Sorry folks, the rest of the GLORIO crew is still pretty busy these days so it’s up to me to bring you guys your weekly dosage of OP/ED Op-Eds: 90s Edition. This week’s feature is a bit of a borderline case, being a 1999-2000 show, but what the hell, I’m including it anyways. Prepare your…
Unfortunately for you guys, nobody stepped up to the plate this week so y’all get to deal with me again. This week I’m featuring another favorite of mine from the 90s: “Smile Bomb”, the funky first OP for the original ghost/monster/demon fighting manga starring a delinquent, YuYu Hakusho.
Despite being on the younger side of the age spectrum amongst the GLORIO crew, it seems that most of my favorite OPs and EDs are classics. Not sure if that says anything about me, but it’s not changing today. For this week’s OP/ED Op-Eds, I’d like to feature a special favorite of mine, “Driver’s High”…
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We’ve already featured GaoGaiGar’s famously bombastic opening here on OP/ED Op-Eds, but this time round we’re going to go in the opposite direction and take a look at its ending. Whereas ‘Yuusha-Oh Tanjou!’ embodies the headlong dumb rush that the show so loved, ‘Itsuka Hoshi no Umi de’ (‘Someday in the Sea of Stars’) is pretty…
Yet another Monogatari song featured on OP/EDs. I apologize for nothing!
With the winter season already out the door and our Spring First Impressions taking up our time, we decided to not have an OP/EDs last week. So, have a double feature with the best of last season!
“Secret Base ~Kimi ga Kureta Mono~ 10 Years After Version is the full name of the song we heard at the end of that anime.
With the recent English language release and new art from the upcoming movie, I’ve had Marika and company on the brain the past couple of days. And so it’s time tackle the series’ monster of an OP, roughly translated as “Bodacious Space Symphony’s Movement VII «Infinite Love»”
http://youtu.be/VxcbsYpyP_8 Rozen Maiden is an odd franchise, one that veers somewhat uncomfortably between silliness, surreality and deadly seriousness. Despite being about (literal) living dolls, it generally managed to avoid overt creepiness, instead weaving an intriguing story of identity, loss and companionship. Also talking dog detectives and rampaging hoovers. The two shows (the original Rozen Maiden and its…
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has a long history of never getting a proper anime, and thus never a proper OP sequence. The 90’s OVA by Studio APPP, while awesome in its own right, had a (boring) five minute intro that referenced the origins of the stone mask – hardly appropriate for a series as flamboyant and…
The Glorio Blog comes to you today with a special double feature! Reminisce to the fargone year of 2011 with Marlin as he remembers the Steins;Gate OP, and come back later today for his full review of Funimation’s release. El Psy Congroo!
Join Jel as he kicks back and pretends on he’s off on an island with a bunch of socially awkward anime boys and NOT buried under a foot of snow and ice.
2010 gave us quite a few memorable shows From the exciting Durarara!! to the irreverent Panty & Stocking to the artsy flair of The Tatami Galaxy, there was plenty to love. Still, even beyond those titles, nothing stood out to me more than the mix of supreme absurdity and quiet insight that was Arakawa Under the Bridge.
Join us for a trip into the Anime Song Hall of Fame as we blab about the fantastic series of K-ON! EDs
Jun Maeda is best know for his work as a writer with the visual novel company Key, but it’s perhaps a lesser known fact that he also has a hand in composing the soundtracks for his projects. That includes the opening and ending songs of the popular anime adaptations of Kanon, Air, and Clannad, most of which are based on selections of music from the original VNs. The most famous of all these is also the simplest: “Dango Daikazoku”, the ending song for the first part of the Clannad series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrl_G1Lalts Durarara!! is by common consent one of the best shows of recent years, it’s heady blend of slice of life storytelling, supernatural hijinks and urban exploits resulting in a show that defied easy classification. It was a show that straddled many lines, and so it is with its closing theme.
Love or hate the series, one cool thing Oreimo had going for it was a new ending song for every episode. Each of the female cast members gets their chance to step up to the mic, but even with more popular actresses like Ayana Taketatsu and Kana Hanazawa in the mix it’s Saori Hayami’s “Shiroi Kokoro” that stands out as the best.
This opening comes from a show near and dear to many hearts in the Glorio Crew. If you haven’t gotten a hold of Spice and Wolf yet it should be a top-priority recommendation, it’s really that good. While fantastic on many other grounds it’s also known for its fantastic OP/ED, ending with the sweet but…
I think pretty much everyone is in agreement that the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya didn’t really live up to the promise of the first (Endless Eight is mostly the reason to blame). But one place where it did overhaul its predecessor was in its choice of opening music. Call me a heretic if…
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