Just as the title says, what are your favorite opening/closing themes
Opening
-Lilium (Elfin Lied)
-Light Before We Land (Gunslinger Girl)
-Battlecry (Samurai Champloo)
-Asterisk (Bleach) <-The first opener
-Ready Steady Go and Undo (Fullmetal Alchemist) <-The second and third opener
-H.T. (Trigun)
-Christmas in the Silent Forest (Ghost in the Shell: Stane Alone Complex 2nd Gig)
-Aozora no Namida (Blood+) <- The first opener
Ending
-Ride on Shooting Star (FLCL)
-Shooting Star (Bleach) <- The third closer
-Shiki no Uta and San Francisco (Samurai Champloo) <-The standard and final closers
-Kesenai Tsumi (Fullmetal Alchemist) <-The first closer
EDIT: Whoops! Kesenai Tsumi is the first opener of FMA, not the second.
LILIUM.
Ending theme... Excel Saga :wink:
The Slayers for both opening and ending.
Nurse Witch Komugi for both as well
Kino's Journey both too!
Chromartie High's opening
Openings:
Bouken Desho Desho? (The Meloncholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Shining Days (Mai-HiME)
Crystal Energy (Mai-Otome)
R.O.D. (R.O.D. the TV)
Tank! (Cowboy Bebop)
Scramble (School Rumble)
Sentimental Generation (School Rumbe Ni Gakki)
You (Shuffle!)
Minami Kaze (Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid)
Trust (Vandread)
Endings:
Hare Hare Yukai (The Meloncholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Kimi ga Sora Datta (Mai-HiME)
A-LY-LA (Negima!?)
Real Folk Blues (Cowboy Bebop)
Himegoto (Vandread)
Opening
Azumanga Daioh
Excel Saga
FMP Fummoffu
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Slayers
Slayers Next
fifth One Piece opening
Lucky Star
FMA 2nd opening
Bleach
Endings
Azumanga Daioh
Excel Saga
Haruhi
FMA 2nd Ending
1st Hellsing Ultimate Ending
1st One Piece movie
4th One Piece Movie
7th One Piece Movie
In no particular order...
Openings:
Trigun
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig
FMP Fummofu
Excel Saga
Hellsing
Elfen Lied
Vandread the Second Stage
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (it makes no sense, but its funny)
Cowboy Bebop
Closings:
FLCL
Cowboy Bebop
Ruruoni Kenshin (Kyoto Arc, if I remember right)
... Not a lot of memorable closings I can think of.
There's many I like. Here's just a few..
Slayers NEXT : Give a Reason (I recommend the Giga Mix version if you can find it)
Grenadier: OP theme, "Kohaku"
Chrno Crusade - end theme "Sayonara Solitaire"
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni : OP self-titled track, and the end theme, "Why, Or Why Not"
Bleach : "D-tecnoLife" (Second OP)
Fate/stay night - OP "Disillusion"
Naruto - end theme (12th) "Parade"
Black Lagoon - OP "Red Fraction"
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya : End theme - "Hare Hare Yukai"
Lucky Star - OP theme (Gotta wonder if this song will give "Hare Hare Yukai" a run for the money.... Perhaps even the dance as well? hmm...)
Opening themes...
Excel Saga (of course)
Azumanga Daioh
Ranma 1/2 Season 1 (I just never get tired of watching all those run cycles...)
Tsukikage Ran
Galaxy Angel Season 1
Fruits Basket
Rune Soldier
Paranoia Agent
Kodocha (The Totally Relax song with all the dancing people...)
Spiral has an ear-piercing beginning that made me certain that I'd hate the song, but I came to really love the opening.
There are far fewer end themes I like enough to keep watching them...
The Gokusen is all that comes to mind, in fact, apart from Excel Saga. (And I've seen Menchi sing so much I'm a bit bored with it.)
A lot of the ones I like have already been mentioned (Jun, Red Fraction, Lilium, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni etc.), so I'll just mention a few other ones.
Unparalleled Beauty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vxi1lnfZwU) - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ED
Puzzle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkG9531EbCE) - Welcome to the NHK! OP
DUVET (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1_los9wrCM) - Serial Experiments Lain OP
Future Century Secret Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1BvWsByRc) - Boogiepop Phantom ED (this is an AMV to the ED song)
the Slayers themes were awsome
Tenchi muyo had some awesome themes (The earth and moon band is awesome!)
Excel sagas themes are pretty good
Record of the loddoss wars theme were awesome!
i liked some from dirty pair
Blue seed had some good ones (blue seed is awesome!!
and many more lol
Cowboy Bebop for both.
Opening:
Ghost in the shell stand alone complex 2nd Gig
Cowboy Bebop
Evangelion
Closing:
Excel Saga
New themes!
Opening themes
-Tank! (Cowboy Bebop)
-Season's Call (Blood+) <- Second opener
-Colors of the Heart (Blood+) <- Third opener
Ending themes
-Real Folk Blues (Cowboy Bebop)
-Akaneiroga Moerutoki (Gungrave)
-Gravity (Wolf's Rain)
-This Love (Blood+) <- Third closer
I guess I'd like to add the Cowboy Bebop themes... they are spectacular, as is the whole soundtrack. Also, I'm a Pillows fan so the whole FLCL soundtrack is great.
Anyone ever download the full version of theme songs for anime? I just downloaded full songs for all the haruhi songs. There pretty good, hell the time I write this im listing to the very opening songs full version right now. Wow its fairly long...
Quote from: skycloud117 on October 30, 2007, 11:03:23 PM
Anyone ever download the full version of theme songs for anime? I just downloaded full songs for all the haruhi songs. There pretty good, hell the time I write this im listing to the very opening songs full version right now. Wow its fairly long...
I have the full 4 minute version of the Excel Saga theme. Hell, I downloaded both OSTs.
I got both Excel Saga OSTs off Amazon.
I downloaded the Tsukikage Ran soundtrack.
I've also gotten soundtracks on way or another for R.O.D. the TV, Wolf's Rain and .hack//Sign. (I actually HATE the opening song of .hack, though.)
Maybe soundtracks should be a new subject....
Quote from: Foggle on October 31, 2007, 06:00:42 AM
Quote from: skycloud117 on October 30, 2007, 11:03:23 PM
Anyone ever download the full version of theme songs for anime? I just downloaded full songs for all the haruhi songs. There pretty good, hell the time I write this im listing to the very opening songs full version right now. Wow its fairly long...
I have the full 4 minute version of the Excel Saga theme. Hell, I downloaded both OSTs.
lol course u got the full 4 min version it was in one of the episodes =P