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Oct 5, 7:52 PM
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What is in your opinion the worst anime opening? If this thread was done recently just ignore this. I personally vote for these two



The second one is pretty loud, so I wouldn’t recommend wearing headphones
Oct 5, 9:11 PM
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The Kill Me Baby OP went so far down the garbage route that it met perfection coming the other way.


Oct 5, 10:12 PM
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This one, and not because of the song though. I actually like the song, the singer also did the OP for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun which is one of my fav OPs of all time because of how fitting it is to the anime, but the animation for this OP for Otonari no Tenshi-sama is so lacking movement, and feels especially jarring for such an upbeat song. Sometimes the image just don't move for a few seconds. And the last scene with them walking in the forest just looks awkward.


Makes me wonder if Project 9 was trying to make up for Higehiro OP that movement was way too fast instead. Which maybe going to be my 2nd pick of worst OP that also because of the animation, not the song.
Oct 5, 10:38 PM
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5. Fairy Tail OP8 - Rock City Boy



4. Overlord - Voracity (this might be worse than death note op2)



3. Death Note OP2 - What's Up People



2. Parasyte OP - Let Me Hear



1. Youjo Senki - JINGO JUNGLE



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Special Mention/T6. Solo Leveling OPs
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OP2 is especially tragic, since LiSA has made some bangers before and I generally hold her music in high regard. But the feature with that dumb mumble rap voice completely ruins this song. To make matters worse, when I heard the first 15 seconds for the first time I was excited to hear that they decided to put a decent theme for a SL opening until I got a bit further in.

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Shoutout to MYTH & ROID for making this list twice. There are some other themes of theirs that are decent (like Youjo Senki ED) but they're especially prone to making overproduced electronic diarrhea.
Oct 5, 11:00 PM
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I always hated the original American opening to Dragon Ball Z. I think it's called Rock the dragon? Never liked it.
Oct 5, 11:15 PM
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Death Note op 2-What's Up People?
Haikyuu op 2-Ahh Yeah!!
Classroom For Heroes-Bravery? Naturally?
Code Geass op 2-Kaidoku Funou
One Piece op 12-Kaze wo Sagashite

Some of them for me.
If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece
Oct 6, 1:45 AM
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Maze the Megaburst Space
Berserk 1997

Oct 6, 2:05 AM
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Reply to Tirinchas
The Kill Me Baby OP went so far down the garbage route that it met perfection coming the other way.

@Tirinchas I felt it was pretty nice, what part of it felt so garbage to you? it was an opening suited to the type of show it was
Oct 6, 2:21 AM
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The 4kids version of the 1st One Piece opening, perhaps the most butchered opening of all time.

Oct 6, 2:58 AM

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From someone's review of the "Promised Neverland":
Whoever decided to make the anime opening synth and feature actual children under the age of twelve doing parkour, frontflips and looking "badass", is an idiot who can't understand what this show is supposed to be. Utterly fails at being horror or scary, and doesn't even attempt at being psychological.
Oct 6, 3:08 AM

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the song wasn't that bad, i just find it boring



Oct 6, 3:36 AM

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I actually love the NieA_7 OP. SION's voice is unique, and while certainly not what you'd call conventional, it does have a certain charm to it.
If I were to go for something actually bad, I'd probably just point out the generic "seiyuu-songs" or "pop song nr. 2918".
Both Saekano openings are distinctively boring (which I guess works out, considering the title), Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou's OP's song is
also way too weak for how good the show actually is. Oh, and special shout out to Mushoku, and their switch from several beautiful songs
in the first seasons, to a mediocre pop-rock song for the second season.

I could probably go on, but you get the picture.
Oct 6, 2:32 PM

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Humanity Has Declined has the worst opening (both music and visuals) that I have ever seen in my life. It's so bad I refused to watch the anime.
Oct 6, 3:39 PM

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The Kill Me Baby OP went so far down the garbage route that it met perfection coming the other way.

Scottish women asking for an abortion be like
Tirinchas said:
Kill Me Baby

Sorry, I just love making this joke.
Oct 6, 3:42 PM

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RetroCagliostro said:
The second one is pretty loud, so I wouldn’t recommend wearing headphones

>Filtered by kino
Filtered by kino.
Oct 6, 5:53 PM

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I came in ready to say something else (Mashle OP 1, the one BEFORE Creepy Nuts) but yeah, good God, it's gotta be Parasyte, huh?

It sounds like they took a third-rate TK from Ling Tosite Sigure song and filtered it through Flipnote Hatena on McDonald's Wifi before playing it
Oct 9, 3:07 AM

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Worst anime openings

The OP for the first 2 seasons of To Your Eternity. I've skipped it every single time. Kinda sad, because I really like One Last Kiss of her, but not this song for sure.

Oct 9, 5:38 AM

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Death Note OP2
Tokyo Ghoul OP2
Fruits Basket OP5
Berserk 97 OP

And many openings with the annoying kawaii kind of voice, it makes my ears bleed
Oct 9, 4:43 PM

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Some I consider so bad they're good.


MOKUSHI KUSHIMO SHIMOKU KUMOSHI MOSHIKU SHIKUMO.
Oct 9, 8:19 PM

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Reply to Fukoku
Death Note op 2-What's Up People?
Haikyuu op 2-Ahh Yeah!!
Classroom For Heroes-Bravery? Naturally?
Code Geass op 2-Kaidoku Funou
One Piece op 12-Kaze wo Sagashite

Some of them for me.
@Fukoku The second Code Geass opening is an all-time drop-off from what came before. 😂
Oct 9, 8:58 PM

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I hate anything by Crappy Nuts, I can't stand rap. Which is a shame because both seasons of Call of the Night are otherwise really good.
Oct 9, 11:31 PM

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Briekimchi said:
@Fukoku The second Code Geass opening is an all-time drop-off from what came before. 😂

Yea, such a glow down lmfao. Opening 3 by Orange Range was okay, when FLOW came back for the fourth opening, they saved it.

But even compared to Op 3, the second opening in general just fucking sucks.
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Oct 9, 11:33 PM

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Lost_Viking said:
I hate anything by Crappy Nuts, I can't stand rap. Which is a shame because both seasons of Call of the Night are otherwise really good.

I don’t agree that Creepy Nuts sucks, but I’m gonna be honest, I don’t like their “Bling Bang Bang Born” opening.

It’s not that great in my opinion. Nothing really interesting. I was never really into Mashle anyways. That, and how overplayed it was on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at the time made me hate it.

But Otonoke was very good if you ask me.
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Oct 10, 6:44 AM
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All anime outside idol themed which have some characters dancing synchronically to the song, make them out of character (eg. grand blue 2)
Oct 10, 6:50 AM

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I don't remember, I probably skipped them.
Oct 10, 12:15 PM

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"Totsugeki Rock" by The Cro-Magnons for Naruto: Shippuuden (this one is the worst; the rest are in no particular order)
"O2" by Orange Range for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
"Merry-Go-Round" by Man With A Mission for My Hero Academia
"R★O★C★K★S" by Hound Dog for Naruto
"Great Days" by Karen Aoki & Daisuke Hasegawa for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (sorry not sorry)
"Tell Me Why" by Penpals for Berserk
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows.
Oct 10, 12:35 PM

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The opening of Gundou Musashi... That shit is just horrible

Oct 10, 2:21 PM
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I hate anything by Crappy Nuts, I can't stand rap. Which is a shame because both seasons of Call of the Night are otherwise really good.
@Lost_Viking I agree. And I'd even extend it further to any attempt at stereotypical "western music". It just doesn't work, and it doesn't matter if it's rap or metal or something else. It just sounds really off when used as an OP
Oct 10, 2:51 PM

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ok this one is going to get me a lot of hate but i fucking hate the chord progression. And while I hate berserk, even if you like it you have to admit that this fucking dogshit OP doesn't fit the tone of the series anyway lol.



but to be honest, most idol anime op and songs are soulless corpo slop, and I hate them just as much as these, but I was factoring in the video component itself into the op as well at least for the first two I mentioned so im not listing them.


People who consider themselves to be Anime Elitists need to learn what grass is.
Oct 10, 3:30 PM

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Sad to see people name Code Geass' second opening, that's easily my favorite of the openings for it.


Everything about this one is infuriating to me
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Unravel. I hate It since the beginning.
Asterisk, i don't like It
The opening of Lucky Star and Bakemonigatari and my deer friend Nokotan

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