Favourite Anime Intro

[matrix guardian]

As my avatar might suggest, It's no surprise that I am a fan of Yoko Kanno's music, and Cowboy Bebop would have to be my favorite anime intro. Not only is the music great, but the visuals go along with it really well in making a stylish effect. I have the soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop and I have to say it is all great music. Yoko Kanno is a great composer. She can write good music for any genre, and whatever she writes really fits the mood of whats going on in the show. Anyway, as a Yoko Kanno fan, I have to point out that nobody has posted this yet.

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Sorry, I know the video/sound quality isn't the greatest, but it's all I could find.

I also have to say that I REALLY like the opening to Hellsing (my second favortie to Cowboy Bebop). I really liked the song (World Without Logos) first off. And the visuals were cool too. I like the way the ghouls are walking around, and the mirroring/clashing of Alucard and Anderson. And then there is just something I really like about the end, when it's cycling through portaits of all the characters in the background, while a silhouette of Alucard slowly shifts into a pulsating amorphus blob of black magic tendrils, and then breaks apart into a swarm of bats, and then reforms into a silhouette of Alucard again.

 

[InconceivableTruth]

Actually, I will end this topic with my favorite opening:


Such an original and philosophical anime.

 

[Thaius]

I have a lot of favorites, but one that stands out among the others; the second ending to Full Metal Alchemist. I know it's an ending, and I'm sorry, but seriously, it's just that good.


The song is Tobira no Mukou He, and it's one of my all-time favorite songs of any language or style. Beyond that, I love the imagery that the video invokes, starting with the flashbacks to Edward and Alphonse's childhood, including the doll they transmuted for Winry and the picture of their mom holding their early transmutations (thus contrasting the relative innocence of that time, before they were forced to grow up in such violent and tragic fashion). But by far one of my favorite pieces of imagery in the show is near the end, when Edward holds his hands out in the snow; the snowflakes land on his hand and melt, but they land on his automail and maintain their shape. Such a brilliant and powerful way to display the difference in him, the inhumanity of that part of him that he so badly wants to remedy. The symbolism and overall quality of this show is fantastic, and this video is a fine example.

 

[Code Monkey]

I don't know why, but I just love this one. Can't really explain it.

[sub]Maybe it's because I love the series so much and am incredibly biased.[/sub]

 

[LadyRhian]

For me, I loved Saiyuki's Opening, and Trigun. Also, thie:


And for pure creepy awesomeness, this:


And this:


I couldn't find one with the actual opening, but this is the music from Magic Knight Rayearth 2:


And I have to mention this ending:


And the ending to the series:


And one more opening:

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Got to say "Welcome to the NHK". I haven't watched it in about two years, and yet I still have that opening theme stuck in my head.

Same just with the ending theme .
It?s scary how much it reminds me of myself.

*Blink* *Blink blink* I hope you don't mean Satou. Or Misaki. Or Yamazaki. Or-you know what, go outside. Do it now. If anyone in that series reminds you of you, go and find a psychiatrist. I don't see you leaving!

 

[Mjolnir36]

Spoiler: Elfen lied stands out, though I'm sure there are more (some nudity)

Got ninja'd on that one.

Yeah, Elfen Lied's my favorite anime intro. The song is so sad and beautiful and I really, really like it.

The name of the song is called "Lilium"

 

[WayOutThere]

Spoiler: Paprika

some favs that have already been mentioned:

Ghost in the Shell 2nd Gig
Paranoia Agent
Cowboy Bebop
Black Lagoon (love that song)

 

[Kukakkau]

Black Lagoon

This is the touch that pushed me over the edge to start watching this. Friend recommended it while back but now this has got me interested

 

[Sliverwings]

Without a doubt, the 4th opening to FMA Brotherhood

 

[Palademon]

Spoiler: Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi (Gundam 00 OP 3)

I was gunna say this one. Definately my favourite of the Gundam 00 openings

 

[Tehlanna TPX]

The opening to Vampire Princess Miyu

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Trigun (as previously linked)

Deathnote 2nd opening (mmmmm MtH)

Escaflowne!

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Wolf's Rain

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And its kind of a long one.. and I couldn't find one with video :/ but...
GiTS the movie

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[Enemy Of The State]

Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series.

"Yugi, you look like a bondage slave" - Yami or whatever his name is.

 

[Kukakkau]

Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series.

"Yugi, you look like a bondage slave" - Yami or whatever his name is.

"awesome! chicks dig bondage slaves"

 

[Enemy Of The State]

Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series.

"Yugi, you look like a bondage slave" - Yami or whatever his name is.

"awesome! chicks dig bondage slaves"

Love that episode!

"So then you'll have to *censored* sideways!"

 

[Larnx]

But this one is great too

Thank you. I had no intention of watching Working!! at all but after watching this I know I must.

Also, fixed.

No probs, I love helping out a fellow Escapist

And thanks for fixing that link!