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[–] 34 points 4 months ago (13 children)

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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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I find yhe lack of cowboy bebop on that list concerning

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago*

    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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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    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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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    You almost can't get a more generic list tbh

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Ts is so mid

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Not that I'd recommend anyone watch Elfen Lied in current year, but-- "Lilium." Come on.

    On similar grounds, Eva's "Komm Susser Todd" is a better song.

    And as everyone else points out how the fuck is Yokko Kanno nowhere on that list? "Inner Universe" and "Be Human," if we're doing the best besides Cowboy Bebop.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Best anime opening ever: https://youtu.be/xNkmz_sF-tE Best anime closing ever: https://youtu.be/UptDZeIeVOI

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You know what is also definitely missing from that list? 99 by Mob Choir.

    This feels like a list from IGN trying to show they get anime.

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