Category: Words about Openings

“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?” Read more →

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… Read more →

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… Read more →

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… Read more →