Ha. haha. Think that's bad? Then there was Higurashi Kira
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I don't see the problem. An obnoxious, horrible, ear-bleeding crap song for an obnoxious, horrible crap spinoff.
I hate Higurashi Kira BTW.
Ha. haha. Think that's bad? Then there was Higurashi Kira
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I don't see the problem. An obnoxious, horrible, ear-bleeding crap song for an obnoxious, horrible crap spinoff.
I hate Higurashi Kira BTW.
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I don't see the problem. An obnoxious, horrible, ear-bleeding crap song for an obnoxious, horrible crap spinoff.
I hate Higurashi Kira BTW.
Oh well yeah I completely agree. What I'm saying is that the opening gives the Higurashi license IN GENERAL a bad name and therefore is a highly unfitting OP. Better yet they should just have not made the whole OVA in the first place. At the very least with Rei there was a serious story in between the stupid fanservice eps.
Did anyone besides my old high school anime club care about Stellvia of the Universe? We were heartbroken when the director said he wasn't making either a Nadesico 2 or a Stellvia 2. Nadesico I mean yeah whatever it was great but it also ended pretty much fine, but Stellvia left some pretty big plot threads hanging out to dry even though it had a decent ending. Anyway I really liked it, and I really like Angela and all her SF anime OPs. Too bad the opening video was lazy as hell. Every clip is from the first episode, most without filters or anything. It looks like the most basic kind of AMV. 'Okay let's split it into multiple screens in time to the music and sync up some of the stuff aaaaaand done'. They don't even bother changing it until almost the end of the series… at which point they just use other clips from the rest of the series and turn it all red. Wow. Stellvia was a big underdog series and never got the attention it deserved. Maybe because the OP video sucked so much.
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Soon as I saw this thread, the thing that immediately came to mind was Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin. In the "just plain unfitting"-category, what with both openings being epic, hot-blooded optimistic rock-songs showing humanity fighting back against the titular Titans… Now yes, the show is about humanity fighting back against the Titans, but songs this badass do not fit at all for a series as bleak as this one. I mean, the second opening
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Lol. It's funny cause I actually really started to like that opening. I hated it at first but then it suddenly clicked with me despite the sort if out of place tones at the very beginning.
This thread… damn, so depressing, all these mismatched openings... yet all I can think of is how the new Jojo series had the most fitting openings ever. I mean DAMN, first one was manly as hell and the second one was just so... FABULOUS!
Lol. It's funny cause I actually really started to like that opening. I hated it at first but then it suddenly clicked with me despite the sort if out of place tones at the very beginning.
Oh, it's a fantastic opening in its own right. It's just… way too hot-blooded considering the show it's attached to. But both AoT-openings are really, really, really cool.
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Oh, it's a fantastic opening in its own right. It's just… way too hot-blooded considering the show it's attached to. But both AoT-openings are really, really, really cool.
I got caught up last week on the anime and just now finished getting caught up on the manga. So I'm on a AOT high right now. I even have one of the OST songs as a ring tone lol.
I really like both openings now, but I can not get behind those ending songs. But I'm hardly ever a fan of the lovely/depressing ending songs. Also I'm so tired of people walking slowly through grass and trees…
I got caught up last week on the anime and just now finished getting caught up on the manga. So I'm on a AOT high right now. I even have one of the OST songs as a ring tone lol.
I really like both openings now, but I can not get behind those ending songs. But I'm hardly ever a fan of the lovely/depressing ending songs. Also I'm so tired of people walking slowly through grass and trees…
It's a cut-throat strategy by the anime companies. They get you all hyped up for their show with a hot-blooded opening, then when the episode is over they don't want you to watch whatever other company's anime comes next so they put in a really boring ending so you don't feel like watching anything after it.
It's a cut-throat strategy by the anime companies. They get you all hyped up for their show with a hot-blooded opening, then when the episode is over they don't want you to watch whatever other company's anime comes next so they put in a really boring ending so you don't feel like watching anything after it.
Or, y'know, they put some random pop-song both for the opening and ending so as to promote the artist and get some money off the CD-sales… I don't think any companies specifically try to get a dull ending-theme. And for that matter, how is Attack on Titan's second ending dull? I mean, I can't claim to like it very much, but it's certainly not boring. Oh and the first ending also kinda kicks that term to the curb once the chorus comes around. Ironically that was when that song kinda lost me, because I thought the slow emotional bit was really, really effective.
…And this suddenly reminded me of Clannad After Story, with its extremely peppy and upbeat ending-theme. Which half the time came like a second after something horribly dramatic or sad happened. The mood whiplash of that ending-theme was just ridiculous.
Sorry I was actually just making a joke I don't actually believe anime companies do that on purpose.
I love Tales of Hearts. I love the opening of Tales of Hearts and all other Tales openings. So why am I bringing this up in the unfitting OPs thread? Well, here's the original DS opening of Tales of Hearts:
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aaaaand here's the Vita version
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So. You do a great remake of an RPG essentially from the ground up, and then you decide to skimp on the opening and not only use the same one, but not even try to hide the fact that you're trying to cram a two-screen opening onto a single screen. It's awkward and half-baked and lazy. Speaking of the last few lines of the song (heart to heart) there's a song called Heart to Heart that I like from a game I don't
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To Heart is famous for being the strangely normal franchise from Leaf, who previously only made extremely high-concept visual novels. In contrast, To Heart is a no-concept visual novel. You literally just go to school, meet some girls, listen to their stories, have them fall in love with you (thanks in no part to the character you play, who is always thick, lazy, robotic, and a little like that guy from Birdemic). If within the first fifteen minutes of the game you aren't saying "Oh man I can't wait to see love blossom between my character and Konomi!" then you should just stop playing. There is nothing else in the game to keep you interested aside from the girls and their terribly mundane stories. At least To Heart 1 had a robot girl and an occult maniac to spice things up.
The best thing Leaf did for To Heart was To Heart Dungeon Travelers, a dungeon RPG for the PSP that punished anyone who bought it for the cute girls with insane difficulty and frustrating mechanics. It was a great game that literally mocked fans of the visual novel.
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Muuuuuch better.
I keep reading that the Vita version squandered the original ds version a bit and I probably have to agree on that regarding the opening that dual screen stuff is kind of neat. It's a shame really I don't think I can deal with low res Kanji. That can be quite the pain if a high strokes one comes around that I don't know.
So if I ever get to Hearts it will be the Vita version.
Cool write up that thing about the dungeon RPG VN trolling sounds hilarious.
Songs You Like From Shows You Don't: "Waltz" (Honey and Clover ED) and "Split" (Honey and Clover II ED) by Suneohair.
Surprissed no one has mentioned Yu-Yu Hakusho yet.
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(I could only find the dubbed version in decent quality) I mean, YYH gets hella dark at points. You go from this cheery opening song to stuff like Sensui trying to bring about the apocalypse. I mean, the opening itself doesn't even fit the song, being all J-popy while demons are mutilated by the protagonists.
Also, Ghost Stories' ending
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Let's have a show marketed towards kids end with a song called "Sexy Sexy". FUND IT. PRINT IT. IT'S GOLDEN.