Most recognizable intro's

Dice Demon · Post by **Dice Demon** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 5:35 pm

The usual Anime intro is 1 minute and 30 seconds long.

'Recognizable' as in.. if you watched it you'd know what Anime it goes to?

Um.. all of them.. since.. characters and the title are in the intro and such.

pully2183 · Post by **pully2183** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 6:34 pm

Isn't that just a bit lazy on the writers part? I mean with the time taken up by title sequence you could have fit in another couple of episodes worth of plot in most series. Do you ever wonder what plot bombs you could be missing out on in your favourte anime if the titles were only cut by a minute?
I don't consider myself to have a short attention span but I always fast forward the titles and I never watch the credits.

Dice Demon · Post by **Dice Demon** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 6:46 pm

I usually watch the Intro and Endings when..

-If they just kick ass
-New Intro/Ending
-The start of an arc
-The end of an arc. (In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, when Noa's Ark exploded and everyone escaped and paid tribute to Noa's Death and flew off after the entire mind-bending and depressing ordeal, I just had to watch the ending Rakuen ~CAVE~... it felt 'complete' and superb..)

BigshotSpike · Post by **BigshotSpike** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 8:29 pm

Difinitive:

Cowboy Bebop
Hellsing
Lain
Boogiepop Phantom
Trigun
Kare Kano (His & Her Circumstances)

Those tend to be the ones I remember the most.

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:49 pm

pully2183 wrote:Isn't that just a bit lazy on the writers part? I mean with the time taken up by title sequence you could have fit in another couple of episodes worth of plot in most series. Do you ever wonder what plot bombs you could be missing out on in your favourte anime if the titles were only cut by a minute?
I don't consider myself to have a short attention span but I always fast forward the titles and I never watch the credits.

Nah! the intros are what I looove about anime (unless they really suck in which case they just annoy me but I can't recall any bad ones right now) I think the intros in more western series is more lazy. I mean in most cases they don't even film/animate any extra footage for the intro. They just reuse footage from the first couple of episodes. At least with anime often the footage is created especially for the intro and some intros even get modified as new characters or story arcs are introduced.

A lot of work would go into creating those intros so I can't think why you would call the writers lazy especially as in some cases they are converting a manga based story into an anime so its not like they wrote it in the first place. Admittedly some of the story lines and extra insights are cut when coverting from manga to anime but I think that has more to do with appealing to a wider auidence and episode constriants.

sorry didn't mean to rant

Dr. Strangelove · Post by **Dr. Strangelove** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:25 am

Most US tv shows seem to have eliminated the typical intro. I doubt that much of the saved time goes towards actual show, however, and instead means longer commericals. So I don't mind the concept of an intro at all...one of the most enjoyable aspects about anime as far as I'm concerned

kilik^ · Post by **kilik^** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:35 am

1- card captor sakura ( japanese version) i really like
2-X/1999 probably one of the best
3- ghost in the shell - stand alone complex has an awsome intro.
4- and i love all of rurouni kenshin's intros

Dice Demon · Post by **Dice Demon** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:46 am

YGO's Warriors > Any other opening.

Except maybe Beyblade G Revolution's "Go Ahead"

Go Ahead is simply r0x0ring.

AtomicWeezleman · Post by **AtomicWeezleman** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 5:58 am

Excel Saga....
AD police
Evangelion
Nadesico
Trigun

meh, as someone stated early, there all easily recognisable, the characters are in it, now, if you mean recognising the anime just from the music..... then thats a bit harder

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:07 am

Chaos Angel wrote:American audiences have short attention spans.

Oh god you're so right...

You gotta love openings, they're like small little AMV's with original animation (if done right, that is). After seeing an opening a few times over, you kinda start singing along... man, what's not to like about them?

For me, another one that sticks in my head - Kurumi