Words about Openings ⁽⁴⁾

"What's wrong with you, Mickey? How can you possibly claim to run a terrible anime website and neglect to write about that number one anime that you're obsessed with?"

Ok, this is MAYBE kinda cheating since it's an opening credits sequence from a theatrical feature and not a TV series opening, so it's arguably a different form since it's designed to play once and set a mood rather than play every week, but this is a seriously cool piece of animation and music so I really wanna talk about the Cowboy Bebop The Movie opening title sequence.

There's the temptation with this series concept to just endlessly talk about the super visually interesting creative opening sequences. Rest assured, I will get to them, but that's hardly a balanced view of what most anime opening sequences are like. So to give some perspective, let's look at the opening for Gainax's classic TV series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.

Fun fact about me, I'm the kind of person who can get really in to anime openings, for some reason. Occasionally I think about them a bit too much. So I thought I'd do a series of pieces where I just write garbage about particular anime theme songs. This first one relates to the very first Dragon Ball Z opening theme.