Though they’re often visually appealing at best and simply forgettable at worst, their music rarely sticks out for me, and for a franchise that almost always nails it in the sound department, that’s a huge disappointment. OP4 (supposedly 6 on Blu-Ray?) for Monogatari Series Second SeasonĪlthough I’d consider myself a fan of the franchise, I’m normally indifferent to the Monogatari series’ openings and endings. #25 – “Kogarashi Sentiment” by Chiwa Saito and Shinichiro Miki Still, I can’t deny I did a double take and chuckled a bit, so take the honorable mention and go stare out a window or something, Tesagure. The opportunity to get creative here was huge, but the product was underdeveloped. It’s a brilliant idea, somewhat let down by how instead of over-exaggerating everything and truly embracing its satirical spirit, the characters and camera just straight-up do what the singers say. “Stand Up!!!!” is a parody of all the typical overused moe show OP tropes, chock full of lines like “For now, if we do this, it’ll look like your average OP” and “The production committee’s gonna show up, so everybody line up!” However, give a look at those lyrics, and all becomes clear. It’s for a mediocre 3D-animated cute girls doing cute things show, and this OP is bland uninspired fodder with a cast-sung song that in no way distinguishes itself from the most generic songs of its ilk. HONORABLE MENTION: “Stand Up!!!!” by Asuka Nishi, Hina Satou, Aoi Takahashi, and Koharu Tanakaĭespite a ton of great 2013 entries and the overwhelming urge to give this position to an OP that I think just barely misses the top 25 on its full merit, my honorable mention this time goes to an opening that’s nothing special at first glance. Every so often if need be I’ll find replacements and maintain them as best I can, but nobody’s perfect. ![]() Apologies in advance if any links break between the time this gets posted and the time you try to access them. Let’s jam.Ĭlick on the highlighted links to watch each OP. Otherwise, I hope you all enjoy this old but revamped and finally-published installment of Yata’s Yearly Top 25 OPs. If you’d like to see my lists from 20 first, you can go ahead and click on those. The rankings are loose and (for this list especially) really close, meaning there are a couple solid OPs still absent here, but to stick with the precedent, I’m cutting this list off at 25 numbered entries and one honorable mention. Unlike the many YouTube channels dedicated to ranking OPs based solely on music, I judge OPs on a sliding scale combination of their music, visuals, audiovisual sync, relevance to the show (when able), and my personal enjoyment, with regards given to what I feel the OP was trying to stress or accomplish most.Īs always, don’t fixate on the exact numbers too much.Doubly so for sequels or long-running series. I don’t need to have seen a show to include its OP, though shows I have watched are much more likely to be on the list, seeing as I’m more familiar with them and the in-show significance of their OPs’ contents.This never came into play for my 20 lists, but this old one will show why that rule exists in the first place. If a show has multiple OPs, they are all eligible as long as they fit the above criteria. ![]() For entries with evolving credits, whatever’s available will be used. ![]() ![]() Multiple versions of what are otherwise the same OP won’t take up multiple entries. If an OP has multiple versions (either different animation set to the same music or different music set to the same animation) and all those versions are available online, I’ll choose the version I like the most.In other words, 2012 shows that carried over into 2013 and used an OP that only aired during that year are acceptable entries. It can belong to a show that started before then as long as the OP itself debuted that year. The OP must have debuted in the year in question (so for this, 2013).This is the one that started it all, so it only seems natural to actually post it to the website where anyone can find it.įor those of you new to my OP ranking methods, here’s a reminder for what counts and what I consider: Since we’ve been a bit slow this spring (and also because those OP lists of mine seem to do pretty well for site views), I decided to revisit that old list and see if I could tweak some things around and write about them in more detail. At the time I thought – and still do think – that it was a spectacular year for anime openings, with several great entries nearly on par with each other vying for the top handful of spots. In 2013, back in the pre-FGJ days when me and the crew primarily conversed through Facebook and forums, I made a list of my favorite 25 OPs from that year.
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