Attack on Music: Is Shingeki no Kyojin’s First Opening Iconic?

Once upon a time, I tried to tackle a multi-post blog series analyzing the music of anime openings. That fizzled out for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that I lost sight of what I was originally arguing. However, my argument from the first post is pretty easy to conceptualize. There, I noted… Continue reading Attack on Music: Is Shingeki no Kyojin’s First Opening Iconic?

Sailor Moon Returns in 2013: 3 hopes and dreams for the new series

According to Anime News Network, a new anime adaptation of Sailor Moon is set to air next summer. The only details released so far are that it won’t be a feature-length film and that Momoiro Clover Z, the group that created “Moonlight Densetsu,” will sing the opening for the new series. Rumor has it that this is… Continue reading Sailor Moon Returns in 2013: 3 hopes and dreams for the new series

Musical Attraction: Anime OPs and the Series They Represent (part 2.1)

We had some great discussion last time in the comments about anime OPs and I got some fantastic suggestions to add to the list. John Samuel mentioned the OPs for some great older series: Key the Metal Idol, Dirty Pair TV, Record of Lodoss Wars, and Serial Experiments Lain. I’ve heard of all except the… Continue reading Musical Attraction: Anime OPs and the Series They Represent (part 2.1)

Musical Attraction: Anime OPs and the Series They Represent (part 1)

The OP is often the first experience we have of an anime. It’s meant to ease us into the anime’s story and it usually tells us what kind of story we’re about to experience. From the video, we can glean major plot twists and guess how the characters are related to each other. The video… Continue reading Musical Attraction: Anime OPs and the Series They Represent (part 1)