“Every Anime Opening Ever Made”

Well, i'm skipping the intros anyway except the music is good but most of the time it isnt.
Only a few animes have OSTs that arnt lame upbeat jpop crap. (like most pop music is crap, not just jpop)

Of cause there are specific elements in intros that return often. Its the same for every other form of art like the three-quarter time in music for example.

I believe a lot of people already knew this for quite a while now.

I see flying birds.

Not really anything new they finally noticed or anything...

But no, they actually aren't the same just cause of some similar scenes...

It's not like the scenes look identical just with different characters or anything...

I don't see a problem here. Whats wrong with the current formula on how anime opening are make?

Simpsons did it!

This guy's argument kind of falters halfway through for anything too cut and dry really. The hair blowing in the wind stuff may be cliche, but it's also much faster to animate hair for a bit more motion in a still shot than it is to animate a full character.

A lot of these concepts, as alluded to by FlareStormX above, are based on cinematography anyway, and there are certain rules. Characters running overwhelmingly to the left are based on them running into their future, because think about it carefully, if they were running to the right, you would psychologically perceive it as them running away from something.

That too has its uses, but it also increases tension. And as much as increasing tension is a good thing, during an intro you don't want to make your audience too tense or they can't be drawn into the show itself. Working up a tense audience at key dramatic moments and being tense at the very start are two separate things entirely.

That being said, I'm not creative enough to think about how this stuff could be done differently on their budgets, or even why it would be done differently. There aren't that many fast-paced 'cliches' that can communicate clearly and in a very short amount of time to a wide audience key character and setting concepts that haven't already been used for a long time.

:lol: Kimura-sensei gets his due with top billing above. He hasn't really be duplicated elsewhere... Personally I think Azumanga Daioh's open has some very unique elements.

And given about 100+ anime every year and exactly 90sec for the opens it will be hard to not find duplication and cost saving measures from re-using stuff.

Anyone, care to tell me what song is that from?

:3

Doesn't CSI series and Law and Order series have similar openings?

I know some of the song mix is from the ParaPara Eurobeat CDs, I dunno the rest, although the whole thing sounds like the same singer... so maybe toned down versions?

@Night4ce
But there are anime that pull it off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43O7Dyd3QtU - .hack//Sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwI9Uz6UXgk - Angel Beats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xNE3VrD0Y - Baccano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1W9O0ZJmmc - Giant Killing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0vuKfua2N4 - Lucky Star
Does anybody know more openings without the listed features?

Anyways, complaining about such standards is as much nonsense as complaining about murders in a mystery story. Sure, you can write a mystery story without a murder, and it would be more unique that way, but there's nothing wrong with a murder or multiple murders in a mystery story - it's just a very common element in those kinds of works. What matters is HOW you use the "overused" element; both in anime and in mystery stories, the "overused" elements can be used in so many different ways that the complete product is plenty unique. In the end, there's only 26 letters in the alphabet, but depending on how you use them they can convey completely different things.

[Start quote]"i saw some video either on here or on another forum where they compared evangelion and martian successor nadesico's openings to the same song and they were damn near identical. i suppose op's are similar because they all perform the same job, set the theme, introduce the characters, and show the setting.

berserk's opening doesn't have most of those cliche's. more or less because it seems to take it's cues from the music...

found the vid for nadesico vs evangelion. after the initial appearance of the names of the series' the vids are so damn similar.
check it out if you haven't already seen it. it's... interesting.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un2sN--5__Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un2sN--5__Q" [End quote]

You do realise, that wasn't the actual Nadesico OP right? Have you even watched the show? The vid you link was just some dude parodying the Eva OP using Nadesico footage. Here's the actual Nadesico OP, not as similiar as you first thought: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_BxHEvuA2M

uhmmm wut about the jouncing over sized titties?
^_^
Why over analyze, just go with it and enjoy, unless you really got no real life of your own.
Then all the more pity 4 U'z

if it ain't broken, why fix it? XD

and there are just too many animes for u to find that many similarities anyway haha.

^^And how many of the Fall 2010 anime did you actually watch? Did you even pull up the damn list or did you just rely on bullshit generalizations you found around the internet?

I liked the Hachimitsu to clover first OP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGg9yZKGxE&feature=related [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGg9yZKGxE&feature=related]
However, like many of you, i don't think using the same elements is bad at all, after all, many ops are very epic even if they only use dramatic stares. But it's also fun to see some alternative ones.

It's not cliché, it's tradition!

As for my contribution to "OPs of originality", I'd wager much of SHAFT's work here...

Eye, Running, Tear, Turn around Bitch, Bird, Boom Shot (camera tilts upward), character duality, Hands, Emo moment. Hair blowing. Grouping shot, Nature.

If an OP misses any of these above does not deserve to be called OP.