Your top three anime openings.

[GodofDisaster]

(I searched this, I found one example, but it was at least five or six months old so no harm done.)

Anyway the thread question is simple, post your top three anime openings.

Note: No flaming, I.E statements like, 'you have a bad taste in anime, those are some of the worst songs I've ever heard, your mother...' Basically things like that, these openings are opinion only.

Note 2: If you don't have a top three, or just can't be bothered to post them all. Then just post one.

That's it, so I'll start by posting mine.

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[Timotei]

Spoiler: Desert Punk 2nd OP

Spoiler: Rozen Maiden (season 1)

Spoiler: Kodomo no Jikan 2nd term

 

[Robert632]

the only two i've ever liked where the first two FMA brotherhood ones, music as well as images. the new one's pretty bad.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Valkyria Chronicles

I love that anime so much!

But I'd say the opening for Pandora Hearts cos I love the lyrics.

Or Cowboy Bebop. =]

 

[Jark212]

Death Note (Jmetal)

That's all I can think of.

 

[axia777]

Spoiler: My favs

Black Lagoon


Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG

 

[Amnestic]

Clannad [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HmP6Sl5RQ]

Haruhi Season 2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBS0AGgGTnQ]

K-ON (included the ED as well) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXdMoofY2PA]

 

[A random person]

This would probably change on a daily basis, but:

Spoiler: Nanoha A's

Spoiler: Gurren Lagann

Spoiler: Shakugan No Shana's first opening

[yotube=be4utbxs7O4]

I was trying to be somewhat original, but Gurren Lagann kinda killed that ambition.

 

[fix-the-spade]

1) Akira's Nuke-bar-bike chase sequence.

2) The Casino robbery in Castle of Cagliostro.

3) The assassination in Ghost in the Shell.

None of them are TV series style openings, because I find those incredibly irritating, they never, ever fit to the series and they always sound like they escaped a mid nineties arcade game. I can't help but hate them, they're all bad sound design!

These ones I like because they set the scene, are funny and in Akira's case have simply mind blowing quality of animation, there's 50 different shades of red in it and the whole thing was drawn by hand, even the transparent neon- holographic signs. I also think the ending (when the guy gets gunned down by the Police) is the most brutal thing in any anime I've seen. It avoids most of the OTT crap most series and films fall into.

#Getting youtoob clips now, actually, forget that, just buy the films, you won't regret it.

 

[Code Monkey]

4. Deathnote Season 2

3. Cowboy Bebop

2. Neon Genesis Evangelion

1. Ghost in the shell: Stand alone complex

*COUGH* and Lucky Star *COUGH*

 

[Enzeru92]

Bleach-Second Opening- D-technolife by Uverworld
Code Geass R2-Second opening- Worlds End by Flow
and lastly Gundam 00-First opening- Daybreaks Bell by L'Arc-en-Ciel
those are my favorite three opening because of the music and the animation in the opening song

 

[Ciarang]

These three, for now at least.
I haven't even seen Black Lagoon though =O

Spoiler: Black Lagoon

Spoiler: Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni

Spoiler: Clannad

 

[Aura Guardian]

Spoiler: Trigun. Three times

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Yes, that is my favorite anime(And also, my Anime Popper).I know it's suppose to be three. But, I don't have three.

 

[historybuff]

This opening is so fun!

Spoiler: Baccano!

 

[Gigaguy64]

Bleach, 2nd opening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjqLU5Y_nw

Vandread, 2nd opening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkBt7YdZW8

Full Metal Alchemist, orignal opening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TiigqrUfIQ

 

[Radeonx]

Ghost In The Shell:

Bleach 2nd Opening

 

[A Weary Exile]

*Snip*

I'm no fan of what anime has turned itself into but I love these intros.

Spoiler

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE[/video]

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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-anabfAg06U[/video]

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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT2ZVN8b2Sw[/video]

 

[NeutralDrow]

Spoiler: Nanoha first season

Spoiler: Fate/Stay Night, second op

Spoiler: Tsukihime opening

Tentative.

 

[Del-Toro]

The First opening of Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, the tune isn't bad either.

Death Note
While I'd be lying if I said I ever really got into this series, I do like the opening

Kannazuki No Miko
It's not the music, or the visuals, if you've seen this series, you know what happens later on, and you also know that they never change the opening, even after what happens. The opening then becomes somewhat sarcastic, and as a lover of sarcasm, I have to salute this choice.

 

[DrScoobs]

1. cowboy bebop
a classic jazz piece set to an awesome art style.
2. wolf's rain
haunting music by Yoko Kanno and shows the desparation of the world of the wolves.
3. Death note OP 2
Disturbing imagery and awesome J-metal really shows the twisted nature of the show.