How a Girl Figures

So I’m jumping on this bandwagon as well! I’m making my own list of top fifteen favorite Anime Opening songs. My only rule, not from the same series. I chose my songs not only based on the music but how they fit with the tone of the series, and how the animation was done to the music.

15. “Kirameku Namida wa Hoshi ni” – Tainaka Sachi
Fate/Stay Night

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Pretty much a good song and I love the animation. Fate/Stay Night is one of those series that I loved even though it’s not the best series out there. I have more Figures from this series that any other series. I love the upbeat tempo of this song, Disillusion even though it was a beautiful song felt off, plus I preferred This Illusion over Disillusion.

14. “Dramatic” – Yuki
Honey and Clover

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This is one of the songs that the song itself isn’t all that great, but mixed in with the tone of the series and the animation of the foods it makes it amazing.

13. “Duvet” – Boa
Serial Experiments Lain

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This is the only song in my entire list that completely in English, I do love this song. It gives me chills every time I hear it and that is hard to do. When I hear this song it’s very hard for me to not completely break out into song and sing along.

12. “Sakura” – NIRGILS
Eureka SeveN

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Who knew Amaing grace could sound so cool? Even though all of the Eureka seveN songs were amazing this one left a strong impression on me.

11. “Super Shooter” – RIP SLYME
Gantz

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It’s just badass what more can I say? I’m not a fan of Rap but j-rap just sounds so much better in my head I guess. I would have a figure from Gantz if they weren’t all so shitty, I’d prefer a Figure with the full body gantz suit than the slutty ones where it’s only like pieces of the suit. I really liked the show but considering that the manga is still ongoing in japan it didn’t really have a proper ending.

10. “Colors of the Heart” – UVERworld
Blood+

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UVERworld by far my most favorite J-pop band ever. I was first introduced to them from the Bleach Opening D-technolife. But Colors of the Heart Made a lifetime fan, the song fit the show, plus the animation was amazing. I loved how they went with a completely different animation style for the Opening than for the actual series.

9. “Itoshii Kakera” – Melocure
Ufo Princess Valkyrie

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I’ve always liked the Cutesty kind of songs that came from anime openings. But this song is one the likes to pop up on my playlist every once in a while and I just really love it. For this series this song was absolutely perfect.

8. “Bouken Deshou Deshou?” - Hirano Aya
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu

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I’m a fan of Hirano Aya but not a die hard fan. But still this song was pretty awesome, Maybe not as great as the insert songs from this series but thats for my next list.

7. “Tenshi no Yubikiri” - Fukuda Mai
Kare Kano

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I love how this Series used the Manga for animation style. You can clearly see in even the Opening that most of it is just pieces of the manga in a collage style animation.

6. “Dogfight” – Move
Initial D: Fourth Stage

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This song was a hard choice, between Noizy tribe, Around the world, Break in 2 the nite, and Blazin’ beat. But in the end Dogfight won, not only was the animation amazing but I can’t picture any other artist than Move for an Initial D opening. HAVE YOU SEEN THE DUB OPENING!!? It’s REALLY BAD!! Now I admit I don’t know much about cars, but the music from Initial D always makes me want to go down a mountain and race someone. Did I also mention that this show made me want a White RX-7 FC really really badly?

5. “Lucy” – Anna Tsuchiya
NANA

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I’m a die hard Anna Tsuchiya fan, so this song is of course on this list. I cried when I saw her live in concert at AX. Thats pretty sad, but then i bet 53rg10 would have done the same at the SOS Brigade Invation Tour (well maybe not cry but you get the idea.) Lucy solidified my fangirlism to Anna Tsuchiya. Anna Tsuchiya really has the perfect tone for Nana in this series, and I feel if they used a different person to do the singing for the Black Stones the series wouldn’t have felt the same.

4. “Sora iro Days” - Nakagawa Shouko
Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan

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There was no way in hell I wasn’t going to have a Gurren Laggan song on this list. I do think i’m going to have to see this series again in a few days, I’m going through Gurren Laggan withdrawals. But seriously this song is great, this series was just plain Epic and this song is the perfect fit for it.

3. “Sore Ga, Ai Deshou” - Shimokawa Mikuni
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu

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Now this was a hard choice, It was a complete toss up between all three FMP Openings. I love them all so much and they each fit the series perfectly. But in the end I realize this song makes me sing along more than the rest, every time I hear this song I get the urge to just watch this series for the 90 millionth time.

2. “Catch you Catch me” – Gumi
Card Captor Sakura

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It’s rare for me to sit through the Opening of a series every time I see an episode. I’ll maybe watch it the first few times then skip through it for the rest of the series. Catch you Catch me was different, I truly watched this opening every time I saw an episode of Card Captor Sakura. The animation drew me in, plus the song was just perfect for the tone of the series. Yes platinum and Tobira wo Akete are amazing songs but I just ending skipping them once the episode started.

1. “Hemisphere” – Maaya Sakamoto
Rahxephon

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I’m one of the rare people who actually likes both Rahxephon and Evangalion, they both were one of the few series I first watched. I think I can honestly say Rahxephon was the 4th series I ever saw. This song helped get me into Anime music and j-pop it was an important start but not the first song to get me interested in anime music thats for my insert song list. Sorry all you platinum fans this is my favorite Mayaa Sakamoto song.