop. What makes it even better is just how much it contrasts with the show’s opening. Many of the comments for both videos point out this hilarious disparity.