Worst Anime Openings?

[Mr. Omega]

I don't know if the english dub openings count as well, but if they do I'll say One Piece a thousand times.

GAH! IT BURNS! TAKE IT AWAY! TAKE IT AWAY!

I don't care how bad other ones get, or if it doesn't count in this thread, THIS is the worst anime opening ever.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

My friend always told me that 'Love Slave', the opening theme to DearS, was genuinely creepy and disturbing. Having looked it up and watched it, I have to say... he was 100% correct.

All you need to know is that the main lyric of the chorus is "I'm your slave".

 

[InsanelyZanter]

Snip.

Funny, I actually enjoyed this opening quite a lot. Where it may not be as suitable as you would have liked One Piece is known for its overly positive openings. That is until the 13th.

Yes, and I love the super positive openings before and after this one. The fifth being my personal favorite song from the series. But this feels less like the others and more like a shojo opening. . Guess it could be a balancing act for the separated crew and incoming shitstorm, but meh.

As said, not a horrible opening. I just find it a really weird choice.

A potentially flamebait one, but Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex. Don't get me wrong, the music is god-tier. But GITS' stunning 2-d animation, and they use some cheezy 3-D with loads of lighting effects? Come on.

Second gig's opening more then makes up for it though.

Seconding Madoka Magica, Panty&Stocking and dragon ball. Personal dislike of the last contributes greatly but whatever.

 

[Kyogissun]

The "music" is just annoying and doesn't seem fit with the mood of the anime at all, and the scenes shown in the intro have almost nothing to do with what happens in the show either. I haven't watched too many animes so I'm not an expert or anything, but as soon as I read the title of the thread this is what jumped to mind.

The moment the intro switched to this was the moment I started skipping it. I saw no need to subject myself to having a really loud and annoying man scream down my ear-hole every time I wanted to watch an episode.

For the last chunk of the pre-timeskip episodes, it's somewhat out of place... But following it?

The OP quite clearly suits the tone of the show once it has occurred. Light descends into a madness that he's completely and totally right in doing what he's doing. He's kicked his sense of 'morality' to the curb and become completely obsessed with the concept of him being a 'god' of the world.

In a sense, the OP, for me at least, was a musical representation of Light's mind following his defeat of L.

And it has a fucking great beat to it.

So try and think of it that way and to some degree, it suits the show, again, post timeskip point in the plot.

Incoming personal most despised OP's:


Honestly, most of Ali Projects are mediocre and despisable...

...But the just fucking bring home the fact that ALL THEIR FUCKING SONGS SOUND THE SAME with KTG's second OP.

If I think of any others, I might comment.

Also, HATERS GONNA HATE on Macademi Wasshoi. Yeah, it's nothing revolutionary but god damn it do I fucking 'love' BLADE's art style. That alone is enough for me.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT, TOTALLY FORGOT. ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PICK UP KATANAGATARI SHOULD GO PRE-ORDER THE DVD/BLURAY BOXSET COMBO FROM NIS AMERICA. IT'S 70 BUCKS FOR EPISODES 1-7 IIRC. GO FUCKING ORDER IT NOW BITCHES. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.

 

[CptRumGuy]

I utterly despise this OP.


I also completely disagree with OP's stance on Bleach's 4th Opening. Beat Crusaders is an awesome band.

That one was annoying at first, but then I saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKivBbd3teA&feature=related

Now it's just hilarious.

Bleach's 4th opening (how do you go from Ichirin no Hana to THAT?!)

Yes that was dreadful, but I think a dishonorable mention should go to the Ending Song "Happy People". It was somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd season. I couldn't hit the "close window" button fast enough...ugh.

Here's the link for that one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqe48xKrmCs

 

[necromanzer52]

I utterly despise this OP.


I also completely disagree with OP's stance on Bleach's 4th Opening. Beat Crusaders is an awesome band.

Definitely this. Especially considering how great the first intro was.

After I watched fullmetal alchemist, I only had 2 major complaints. One of which is that the intro sucked. Not that it was bad exactly, it just didn't fit the feel of the show at all.

 

[Silver Patriot]

I just don't like it.

 

[Sacman]

I utterly despise this OP.

And the first opening was good? it was a bad song with a cringe worthy singer and an utterly generic video that played into almost every anime opening cliche, if someone spilled coffee on the lens...


The second one was some good head banging thrash metal, even though, I'm not fond of screaming it never devolved into crappy screamo... and the video while silly had charm to it even if I didn't like Death Note I liked the second opening... besides that it got me into Maximum The Hormone who are now one of my favorite metal bands up there with Dethklok...

OT: yeah so my vote goes to the first Death Note opening... it makes me sturgeon face every time I hear it...

 

[Arisato-kun]

And the first opening was good? it was a bad song with a cringe worthy singer and an utterly generic video that played into almost every anime opening cliche, if someone spilled coffee on the lens...

The first wasn't good either. I hated them both.

 

[Arisato-kun]

Incoming personal most despised OP's:


Honestly, most of Ali Projects are mediocre and despisable...

...But the just fucking bring home the fact that ALL THEIR FUCKING SONGS SOUND THE SAME with KTG's second OP.

Glad someone posted this. I skipped this OP every time. It just doesn't compare to the greatness of the first one at all.


Granted it does fit to what happened at the end but the first opening was such a concentration of pure awesome that I couldn't help feeling disappointed.

 

[Zay-el]

Narutaru, hands down.

Spoiler

Looks cheery, right? Sweet and funny, right? Kinda like Digimon, with more badass monsters, eh?

WRONG!

This is possibly the most grimdark, depressing, hellish anime I have ever seen in my life. I've seen some pretty disturbing things in anime, having seen Elfen Lied and the likes, but this anime, or more specifically several scenes of it made me cringe. The OP is deceptive, lures you in, then punishes you a million times for it.

 

[RanD00M]

Boku no Pico

Look it up on Youtube. Go any further than that and you may have a visit by the old bill.

Calumon: I'm not even allowed to see your answer? But why not?

Jack: Because of it's soul damaging properties.

Why. Just why. Why do you know what Boku X Pico is? Why does anyone know what it is? Why does it have to exist?

ot.I agree with on Berserk OP. I love the anime and manga, but that opening. Just that opening.

 

[RanD00M]

My friend always told me that 'Love Slave', the opening theme to DearS, was genuinely creepy and disturbing. Having looked it up and watched it, I have to say... he was 100% correct.

All you need to know is that the main lyric of the chorus is "I'm your slave".

Well it all makes sense if you've watched the anime. But I can see how it is disturbing to anyone that hasn't. And some people that have seen it.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Boku no Pico.

I'm too lazy to find it on YouTube, and partly because it contains sexual imagery, and, also, I don't want to put anyone through this anime. Not. Another. Innocent. SOUL!!

And, if you're going to go "e-Hunting" for it after you read this comment, make sure to have a barf-bag or two.. you'll thank me later...

 

[Someone Depressing]

I don't know if the english dub openings count as well, but if they do I'll say One Piece a thousand times.

AAAGH!

GET RID OF IT GET RID OF IT GET RID OF IT!

 

[Jonluw]

Are there good anime openings?
Are there good anime's?

Spoiler: Well, this one is pretty good

OT: I can't really remember any very bad openings.

Spoiler: The Clannad after story ending had the completely wrong mood though.

Seriously. Who in the world would look at the story of Clannad after story and think to themselves "This song is appropriate for the fans to be hearing at the end of every episode"?

 

[SIXVI06-M]

We've all heard discussions on what the best anime openings are. But what about the openings that suck? It's high time they get the recognition they don't deserve! Remember, we're talking openings here, not the animes themselves.

I'll start. Probably my most hated one is the one for Berserk. The anime itself is excellent (ending notwithstanding), but you wouldn't know it from the opening. Barely anything happens, and it does nothing to prepare you for the show. And don't even get me started on the guy's singing!


Some other dishonorable mentions: Azumanga Daioh (the cuteness made me nauseas), Panty and Stocking (fucking auto-tune!), Bleach's 4th opening (how do you go from Ichirin no Hana to THAT?!)

I've never heard it before, so I was looking for any redeeming value that might bring credit from an outsiders point of view.

Nope. I instead feel as if I just walked in on some tone-deaf fat kid singing into his hairbrush in his basement or someshit.

Anyway, to contribute to this thread; any westernised take (or should I say, 'attempt' on an opening theme of any anime- take for instance Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon.

I come from Hong Kong, and you cannot imagine the stellar quality of voice acting and non-japanese takes on opening themes; City Hunter was my favourite where the Cantonese singer references Batman on where the City Hunter gets his pro skills from . And if they don't have a song they can make for the anime? they keep the japanese version, pure and simple.

 

[ronald1840]

Love the episodes though but this made things a little awkward while watching in silent uncomfort with friends.
>_> >_> O_O
"Its not what it looks like theres action in it...somewhere."

 

[GodofDisaster]

This oh dear god this.

Hated the show, the characters and the opening.

Although I will admit some of the fight scenes were kind of cool, but they were filled with far two much fan service, still wondering how I made it pass the first season before I just stopped watching it.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

My first thought was with Monster, here. Yes, a great Anime but good gosh its opening is extremely bland and boring and its first ending creeps me the heck out while also being extremely boring. Both fit the mood of the show though. Berserk is close second.

- Death Note Opening 2 snip -

Personally I thought it was a perfect fit. Granted, its not a song I would listen to in my free time, but it does fit the mood. Remember that beneath the clean tidy surface of Lights mind there is insanity and chaos.

I can only agree there (except I DO listen to that kind of music in my free time ^^). Light is an insane megalomaniac. I think its only fitting to show his insanity by introducing the series with an equally insane song. The visuals also fit this perfectly - just think of Lights isanity and then look up that scene with his maniacal laughter throughout the screen during the opening....yeah.....

But its interesting to see that this opening is such a typical love it or hate it thing...