Favorite Anime Openings/Endings?

[Animusubi]

Either for the music, the animation of the opening, etc?

El-Hazard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WWZwDqG9M For both song and opening style. Though Long-Makoto bothered me a bit, haha.

Blue Seed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdKpaL8VGU Mainly for song, but the way they had the video go with it, I always got excited.

[Armblessed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xytj5e-O1OQ Ranma season 4 closing theme. I guess I just like the song a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2vxlZkfW-Y Lodoss War opening. I used to always fast forward through this, but one time I actually paid attention to it and was amazed. Really transports you to a fantasy world, I think.

[Animusubi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xytj5e-O1OQ Ranma season 4 closing theme. I guess I just like the song a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2vxlZkfW-Y Lodoss War opening. I used to always fast forward through this, but one time I actually paid attention to it and was amazed. Really transports you to a fantasy world, I think.

Also two of my favorites. ;o; I love Ranma 1/2's Friends. <3 And yes, Lodoss' opening is just, beautiful. And one of few I enjoy both English and Japanese versions.

Another of my Ranma 1/2 favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFO59MsMpew Love the animation and the song.

And Key the Metal Idol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y7KrcfuxAw Fantastic song and love the animation here as well.

[greg]

Great topic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2vxlZkfW-Y Lodoss War opening. I used to always fast forward through this, but one time I actually paid attention to it and was amazed. Really transports you to a fantasy world, I think.

OH YES! I had two friends who were heavy fantasy fans in college, and listening to this song was like a religious experience for them each time. I should buy this soundtrack for the extended, normal version of this song. One of those two friends owned the soundtrack.

As for Ranma 1/2 endings, this one is my favorite. I think it's called "Present":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNXh2oCebiE

My favorite ending song is Kimagure Orange Road's "Natsu no Mirage." I'd favorited it on YT a while back, but Toho blocked it for copyright grounds, so I won't bother trying to share the link. Oh well. Anyhow, Kanako Wada really helped make KOR a special thing for me. I should get her "best of" 80's CD that contains her KOR songs plus more. Her voice is beautiful.

BGC's ending to episode 8, "Chase the Dream," is also a favorite of mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUXRpYDYQP8

[Heero]

My favorite ending song is Kimagure Orange Road's "Natsu no Mirage." I'd favorited it on YT a while back, but Toho blocked it for copyright grounds, so I won't bother trying to share the link. Oh well. Anyhow, Kanako Wada really helped make KOR a special thing for me. I should get her "best of" 80's CD that contains her KOR songs plus more. Her voice is beautiful.

I love "Kagami no Naka no Actress" both for the song itself, and the sequence.

I'm not sure what my favorite Ranma song is, it really does have a LOT of fun ones. I liked Ranma Lambada and Yappa pa but I also really like a lot of the Doco team stuff.

Purely musically (ie. the anime it's for has no bearing) I think Escaflowne has the best one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1VBwBdVQtw

I love a bunch of other ones, but some of them are definitely at least partly just because I love the anime they come from.

[usamimi]

Oh man, I used to be an OP/END theme JUNKY. Seriously. I would make mix tapes of nothing but op/end themes to listen to on my walkman whenever I walked anywhere. (I still have lots of them on my ipod now, who am I kidding?! orz)

I love the ones already listed...here's some more faves:

"Kimi Iro Omoi" from Akazukin Chacha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzYAPvQPXs My first exposure to SMAP! I still adore this show, don't let the fact that it's technically a magical girl show fool you, it is HYSTERICAL.

"Chacha ni omakase!" from Akazukin Chacha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ImD4RG6SU Probably my favorite ending from the series, it's just so catchy and fun!

"Koi wo Suru tabi ni Kizu Tsuki Yasuku" from "Nurse Angel Ririka SOS": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds3xZ5R30H8 I always loved this one because it had such an 80s dance sound to it, y'know?

"What's up guys?" from Sorcerer Hunters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95MS5NJs5w0

"Mask" from Sorcerer Hunters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0rF9ktX90
I love all the music from Sorcerer Hunters, it really did have an awesome soundtrack.

"Rusian Roulette" from Dirty Pair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNd6SpmeBqY oh man I still listen to this frequently, I just love it. XD (I need to get those new DP box sets eventually.)

As much as I LOVE "Lum no Love Song", I think some of Urusei Yatsura's other OPs get overlooked a lot, such as:
"Dancing Star" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5gi9PH7j0
"Chance on Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5AFdnhJVM
and "Tonogata gomen asobase!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc92Qq7Ruog

And I pretty much love every incarnation of "Honey Flash!" to ever exist, but the "New Cutey Honey" version's one of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iKpEYyTZlo

Ok, I could probably do this all day so I'll stop here. XD Maybe I'll post more later~

[Armblessed]

How could I forget!?
Metal Fighter Miku opening!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzRouVrnFOk

[davemerrill]

some of my faves:

Fist Of The North Star 2 - rockin' song, inexplicable English lyrics, the whole package.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feYxfnCd7QA

The Lensman TV show isn't that great of a show, but I do like the theme song and the animation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMH_pydMEQ

Hard to get more 80s than the OP to Galvion, "Lonely Chaser"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHTH7-1hgDQ

I never did get through the entire Captain Tylor series, but the OP is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vTjNEZ3kcE

The Bryger OP has great music and animation way better than you'll see in the actual show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IMnfzdbdRk

Getta Robo is my favorite Go Nagai super robot show, and the OP to Getta Robo G is my fave. Giant robots with axes, rack-focus zooms, lightning, missiles, devil robots, it's all here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-7ffg ... 6386A3C6B4

after you watch the entire Aim For The Ace series you will be singing along with this OP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekkyoVTNSu8

Tobe! Gatchaman! YUKE! Gatchaman!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVUw30-4k4

Wow, just saw a Filipino talent show guy singing the Voltes V theme. Gotta quit now.

[greg]

Wow, just saw a Filipino talent show guy singing the Voltes V theme. Gotta quit now.

Ha! Have you seen that video of the Filipino prison inmates all doing the Algorithm March from Pitagora Suicchi/Pythagoras Switch? That is a sight to behold. Apparently they make those prisoners do all sorts of bizarre dances, like the Suzumiya Haruhi dance and such.

[usamimi]

Wow that is bizarre! XD