Top 5 Anime Songs

[Dartheyegouger]

Hey guys! Haven't posted for a while, and was wondering what everyone's FAVORITE TOP 5 ANIME THEMES!!! Mine are:

5.Naruto Main theme
4.Smile Bomb aka Hohoemi no Bakudan (Yuyu Hakusho)
3.Freckles aka Sobakasu (Rurouni Kenshin)
2.Heart of Sword aka Yoake Mae (Rurouni Kenshin)
1.A Cruel Angel's Thesis!!! (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

[johnny139]

Here's mine...

1. Naruto - Kung Fu Generation
2. One Piece - BON VOYAGE!
3. Rurouni Kenshin - Freckles
4. Gundan Seed - Main Opening
5. Rurouni Kenshin - 1/2

My favorite animes are Rurouni Kenshin, Gundam Seed, and One Piece.

But Naruto's opening is rockin'! :rock:

[Neveryll]

Hmmm I don't do most of the action ones so here goes...

5) A Cruel Angel's Thesis!!! (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
4) Love Hina (Opening theme)
3) Hand Made May (Opening Theme)
2) Please Teacher (Opeing Theme)
1) Chrono Cross (Opening Theme) Ok that's not anime but I loved the opening theme hehe




On a side note you guys may want to check out this One Piece Music video. I thought he did a rocking job of doing the video to the music.

http://www.manylemons.co.uk/Sail_On.shtml

[Agent Minivann]

I don't get to see much anime these days, but I really like the music in Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. The Neon Genesis opening is pretty good, and Area 88's music is OK. I can't think of any others I've seen that had music that I really got into.

I know it's not anime, but the opening to Batman Beyond and the original opening to the current Batman cartoon were both really cool.

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

er...I so should not be in this thread. Anime music???

Uh,

Speed Racer
Kimba the White Lion
Star Blazers
Battle of the Planets

Do these qualify?

[oni]

1. Ranma 1/2 (almost any Open or Closing, but love Season 1 Opening)

2. Neon Genesis Opening

3. GitS: SAC Opening for Season 1 and 2

4. Chobits Opening

5. Classic Bubblegum Crisis songs.

[Ryougabot]

Mospeada Soundtrack
Bubble Gum Crisis - especially Body Heat
Voices - Macross Plus
Nausicaa's theme Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind
Most Classic Macross songs are good

Wow, I feel old

This makes me wonder what Anime would translate well to Heroscape. Hmmmm

[Euryon]

Opening theme to "Fist of the North Star" the series.
EVA theme.

Don't know too many others, alas.

[Point Blanks]

I don't get to see much anime these days, but I really like the music in Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.

Ditto. Bebop and Champloo are the only anime that I think are worthwile. I watched as much DBZ as the next ADD inflicted in my youth, but the changes they make in the dub ruin the experience for me.

[Agent Minivann]

I just remembered one I need to add. I really like the Trigun music. The commercial breaks are annoying, but the other music is pretty good. As I said in the other anime thread, I couldn't get into the series. I wanted to like it, but it just bugged me. Call it a train wreck; I've seen almost every episode.

[CornPuff]

I just remembered one I need to add. I really like the Trigun music. The commercial breaks are annoying, but the other music is pretty good. As I said in the other anime thread, I couldn't get into the series. I wanted to like it, but it just bugged me. Call it a train wreck; I've seen almost every episode.

COMMERCIAL BREAKS?!?!?

impure! impure! Cartoon Network is not the fount of anime! american voice actors, as a law of nature, suck. also, cartoon network edits scenes for pg-13 violence and sex!

I know not everyone can grab the dvds, but there are ways... :whistle:
of course dvds are the best way to go for quality of video, subtitles and audio. you can pick up a lot of anime series from e-commerce sites now for like $30 for 26 episodes. good stuff.

oh, also about trigun, the series is very much meant to be seen in order, unlike say cowboy bebop.

oh was this thread about anime music?

Bebop had a great theme, Naruto had many good openings, especially the addictive "fighting dreamers" one. I cant remember cruel angels thesis, although i can see the video in my head. Bleach had a killer first season intro. Oh, and Samurai Champloo has an amazing soundtrack.

edit: if you didn't see trigun on cartoon network, and i read you comment incorrectly, i apologize :)

[777Omega]

5. Read or Die
4. Speed Racer
3. Trigun
2. Robotech
1. Cowboy Bebop

[Karkadinn]

Cowboy Bebop's 'The Real Folk Blues.'
Ayashi no Ceres's 'Scarlet.'
Gundam Seed's 'Akatsuki no Kuruma.'
Wolf's Rain's 'Gravity.'
.hack's 'Fake Wings.'
Actually, I'll just go ahead and say that anything by Yuhki Kajiura or Yohko Kanno blows the hell out of 99% of all other music in the world. Not just anime, or cartoons in general, or tv soundtracks... any music anywhere in the world. Period. Often you find good music in anime in bits and pieces, a song here, a bgm there, but anything with one of those two composers involved is destined to be great through and through.

[Karkadinn]

COMMERCIAL BREAKS?!?!?

impure! impure! Cartoon Network is not the fount of anime! american voice actors, as a law of nature, suck. also, cartoon network edits scenes for pg-13 violence and sex!

Now, now, my little otaku. I'm the first person to get annoyed at those who know only the anime on CN, but still, let's be reasonable here. It's true that America has been lagging behind Japan in voice acting quality, but we're catching up. It's not unusual nowadays to find a dub that's as good as or better than the original, even if we still have to deal with occasional mediocre to poor dubs as well. If you want to know what REALLY bad voice acting sounds like, listen to the dubs for some of the first anime dubbed over here in the 80s. Stuff like Akira and Project A-Ko.
And most of CN's edits are quite tasteful and delicate these days. I keep an eye out for them, and the edits they did on Bebop were like surgery with spider legs instead of scalpels. Evangelion was a bit more obvious, but still they left in a lot of stuff they could have cut, like the cross-shaped explosions. (A pity they don't like people saying 'Sweet zombie Jesus' on Futurama, though. As a Christian that part always made me laugh out loud no matter how many times I'd seen the episode before.)

[Agent Minivann]

Yeah I did see Trigun on Cartoon Network, but I can't say there is much that I missed by not seeing it on DVD with subtitles and the original audio. I've seen enough shows both ways (dubbed and subtitled) to know that I'm probably not missing much there. In almost all anime there is some crap that I could completely do without, and Trigun has plenty of that.

Actually, I'll just go ahead and say that anything by Yuhki Kajiura or Yohko Kanno blows the hell out of 99% of all other music in the world. Not just anime, or cartoons in general, or tv soundtracks... any music anywhere in the world. Period. Often you find good music in anime in bits and pieces, a song here, a bgm there, but anything with one of those two composers involved is destined to be great through and through.

I'm not sure I know Yuhki Kajiura, but Yohko Kanno is the bomb diggity. I need to get me the 7 or 8 Bebop related CDs that are out for sure. I might even try to get the stuff for show that I haven't seen just on the reputation from Bebop. I was thinking the other day about what it would be like watching the show as a deaf man, and there are parts of the show that would fall so completely flat without the soundtrack. The part in the Ballad of Fallen Angels when Spike is thrown through the stained glass window and falls to the ground below is so insanely surreal and effective, but it wouldn't have that same impact watching it without the music.

[Point Blanks]

The fight scenes are also choreographed to the music, which makes them all the more exilirating. Also, the final "Real Folk Blues" during the last episode really made a nice atmosphere.

[CupidsArt]

Cowboy Beebop

Trigun

Samuria Champloo

Magical Shopping Street Abenobashi

Bleach


All of these being the opening song, of CB being my fave of all time, :D

[brigade101]

Cowboy Bebop - Bad Dog, No Biscuit
Cowboy Bebop - Goodnight Julia
Cowboy Bebop - I Want It Back
Cowboy Bebop - Go, Go Cactus Man
Cowboy Bebop - The Egg and I