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Pls React to More Naruto, Naruto shippuden, Sword Art Online, Jujutsu Kaisen, Full Metal Achemist, Chainsaw Man, Attack on Titan, Parasyte Openings and Endings. PLS DONT WATCH THE VISUALS, THEY CONTAIN Massive SPOILERS. We would love to see you react to the anime episodes in the future! :)
A little hint for you sense your new to this a easier way to deal with Copyright. Is to pause the song 2 to 3 times and give a little commentary weather it be on the vocals or the instrumentals as well as a short talk about your thoughts and what your currently thinking and feeling and then when it's over give your complete thoughts and feelings a good exapple of some who figured out how to deal with this without a lot of editing and without being boring is (G.O.T Games)
@@auxtaku3449 No offense but thats a terrible idea. One youtuber uses the same method you described (Nicholas Light TV) and its unbearable to watch him after he pauses the freaking video every 5 seconds to say random stuff. There should be a better way to avoid copyright, like changing the volume of the song or something.
there's the extended full version for every opening, which is +5 min each, i recommend to you the full version of ( Tokyo ghoul ) opening u'll be amazed
Just to be clear, those aren't the full songs, just shortened versions for anime openings, which means most anime opening songs you hear will have extended versions, some of them don't, but the three you reacted to have it, so enjoy.
@@AnimeKenTV I'd add that those are actually real bands/artists so if you really like the sound of une opening you can just check out their discography, the rock/metal scene in Japan is amazing. Usually the songs chosen for an anime are the singles for an upcoming album.
I was thinking that too, full version of Unravel has a whole guitar solo and, although not traditional, some screams as well. Although honestly, I was hoping for some reactions to more traditionally "metal" anime opening songs. Songs like "One Reason" by Fade for Deadman Wonderland, or "We're not alone" for Rainbow by Coldrain (Really good metalcore band besides anime) I do suppose, they're not all that popular as far as anime goes. Although the Vinland Saga Openings 1 and 3 are both fairly popular, as well as "The Rumbling" by SiM for AOT.
The full versión of unravel, gate of steiner and hunting for your dreams, and just awake kill me in epicity, this is the best of full songs, the guitar sound
@@camilord333yt6 Dude, I have a whole playlist of just Japanese music, and those are just rock/pop songs, I could make a whole metal playlist ruclips.net/p/PLYHxGGjpZy8cI2JyJWfkCL6leHkc8QLP0
The singer for Tokyo Ghoul's OP was actually the guitarist as well, crazy impressive. I recommend you listen to the First Take or live version of it as well. It was once regarded as the "anime anthem" because of how good it was, and the full version somehow makes it even better.
@@xAglet Dude, the only anime anthem that exists and will exist is the opening of evangelion “Zankoku na Tenshi no Tēze” and one that comes close would be “Pegasus fantasy” or “Chala head chala” but the tokyo ghoul one is not even close.
If there is one opening you should listen the full version of than its the Tokyo Ghoul one. The full opening of Tokyo Ghoul is something everyone should at least listen to once. I say full because anime openings are the short versions of the songs (1 minute 30 seconds) and the full versions are 3 to 4 minutes
You HAVE to listen to "TK Unravel First Take", thats the first take of the Tokyo Ghoul opening. You are gonna have shivers from how incredible the singer is.
One thing about anime Ops that doesn't get explained is that the reason there are so many is because anime is handled in cours/seasons of usually around 12 episodes, so usually after around 12 or so episodes if the anime is longer (like FMA Brotherhood at 64 eps so 5 ops) they break up the cours by opening and ending songs. That is why you see some shows having over 10 or more ops just due to how many eps there are. If I could recommend a show from what ops you've seen I would say Demon Slayer or FMA Brotherhood are fantastic places to start, they are usually among my list of anime to introduce people to the medium. FMA Brotherhood being the one I recommend more just because it is already done, it really high quality with a GREAT ending probably one of the most complete in anime, the dub is fantastic for those who don't like subs, and it does a good job with introducing people to some tropes really well.
You will definetly dig what the band Coldrain has done for anime openings. I would check out: Fire Force opening 2 - Mayday Rainbow opening - We're not Alone Ninja Kamui opening - VENGEANCE Super excited to see the future of this channel, you are a super cool dude.
Watch 1. link click all openings and endings 2. Oh spare me great Lord openings 3. Noragami opening 1 and 2 4. Chainsaw Man Opening and all endings 5. Attack On Titan all openings 6. Black Clover All openings 7. Jujutsu kaisen all openings 8 . Mushoku Tensei all openings 9. I almost forgot the legendary opening from mashle season 2 opening
I recommend you to listen to: - Fate/stay night: Unlimited blade works opening 2 - "Brave Shine" by Aimer - Domestic Girlfriend opening - Deadman Wonderland opening Can't wait for the next video, peace
Apologies for the super long comment in advance :/ Honestly you'll find the industry part of anime songs fascinating. So, most studios are affiliated to a production company which then goes to different labels where these artists are. So yeah, most of the artists that perform these are actual popular musicians/groups. As far as I know, the production companies go to the label/artist and they pretty much tell them about the project they're working on; then the artists make a proposal of a song and sometimes the producers ask for some changes on the lyrics and stuff to fit the anime. They create a full song and the producers prepare a 1:30-min version that they can put as opening/ending theme alongside some animation sequence which are usually outsorced by an entirely different studio or animation teams not necessarily related to the production of the series which, I've also heard, can be very good entry points for new animators into the industry. There's also some minor instances of voice actors who are able to sing being tasked with performing the opening/ending themes since most, if not all, VAs are part of a talent agency that sometimes requires them to be multi-talented artists. Is pretty rare, but some VA-performed songs can go absurdly popular sometimes that it pretty much opens up the opportunity for VAs to engage in an entirely different industry 😂. An example that instantly comes to mind would be Renai Circulation, one of Bakemonogatari's openings performed by Kana Hanazawa (greatly recommended btw). Also, yes, some series can have multiple opening/ending themes. When a series gets decently popular, it is common for it to be renovated for a new season/story arc/cour (depending on the production). (Small parenthesis to explain this part) - most anime series are produced on a seasonal basis so you can expect a 11-13 episode season. When a series is scheduled to run for more than one season that's when cours come into place. Usually, a long anime season runs for two seasons (20-25 episodes) so, depending on the production, it is divided into two 10-13-episode cours that can be consecutive (with a 1-2 week break between each cour), or far apart (with an entire season or even longer in betweens, and commonly used for marketing purposes). Last but not least would be arcs which were most commonly used in production of long-running weekly series (the obvious example being One Piece). But recently, a lot of series have been dividing into "seasonal arcs" (idk how to call them) which are pretty much normal seasons but are named arcs just for marketing purposes most of the time. In the anime industry is a very common practice to have entirely new opening/ending themes for these different types of renovations which is pretty unusual and mind-blowing compared to the american TV industry where opening/ending sequences are are either 10-15 seconds long or non existent and pretty forgettable outside of some minor exceptions. As I mentioned, most anime are produced on a seasonal basis so, if you keep reacting to some more openings make sure to check out the seasonals about every 3 months (the summer season just started 2-3 weeks ago). Again, sorry for the longass comment 😂
Daaaang. Thank you for this detailed breakdown. I really appreciate the time you took to lay this all out. I really appreciate this. Thank you for the insight.
With apologies, some minor corrections: 1) VA's singing the opening and ending themes is quite common, even in modern anime. There are numerous examples available, but here's an easy four: _Neon Genesis Evangelion's_ ED has 26 variations from different combinations of the VAs, most of the _-Monogatari_ openings are sung by the arc's focus character VA, _K-ON's_ OPs and EDs are sung by 2 of the VAs, and finally pretty much anything Takahashi Rie is in has the OP and/or ED sung by her. That said, at one time it was very common to just pick an existing song and use that for the opening, regardless of whether or not it really had anything to do with the show. E.g. Coppelia no Hitsugi by Ali Project, used for the OP of _Noir_ but released 2 years before the anime was produced. This practice has mostly died off, starting around the mid-1990s, and most of the songs are now purpose-built for the shows. 2) "Cours" is a French word that means "course". A loanword in Japanese, it's a broadcasting term with the meaning of "quarter year", and while it does equate to climate seasons, it does not correlate well with show seasons. Cours are always 3 months long, and so normally run 10-13 episodes, but a season in the show sense is usually an unbroken broadcasting run. For example, _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ (26 episodes), _Attack on Titan_ S1 (25 Episodes), and _Sword Art Online_ S1 and S2 (25 and 24 episodes, respectively) are all a single show season but 2 broadcasting cours, and similar to western shows these each represent distinct sections of the story. Shows like _Silver Spoon_ and _Spy x Family_ , meanwhile, have 2 single-cours seasons. Notably, though _Silver Spoon_ does not have a split in it's story, so it may be more properly considered a split-cour season, an increasingly common variation in which a single season of a show is split in to two or more cours with an entire cours in between each broadcast cours, commonly cited as a production measure intended to relieve pressure on the production studios, though that wasn't yet the case when _Silver Spoon_ was made. There are also shorter shows, but these are OVAs (Original Video Animation) rather than broadcast tv; the Japanese equivalent of Direct-to-Video but without the corresponding poor quality and cash-grabbiness that the Direct-to-Video represents in the US. Where things get weird is in the other direction: more traditionally formatted stories often have seasons that run more than two cours because they are set to follow complete story arcs, this is more common in older shows due to the story origins: Recent shows have taken to adapting light novels, which often contain complete story arcs in just a few volumes, leading to the seasonal arcs mentioned above, where as older shows were most commonly adaptations from manga that was published a chapter at a time, weekly or monthly, following either a story-of-the-week style format or something more akin to a soap opera. In fact, the vast majority of older anime were attempts to boost manga sales, and typically only adapted around half of the manga's story so you'd have to go buy the tankoban (collected chapters of the manga published in book form). This, incidentally, is why some anime contain so many filler episodes: the anime was greenlit "too early", and was running ahead of what the base story had published. Examples of shows with these longer seasons include _One Piece_ , with show seasons that have run back to back continuously since 1999 and have variable lengths ranging from the shortest 12th season at 14 episodes to the longest so far 20th season at 197 episodes; _Dragon Ball Super_ , which also ran continuously with seasons corresponding to story arc and ranging from 9 to 55 episodes; and also _Naruto_ and the first 16 seasons of _Bleach_ . Lastly, some shows skip all of these distinctions and simply run continuously without any regard for cours, seasons, or arcs. _Ranma 1/2_ and _Full Metal Alchemist_ both ran this way. 3) (This isn't an error, just an expansion): it is effectively routine to get a new opening and closing sequence and accompanying song with each show season, and sometimes more frequently if the show has shorter story arcs (like many light novel adaptations) or the producers just felt like changing it more often (e.g. _Chainsaw Man_ has a different ending theme for each of its 12 episodes) although not every show does this ( _Sazae-San_ , which has been in continuous production since 1969, has never changed its opening or ending theme).
loved your reactions, definitely subscribed, cant wait for more. also each op does have a full song but its cut down to 1:30. and some shows do have multiple ops depending on how long the show is
@@AnimeKenTV yeah, anime tend to on average introduce new ops every 12ish episodes or every season, they also have ending songs that change with the opening songs. some songs are made specifically for the shows and some are just genuine songs
I mean, to be fair, by anime standards it IS pretty long technically speaking. Yes, there are absurdly long runs in Shounen anime like Naruto/DBZ/One Piece, etc. But most anime don't go past 26 episodes, and FMAB has over 60. That said, I will always recommend it because I still consider it the best anime ever written.
It's a good one to start for sure, but you'll probably not find a better show for a long time! A couple have been on par maybe, but I hold it in exordinarily high regards. It doesn't get much closer to perfection to me, in regards to overall enjoyability of it, which pretty much every second of runtime adds to.
@@AnimeKenTV I'd love to see your take on TK's "Katharsis". It's another opening for Tokyo Ghoul (I think for the second season?). It has a lot of that guitar work and, to me, very technically impressive.
Mashle S2 OP and Oshi no Ko S1 OP are regarded as the best anime openings of 2024 and 2023, respectively. I'd recommend those as they are absolute bangers. Oshi no ko's even made it onto the #1 spot on the Billboard top 100 excluding the U.S. and #7 if the U.S. was included.
Really wish to see more openings in every video you'll post in the future. I don't mind long videos at all. If you ever wish to just find some more recommendations, I'm here!
I haven't noticed anyone else say it but I really appreciate your editing, it makes watching the vid even more enjoyable. Can't wait to watch more, earned a Sub!
Oh hi! New subscriber here, you just picked three of my most favourite openings to react to here, and I don't really love music reactions very much, but I just absolutely loved your reaction! Thank you! :)
anime series total lengths: OVAs/anime-films-movies: 1-4 episodes/OVAs very short: ~ 3-6 episodes short: ~ 12 episodes medium: ~ 24-30 episodes long: ~ 50-60 episodes very long: 100+ episodes a "season" can be the 'short' (~12 episodes) or 'medium' (~ 24-30 episodes), depending on the anime series' total length size and/or whether it's old (you see more of the 'medium' = ~ 24-30 episodes for their seasons, usually only having 2 seasons in total) vs new anime (usually broken up into the 'short' = ~ 12 episodes, for its seasons, though maybe the 'very long' anime series, it might have its seasons broken up into the medium = ~ 24-30 episodes) each "season" usually has its (a) own (new): op and ed (an episode is usually ~30 mins, but sometimes an episode is ~60 mins or ~15 mins)
OVAs can be whatever episodes, some has 12 just like a regular season. Original Video Anime just means that it's not aired in TV. However, most of the time it's just a side story content so it usually has short episodes.
The opening of Shangri-La Frontier is also incredibly "METAL". I highly suggest you that one. I also love the opening of Claymore. Also the openings of Berserk, Terraformars, Black Lagoon, Parasyte, Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) season 2, Boku no Hero Academia season 4, Mirai Nikki, Black Clover opening with its tapping session... And a lot more ;)
Some anime Openings I recommend: · Noragami Aragoto OP ("Kyouran Hey Kids" by THE ORAL CIGARETTES) · Heavenly Delusion OP ("Innocent Arrogance" by BiSH) · Kengan Ashura Season 2 OP ("RED" by SiM) · Apothecary Diaries OP ("be a flower" by Ryokuoushoku Shakai) · Chainsawman 2nd ED ("Time Left" by ZUTOMAYO) >>> this one is not an Opening but ending theme, and it's really good in terms of the instrumentation IMO
some artist specifically make songs for animes but even than, the are shortened to fit the opening. means you would find a full version to almost every anime opening out there. And if you like any opening I recommend listening to the full versions, ;) can't even count, how many different full versions I've got in my playlist, while Eve (also made a few opening and ending songs) is definitely my most favorite japanese singer and songwriter^^
Hey man, great reaction. Really loved your breakdown of the songs and how you reacted to each one. Couple of opening suggestions which I find musically really interesting: Erased op1 (op being opening in case you are unfamiliar), Jujutsu Kaisen op 3, Frieren op2, Chainsaw Man op1, One Piece op 26 and Call of the night op1. These are some of my personal favourites and I find them to be fairly popular (except for the last one). Keep it brother! 💪
this is ur first video and started killing it, there is a journey and you will not regret the wonders of music in anime openings and endings i cant wait for you to check the other ones and attack on titan and vinland saga im hyped
I reccomend Ado. Is not about anime openings (per se), but just an amazing japanese singer. A few of my favorite songs would be: Crime and punishment Gira gira RuLe
47k views in your first vid? Huge Congratulations man. I love watching reactions, and I think you succeed because your versatility, doing a quick reaction while you make a few comments is what people love to see. Greetings from Argentina
Here is a list of anime openings that you would really likem being a metal Guitarist and all: Chainsaw man opening 1 Chainsaw man ending 3 and 8 (every ending is fire there are 12) Death note opening 1 and 2 Vinland saga opening 1 and 4 Parasyte opening 1 every fcking Black Clover opening Fullmetal alchemist opening 2 and one of my favorites, attack on titan opening 7 (or opening 2 of the final season, they're the same) maybe you can do a whole video reacting to only the chainsaw man endings and a whole video reacting to all black clover openings. I swear reacting to anime openings will get you massive views
Excellent first video! Looking forward to more! And I'm assuming you've been told this 1000x by now in the comments, but each "season" (usually 10-13 episodes) tends to have a new opening song with new visuals.
Chainsaw man opening 1 Chainsaw man ending 3 (there is 12 endings in total but this one is the most interesting in my opinion, but u can react to all of them) Bleach op 2, 12 and 13 Black clover (all opening are great and have great guitar parts as well) Gintama ending 17 (love this one personally)opening 13 is also good tho. Bakmonogatari name of the song is “sugar sweet nightmare” (Warning, there is some “questionable stuff” in the opening visually so maybe just react to the song without the video) One piece (all openings are great) 86 opening 1 Mashle season 2 opening 1 One punch man opening 1 (the guitar here is crazy 🤯) Noragami opening 2 (again guitar is crazy here) Naruto (my favourite ending and overall song, is called freedom by home made Kazoku, it’s fantastic and very underrated) Naruto, blue bird, silhouette and lover are all great op. Cyberpunk edgerunners op 1 (very good guitar again) From what I remember all of this openings have great guitar parts in them so pls enjoy ;)
Who knew I'd find music enthusiasts reactions and appreciation to anime intros entertaining? Fun times. Alot of these were throw backs for me. Thanks for the shot of nostalgia.
I would encourage you to check out the Unravel (Tokyo Ghoul opening) cover by Ado, especially live version. Although it's very faithful cover in terms of instrumentals it evokes totally different emotions. TK (original singer) is great, but I personally think Ado just suits the song better. She also made the opening for Spy x Family season 2 "Kura Kura" and songs for One Piece Film: Red. Lastly, I'd recommend checking out full versions of opening songs, they're usually better.
If you liked the OP from Tokyo ghoul I recommend the first opening of Psycho Pass, it's called abnormalize. Also the album it comes from I'mperfect is a hidden gem
@@AnimeKenTV Most comments recommended good openings but they're all over the place. I would recommend you do all openings of a single show (the most popular animes). And the best one to start would be AOT (attack on titan), it's one of the most famous animes. You can searh "AOT openings reaction" on youtube and you'll see there's thousands of reactions because it's very popular and the openings are amazing.
Again by Yui as the first one?! Omgggg YESSSS!!!! Thank you for giving them a shot! Welcome to the rabbit hole! A bunch of really good bands, singers, musicians and anime in this "little" genre! (Ado, Minami and Babymetal are insane too)
Anime will very often have one or two opening and closing theme songs each season. Sometimes there will be a 'sad' and 'happy' closing theme song that changes based on how the episode ended. Anime is rich with good music.
Well if you want some recommendations: I personally think the full songs are always the best, but I'll limit myself to stuff with openings (shorter versions too) here Diver (Opening 8 of Naruto Shippuden) Artist: NICO Touches the Walls Absolute zero (Openin 1 of Wind Breaker) Artist: Natori Yoru wa Nemurerukai? (Opening 1 of Aijn) Artist: Flumpool Contradiction (Opening 2 of Durarara) Artist: ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D Uragiri no Yuuyake (Opening 1 of Durarara) Artist: Theatre Brook Lost in Paradise (Ending 1 of Jujutsu Kaisen) Artist: Ali, Aklo Flashback (Opening 1 of Kokkoku) Artist: MIYAVI Gospel of the Throttle (Opening 1 of Drifters) Artist: Minutes Til Midnight I do have more if you want, but I didn't want to write down a list of like... 80+ songs randomly. Anyway, have a nice day.
5:13 the amount of openings normally depends on the number of episodes the anime has. Most anime have 12 episodes but ocasionally there's some with 24 or so and the opening changes on the midway point. Also every season has a different opening.
I did not see it in the top comments so I will say that with op (opening song) there are also ending songs with each anime. They are more winding down songs so not usually as hype.
You're a metal guitarist and your friends never told you about metal Anime Intro songs? Well i'm mad. lmao. Recommendations: 1# SiM - Rumbling (Attack on Titan) 2# Maximum the Hormone - What's up people? (Death Note Opening 2) 3#Jam Project - The HERO (One Punch man opening) None metal but GREAT anime music theme: Yugo Kanno - Giorno's Theme (il vento d'oro) | from Jojo's Bizzare Adventures
@@AnimeKenTV I also would like to say that if you want to start watching Anime. Attack on Titan is a very great choice. It has a very great story and animation. Just a bit of warning that this might set your bars very high in terms of standards for anime.
@AnimeKenTV Bleach Battle theme (Number One it's called afaik), Vinland Saga outro #1 (milet: drown) and the Deadman Wonderland intro (one reason feat. Fade) are a few from the top of my head that you might like.
i love the guitar of the american "anime" called RWBY, songs like "this will be the day", "armed and ready", "bad luck charm" and "i may fall" are just ON POINT to rock n roll ❤️🔥🇧🇷
I would check out the Overlord openings, all 4 are really good and have great guitar parts. The most technical opening I've heard is the one from Land of the Lustrous. I'd watch it if you want to be blown away by insane rhythms and parts working together, but I don't find it as catchy as most others even if it is insanely impressive.
Soul land opening is just ABSOLUTELY AMAZING -> "Brake the Cocoon" by Angela Zhang (this is one hell of an intro song) Log Horizon is also amazing -> "Database" by Man with a Mission and "Inuyashiki" with same band making the music - "Hero" by Man with a Mission
Songs are generally made for the specific anime. Sometimes they have extended versions. Anime in general often change the opening and ending songs per season. Tokyo Ghoul was popular, but didn’t follow the source material. So it kinda went the wayside. Check out the underrated Noragami opening 1, Fire force first season opening and closing and blood blockade battlefront opening 1.
Yes, Shows will sometimes have multiple openings in a single season, keep the same one all the way to the end, or (more usually) make an opening per season.
Yes, multiple openings is a common thing in anime. Usually every new season gets a new opening. Sometimes there are two openings per season to separate the story arcs. Arc separation via opening also applies to the series with a lot of episodes. For example, Naruto Shippuden has 500 episodes and 20 openings. However in these cases this can also be done simply to entertain viewers. As for recommendations: Vinland Saga, Cowboy bebop, Trigun (both original and Stampede) Jujutsu Kaisen, JoJo's bizarre adventures and Attack on titan
Every anime usually has a new opening and ending every season, which is usually 11-13 episodes (1 cour). Some shows that are longer (2 cour) at 24-26 episodes end up having a new opening and ending on the next episode after the 1st cour to keep with the theme. On some rare occasions, some shows do this on 6 episodes / mid season if the story is progressing fast. @4:45 - the songs are usually full length songs, however for the shows they take like 1:30 - 2mins worth of it kind of like real tv shows only using riffs / chorus of songs. You can pretty much find out any song from an opening / ending and you will find a full length song by an actual metal / pop or other artist that has a music video like any other song.
Sometimes, artists make songs specifically for the anime (e.g.: Idol for Oshi no ko, which is also a fantastic opening). Sometimes, the songs are just used. Almost always, they are arranged specific for the anime, which almost always have 90s openings. And yes, there are multiple openings per show. Typically, a single opening will be used for a "cour" where a "cour" may be 1/2 season or full season, depending on the number of episodes contracted for the season. Typically, that translates to an opening being used for 12-13 episodes.
Love the reaction. I recommend all the openings for Attack on TItan. All of them are bangers. The same goes for the endings for chainsawman (Each episode has its own ending song and animation. There are 12 episodes). Would be nice reactions
It's always nice to see someone new getting into the anime scene! Anime music, and just Japanese music in general, is absolutely fantastic. There's so much variety in openings across different series and shows, not to mention endings and OSTs (original soundtracks). I'll recommend a couple I personally enjoy the most. Fire Force Openings 1-4 Every single Fire Force opening is amazing, but Inferno and Torch of Liberty (1 and 4) are my personal favorites Black Clover Openings 1-13 Again, every opening is amazing, but Black Rover and Black Catcher (3 and 10) are by far the best. Frieren Opening 2 This one's pretty new, but I find it to be nice and relaxing. It's also got a really unique chorus. Haikyuu Openings 1-7 Haikyuu is one of my favorite shows and has some of the best hype songs of any show out there. Fly High, Hikariare, and Phoenix (4, 5, and 6) are the best imo. Jujutsu Kaisen Openings 1-4 They're all really unique, but Kaikai Kitan and Ao no Sumika (1 and 3) are incredible. Soul Eater Opening 2 One of my favorite songs in general. It has a unique feeling to it that just hits different. Fullmetal Alchemist Opening 4 Fullmetal Alchemist is a bit weird in the fact that there are two separate series that have different openings and story beats. You reacted to FMA Brotherhood's opening, which is usually the preferred version of Fullmetal. The original series has some solid openings, but opening 4 just hits with some incredible 2000s J-Rock nostalgia. Your Name OST: This one isn't an opening, but it's an amazing song from an anime movie. Zenzenzense is probably my favorite song in general right now. I hope you enjoy your anime journey! As a first video, this is pretty high quality stuff. I have a feeling I'll see this channel grow pretty quickly!
When the show goes to a series of episodes the opening and closing songs change the numbering is just there for easy reference. I like the “Diver - Nico touches the walls”
This is my first video i've seen of you, and you seem to be very good at editing ! If I had one advice it would be to stop switching scenes every few seconds, while it does create movement and makes it more "entertaining" for ADHD people, I feel like it's too frequent, I wouldn't say to stop alltogether but tone it down a little ! Now you camera placement is very good, like it doesn't really get in the way of what you're reacting to imo. I hope you do more in the future as it was entertaining :) My suggestions would be to react to some more OSTs than just openings, for example I really like the Kaiki Deishu theme "Imitation" from the monogatari series, Kaiki is a very mysterious and "conman" that is in the morally grey spectrum, being either a nice protagonist, or a cunning antagonist. I don't know if you would like it as a Guitarist but you might find something enjoyable out of it !
There's so many amazing anime openings and endings. There's everything, like sometimes great songs in not so great anime and not so great song in great anime. I recommend that you check out the full versions of the songs, because there's usually a lot that can't fit into 1:30.
many others have already explained it but yes these are full songs but at the same time they're also produced specifically for the anime too however the lyrics tends to be broad and vague that they can be applied to many situations and projects and because they rarely ever make direct references to the actual anime they are produced for that with the exception of pokemon, off the top of my head only some openings to jojo's bizarre adventure and garo carved seal of flames specifically references the anime they were made for and thats because the modern jojo anime adaption is from a manga that originated in 1987 while garo carved seal of flames is the first anime entry into japan's garo franchise which is basically a tokusatsu franchise with tokusatsu being a genre that started in the late 1950s and japanese media back then had openings to not just anime but even live action tv, movies etc using songs that did directly reference the work they were produced for so the jojo and garo anime doing so could more or less be a homage to their origins
Oh boy have you opened a rabbit hole, I was going to scroll through and see what hasn't been mentioned yet but deserves a listen but there's way too many hahah. So I'm gonna try to recommend some that I haven't seen in there, but there's a solid chance I missed it. - Kuroko no Basket Openings, if anything at least Opening 2 "The Other Self" but they're all great - Sousei no Onmyouji (Twin Star Exorcists) Openings - Re:Creators Openings - Rainbow Opening - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Opening 1 - Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Opening 2 - Qualidea Code Openings (same artist as the first opening of Demon Slayer, but often overlooked) - Strike the Blood Openings a lot of people know the original 2 but the way the following seasons aired (as in like an episode every few months) the openings for Season 2-4 are really overlooked. If anything please react to Strike the Blood III Opening, most of them are by the same artist but that one is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated openings out there - Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry Opening - Re Hamatora Opening I could honestly go on and on but I'll leave it at that :')
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an opening i find is really underrated that i dont think many people will be requesting is ID:Invaded. its so good
Pls React to More Naruto, Naruto shippuden, Sword Art Online, Jujutsu Kaisen, Full Metal Achemist, Chainsaw Man, Attack on Titan, Parasyte Openings and Endings.
PLS DONT WATCH THE VISUALS, THEY CONTAIN Massive SPOILERS.
We would love to see you react to the anime episodes in the future! :)
A little hint for you sense your new to this a easier way to deal with Copyright. Is to pause the song 2 to 3 times and give a little commentary weather it be on the vocals or the instrumentals as well as a short talk about your thoughts and what your currently thinking and feeling and then when it's over give your complete thoughts and feelings a good exapple of some who figured out how to deal with this without a lot of editing and without being boring is (G.O.T Games)
@@auxtaku3449 No offense but thats a terrible idea. One youtuber uses the same method you described (Nicholas Light TV) and its unbearable to watch him after he pauses the freaking video every 5 seconds to say random stuff. There should be a better way to avoid copyright, like changing the volume of the song or something.
there's the extended full version for every opening, which is +5 min each, i recommend to you the full version of ( Tokyo ghoul ) opening u'll be amazed
Just to be clear, those aren't the full songs, just shortened versions for anime openings, which means most anime opening songs you hear will have extended versions, some of them don't, but the three you reacted to have it, so enjoy.
Noted
@@AnimeKenTV I'd add that those are actually real bands/artists so if you really like the sound of une opening you can just check out their discography, the rock/metal scene in Japan is amazing. Usually the songs chosen for an anime are the singles for an upcoming album.
I was thinking that too, full version of Unravel has a whole guitar solo and, although not traditional, some screams as well.
Although honestly, I was hoping for some reactions to more traditionally "metal" anime opening songs.
Songs like "One Reason" by Fade for Deadman Wonderland, or "We're not alone" for Rainbow by Coldrain (Really good metalcore band besides anime)
I do suppose, they're not all that popular as far as anime goes. Although the Vinland Saga Openings 1 and 3 are both fairly popular, as well as "The Rumbling" by SiM for AOT.
The full versión of unravel, gate of steiner and hunting for your dreams, and just awake kill me in epicity, this is the best of full songs, the guitar sound
@@camilord333yt6 Dude, I have a whole playlist of just Japanese music, and those are just rock/pop songs, I could make a whole metal playlist
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The singer for Tokyo Ghoul's OP was actually the guitarist as well, crazy impressive. I recommend you listen to the First Take or live version of it as well. It was once regarded as the "anime anthem" because of how good it was, and the full version somehow makes it even better.
Ive been seeing a lot of the live performance recommended, Ill have to check it out. SO EXCITED!
It's not once regarded . .it is regarded as Anime Anthem 👍
It was never recognized as an anime anthem, it was really just popular and that's it, but the voice of the vocalist of tokyo ghoul is very ugly.
@@jancalp ???
@@xAglet Dude, the only anime anthem that exists and will exist is the opening of evangelion “Zankoku na Tenshi no Tēze” and one that comes close would be “Pegasus fantasy” or “Chala head chala” but the tokyo ghoul one is not even close.
You will really like the full version (4min~5min) of "Unravel"
Tokyo Ghoul Op1!
Nice
@@AnimeKenTVshould also react to Ado’s live cover of it. It’s pretty insane
@@AnimeKenTV Did you imagine the whisper singing would turn into screamo?
Mashle op 2, death note op 2, chainsaw man ed 3, one piece op 20 and 26, fire force op 1, hero academia op 2, and parasyte op 1
Lol chainsaw man op 3 😅
I’ll add them to the list
@@AnimeKenTV he means Chainsaw man ending 3, opening 3 doesn't exist
Chainsaw Man ENDING 3*
Chainsaw man ending 8 is also a banger. Its made by the same author who did a Tokyo Ghoul opening
Yes there are multiple openings and even sometimes endings for the show.Some has 1-2 op when others can have 10+ openings
Thats crazy. Im excited to hear more.
Some good metal op are
Vinland saga op 1, 2 & 4
And “Under the tree” & “The rumbling” both by SIM from Attack on titan.
Nice!
@@AnimeKenTVYESSSS
Don’t forget shangri la frontier
yes!
If there is one opening you should listen the full version of than its the Tokyo Ghoul one. The full opening of Tokyo Ghoul is something everyone should at least listen to once.
I say full because anime openings are the short versions of the songs (1 minute 30 seconds) and the full versions are 3 to 4 minutes
Oh dang, so they do have full songs
You HAVE to listen to "TK Unravel First Take", thats the first take of the Tokyo Ghoul opening.
You are gonna have shivers from how incredible the singer is.
Yesssss! 🔥
forgot to recommend you to watch Black Clover OPs 1 - 13
Thank you, I'll add it to the list.
Would also recommend listening to the artist ADO
Only 3 and 10
@@vasiapupkin2425 Shush, all of them are good.
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One thing about anime Ops that doesn't get explained is that the reason there are so many is because anime is handled in cours/seasons of usually around 12 episodes, so usually after around 12 or so episodes if the anime is longer (like FMA Brotherhood at 64 eps so 5 ops) they break up the cours by opening and ending songs. That is why you see some shows having over 10 or more ops just due to how many eps there are. If I could recommend a show from what ops you've seen I would say Demon Slayer or FMA Brotherhood are fantastic places to start, they are usually among my list of anime to introduce people to the medium. FMA Brotherhood being the one I recommend more just because it is already done, it really high quality with a GREAT ending probably one of the most complete in anime, the dub is fantastic for those who don't like subs, and it does a good job with introducing people to some tropes really well.
Ah that makes sense
well said, Full metal alchemist brotherhood is the perfect entry to the anime world.
@@fernandaoXD It is usually the first one I will recommend, it is just too perfect to get people started.
You have a great attitude going into this, really fun to watch im here for more 😁
Thank you so much 😁
You will definetly dig what the band Coldrain has done for anime openings.
I would check out:
Fire Force opening 2 - Mayday
Rainbow opening - We're not Alone
Ninja Kamui opening - VENGEANCE
Super excited to see the future of this channel, you are a super cool dude.
Nice! Thank you
@@AnimeKenTV Parasyte the maxim is so good metal
Watch 1. link click all openings and endings
2. Oh spare me great Lord openings
3. Noragami opening 1 and 2
4. Chainsaw Man Opening and all endings
5. Attack On Titan all openings
6. Black Clover All openings
7. Jujutsu kaisen all openings
8 . Mushoku Tensei all openings
9. I almost forgot the legendary opening from mashle season 2 opening
Nice! This looks like another video lol
@@AnimeKenTV Hope to see you react to these ones. They are fire 🔥 literally
yess attack on titan for sure
Definitely mashle openings 2
link click mentioned!!! underrated af
I recommend you to listen to:
- Fate/stay night: Unlimited blade works opening 2 - "Brave Shine" by Aimer
- Domestic Girlfriend opening
- Deadman Wonderland opening
Can't wait for the next video, peace
Nice! I’ll add them to the list. Gonna have a lot of reaction videos lol
Domestic Girlfriend is SO good.
Apologies for the super long comment in advance :/
Honestly you'll find the industry part of anime songs fascinating.
So, most studios are affiliated to a production company which then goes to different labels where these artists are.
So yeah, most of the artists that perform these are actual popular musicians/groups.
As far as I know, the production companies go to the label/artist and they pretty much tell them about the project they're working on; then the artists make a proposal of a song and sometimes the producers ask for some changes on the lyrics and stuff to fit the anime.
They create a full song and the producers prepare a 1:30-min version that they can put as opening/ending theme alongside some animation sequence which are usually outsorced by an entirely different studio or animation teams not necessarily related to the production of the series which, I've also heard, can be very good entry points for new animators into the industry.
There's also some minor instances of voice actors who are able to sing being tasked with performing the opening/ending themes since most, if not all, VAs are part of a talent agency that sometimes requires them to be multi-talented artists.
Is pretty rare, but some VA-performed songs can go absurdly popular sometimes that it pretty much opens up the opportunity for VAs to engage in an entirely different industry 😂.
An example that instantly comes to mind would be Renai Circulation, one of Bakemonogatari's openings performed by Kana Hanazawa (greatly recommended btw).
Also, yes, some series can have multiple opening/ending themes. When a series gets decently popular, it is common for it to be renovated for a new season/story arc/cour (depending on the production).
(Small parenthesis to explain this part) - most anime series are produced on a seasonal basis so you can expect a 11-13 episode season.
When a series is scheduled to run for more than one season that's when cours come into place. Usually, a long anime season runs for two seasons (20-25 episodes) so, depending on the production, it is divided into two 10-13-episode cours that can be consecutive (with a 1-2 week break between each cour), or far apart (with an entire season or even longer in betweens, and commonly used for marketing purposes).
Last but not least would be arcs which were most commonly used in production of long-running weekly series (the obvious example being One Piece). But recently, a lot of series have been dividing into "seasonal arcs" (idk how to call them) which are pretty much normal seasons but are named arcs just for marketing purposes most of the time.
In the anime industry is a very common practice to have entirely new opening/ending themes for these different types of renovations which is pretty unusual and mind-blowing compared to the american TV industry where opening/ending sequences are are either 10-15 seconds long or non existent and pretty forgettable outside of some minor exceptions.
As I mentioned, most anime are produced on a seasonal basis so, if you keep reacting to some more openings make sure to check out the seasonals about every 3 months (the summer season just started 2-3 weeks ago).
Again, sorry for the longass comment 😂
Daaaang. Thank you for this detailed breakdown. I really appreciate the time you took to lay this all out. I really appreciate this. Thank you for the insight.
Yeah this is a hell of a good explanation to get a good grasp of everything
With apologies, some minor corrections:
1) VA's singing the opening and ending themes is quite common, even in modern anime. There are numerous examples available, but here's an easy four: _Neon Genesis Evangelion's_ ED has 26 variations from different combinations of the VAs, most of the _-Monogatari_ openings are sung by the arc's focus character VA, _K-ON's_ OPs and EDs are sung by 2 of the VAs, and finally pretty much anything Takahashi Rie is in has the OP and/or ED sung by her. That said, at one time it was very common to just pick an existing song and use that for the opening, regardless of whether or not it really had anything to do with the show. E.g. Coppelia no Hitsugi by Ali Project, used for the OP of _Noir_ but released 2 years before the anime was produced. This practice has mostly died off, starting around the mid-1990s, and most of the songs are now purpose-built for the shows.
2) "Cours" is a French word that means "course". A loanword in Japanese, it's a broadcasting term with the meaning of "quarter year", and while it does equate to climate seasons, it does not correlate well with show seasons. Cours are always 3 months long, and so normally run 10-13 episodes, but a season in the show sense is usually an unbroken broadcasting run. For example, _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ (26 episodes), _Attack on Titan_ S1 (25 Episodes), and _Sword Art Online_ S1 and S2 (25 and 24 episodes, respectively) are all a single show season but 2 broadcasting cours, and similar to western shows these each represent distinct sections of the story. Shows like _Silver Spoon_ and _Spy x Family_ , meanwhile, have 2 single-cours seasons. Notably, though _Silver Spoon_ does not have a split in it's story, so it may be more properly considered a split-cour season, an increasingly common variation in which a single season of a show is split in to two or more cours with an entire cours in between each broadcast cours, commonly cited as a production measure intended to relieve pressure on the production studios, though that wasn't yet the case when _Silver Spoon_ was made. There are also shorter shows, but these are OVAs (Original Video Animation) rather than broadcast tv; the Japanese equivalent of Direct-to-Video but without the corresponding poor quality and cash-grabbiness that the Direct-to-Video represents in the US.
Where things get weird is in the other direction: more traditionally formatted stories often have seasons that run more than two cours because they are set to follow complete story arcs, this is more common in older shows due to the story origins: Recent shows have taken to adapting light novels, which often contain complete story arcs in just a few volumes, leading to the seasonal arcs mentioned above, where as older shows were most commonly adaptations from manga that was published a chapter at a time, weekly or monthly, following either a story-of-the-week style format or something more akin to a soap opera. In fact, the vast majority of older anime were attempts to boost manga sales, and typically only adapted around half of the manga's story so you'd have to go buy the tankoban (collected chapters of the manga published in book form). This, incidentally, is why some anime contain so many filler episodes: the anime was greenlit "too early", and was running ahead of what the base story had published. Examples of shows with these longer seasons include _One Piece_ , with show seasons that have run back to back continuously since 1999 and have variable lengths ranging from the shortest 12th season at 14 episodes to the longest so far 20th season at 197 episodes; _Dragon Ball Super_ , which also ran continuously with seasons corresponding to story arc and ranging from 9 to 55 episodes; and also _Naruto_ and the first 16 seasons of _Bleach_ .
Lastly, some shows skip all of these distinctions and simply run continuously without any regard for cours, seasons, or arcs. _Ranma 1/2_ and _Full Metal Alchemist_ both ran this way.
3) (This isn't an error, just an expansion): it is effectively routine to get a new opening and closing sequence and accompanying song with each show season, and sometimes more frequently if the show has shorter story arcs (like many light novel adaptations) or the producers just felt like changing it more often (e.g. _Chainsaw Man_ has a different ending theme for each of its 12 episodes) although not every show does this ( _Sazae-San_ , which has been in continuous production since 1969, has never changed its opening or ending theme).
loved your reactions, definitely subscribed, cant wait for more. also each op does have a full song but its cut down to 1:30. and some shows do have multiple ops depending on how long the show is
Thank you for the support! Welcome! This is so cool. #1 Sub!
And thank you for the information. I didn’t know that.
@@AnimeKenTV yeah, anime tend to on average introduce new ops every 12ish episodes or every season, they also have ending songs that change with the opening songs. some songs are made specifically for the shows and some are just genuine songs
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is THE show to get into anime. It's not too long and entertaining from start to finish.
Nice!
I mean, to be fair, by anime standards it IS pretty long technically speaking. Yes, there are absurdly long runs in Shounen anime like Naruto/DBZ/One Piece, etc. But most anime don't go past 26 episodes, and FMAB has over 60. That said, I will always recommend it because I still consider it the best anime ever written.
I like the Brotherhood opening theme better than the first FMA show.
It's a good one to start for sure, but you'll probably not find a better show for a long time! A couple have been on par maybe, but I hold it in exordinarily high regards. It doesn't get much closer to perfection to me, in regards to overall enjoyability of it, which pretty much every second of runtime adds to.
@@xDangeRx86But the full song cut to the visuals is even better.
The singer for Tokyo ghoul op is also the guitarist btw
You should check out more of his stuff like psycho pass op1 and op3 and chainsaw man ending 8
That’s insane! So freaking good
@@AnimeKenTV I'd love to see your take on TK's "Katharsis". It's another opening for Tokyo Ghoul (I think for the second season?). It has a lot of that guitar work and, to me, very technically impressive.
amazing editing btw!
🙏
Mashle S2 OP and Oshi no Ko S1 OP are regarded as the best anime openings of 2024 and 2023, respectively. I'd recommend those as they are absolute bangers. Oshi no ko's even made it onto the #1 spot on the Billboard top 100 excluding the U.S. and #7 if the U.S. was included.
I love channels like this that give a musicians perspective on these kinds of things. You got a sub from me 😁
Thank you! Welcome!
kokkoku OP
Dororo OP
Zom 100 OP
Heavenly delusion OP
Banana fish OP1&2
Ranking of kings OP1&2
Please make sure to react.
Watching you from Japan!
Nice! Thank you. I’ll check them out
I second this List, it got a good Variaty of Artists with Miyavi, Queen Bee, Kana-Boon, Bish, Survive said the Prophet, King Gnu and Vaundy!
Heavenly Delusion OP hits so hard, I wouldn't mind the ep8 version of the ending which is so good in my opinion also.
Really wish to see more openings in every video you'll post in the future. I don't mind long videos at all. If you ever wish to just find some more recommendations, I'm here!
Awesome, thank you 🙏
I haven't noticed anyone else say it but I really appreciate your editing, it makes watching the vid even more enjoyable. Can't wait to watch more, earned a Sub!
Oh hi! New subscriber here, you just picked three of my most favourite openings to react to here, and I don't really love music reactions very much, but I just absolutely loved your reaction! Thank you! :)
anime series total lengths:
OVAs/anime-films-movies: 1-4 episodes/OVAs
very short: ~ 3-6 episodes
short: ~ 12 episodes
medium: ~ 24-30 episodes
long: ~ 50-60 episodes
very long: 100+ episodes
a "season" can be the 'short' (~12 episodes) or 'medium' (~ 24-30 episodes), depending on the anime series' total length size and/or whether it's old (you see more of the 'medium' = ~ 24-30 episodes for their seasons, usually only having 2 seasons in total) vs new anime (usually broken up into the 'short' = ~ 12 episodes, for its seasons, though maybe the 'very long' anime series, it might have its seasons broken up into the medium = ~ 24-30 episodes)
each "season" usually has its (a) own (new): op and ed
(an episode is usually ~30 mins, but sometimes an episode is ~60 mins or ~15 mins)
Wow! This is a bit complicated. I’m sure it’s easier to follow the more you’re into it?
OVAs can be whatever episodes, some has 12 just like a regular season. Original Video Anime just means that it's not aired in TV. However, most of the time it's just a side story content so it usually has short episodes.
You will completely LOVE Minami - waiting for the rain. It's an OP but I forgot the name of the anime. I became a fan of her ever since.
The Anime is called "Domestic Girlfriend" and yes Minami is a Treasure.
I heard some great openings this time. My recommendations will be the openings for Baccano, cowboybebop and souleater.
The opening of Shangri-La Frontier is also incredibly "METAL". I highly suggest you that one. I also love the opening of Claymore. Also the openings of Berserk, Terraformars, Black Lagoon, Parasyte, Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) season 2, Boku no Hero Academia season 4, Mirai Nikki, Black Clover opening with its tapping session... And a lot more ;)
Some anime Openings I recommend:
· Noragami Aragoto OP ("Kyouran Hey Kids" by THE ORAL CIGARETTES)
· Heavenly Delusion OP ("Innocent Arrogance" by BiSH)
· Kengan Ashura Season 2 OP ("RED" by SiM)
· Apothecary Diaries OP ("be a flower" by Ryokuoushoku Shakai)
· Chainsawman 2nd ED ("Time Left" by ZUTOMAYO) >>> this one is not an Opening but ending theme, and it's really good in terms of the instrumentation IMO
Love when new people get into anime good luck on your journey ❤
iKr ! ... hope he is still into it, no new uploads in the past 9 days =(
some artist specifically make songs for animes but even than, the are shortened to fit the opening. means you would find a full version to almost every anime opening out there. And if you like any opening I recommend listening to the full versions, ;) can't even count, how many different full versions I've got in my playlist, while Eve (also made a few opening and ending songs) is definitely my most favorite japanese singer and songwriter^^
Interesting
Hey man, great reaction. Really loved your breakdown of the songs and how you reacted to each one.
Couple of opening suggestions which I find musically really interesting: Erased op1 (op being opening in case you are unfamiliar), Jujutsu Kaisen op 3, Frieren op2, Chainsaw Man op1, One Piece op 26 and Call of the night op1. These are some of my personal favourites and I find them to be fairly popular (except for the last one). Keep it brother! 💪
Tokyo Ghoul will always have a special place in my heart ❤️
this is ur first video and started killing it, there is a journey and you will not regret the wonders of music in anime openings and endings i cant wait for you to check the other ones and attack on titan and vinland saga im hyped
I reccomend Ado. Is not about anime openings (per se), but just an amazing japanese singer. A few of my favorite songs would be:
Crime and punishment
Gira gira
RuLe
i definitely subbed, i love the vibe and content. Keep it up man
Paradox - Survive Said the Prophet
Under the Tree - Sim
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47k views in your first vid? Huge Congratulations man. I love watching reactions, and I think you succeed because your versatility, doing a quick reaction while you make a few comments is what people love to see. Greetings from Argentina
Here is a list of anime openings that you would really likem being a metal Guitarist and all:
Chainsaw man opening 1
Chainsaw man ending 3 and 8 (every ending is fire there are 12)
Death note opening 1 and 2
Vinland saga opening 1 and 4
Parasyte opening 1
every fcking Black Clover opening
Fullmetal alchemist opening 2
and one of my favorites, attack on titan opening 7 (or opening 2 of the final season, they're the same)
maybe you can do a whole video reacting to only the chainsaw man endings and a whole video reacting to all black clover openings.
I swear reacting to anime openings will get you massive views
Awesome, thank you. I’ll probably do full videos just to all opening of a specific show with what I’ve been seeing recommended
Tokyo ghoul opening unravel will always be my one of the favourite anime opening ❤
Try Reacting to Legend of the Galactic Heroes Die Neue These Opening And Endings
Thank you, I'll put that on schedule.
Excellent first video! Looking forward to more!
And I'm assuming you've been told this 1000x by now in the comments, but each "season" (usually 10-13 episodes) tends to have a new opening song with new visuals.
Thank you! Yes, the comment section has been very helpful in helping me learn
Chainsaw man opening 1
Chainsaw man ending 3 (there is 12 endings in total but this one is the most interesting in my opinion, but u can react to all of them)
Bleach op 2, 12 and 13
Black clover (all opening are great and have great guitar parts as well)
Gintama ending 17 (love this one personally)opening 13 is also good tho.
Bakmonogatari name of the song is “sugar sweet nightmare” (Warning, there is some “questionable stuff” in the opening visually so maybe just react to the song without the video)
One piece (all openings are great)
86 opening 1
Mashle season 2 opening 1
One punch man opening 1 (the guitar here is crazy 🤯)
Noragami opening 2 (again guitar is crazy here)
Naruto (my favourite ending and overall song, is called freedom by home made Kazoku, it’s fantastic and very underrated)
Naruto, blue bird, silhouette and lover are all great op.
Cyberpunk edgerunners op 1 (very good guitar again)
From what I remember all of this openings have great guitar parts in them so pls enjoy ;)
Oh wow! There’s a lot to go over haha. I’ll add them to the list
bake op is a insane rec for a new fan lmao💀
@@SpoiledMilk321 it could have been renai circulation bro…💀
This was my anime newby friendly option 😐
@@KoiR2Y2 just mean the visuals are wild lol
@@SpoiledMilk321 oh that’s what you meant hahaha. Are they? if I remember correctly they’re not that bad…
Who knew I'd find music enthusiasts reactions and appreciation to anime intros entertaining? Fun times. Alot of these were throw backs for me. Thanks for the shot of nostalgia.
I would encourage you to check out the Unravel (Tokyo Ghoul opening) cover by Ado, especially live version. Although it's very faithful cover in terms of instrumentals it evokes totally different emotions. TK (original singer) is great, but I personally think Ado just suits the song better. She also made the opening for Spy x Family season 2 "Kura Kura" and songs for One Piece Film: Red.
Lastly, I'd recommend checking out full versions of opening songs, they're usually better.
If you liked the OP from Tokyo ghoul I recommend the first opening of Psycho Pass, it's called abnormalize. Also the album it comes from I'mperfect is a hidden gem
jjk、aot
Will do
@@AnimeKenTV Most comments recommended good openings but they're all over the place.
I would recommend you do all openings of a single show (the most popular animes). And the best one to start would be AOT (attack on titan), it's one of the most famous animes.
You can searh "AOT openings reaction" on youtube and you'll see there's thousands of reactions because it's very popular and the openings are amazing.
Love seeing your music analysis
Thank you :)
I'm here for the start of your channel!
SUBSCRIBED. Looking forward to your content.
Thank you
Done subscribed bro. Keep on doing these reactions. I'll support you😊❤. Love from Malaysia❤
Great video, checked your channel for more to binge and I was really surprised that this was your first! Keep it up!
if you haven't already, you should watch the full version of Unravel (tokyo ghoul) and the first take if you want.
You should do individual artists. LiSa, Kenshi Yonezu, Mindaryn. Loads more to hear
Man i love this reactions, keep doing this :D.
Damn, welcome to the rabbit hole! :D
It's always fascinating to see reactions of someone new to the anime, subbed :)
Again by Yui as the first one?! Omgggg YESSSS!!!!
Thank you for giving them a shot! Welcome to the rabbit hole! A bunch of really good bands, singers, musicians and anime in this "little" genre! (Ado, Minami and Babymetal are insane too)
Anime will very often have one or two opening and closing theme songs each season. Sometimes there will be a 'sad' and 'happy' closing theme song that changes based on how the episode ended. Anime is rich with good music.
Well if you want some recommendations:
I personally think the full songs are always the best, but I'll limit myself to stuff with openings (shorter versions too) here
Diver (Opening 8 of Naruto Shippuden) Artist: NICO Touches the Walls
Absolute zero (Openin 1 of Wind Breaker) Artist: Natori
Yoru wa Nemurerukai? (Opening 1 of Aijn) Artist: Flumpool
Contradiction (Opening 2 of Durarara) Artist: ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D
Uragiri no Yuuyake (Opening 1 of Durarara) Artist: Theatre Brook
Lost in Paradise (Ending 1 of Jujutsu Kaisen) Artist: Ali, Aklo
Flashback (Opening 1 of Kokkoku) Artist: MIYAVI
Gospel of the Throttle (Opening 1 of Drifters) Artist: Minutes Til Midnight
I do have more if you want, but I didn't want to write down a list of like... 80+ songs randomly.
Anyway, have a nice day.
Wow! Thank you 🙏
@@AnimeKenTV You‘re welcome. Always appreciate when people start to get into this side of music, cause it‘s pretty damn good.
if your a metal guitarist, listen to hunting from your dreams from galneryus, its the hunter x hunter 2nd ending but the full song is amazing!!!
thank you for doing this!
i highly recommend you look up "Crying for rain" by Minami. One of the best anime OP of all time her vocals are insane.
5:13 the amount of openings normally depends on the number of episodes the anime has. Most anime have 12 episodes but ocasionally there's some with 24 or so and the opening changes on the midway point. Also every season has a different opening.
Baselines are overlooked so often in these but honestly JPop and JRock have some crazy cool funky baselines
The singerfor the 2nd OP is LiSA she's the Queen of OP's, she's insanely popular artist in Japan.
I did not see it in the top comments so I will say that with op (opening song) there are also ending songs with each anime. They are more winding down songs so not usually as hype.
You're a metal guitarist and your friends never told you about metal Anime Intro songs? Well i'm mad. lmao.
Recommendations:
1# SiM - Rumbling (Attack on Titan)
2# Maximum the Hormone - What's up people? (Death Note Opening 2)
3#Jam Project - The HERO (One Punch man opening)
None metal but GREAT anime music theme:
Yugo Kanno - Giorno's Theme (il vento d'oro) | from Jojo's Bizzare Adventures
lol right?! What a bunch of turds! Haha. To be fair they’re not big metalheads. I’ll have to check these out.
@@AnimeKenTV I also would like to say that if you want to start watching Anime. Attack on Titan is a very great choice. It has a very great story and animation. Just a bit of warning that this might set your bars very high in terms of standards for anime.
ONE PUUUUUUUNCH!
@AnimeKenTV Bleach Battle theme (Number One it's called afaik), Vinland Saga outro #1 (milet: drown) and the Deadman Wonderland intro (one reason feat. Fade) are a few from the top of my head that you might like.
If you liked Tokyo Ghoul opening, try reacting to a cover by Ado. search Ado Unravel live version.
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Good vibes content. Great stuff
😊 thank you 🙏
i love the guitar of the american "anime" called RWBY, songs like "this will be the day", "armed and ready", "bad luck charm" and "i may fall" are just ON POINT to rock n roll ❤️🔥🇧🇷
The identical stank face i had when listening to the demon slayer op for the first time 😂
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side note you gotta check out the live cover version of unravel (tokyo ghoul openinng) by Ado its too good!
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I would check out the Overlord openings, all 4 are really good and have great guitar parts. The most technical opening I've heard is the one from Land of the Lustrous. I'd watch it if you want to be blown away by insane rhythms and parts working together, but I don't find it as catchy as most others even if it is insanely impressive.
Nice! Added to the list
Soul land opening is just ABSOLUTELY AMAZING -> "Brake the Cocoon" by Angela Zhang (this is one hell of an intro song)
Log Horizon is also amazing -> "Database" by Man with a Mission
and "Inuyashiki" with same band making the music - "Hero" by Man with a Mission
Songs are generally made for the specific anime. Sometimes they have extended versions. Anime in general often change the opening and ending songs per season. Tokyo Ghoul was popular, but didn’t follow the source material. So it kinda went the wayside. Check out the underrated Noragami opening 1, Fire force first season opening and closing and blood blockade battlefront opening 1.
Vinland Saga OP1 and My Hero Acadmeia OP1 have some sick guitar stuff!
Yes, Shows will sometimes have multiple openings in a single season, keep the same one all the way to the end, or (more usually) make an opening per season.
Crying for rain, unravle, let me hear. Are three very popular ones that are a good jump off point
I’ll have to check these out as well.
Yes, multiple openings is a common thing in anime. Usually every new season gets a new opening. Sometimes there are two openings per season to separate the story arcs. Arc separation via opening also applies to the series with a lot of episodes. For example, Naruto Shippuden has 500 episodes and 20 openings. However in these cases this can also be done simply to entertain viewers.
As for recommendations:
Vinland Saga, Cowboy bebop, Trigun (both original and Stampede) Jujutsu Kaisen, JoJo's bizarre adventures and Attack on titan
Dang! 20 openings! lol that’s a whole video for sure
@@AnimeKenTV Technically 29, cause the original Naruto has 9.
"So i'm a spider so what" OP 1, OP 2. ED 1, ED2! a lot of metal
Every anime usually has a new opening and ending every season, which is usually 11-13 episodes (1 cour).
Some shows that are longer (2 cour) at 24-26 episodes end up having a new opening and ending on the next episode after the 1st cour to keep with the theme.
On some rare occasions, some shows do this on 6 episodes / mid season if the story is progressing fast.
@4:45 - the songs are usually full length songs, however for the shows they take like 1:30 - 2mins worth of it kind of like real tv shows only using riffs / chorus of songs.
You can pretty much find out any song from an opening / ending and you will find a full length song by an actual metal / pop or other artist that has a music video like any other song.
Im really lookin forward to your videos ;)))
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Sometimes, artists make songs specifically for the anime (e.g.: Idol for Oshi no ko, which is also a fantastic opening). Sometimes, the songs are just used. Almost always, they are arranged specific for the anime, which almost always have 90s openings. And yes, there are multiple openings per show. Typically, a single opening will be used for a "cour" where a "cour" may be 1/2 season or full season, depending on the number of episodes contracted for the season. Typically, that translates to an opening being used for 12-13 episodes.
Love the reaction. I recommend all the openings for Attack on TItan. All of them are bangers. The same goes for the endings for chainsawman (Each episode has its own ending song and animation. There are 12 episodes). Would be nice reactions
I’ve been seeing this, will have to do that
It's always nice to see someone new getting into the anime scene! Anime music, and just Japanese music in general, is absolutely fantastic. There's so much variety in openings across different series and shows, not to mention endings and OSTs (original soundtracks). I'll recommend a couple I personally enjoy the most.
Fire Force Openings 1-4
Every single Fire Force opening is amazing, but Inferno and Torch of Liberty (1 and 4) are my personal favorites
Black Clover Openings 1-13
Again, every opening is amazing, but Black Rover and Black Catcher (3 and 10) are by far the best.
Frieren Opening 2
This one's pretty new, but I find it to be nice and relaxing. It's also got a really unique chorus.
Haikyuu Openings 1-7
Haikyuu is one of my favorite shows and has some of the best hype songs of any show out there. Fly High, Hikariare, and Phoenix (4, 5, and 6) are the best imo.
Jujutsu Kaisen Openings 1-4
They're all really unique, but Kaikai Kitan and Ao no Sumika (1 and 3) are incredible.
Soul Eater Opening 2
One of my favorite songs in general. It has a unique feeling to it that just hits different.
Fullmetal Alchemist Opening 4
Fullmetal Alchemist is a bit weird in the fact that there are two separate series that have different openings and story beats. You reacted to FMA Brotherhood's opening, which is usually the preferred version of Fullmetal. The original series has some solid openings, but opening 4 just hits with some incredible 2000s J-Rock nostalgia.
Your Name OST:
This one isn't an opening, but it's an amazing song from an anime movie. Zenzenzense is probably my favorite song in general right now.
I hope you enjoy your anime journey! As a first video, this is pretty high quality stuff. I have a feeling I'll see this channel grow pretty quickly!
Nice! 🔥 Thank you for this detailed breakdown. I’ll definitely put a video together for these.
also the ALL the gundam ops they go as far back too 80s when it started and each one are FIRE its a long videos but WORTH IT
Will add these as well lol
When the show goes to a series of episodes the opening and closing songs change the numbering is just there for easy reference. I like the “Diver - Nico touches the walls”
You should check the opening from "Rainbow"
man you should check "Deadman wonderland" opening. as a metal musician you will LOVE it
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I wish to follow this road with you, loved your reaction
Thank you! Welcome!
I would highly recommend Yanagi Nagi - Aqua Terrarium (Nagi no Asukara Ost. Ending Theme). Something quite different, mesmerizing.
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Its heavy/death metal opening from anime attack on titan...
That sounds awesome
This is my first video i've seen of you, and you seem to be very good at editing !
If I had one advice it would be to stop switching scenes every few seconds, while it does create movement and makes it more "entertaining" for ADHD people, I feel like it's too frequent, I wouldn't say to stop alltogether but tone it down a little !
Now you camera placement is very good, like it doesn't really get in the way of what you're reacting to imo.
I hope you do more in the future as it was entertaining :)
My suggestions would be to react to some more OSTs than just openings, for example I really like the Kaiki Deishu theme "Imitation" from the monogatari series, Kaiki is a very mysterious and "conman" that is in the morally grey spectrum, being either a nice protagonist, or a cunning antagonist. I don't know if you would like it as a Guitarist but you might find something enjoyable out of it !
Awesome, thank you for this feedback. I'll work on it. I appreciate the insight as well. :)
Very nice video for a first video👍
Thank you 😁
There's so many amazing anime openings and endings. There's everything, like sometimes great songs in not so great anime and not so great song in great anime.
I recommend that you check out the full versions of the songs, because there's usually a lot that can't fit into 1:30.
I love the little anime intro you have at the start
many others have already explained it but yes these are full songs but at the same time they're also produced specifically for the anime too
however the lyrics tends to be broad and vague that they can be applied to many situations and projects and because they rarely ever make direct references to the actual anime they are produced for that with the exception of pokemon, off the top of my head only some openings to jojo's bizarre adventure and garo carved seal of flames specifically references the anime they were made for and thats because the modern jojo anime adaption is from a manga that originated in 1987 while garo carved seal of flames is the first anime entry into japan's garo franchise which is basically a tokusatsu franchise with tokusatsu being a genre that started in the late 1950s and japanese media back then had openings to not just anime but even live action tv, movies etc using songs that did directly reference the work they were produced for so the jojo and garo anime doing so could more or less be a homage to their origins
Oh boy have you opened a rabbit hole, I was going to scroll through and see what hasn't been mentioned yet but deserves a listen but there's way too many hahah.
So I'm gonna try to recommend some that I haven't seen in there, but there's a solid chance I missed it.
- Kuroko no Basket Openings, if anything at least Opening 2 "The Other Self" but they're all great
- Sousei no Onmyouji (Twin Star Exorcists) Openings
- Re:Creators Openings
- Rainbow Opening
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Opening 1
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Opening 2
- Qualidea Code Openings (same artist as the first opening of Demon Slayer, but often overlooked)
- Strike the Blood Openings a lot of people know the original 2 but the way the following seasons aired (as in like an episode every few months) the openings for Season 2-4 are really overlooked. If anything please react to Strike the Blood III Opening, most of them are by the same artist but that one is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated openings out there
- Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry Opening
- Re Hamatora Opening
I could honestly go on and on but I'll leave it at that :')