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Uncategorized Friday, November 26th 2010 at 5:00 pm

Anime Opening Credits are All the Same [Video]

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Derek Lieu created this mashup of a staggeringly large amount of popular anime shows to show anime opening credits are basically all the same.

An explanation found on Derek’s YouTube post:

It’s always amused me the repeated imagery that exist in anime opening credit sequences. This video doesn’t cover them all, but it has a lot of the big ones. Interesting thing I learned, if a character is running it’s overwhelmingly to the left of the screen.

I first started thinking about this years ago when I saw the X-Men intro that they made in Japan to replace the American one. The part that especially hit home was Wolverine, and Cyclops standing on some nondescript land mass.

For this I used only textless credits I found on Youtube (with the exception of Evangelion). So if your favorite anime isn’t in here either there was no textless version or it had a pretty unique opening sequence.

Here’s a list of all of the anime used in the video:

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Ah! My Goddess
Ai Yori Aoshi
Angelic Layer
Asu no Yoichi
Azumanga Daioh
Berserk
Big O
Black Lagoon
Bleach
Blood+
Blue Dragon
Burst Angel
Cardcaptor Sakura
Chrono Crusade
City Hunter
Clannad
Claymore
Cobra
Code Geass
Cowboy Bebop
D. Gray Man
Death Note
Devil May Cry
Diebuster
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
H2O Footprints in the Sand
Eureka Seven
FateStay Night
Full Metal Panic!
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Full Metal Panic The 2nd Raid
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fushigi Yuugi
GaoGaiGar
Genshiken
Ghost Stories
Girls Bravo
Gokusen
Golgo 13
Gosyusho sama Ninomiya-kun
GTO
Gundam 00
Gundam Wing
Gurren Lagann
Hajime no Ippo
Hellsing
Hikaru no Go
Ikki Tousen
Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny
Inu Yasha
K-On!
Kanokon
Kare Kano
Kaze no Stigma
Last Exile
Love Hina
Love Hina Again
Mahoromatic
Mai Hime
Mai Otome
Martian Successor Nadesico
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Midori Days
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water
Nana
Nanatsuiro Drops
One Piece
Planetes
Rahxephon
Ranma 1/2
Read or Die OAV
Ruin Explorer
Sailor Moon
Samurai Deeper Kyo
School Days
School Rumble
Shakugan no Shana
Strawberry Panic
Strike Witches
Tenchi Muyo Universe
Third – the Girl with the Blue Eye
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Toward the Terra
True Tears
Tsukihime
Utawarerumono
Welcome to the NHK
Wolf’s Rain
X-Men
Yu Yu Hakusho

>>>See also: Why Anime is Doomed: Soulja Boy Records “Anime” and “Goku,” Manga Also in Works

(Ufunk via The Daily What)

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  • acidsprinkles

    no naruto????

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1381705435 Beatriz Pussman

    then you can help me! I wanted to know the name of the following anime’s:
    1:21 Gakuren wearing boy with big head
    1:21 Boy with big head
    2:45 Boy with big head in field

    Is it the same anime?

  • Guest

    The reason why the characters run from Right to left is because of reading direction in direct correlation to human perception of ” progression” . We read from left to right and if we see a character going from left to right we perceive it as going ” forward”. In cultures with different reading directions this is reversed 

    sponsored by my lectures in semiotics :)

  • verybored

    The first dude at 1:21 is from shakugan no shana, not sure who the second guy is.

    Took a really weird turn in the final season, I haven’t finished it.

    At 2:45 is H20 Footprints in the Sand.

    Footprints in the Sand is more disturbing and depressing than CLANNAD but nowhere near as good. 

    Frankly I am disturbed by the amount of them that I can name.

  • verybored

    Just realized that the comment was a year old, sorry if you’ve already found out the answers XD