Spyke

Better than Ghost in the Shell's SAC opening "Inner Universe" by Yoko Kano? I think not.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Top 20:

  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion — A Cruel Angel’s Thesis
  2. Naruto Shippuden — Blue Bird
  3. Dragon Ball Z — CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
  4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Gurenge
  5. Sailor Moon — Moonlight Densetsu
  6. Tetsujin 28-go — Tetsujin 28-go
  7. Astro Boy — Astro Boy
  8. Your Name. — Zenzenzense
  9. One Piece — We Are!
  10. Spirited Away — Always With Me (Itsumo Nando Demo)
  11. Oshi no Ko — Idol
  12. Attack on Titan — Guren no Yumiya
  13. Mashle: Magic and Muscles — Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
  14. GeGeGe no Kitaro — GeGeGe no Kitaro
  15. Obake no Q-Taro — Obake no Q-Taro
  16. Chainsaw Man — KICK BACK
  17. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  18. Ponyo — Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
  19. Sally the Witch — Sally the Witch Song
  20. My Neighbor Totoro — Sanpo (Stroll)

Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don't see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno's 'Tank!'.

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I haven’t even watched the show, but you can’t convince me the OP for Hunter X Hunter isn’t in the top five, yet alone the top 20.

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Siegfriedreply
lemmy.world

I find yhe lack of cowboy bebop on that list concerning

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They should specify “Besides Cowboy Bebop”

Also I think at least one song in Samurai Champloo deserves a spot. Some bangers in that

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Definitely missing the theme of the Gunsmith Cats OVA by Peter Erskine!

This list looks like:

1: The song most people probably recognized even if they didn't watch Evangelion

2-16: Either a recent anime song, or a "classic" anime song regardless of merit of the actual music (ie, we would literally be killed if we didn't include this, even if the song isn't musically that good)

17-20: Ghibli

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Agreed. Also, no Mawatari Matsuko for all the Yuyu Hakusho songs. And even with recency bias, "il vento d'oro" (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) by Yugo Kanno should also be there.

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nyanreply
lemmy.cafe

I'd have picked "Blue" (the final ED) rather than "Tank!", but at that point it's just a matter of taste.

Let's see here—of the songs on the list, I remember four, although I must have heard three of the others at least once. There's not just recency bias, but most-popular-series bias. Of course, if someone asked me to make a similar list, most of it would be stuff hardly anyone else remembers.

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I can immediately hear roughly half of them in my head. Ghibli soundtracks are usually great but I don’t think they really should be on this list, there’re many I’d choose before them including Tank and Blue.

Edit: My personal list would honestly be half yoko kanno

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Sally the Witch? It's clear whomever the musicians are, they haven't seen much anime and voted for the songs of animes they recognize (I also recognize Sally the Witch having seen that as a child in the '80s, but it definitively doesn't belong to any ranking of the best anime songs).

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