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.
Global Musicians Crown Evangelion's 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis' The Greatest Anime Song Ever - Animehunch
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Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 hours ago
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
You almost can’t get a more generic list tbh
keimevo@lemmy.world 1 day 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).
isekaihero@ani.social 22 hours ago
Better than Ghost in the Shell’s SAC opening “Inner Universe” by Yoko Kano? I think not.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 day ago
Ts is so mid
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.
isekaihero@ani.social 22 hours ago
Best anime opening ever: youtu.be/xNkmz_sF-tE Best anime closing ever: youtu.be/UptDZeIeVOI
Top 20:
Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don’t see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno’s ‘Tank!’.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I find yhe lack of cowboy bebop on that list concerning
kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They should specify “Besides Cowboy Bebop”
Also I think at least one song in Samurai Champloo deserves a spot. Some bangers in that
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No Tank no thanks.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day 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 Evangeline
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
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
And nostalgia bias
scytale@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Agreed. Also, no Mawatari Matsuko for all the Yuyu Hakusho songs. And even with recency bias, “il vento d’oro” (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) by Yugo Kanno should also be there.
zabadoh@ani.social 1 day ago
There seems to be recency bias, and classic anime , and Ghibli OPs over quality.
I’ll take Kiseki No Umi/Record Of Lodoss War OP
and
Heavenly Blue/Aldnoah.Zero OP1
and
Majokko Megu-chan
or any of those OPs by Creepy Nuts: Call Of The Night, Mashle, Dan Da Dan
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nothing by FLOW?
slander
Ignis@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
I haven’t even watched the show, but you can’t convince me the OP for Hunter X Hunter isn’t in the top five, yet alone the top 20.
jansk@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Recency bias? Only one of the top 5 is less than 15 years old.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
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.
scytale@piefed.zip 1 day ago
The Real Folk Blues is my pick for a Cowboy Bebop song.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 day 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.