Ah the opening, the jingle, the credits, thing that gives the viewer a taste of what is to come for the rest of the episode. What are some of your favorite television openings?
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Ah the opening, the jingle, the credits, thing that gives the viewer a taste of what is to come for the rest of the episode. What are some of your favorite television openings?
*deep breath* I like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Buffy, Fringe, American Horror Story, The Americans, Bojack Horseman, Jessica Jones, True Detective season 1, Dexter, The Simpsons, Cowboy Bebop, and probably many others. I'll just stop.
The Stranger Things intro was great. The music especially.
I could list off thousands, so I'll limit myself to two live-action and two anime for now. It's tough to find a better opening sequence than Westworld (NSFW warning: brief shadowy robot sex):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeBik_YHBYM
The Expanse has a really on-point intro as well, when they actually bother to play it in full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8
As for anime, Danganronpa 3's Despair Side OP is perfection (though it contains massive spoilers for the first two Danganronpa games):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwNrL1NSfxY
And ERASED, regardless of its many flaws, has a pretty kickass opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9G20wV0KHE
The Firefly song was also amazing.
Twin Peaks, the opening score by Angelo Badalamenti really sets the tone for the entire show... Stranger Things is a soundtrack i wish i could find a physical copy of...
Any thread on favourite openings that doesn't include Battlestar Galactica is incomplete.
True detective was smurfing great. I really enjoyed Westworlds too. I think Game of thrones is Iconic. Black Sails is growing on me, Bear McCreary's Hurdy Gurdy is amusing. I like the BSG SONG but not the scenes of the intro, but again, thanks Bear McCreary.
SO NO ONE TOLD YOU LIFE WAS GONNA BE THIS WAAAAAY~
*clap clap*
OOOOhoooooh, anime counts?
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I'll be back
I second the Mario Bros. Super Show lol!
I also really like Wolf's Rain's, Virtua Fighter (anime) and the Batman cartoon from the early 90s.
Can't go wrong with most of Wolf's choices.
GoT is really the best. Epic theme song, cool animated map, and the credits constantly change with the locations and cast featured in the episode.
The Time Tunnel intro. Can't find a good video on Youtube of it sadly.
Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. Could you repeat the question? You're not the boss of me now. You're not the boss of me now. You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big. Life is unfair...
Also, I really like the opening for The Office.
I'll have to think for cartoons and anime as those are kind of separate in my head and it's hard for me to narrow those down.
No guys, True Detective. The artistic choice in it is just great
im not a weeb you're a weeb (may be more to come I just got bored)
when u realize no1 has said the fresh prince of bel-air
http://i.imgur.com/UEwGHvM.jpg
Kim Possible
Kim Possible Movie "So the Drama" - The Last 3 Episodes of Season 3
Avatar The Last Airbender Opening
Dragon Ball "Z" - Vol. 35-42 (Demonic Boo Saga)
Dragon Ball Super - Kami to Kami Saga - Zamasu Saga
Dragon Ball Super - Universal Survival Saga - ?
Dragon Ball Grand Tour
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Black Cat
Pokémon - Kanto
Sailor Moon Opening 1
Meitantei Konan: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Digimon Opening 1
DNA˛
I''s (Pure) Opening
Love Hina Opening
Highschool of the Dead Opening
Black Bullet Opening
The Seven Deadly Sins
Friends
Lost and Scrubs. Short & sweet.
Right off the bat I'd say Game of Thrones, Buffy, Evangelion, Noir, Spice and Wolf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpHU--A--8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_WgwEmRaw
Now that think about it, I forgot to mention Texhnolyze and Legend of Galactic Heroes (first opening - Skies of Love)
The 6 year old in me is inclined to mention 1980s UK Saturday morning show "Going Live", as it's the only thing that has ever, before or after, made me get up at stupid-o-clock (7 I think?) on a Saturday morning just to catch it. It was just cool to me at the time, the whole "we're making a television programme and broadcasting it!" meta theme it had going, which sprawled into an entire imaginary TV station I was running in my head as a child.
I mean it probably seems pretty rubbish now, but as a 6 year old this was the coolest thing on the planet.
Otherwise...
- I'm one of those very weird people who actually liked the opening to Star Trek: Enterprise (most fans HATED it), and if anything, it's possibly my favourite of the Trek openings
- Many a Japanese animation.... Naruto had some good ones, Fullmetal Alchemist and Pokemon had some good ones. Basically "anime tier" is a whole other league of opening.
There was nothing particularly special about the LOST opening for me... besides the fact that IT WAS ANOTHER EPISODE OF LOST AIRING.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LDh8DefWpI
Oh hey I have pretty much everything Shauna posted on my iPod... nice taste Shauna, good job ^_^
ADDING TO THE MIX
Ah, you also have exquisite taste, sir! Although... #notmyk-onopening
Good topic! I love a good opening sequence. Iron Fist's opening sequence is a lesson in how not to do one, in my opinion. So vapid. So much generic techno. So boring.
I'm trying to remember my favourites. Of the shows I've seen recently, Luke Cage's is definitely up there. Love the soul influence.
I like all the K-On! openings so I don't judge you ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shauna
But for me the original has moe nostalgia and it's easier to sing along to
Editors note: that was a genuine typo for 'more' that I intended to correct but upon re-reading it it was too perfect, so I left it in
Obv GoT was going to be way up there. And Freya mentioned Westworld, and someone else mentioned Jessica Jones but they didn't share them. So here are some of my top ones:
And a very new show, but goddamn, does it have a gorgeous opening:
Some of my favorites are the openings to Batman: The Animated Series (which acts as a short story of its own!), DuckTales (with one of the catchiest melodies ever) and Alfred J. Kwak (which is both trippy but also heartwarming at the same time with an equally memorable melody to boot which sets the tone of the show perfectly). I guess I could also add the intros to Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain into the list as well as both are atmospheric in different ways with great visuals. :)
sorry but this post is gonna be the highest scoring post on eoff