sara_tanaquil | Wrapping it up

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Wrapping it up

I don't have great answers to any of these questions, and Day 27 and Day 30 are related, so I decided to do them all at once.

Day 27 - Favorite anime opening theme song

Opening/closing theme is hard for me to answer, because anime theme songs go in one ear and out the other for me. I don't remember them if I'm not actually watching them at the time. So it's inevitable that my answers to Days 27 and 30 are from One Piece.

That having been said, I usually find songs either irritating (so I skip over them quickly) or addictive. This (OP Opening Theme #2) is one that I enjoy so much I sometimes go out of my way to listen to it again. Not for the music, mind you, but for the totally cheesy Japanese voice-over at the beginning. I love it!

Day 28 - Favorite pokemon

I -- what. OK, I cannot answer this question on the grounds that I have literally never seen Pokemon. However, I went and found a Random Pokemon Generator, and it gave me #151, Mew. Which seems appropriate.

Day 29 - Favorite school uniform

~~Too bad Saa Koi ni Ochitamae isn't an anime~~

This is almost as bad. I don't really pay much attention to uniforms in anime, idk. However, in honor of Utena's re-release on DVD (and in honor of cross-dressers everywhere):

Day 30 - Favorite anime ending theme

Again from One Piece, Closing #2. (It's really just a coincidence that both of my favorites are #2.) This not only has a theme so catchy I literally can't get it out of my head, but it has all the crew members in their little-kid versions. SO CUTE. (I can't decide which wee crew member I like best. I do love that they only use this ending after we've seen the first five crew member's backstories, even though they're not particularly spoilery.)

Now to tackle all that re-reading, now that I've finally been reunited with my manga. ^__^

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I actually want to name all of these on my journal when I get around to this meme (coming close now, perhaps - and I might even do it backwards, so these will come first!), so I don't want to duplicate here.

But: I wanted to agree with Believe as a great song. I actually have had that on various car CDs (and on my ipod) for ages and ages, I just love it so. I was thrilled to finally GET to the episodes where it was used only recently. :)

Also, re: Pokemon: LOL LOL LOL, but you should choose Skitty. XD (My answer for this one, and indeed I certainly have one, really shouldn't surprise anyone.)

Haha, does the CD version have the Japanese voiceover? I'm telling you, that's the best part. I had to search Youtube for a while to find one that had it (the one with the English voiceover in its place, OMG JUST NO).

The version I have doesn't include the voice-over, though that's just as well for me since I'd get sick of it, probably. Guh, I know, the English? I tried - really, I did, but... no, just no.

Oh!!! I wanted to say also that I went to the random pokemon generator for laughs and it gave ME #147 - Dratini. You got a cat and I got a dragon; I suspect AI is invading, because how else could it pull such perfect random responses for us both? XD

I also forgot to say (hooowwwww? Seriously, how?) that One Piece ED #2 is also one of my favorite anime songs *ever* and is totally my favorite OP song. Well, ok, of the ones I've heard, but probably forever. I've had that CD since it came out and the song makes me SO HAPPY whenever I hear it.

Also: Chibi Sanji is TOTES MY FAVE. ♥ ♥ ♥

CHIBI SANJI <3 <3 <3

I think Chibi Nami is my second favorite.

The tangerine!! ♥

I'm writing some seriously epic posts right now, guh,

27. OP - Datte, Daisuki from Tenshi ni Narumon
28. ummm...that eggy chick creature the second girl character carries around. Piplup.
29. Damn, am I the only one who collapses in giggles over the Saa... unibows?
30. EP - Hare Hare Yukai from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Line dancing, people. LINE DANCING.

Damn, am I the only one who collapses in giggles over the Saa... unibows?

BUT THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEM AWESOME

27. OP - Datte, Daisuki from Tenshi ni Narumon

I have to admit, I'm surprised you didn't pick "Get Over" from Hikaru no Go.

(Edited for reference quote.)

Edited 2011-06-15 00:41 (UTC)

I love the HnG songs! There are a couple that cycle thru my ipod regularly still, though Bokura no Bouken has always been my fave.

30. I DO love the line dancing (and all the parodies it inspired), but I feel that ED would be improved if it included more dancing and less random shots of other things.

Hee, I ADORE the second OP closing...and truth be told, I love most of the openings...though one of the most recent ones, which you won't get to for a while, I ADORE and have been listening to over and over again. The band that did it has been fans of OP for ages apparently and rewrote it multiple times till they felt it was just right (which, HOMG it is...can't wait for you to get further in it so I don't have to worry 'bout spoilers..!)

We should totally watch some while I'm there!...err, which I will email you about when I get home from work...

the band that did it has been fans of OP for ages apparently and rewrote it multiple times till they felt it was just right

Hey, hey, will you tell it to me? I'll just go listen to it, won't watch the images. :)

Here's a link to it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORRWVZa8XcM&playnext=1&list=PL5A5F9E3FB49A7A91

It's called One day...the thing is, what makes it so perfect and so poignant is, in itself rather...ahem, spoilery. So sooo spoilery for it to completely make sense, so if you're not caught up with the anime/haven't read the manga in the last year, it'll not make as much sense....but it is really good.

Thanks. :) I listened, but did not watch the video. I suspect in 20 years, when I finally get to that arc, I'll enjoy it a great deal. XD

Welcome. It is a FANTASTIC arc, when you do get there! ^_^

I would like to know the song as well. :)

Linked it above. As I told her, to fully get the song you have to be rather spoiled (not sure how caught up you are) but it works so well particularly for what was going on at the time in the series that the opening was for...

Thanks! (nice to start the morning with a good cry, lol)

I honestly haven't watched the anime in forever (really should start that again...), but I follow the manga--tankoubon, not magazine, so I am behind some fans, but anime stuff won't be a spoiler, anyway.

nice to start the morning with a good cry, lol

Yeeeeah, does kinda inspire that. Course, OP in general has the ability to make me cry more than just about anything...

If you watch the 14th opening, it has more along the same lines, also very nicely done. I find it kinda amusing, as well as telling of Japan, that the anime openings later on basically just assume the viewers have all read the manga considering how spoilery/referencing future events, anime-wise in comparison to manga, they can be...

I did watch 14, it definitely contributed to the cry.

Yeah, OPs are AWFUL about spoilers. See also: Fushigi Yuugi. ("Wow, Chiriko looks totally different than he does in the OP...?")

Ah yes, those OPs together really are a one two sucker punch.

See also: Fushigi Yuugi. ("Wow, Chiriko looks totally different than he does in the OP...?")

BAahahaha! It's funny cause it's true. We (my sister, my mom and I) all had that same reaction when watching FY for the first time....ahh, 懐かしい!!

In retrospect, it's really hilarious to me that my reaction wasn't "Dude, Chiriko's in the OP and you are obviously NOT HIM, so gtfo you poser." I'll blame it on my newb-ness. XD

FY was actually my gateway anime, but we were so enamored of the opening song that we watched it pretty much every ep so even though we were unused to the ways of anime OPs being a spoiler-haven, we still picked up on Suboshi...or was it Amiboshi, can't remember...gaah, oh FY, it's been so long!

Oh, yeah, I watched it every episode, too. But still...somehow it didn't click. ^^;;; I even remember the episode where actual Chiriko shows up; they show him in silhouette and I was like, "oh, he looks like the OP there!" I think it was somewhere in there that I put things together, haha.

(I believe it was Amiboshi, btw. It was for what happened to him after he was discovered that Suboshi wanted revenge.)

LOL, it's been so long since I actually watched FY all the way through that I had forgotten all about that plot thread. It took a while for me to figure out what you were talking about. ^_^;;

I really need to get my hands on that Japanese manga before I get far enough along in the opening credits of One Piece to get spoiled. Though, I do think Usopp and Sanji were both in the credits before they were introduced, so maybe that counts. I like not knowing who the other crew members are going to be, though -- at least until one shows up and I'm all "So THAT'S who I've been seeing in a gazillion icons." I recognized Chopper at once without knowing at all who he was!

Holy crap, I've been behind on the anime for a bit and hadn't seen the video for the new OP - visually, I think it has to be my new favorite now (OMG cry at the flashback montage)

Edited 2011-06-16 13:58 (UTC)

Yeah, I like the song better for 13, but visually 14 is AMAZING(ly painful! Oh One Piece! Odacchi is such an evil genius!)

You guys, stop with the crying. You're starting to scare me. ^_~

One Piece has a long, proud tradition of manly tears^^

Edited 2011-06-16 17:16 (UTC)

LOL, I love how every parting scene is like "I'm too manly to cry ~~even though I'm a 139 year old woman~~ so I will act like I hate you and kick you out, but then we'll all break down and bawl like babies ANYWAY." Oh, Japan!

This is soooo late and I'm not sure who is going to see this comment besides me and

gnine, but wow. I just finally got a chance to look up the "One Day" OP 13, and it is pretty cool (I had skipped over all that part of the anime in favor of reading the manga so I would be caught up in Japan, so I'm missing large chunks of the anime that I'm now going back and catching up on).

But I have to say, it kind of paled in light of OP 14 (Fight Together), which I experienced first, because I watched a bunch of the episodes after 500 when I came back from Japan. I seriously don't think "Fight Together" is EVER going to make me stop crying. I cry every single time I watch an episode that starts with that opening. Every day. Every week. It doesn't matter. It's that good.

I'm really sad that the next upcoming episode (517?) won't have that theme any more. They could keep that as the opening for the next 500 episodes and I'd be happy.

Edited 2011-09-29 03:55 (UTC)

Favorite OP: "Zankoku na Tenshi no Teeze". Nothing else even comes close.

Pokemon: ...Um...Pikachuu is the only one I know by name. Does that count?

School uniform: Man, if only Alice 19th were an anime, they had rockin' uniforms. I'll have to go with CardCaptor Sakura.

Favorite ED: "Deja Vu" from Tokyo Babylon. I love this song SO MUCH IT HURTS. When I was finally able to buy a CD with it after years of searching, I put the song on repeat and listened to it at every opportunity for DAYS. ....Possibly weeks.

I have the opposite problem with you for OP/ED themes. I love them to DEATH. My college roommate and I were so crazy about them we made compilation tapes of OP/ED sequences. (VHS tapes, I mean.) Anyway:

27. If we are talking about the sequence including animation, then Fushigi Yuugi. (Honestly, it's the reason I started watching the show in the first place, I loved it that much.) If just the song, then Nazo from Detective Conan.

28. Metamon! (Ditto in the English version, but he will always be Metamon to me.) I love so much when he can't copy other pokemon right. (I don't really know any of the new ones, though, and some of them are SUPER cute.)

29. I don't have a particular anime uniform I like best, I guess, but I seriously have a Thing for gakuran.

30. Probably Fourth Avenue Cafe (gotta love L'arc). But I feel like I should give some credit to Last Kiss, because I totally bought the $30 soundtrack to get the ending song, and I don't even like the show.

Nazo from Detective Conan.

I love so many of the Conan songs that I would be hard-pressed to name a favorite. I was just reviewing "Koi wa Thrill Shock Suspense" before I posted my answer, while at the same time humming "Mysterious Eyes." There are just so many good ones.

It's true, there are a lot of good ones. The Conan OP/ED compilation CDs are some of my albums.

(Apparently there's a third volume now, I should add that to my shopping list...)

Apparently there's a third volume now, I should add that to my shopping list...

...I might have to get it as well...I added a section to my list for misc. goods. I feel sad, though, because I won't have actually seen any of the songs on the air.　But you just can't go wrong with Kuraki Mai.

I hadn't seen about half of the ones from vol. 2, either, but I still really like it. And I'm sure they're all on Youtube, if you want to see the animation.

I love them to DEATH.

Guh, me toooo. I love so many (I mean, there is totally a reason why I have more anime songs than anything else on my computer at this point), but when I was coming up with my answer, there was actually one song that just totally WON. None of you are going to like it, though. LOL. Or, probably most of my 1st tier contenders. Oh well. :P

Re Last Kiss: I thought that was ok, but I LOVE the OP from that show! I'm sad you don't like the show, 'coz I did... Well, ok, actually, if the show had just been *Orphen* doing his thing and none of the other characters, I suppose I'd have liked it a lot more. :P

None of you are going to like it, though.

Now I'm really curious to see what it is. I like a HUGE variety of anime songs, so I sort of doubt I wouldn't like any of your top contenders.

re: Orphen - I love the OP, too, but it was mostly for the ED that I bought the CD.

To be fair to the show, I never saw more than a couple episodes, so maybe it got amazing later, I don't know. But the beginning didn't really catch my interest.

Now I'm really curious to see what it is.

Oh, man, after I typed that... well, technically it went to hell because my OP is ......actually an ED. (jeezus, my brain, let me cut you out.) Still, the 1st runner up was basically a heartbeat away and it'd only been hard to chose between them anyway, so at least I didn't have to re-angst all over again thru the other runners-up. (Of course, for ED, I'd also already had a clear winner, so then I had to angst again). Lulz.

I don't know if I'd say Orphen ever got amazing, but it was a decent, solid fantasy story, at least under all the slapstick they tried to lighten the mood with. I really liked his character and the whole dragon thing and uhm, other spoilery stuff I guess. (I didn't, however, ever finish the 2nd series....)

my OP is ......actually an ED

Oops. Well, I expect you to tell us what it was anyway.

Don't worry, it's the choice for the ED entry. ;)

I love them to DEATH.

Yeah, I have this problem is well, hence why I don't think I actually CAN answer...there are just waaaay WAY too many of them I adore.

And, as you say, if its based on just the song or on the OP animation + song makes a BIG difference...

"Believe" sounds Eurobeat-ish, which is always a good thing in my book.

The uniforms in Saa Koi ni Ochitamae grew on me.

27 - One Piece OP #5, Kokoro no Chizu is still my favorite, I think, though the quality of that show's OPs is amazing. I can't link a Youtube video in good conscience though because of massive spoilers =/ (and gnine is right, One Day is amazing as well)

28 - Um, Bulbasaur, I guess, just because it's really fun to say

29 - I'll just say Angel Beats, because I was watching the OP/ED this morning while choosing 27&30^^

30 - This one is hard to decide, RUN, RUN, RUN is classic, and ED 16 makes me cry every single time I hear it now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3XMflSkSd8 (spoiler-free vid) and Rie Fu's is just awesome so I'm tempted to go with Bleach's ED 1... but Bleach ED 5 - Life is one of the most singable endings I know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuSCrNc1yA

Bah, who am I kidding, the final ED of Angel Beats will make me cry for the rest of my life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr69HrCs1QI

Edited 2011-06-15 14:46 (UTC)

Can I just say that Bulbasaur is my favorite pokemon to imitate? Because, you are right, it is totally fun to say. XD And I just bought a pouty bulbasaur keychain at the con!

Why yes, I might have spent a summer perfecting my pokemon imitations a few years ago, but no ,it's best you don't ask about that.

(Also: Bleach ED #1 is love, too.)

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