Best Anime Opening Theme

[Cidien]

I think the Kenshin first season opener is decent. I liked it more than the second season.

[evilomar]

Originally posted by Cidien
I think the Kenshin first season opener is decent. I liked it more than the second season.

I just want my samurai action anime to have a kick ass samurai action song, not a song about freckles or whatever else they were singing about.

[Cidien]

Ah, I don't really care what they are singing about, I just like the song. Never read what they were saying.

[Peter]

Here's my pick :-)

Pure Snow - Legend of Himiko
Sacred Moon - Shingetsutan Tsukihime
Maria - Full Metal Alchemist (first opening song)
The Light before we land - Gunslinger Girl
Stray - Wolf's Rain

[Robojack]

The first opening song for Full Metal Alchemist is called 'Melissa' (by Porno Graffiti), not Maria.

[Zagatto]

Cowboy Bebop is easily number one in my book. Yokko Kanno with TANK! are the perfect combination for an explosive tune that sticks with you.

After that comes Lupin III... yeah... I'll agree that the second run of Lupin had the best soundtrack too... althought I really liked the closing music in the first run that Miyazaki directed.

Hellsing is another super catchy tune that I love watching every time the episode starts.

The funny thing about Berserk is that I HATED the opening and closing music the first 10 episodes or so that I watched it. Then... as time went on that song grew on me to the point where I actually started sitting through the whole thing.

I would like to point out that for incidental music within a series there isn't a single composer I can think of that can compete with Yokko Kanno. Listen to how dynamic the soundtracks to Macross Plus, Visions of Escaflowne, Record of Lodoss War, and Cowboy Bebop are. She gets right into the music and makes it her own without overpowering the show that it supports.

[Robojack]

Zagatto, you have an excellent point with Yoko Kanno's contribution to anime, as many of my favorite series, such as Macross Plus and Escaflowne, have some of finest music I've ever laid ears upon.

It seems that Yuki Kajiura is now under the spotlight, with her fantastic work in series such as Noir, Hack Sign, Madlax, and Xenosaga II, amongst other series. Also, her band, See-saw, continues to pump out some fantastic singles.

[DARK OSAMU]

Eva

Berserk

Tekkaman Blade...especially the second opening to it.

Trigun

[Cidien]

Thought of another great opener I can't help but watch sometimes.

Love Hina. Very catchy tune.

[Lilly]

I love so many anime openings and endings.. my list is long... I'm sorry
But I already reduced it to the least XD

Scarlet - OP of Ayashi no Ceres... just *awww* ;D
Secret - ED of Fruits Basket... dont like the anime so much, but the endingtune is nice
2. Opening Theme of HAMTARO (yes, you read right *blush*) but only the japanese one!!! Its just a good-mood song of the cute kind
Aim 4 - german OP of Hellsing... it rocks and totally different from the japanese one
Yume no Naka e - ED of Kare Kano... top lyric
Sobakasu - 1. OP of Kenshin... even like the engl. version of it (sept the lyric -.-")
One Half - 2. OP of Kenshin... kawaii lyric ;D
Its Gonna Rain - some ED of Kenshin (2nd? 3rd?), nice pop song
Over the Sky - ED of Last Exile... lovely Refrain ;_; and fits to the last ep... somehow *sigh*
Rocks - 1. OP of Naruto... couldnt get enough of it It simply rocks *g*
Haruka Katana - 2. OP of Naruto... great, esp the animations to it... excellent
Ningyo Hime - 2. ED of Chobits... Lyric fits to Chii and its just cutey and lovely =)
Just Communication - 1. OP of Gundam Wing
Grace - ED of Jin-Roh... ever heard something sadder? ;_; That song/sound is just a shock after the movie, heh
Zankoku na Tenshi no TE-ZE - OP of NGE ^^ could listen to it every time
Kindan no Panseé - OP of Silent Möbius, like it as much as the OP of NGE, its even good in engl. (The Forbidden Pensee)
Kaze Wa Mirai Ni Fuku - ED of Trigun... *sigh* Trigun... watched it 5x and still love it...
Mother Earth - german OP X... anime bored me, but music was good
Give a Reason - OP of Slayers-something (NEXT maybe)

think some Digimon songs (esp. of Wada Kouji) aswell and the Mononoke theme and thats it I think

[Nina182B]

Oh yeah, Chobits.. The opening theme song is pretty catchy - I like it a lot; The part where see says "Let me be with you" sounds so cute but also so illegal at the same time - She sounds like she's 6

[ZeroInterrupt]

Witch Hunter Robin... both Shell and half pain

-Zero

[atmos]

I usually skip the intro but I like the Berserk intro the best and Devil Lady has a great intro too.

[rav96]

umm theres quite a few but those that come to mind are...

Cowboy Bebop
Berserk

and ending wise....

for some wierd and unexplainable reason i love
Naruto first ending - Wind

[tsunami]

I only have a few fav. openings 1) DNA2 2) Cowboy Bebop 3) Lain

My fav. closing though was the lai lai boy song for Ranma 1/2.