Best and Worst Opening Montages

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Basically this. I like it when the opening theme song incorporates original animation just made for the show, rather than clip from episodes that don't even air on the network before that, since some of them seem spoilerish, and some seem lazy.

Though as pointed out by Tae, long as it is the same quality animation that is used in the show, I don't care if it is misleading *Looking at you, NARUTO OP and ED themes!!!* It is also one of my irks with Dragon Ball Kai tbh. I like the theme and the animation, I just find the animation used in it to be a bit of a tease considering that the animation in that is.

Also the main characters, like everyone that appears in every episode or following episode since their priemiere, should be in the shows theme at all times, and side character depends on how important they are on the plot if you ask me, which is why I like some of Pokemon Japanese themes.


I guess for montage clips I like, I guess I like Kim Possible since it did kind of seem actiony and didn't annoy me that much. My least favorite at the moment is, the Opening to Pokemon: Galactic Battles, I thought that it was a good song, though the fact that the theme is mostly clips for Episodes that seem like an AMV slapped together in 5 minutes in WMM, seems lazy if you ask me.
 
I'm not fond of openings that use clip shows. If there's one thing I love about anime is their openings, which makes the show look intense fun and exciting, even if the animation in the show isn't as good.
 
Well usually if i don't like the theme i don't like the sequence either... they usually go together... But putting aside the theme (though not saying i dislike the theme) and focusing on the sequence itself i guess my fav ones would be the original Spiderman, The Simpsons, Fillmore!, Daria, Stickin' Around, Hey Arnold!, Pepper ann, Kim Possible and Courage the Cowardly Dog
 
I don't care for in-show footage intros, but for the cream of the crop in original animated intro montages, I gotta go old school:

Bionic Six - Ridiculously badass, feature-quality animation, motorcycles, robots, explosions, space stations, one of the best-looking run cycles I've EVER scene, and two city-sized spaceships colliding in mid-air while the main cast stands on a nearby mountaintop to watch. Good luck topping it. You won't.

Thundercats - Again, brilliant animation. It's the speed and conviction that really sells this one, though. If the entire show had been storyboarded and animated that ferocity, half of us would be dead. The other half would still be in a coma.

C.O.P.S. - The intro to that cartoon is a How-To guide for cartoon intros. Just follow the steps and you can't miss. Not only does it spotlight EVERY character (including the villains), it does so in the most inventive ways. And tell me you don't love that moment when Rockcrusher and Miss Demeanor run out of a bank after having just robbed it, and they pick up a whole cop car and throw up up onto an overpass! You know what? You CAN'T!
 
Batman: TAS - for reasons previously stated by others in this thread.

X-Men: TAS - It included all of the main characters and had arguably the best use of synthesizer music ever in any cartoon. Just awesome!

Animaniacs - Still to this day, the most pop culturally sophisticated cartoon opening I've ever seen. Bill Clinton + pay for play contracts = sophisticated and hilarious. And don't forget the last little rhyme (each episode had it's own unique one) after "Animaney, totally insaney..." before finally restating the title (examples: Citizen Kaney; Where's Lon Chaney?).
 
Death Note - I actually preferred the first opening; the second seems all over the place.

X-Men: TAS - very well done, I also liked the revamp we got towards the series' end.

Batman Beyond - seriously, tell me the last few shots aren't the stuff of pure genius.
 
Gotta agree with you on that one. Although the episodes themselves are somewhat dated; the opening was awesome.

ExoSquad - always like the characters of the series were in the montage. You got a sense of what each character's personalities were like in the small clips that were shown. Seem to remember both a musical montage and a voice montage.

Batman Beyond - for reasons already stated
Batman: The Animated Series - for reasons already stated
 
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