Top 25 Anime Theme Songs
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 28, 2012 12:35 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, ED, K-ON!, Macross Frontier, Music, OP, Rankings, Video Gallery
Anime music lovers have sought to determine which shows have the best theme music, and the results certainly provide an anison tour de force – for once with musical merit rather than the show’s sheer popularity helping settle matters.
1. Lion (Macross F)
2. Don’t say Lazy (K-ON!)
3. Only My Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
4. Chase the world (Accel World)
5. Scarlet Ballet (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)
6. Crossing Field (Sword Art Online)
7. Tori no Uta (Air)
8. Connect (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
9. My Soul, Your Beats! (Angel Beats!)
10. Little Busters! (Little Busters!)
11. Sparkling Daydream (Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!)
12. Irony (Ore no Imouto ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!)
13. Hare Hare Yukai (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
14. Taiyou Iwaku Moeyo Chaos (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san)
15. Platinum (Card Captor Sakura)
16. Karma (Tales Of The Abyss)
17. Pre-Parade (Toradora!)
18. To Be Beginning (Fate/Zero)
19. Happy Girl (Papa no Iu Koto Wo Kikinasai!)
20. Motteke! Sailor Fuku (Lucky Star)
21. Hyadain no Kakakata Kataomoi-C (Nichijou)
22. Secret Base ~ Kimi ga Kureta Mono 10 years after version (Ano Hana)
23. Naisho no Hanashi (Nisemonogatari)
24. Motto Hade ni Ne! (Kannagi)
25. Nirvana (Inu x Boku SS)
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LION is so good!
all these anime otakus with memory problems.... obviously they don't remember love.... ;)
I knows what you did there ;)
I cannot sure that song can be categorized as a theme song or not, but, that's by far the best anime song in my list and it's already 30 years old.
hahah... great, at least someone picked it up.
sure it was a theme song. it was the main song for the original macross movie.
couldn't agree more with the above
I actually prefer Triangler over Lion.
While we're at the topic of Macross theme songs...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvkJ1ISTfo
Holy... was that zettai ryouiki cat girl Minmei!?
Damn, this is how Frontier should have been (the CGI is easily on par too...) There needs to be an official SDF Macross remake with this guy as the chief animator made like RIGHT NOW
ZOMG. Where is this from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX4BzEMEZbM
02:57 apparently, it's been made for some pachinko machine... pretty sad that those parasites are the only ones investing quality money in the true Macross universe :(
I wonder if we'll ever get to see a Macross anime with the true UN Spacy emblem again... and to stay on topic, preferably with Yoko Kanno.
Hahahahahaha, another list by shitty hardcore otaku tastes.
But at least in the top its a series that is king in music: MACROSS.
The rest are what you expect of moetards.
I was hoping to see Last Exile
Well, its awesome, but hits is supposedly "TOP" there are better and memorable songs to boot, problem here is the short memory of certain fans that vote for this lists.
To vote any "TOP" you cannot conveniently pick the series you know or are form of from the last 10 or so years only, but look at the history of anime to then make a valid "TOP" since the 60s and till now.
If it was "top" in the last 10 or 15 years, then no problem.
If you were to make a "top" sports cars, would you only pick those form the last 5 years?
Mainstream rock music, a top 10 top 20, top 50, would you pick only those form the last 5 or 10 years? Leaving Nirvana, Motley Crue, Scoprions, etc, etc, tect out?
Mad because Mr.Elitist's songs aren't in the top.
Cry more, your tears sustain me
@1300 Your ignorance keeps sustaining me.
Yeah I'm really pleasantly surprised to see Lion at #1.
Even better, Karma is on the list, and it was one of the best video game OPs ever (imo).
A decent list. I'm going to go update my will, clearly the universe has mischief afoot.
FUCK YEAH MACROSS
Let us not forget the Norio Wakamoto version of the Lucky Star opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-UV69j1Lw
Schrödinger's fuku - under neath lies a male penis and a female penis, existing in parallel til the sailor fuku is removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDO2-wVimA&list=LP6axNg4_l6TE&index=5&feature=plcp
Much better than the original.
Good list but i have chose others titles like:
- Tank! - Cowboy Bepop
- Colors - Code Geass
- Gravity - Wolf's Rain
- Hikari no Senritsu - Sora no Woto
- Ano Hi Time Machine - Natsume
- Kuroi Namida - Nana
- Lost in Blue - Mouryou no Hako
- Modern Strange Cowboy - Needless
- What`s Up, People?! - Death Note
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
I like your list
higurashi for sure....great opening song.
also im surprised that Cruel Angel Thesis - Evangelion, isnt here, but i guess to eavh his/her own.
Last kiss - Orphen. Ending
You get to burning - Nadesico
PSI-missing - touru majustu no index
no limit - basquash
Message 9 - Gasaraki
Heart of sword - Rurouni Kenshin
Dress (Bloody Trinity Ver.) - Trinity Blood
Just few of my favs
FCK GASARAKI AND NADIESCO ROCKS~~
agree with him Cruel Angel Thesis - Evangelion,Heart of sword - Rurouni Kenshin
Dress (Bloody Trinity Ver.) - Trinity Blood, opening for cowboy bepop, opening for heat guy j,openings for full metal alchemist and brotherhood, opening for spice and wolf, opening for samurai champloo opening for 1season, the 1st movie 2 second of ghost in the shell, opening for hellsing, Ride on a Shooting Star (FLCL, R.O.D read or die series and movie, buso renkin, Yu Yu Hakusho, blood plus, Moon Phase, My Bride is a Mermaid, Full Metal Panic! Chaos; Head, outlaw star by the one
add the guren lagann intro and the hajime no ippo: new challenger and your list is perfect :)
JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
How dare they miss this legendary song for the 2000's decade
FUCK YEAH Platinum
I think the Yoko Kanno density in this list is still too low (absence of Tank! is ridiculous), but at least she's taken the top spot.
I'm also pleased that
- Tori no Uta (that was a given until a few years back, but recently otaku seem to forget...)
- Irony
- Naisho no Hanashi
- Motto Hade ni ne
made the list.
Lack of
- KARMA (Requiem for the Phantom)
- Do You Remember Love (Macross)
- Adesso e Fortuna (Record of Lodoss War)
- Kirei na Kanjou (Noir)
- Let Me Be With You (Chobits)
is very regrettable.
I am very impressed you mentioned "Adesso e Fortuna". That's also one of my favourite.
This guy knows what he's talking about.
If it's any consolation, Yoko Kanno did compose Platinum for Maaya Sakamoto.
Oh I know that, in case that wasn't clear. I wouldn't have used the word "density" if it was only one title (probably).
All the themes she composed for Maaya are gorgeous, and the lack of Kiseki no Umi, Yakusoku wa Iranai, Hemisphere, Tune the Rainbow etc. is disappointing. But Platinum is as worthy a representative as any of them I guess.
I would have at least expected Sousei no Aquarion to appear somewhere though, since it's been a NicoNico favorite back in the day, but oh well.
Didn't know that. I'm also surprised that not even anything from Aquarion Evol made it as well.
I agree here. Anything Yoko Kanno + Maaya Sakamoto is a big thumbs up in my book.
(」・ω・)」うー！(／・ω・)／にゃー！
(／・ω・)／Lets にゃー！
"Period" -Chemistry, for FMA Brotherhood is good
so is 'sore feet song' for Mushishi...
the OP for Dennou Coil, and the OP for Jormungand stick in the head..
Things have improved the last few years...
"period" is good but i prefer "rain"-SID that op was EPIC!
Good choice. I like "Golden Time Lover" by Sukima Switch as well.
Cruel Moon (Moonlight Lady ED) ^^
Gunslinger Girl:
The Delgados - The Light Before We Land
One fantastic anime OP and I've got an entirely new favorite band.
GREAT ANIME, GREAT SONG :)
^I agree to this
I really enjoy the music from Gunslinger Girl, but my preference is the second season's opening: Kokia - Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi.
Best ending of an anime is Roundabout.
Unquestionably undoubtedly veritably proven scientific fact™.
does licensed western songs even count?
WE RUN, SMOKEY!
can't help but agree
Oath Sign>To be Beginning