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Postby rocklobster » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:57 am

OK, we've argued quite a bit about which shows have the best openings. But which ones have the worst? And no, the :banned:One piece Rap:banned: doesn't count:thumb:
My vote goes to Big O.
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Postby Scarecrow » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:35 pm

Easily Berserk. I was expecting something cool and what you got was a crappy song with some guy who can't sing. I actually thought it was in Japanese the first time I saw it and I was like.. man this song sucks. Then I listened closer and figured out he was actually singing in English... and WOW he REALLY sucks!!

Plus it was a boring opening, bad song just all around crappy opening.

I don't understand why they didn't use the music they used during the "next episode" clips. Would have been much better. Or heck even the opening song from game for Sega Dreamcast (part of the reason I was expecting something good for the series since I loved the game opening)
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:43 pm

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]The later episodes of Death Note...I have no clue what kind of mind-altering substance the creators were on, but a theme song composed of blood curdling screams does not a popular opening make.[/color][/SIZE][/font]
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Postby bigsleepj » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:11 pm

The Black Jack anime (the OVA, I think) has some terrible opening songs.
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Postby Scarecrow » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:02 am

Oh ya... I forgot about the second season of Death Note... oh man that was horrible. That said, at least the video was just as crazy and synced well with the music. Still a horrible opening though (Berserk still is the worse though IMO... bad song, bad video and didn't sync at all)
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Postby Fish and Chips » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:57 am

Big O isn't the worst Anime opening, but it is the laziest. It shows the titular Big Guy Himself, Big O, and the supporting cast of humans and androids that him relevant, but that's about it. The rest is a cut and paste flash animation with rotating silhouettes of stuff. Nothing too special. At the very least, I refuse to say anything that can be arguably compared with Queen's Flash is the Worst of Anything.

Berserk's opening is downright "Meh." Just Guts standing around with ill fitting music.

Death Note's second opening is definitely pretty terrible though.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:22 pm

This.

The animation is okay but that song is just...not so hot.
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Postby ADXC » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:26 pm

Im not going to call this a "bad" opening, but just the fact that it weirded me out gains something in a negative shading.
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:28 am

Fish and Chips (post: 1266126) wrote:Big O isn't the worst Anime opening, but it is the laziest. It shows the titular Big Guy Himself, Big O, and the supporting cast of humans and androids that him relevant, but that's about it. The rest is a cut and paste flash animation with rotating silhouettes of stuff. Nothing too special. At the very least, I refuse to say anything that can be arguably compared with Queen's Flash is the Worst of Anything.


Big O is more funny to me than completely bad. What got on MY nerves was the way they repeated "Big O" over and over again during the opening. Rui Nagai, the composer, must've been laughing to the bank...

I would also like to add the AMERICAN opening of "Digimon: Digital Monsters." Why? Becuase of all the cuts they made...

Here's the original japanese with the opening theme "Butterfly" by the always cool Koji Wada - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRt8ZqBoR1g

And here's the version WE were given as composed by Paul Gordon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gBU2Ry0i0o

Granted, I do like both songs, but the fact that they cut out SO much of the opening in the english dub when they really didn't need to leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:06 pm

The NA Naruto openers u_u

Ok, not the worst, but I wish they would've gone with the actual openers u_u
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Postby Roy Mustang » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:35 pm

For an english made opening, it has to be the one that Fox kids did for Visions of Escaflowne.

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I have agree with Death Note's second opening, it was just bad.

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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:23 am

Rurouni Kenshin opening

There's a reason I always skipped through the intro while watching Rurouni Kenshin.
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Postby eternalprincess » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:27 am

the_wolfs_howl (post: 1267026) wrote:Rurouni Kenshin opening

There's a reason I always skipped through the intro while watching Rurouni Kenshin.



Okay. That just made me ROFL. XD The music is so not fitting . . .


Beserk opening defiantly tops my list, as well as Death Note Season 2's opening.

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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:29 am

the_wolfs_howl (post: 1267026) wrote:Rurouni Kenshin opening

There's a reason I always skipped through the intro while watching Rurouni Kenshin.


Hey, say what you will about "Sobasaku (Freckles)", but I got my highest score on Dance Dance Revolution (and some curious stares) from that song in the arcade.
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:13 am

KhakiBlueSocks (post: 1267287) wrote:Hey, say what you will about "Sobasaku (Freckles)", but I got my highest score on Dance Dance Revolution (and some curious stares) from that song in the arcade.


Dude, next time, don't sing it at the top of your lungs. You'll get fewer curious stares that way. ^_~

And yeah, I'm not too fond of "Sobakasu (Freckles)" myself. It starts out promising with heavily distorted guitars . . . and then devolves into saccharine J-pop. : : twitch : : The series deserved something better . . . like "Heart of Sword".

I'm also with the OP on Big O. Great series, weak opening theme. I also agree that the 4Kids One Piece rap doesn't count, as it would win by default. BLEGH.

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Postby ShiroiHikari » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:50 am

Yeah, I never liked Sobakasu (Freckles) either. Totally doesn't fit the series. I didn't like the second opening either.

Hey, I actually kind of like the Big O opening. It pays homage to Queen's Flash Gordon, which is awesome.
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Postby soul alive » Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:44 pm

Oh, by far the worst I've seen is the German OP to Naruto : here

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Postby ADXC » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:01 pm

Okay never have I felt such sympathy for the Germans. Oh wait after WW2, I think they deserve it. JK

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