First Time Reacting to "Shakugan No Shana Openings (1-7)" | New Anime Fan! | ANIME REACTION

[@GOTGames]

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[@GenuisSocietyNo83Herta]

Just hearing light my fire 🔥 opening 6 and serment op 7 made my day 😍😍

[@ПётрНауменко-т4з]

definently check Endongs ED1 are extremely great!!!

[@rayzen119]

Maybe do Zero No Tsukaima openings next? It's in the same era as Shakugan no Shana and has the same art style for its characters, it's also one of the OG Isekais. xD

[@GenuisSocietyNo83Herta]

@@rayzen119 and it's hilarious since both fmc is voiced by same VA 🤣

[@ПётрНауменко-т4з]

This dont have so much sad moments. Mostly in first season. But its preatty good and COMPLETE story with only 3 seasons with 24 episodes each.

[@SavvisGeo]

This anime is an old hidden gem It's a supernatural romance with a lot of action.

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

I liked most of it, but it started feeling like it was dragging on and on and I thought the ending was "meh". Not as bad as the season 2 of "Freezing" though. I always recommend season 1 to people, but tell them to ignore season 2 since it just adds more questions and generally isn't very good story wise. "Season 2 doesn't exist."🤣

[@ElPsyCongroooooo]

​@@Sgt_SealCluber because it certainly did drag on. They stretched the content in season 1&2 and added slice of life and then rushed the ending in season 3 (or so the novel readers told me). I got some closure by reading the "real (not rushed) ending" but don´t remember if it was manga or a translation in some forum. I was just happy that J.C.Staff actually finished a series....

[@fipse]

@@Sgt_SealCluber I was in love with that anime back then but S3....well I really hated it.

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

Well I leave my response to a now removed comment about me thinking the ending was "meh" here anyway: I can remember so much of the body of the series, but I can't recall the ending very well. It just wasn't very memorable. I wasn't unhappy with the ending though I wasn't overjoyed with the ending either, hence "meh". It's kinda the same as with the ending of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" movie. I thought the main body of the film was good, but the ending left me going "meh". Of course these are just my personal opinions and art/media is partially subjective.

[@nutjobification]

​@@ElPsyCongroooooo never read the manga. Would you recommend it

[@MChen-vq7lx]

You shouldn't miss out on the endings of shakugan no shana. "I'll believe" is my personal favourite.

[@razna18]

Yes I love too this song.

[@athanasiosdemertzis8847]

I second this notion.

[@jiayi2650]

Same. S3 eds are still in my playlist today

[@CallumDowney]

Highly agree and I'll believe could've easily been an op with how good it is.

[@matoiyomi_0104]

A certified Shakugan no Shana classic

[@smlemk42]

The singer, Mami Kawada, actually retired back in 2016. She still write music. Her last song was for a docomo phone ad I believe. She was known to be more of a Trance / EDM singer Mami Kawada would also considered one of those singers that help elevated the whole Anison into full main stream jpop. Artists like LiSA and other started their career when Mami peaked. You might say Mami was once an anchor for that type of music.

[@grumpygizmo7199]

KOTOKO was also the singer of half of these openings.

[@jhomsubiaga-cabaro5715]

Namie Amuro, Yui, Mami Kawada and Aimer Younha, BoA are Goats of Anison and Jpop

[@B1gboy224]

OMG please make this a trend. shakugan no shana deserve this !!!!

[@GOTGames]

👀

[@hanseldepotchi984]

This is such a classic. It feels nostalgic for me cuz this is one of my childhood. Shana is really a cool character for me at that time and still is.

[@dergrossekaiser]

the anime is finished with 72 episodes and completed story. It's basicly about magical warriors named 'flame haze' fighting monsters who are eating human souls. normal humans don't know about that because the flame haze manipulate reality by reparing damages or creating substitute humans, the torches. the story follows the torch sakai yuji meeting the flame haze shana. i would recommend the ending songs as well.

[@GOTGames]

Actually sounds pretty awesome

[@franespejo5302]

@@GOTGames Maybe a little late to add to this, but Torches are not really substitute humans. They have the physical appearance and memories of a person whose soul was eaten by monsters, but they have a source of limited energy and as this energy fades little by little, people who knew that person forgets them little by little until the Torch runs out of energy and vanishes completely, but nobody remembers them anymore. Torches exist to soften the cosmic impact of a person suddenly disappearing due to the depredation of monsters.

[@eddythefool]

​@@franespejo5302more like they're the leftover fragments of a person that was consumed since they're not the original but they were made with the original's fragments of existence.

[@eddythefool]

​@@GOTGamesthis anime can be considered the one that repopularized the trope of the powered individual getting together with the unpowered regular person since after it hit it big there was a lot of anime with the same concept again.

[@reruarikushiteru]

Shakugan no Shana is that one anime I watched in like middle school and just don't even try to rewatch to not destroy good memories Special ending "u/n" by Mami Kawada is also worth checking out

[@Ultimate_Kevin]

它是我看的第一部动漫，现在还是很喜欢shana的形象

[@MSDoL]

Shakugan no Shana was one of the 4 Tsundere Queen Animes back in the day. While you are at it you can check out the OST for the other 3: "Hayate the combat butler", "Zero no Tukaima" and "Toradora". It is an anime from a previous era, I would not say it aged well, but it holds major nostalgia value for the older generation of anime fans. It's not really a sad anime, it has it's moments but mostly it's an action anime with a plot. I don't think it will blow your mind but it's a decent watch. "Light my fire!" (opening 6) is still a banger and always on my playlist of anime songs, even after all these years. And yeah Japan has this problem in media, they perceive the highschool years as most wonderfull in their lives so many animes are set in this setting and timeframe. I am with Gigguk on this one, I would prefer more univercity settings or young adults or even mature adults settings that are not just slice of life.

[@ElPsyCongroooooo]

Rie Kugimiya - the queen of tsundere ❤

[@flygonkerel781]

its not that they perceive high school as the best years, but because that is the main target demographic for manga/anime

[@jesterjaded73]

​@flygonkerel781 Yeah at the end of the day anime is a business and anime sells to high schoolers like hot cakes. Also Zero no Tsukaima is a forgotten goat of the isekai genre. Aged a bit poorly, but still a solid romance even by today's standards.

[@sunnyho2066]

Sad. For me it's has always been 5 TsundeRie Anime. Hidan no Aria is ALWAYS forgotten sadly 😢

[@kennethmana3103]

​@@sunnyho2066 well almost all short tsundere is most likely be voiced by rei kugumiya

[@explorian11]

Thanks Luke for the reaction, Shana came out in 2005. I would like you to check out to the Shana Ending songs as well!

[@JayDeeMC]

When I hear someone say Shakugan no Shana is old, I remember that this was on TV when I lived in Japan. I watched anime from 1995-2006 a lot, then got into comedy variety shows while I was in Japan, as I couldn't keep up with any series. To me, old is 80s and older. Haha. Anything after 2005 is still "recent" in my mind. I haven't watched this series myself, but I've heard a lot of the songs, as they're by members of I've Sound, especially Mami Kawada and Kotoko. These two have done so many anime openings and endings, as well as other members of I've Sound.

[@queenkira1272]

This anime is 2005, so fair point. I wasn't born until November

[@DragonSword35d]

Blazes, this takes me back. The first ED was my favorite for the longest time. Yoake Umare Kuru Shoujo is such a wonderful piece. And, yeah, the themes of the story are a bit on the darker side. Ep 1 is chalk full of existential crisis.

[@introverted_mixmasher]

Wow, I never expected someone will ever react to Shana songs, thank you for this!

[@luvaanima]

Shakugan no Shana isn't really focused on sadness per se, like madoka or somewhat. Is more about a girl who gave up her personal life to be basicly a magical girl, which then falls in love for the first time....But her love interest got a sandbox friend who's interested and that Shana doesn't understand love and that she's a big tsundere doesn't help either XD Also, her transformation is litterally change hair color to fire red and its raining embers :3

[@lucariomew365]

God I miss this era so much, especially Mami Kawada and Kotoko intros.

[@szacsesz]

I love coming back to these older series. The nostalgia is so good. It started in 2005 and is one of the few series that solidified the typical tsundere type main girl characters' place in anime. Some op recommendation: - Chrono Crusade (2003) - Blood + (2005) - Ah! My Goddess (2005) - Higashi no Eden (2009) - Jormungand (2012) - Rage of Bahamut GENESIS (2014) - The God of High School (2020) - BIAO REN: Blades Of The Guardians (2023)

[@CelesNihility]

Trinity Blood Hellsing Ultimate OVA Black Cat Gundam seed & Gundam seed destiny Gundam 00 Viewtful Joe Mushishi Inuyasha [C] the money of soul and possibility control

[@cesarsalazar8618]

To add to this list Kekkaishi Elemental Gelade Ginga Densetsu Weed Sands of Destruction Linebarrels of Iron All Tales Of (games & anime) openings 11 Eyes Nurarihyon D gray man Valvrave the liberator Grantz Air Gear Amnesia Familiar of Zero Kaze no Stigma Hidan no Aria Shuffle Zetsuen no Tempest

[@hhjan594]

My personal opinion is Shana is an old school classic anime from the early 2000s The anime changed a lot of stuff from the LN, but then it became closer back to the LN in the second half of Season2 onwards The opening might seem like a bunch of stuff mixed together, and that's because that's basically how the story was structured. I'm quite sure the first 2 or 3 episodes will explain into details what Shana is and what is she doing. She's not quite Magical girl, but something similar in their own concept, if any she has some fire related superpower that grows through the story. She also wears school uniform, so yes the daily slice of life plot happens in school, where some romantic plot will happen. But yes there's a fairly dark story going around in the back, which involves what Shana and the main boy are fighting for. This kind of story structure is basically the hugest genera back before Isekai blew up, so you might feel similar vibe with some other anime around the time.

[@Dan_Geer_]

Did you really just call an anime from the 2000s “classic old school”? That phrase should be used for shows like Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Bubbkegum Crisis, A.D. Tank Police, Patlabor, and Soryuden: Dragon Kings. ……..fuck I’m old

[@jiayi2650]

Back then J.C.Staff likes to change the original story and in many cases makes it very bad, e.g. Zero no tsukaima.

[@hhjan594]

@@Dan_Geer_ I get what you mean, but Man it's almost 20 years ago, it's definitely old school compared to the modern days. I'd imagine I'm as old as you as I watched Shana in High School.

[@hhjan594]

@@jiayi2650 Yeah back in the days the anime studios (not just JC) used this as a way of creativity expression, which often become very bad. There are some actual good changes like Hunter x Hunter 1999, but in my opinion good changes are still quite rare in the industry.

[@jiayi2650]

@@hhjan594 The only good case I watched is in Oreimo, which in one ep they showed us how the studios made the 'creativity expression' to ruin the original story and shows no respect to the authers

[@veneroluigi8157]

Shakugan no Shana! The openings singers are Mami Kawada(To Aru Majutsu no Index) and Kotoko. I really like the anime but season 3 messed up a little with the new characters.

[@brinozke]

Mami Kawada was everywhere i love the rock electronic touch and the mix from high to low her voices just match perfectly any strong or soft tune

[@everfall8886]

One of my all time favourite anime. Also Kawada Mami and KOTOKO are two legends from that era (KOTOKO is still active too) I rank the anime very high tbh, even if it hasnt aged the best, it is still a very enjoyable one even by today standarts. its an anime that many people often forget, but always have fond memories from when they remember it. Shana in itself is a very good character too, more popular than the anime itself. i recomend it to whoever havent seen it, but they need to have in mind it is an old one, and it starts kinda slow.

[@secchi5102]

This is from the era of magic highschool battles before SAO started the whole isekai thing, so you not gonna find many things like this coming out today. Just like in the current isekai era, most of these shows were pretty unremarkable, but there was something special about Shana, just hearing the openings a wave of nostalgia hit me, and i realize i still remember things about this show when i have forgotten everything from most other shows from back then. So yeah, i wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but it definitely did something right.

[@Starbucksrufus]

The song "JOINT" was selected as one of the winning songs in the Japanese Heisei Anime Song award organized by Sony Music.

[@yvesmanao7972]

shakugan no shana is a classic i remenber watchin till last episode even when i didnt understand the side stories my objective was to see the very end of the two mains chara supernatural romance with psyco drama

[@Kyla8132]

Another anime I thought was completely lost to time. One of my first few ones that I also watched while airing. Even made posts about it on my KZbin channel back when there was some weird discussion tab on channel profiles. Now that you've checked this one out you're obligated to do Zero no Tsukaima and Hayate no Gotoku as well.

[@Kyla8132]

Just remembered there's Hidan no Aria too! Watched it back in High School when a friend recommended it to me. I'm 27 btw just for some perspective.

[@angeldavidpinango4914]

Shakigan no Shana is one of those super famous series that time took its toll. Its broadcast began in 2005 and ended in 2012, so you can see the difference in the animation... Honestly, I don't even remember half of the story. Even though I remember that I liked it a lot. and its sixth opening is a super famous song, anyone who likes anime recognizes it right away and didn't even remember that it was from this series...!

[@almver]

Wow one of the original tsunderes!!!

[@grumpygizmo7199]

No. She imposed the stereotype of the perfect thundere. So much it made Rie Kugimiya into the undisputed tsundere queen to this very day!

[@GenuisSocietyNo83Herta]

Last 2 song Light my fire 😍🔥🔥🔥 And serment is some of my favorite anime song Mami kawada really did a beautiful song for this series I love shakugan my god i feel old now

[@hhjan594]

Shana was older then SAO iirc. I think Shana S1 was around 2005 or 2006 while SAO S1 was 2013. They have a clear time gap. If any, Shana was still in the "Magical school battling" era of anime, while SAO basically is the anime that started the Isekai trend (although critically speaking SAO isn't actually Isekai)

[@jiayi2650]

Zero no tsukaima, which was almost aired at the same time with Shana, is the starting of Isekai ones. Also SAO is not a real Isekai anime.

[@skykillerxxx]

​​@@jiayi2650zero no tsukaima was the first but the isekai genre doesnt gain popularity back then..mostly overshadow by shonen genre back..until sao emerge,although not specific to isekai but the virtual reality is theotherically almost the same,being transport to another world/virtual..so,i do admit Sao is the reason why isekai genre was popular after the show..and more&more isekai anime came out after sao...

[@hhjan594]

@@jiayi2650 If we really want to dig back, Isekai existed even in the past century. The whole genera of the Isekai products really only started after SAO. I think people often say Mushoku Tensei was like the first modern Isekai LN, but it got animated later than stuff like Re0, Konosuba which actually started this trend in anime.

[@PablitoHades]

The Isekai trend was started by Alice in Wonderland. I said!! :)

[@sunnyho2066]

@@skykillerxxx Digimon, Inuyasha, Kyo Kara Maoh! wants to have a talk with you on Zero no Tsukaima being the first Isekai. And I bet still a lot of other older Anime xD But yea, can't really deny that despite SAO not being an actual Isekai..... It actually started the trend nonetheless.

[@soyungato1112]

I absolutely love SHAKUGAN NO SHANA. And I love Shana, a great protagonist ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jiayi2650]

Shakugan No Shana also has super hot endings, especially S3 EDs, please check them too. I hate J.C.Staff changed the story in S1 and S2 which make no sense but luckily they made S3 following the original light novel. If you interested, you can check the movie first then go to S3.

[@crimsonxero5924]

The moment I saw the video title & thumbnail I started hyperventilating and frantically whispering "Shakugan no Shana Shakugan no Shana Shakugan no Shana..."

[@meshipeled5308]

Wow the nostalgia, we need more melon bread. Made me want to recommend Accle World openings. Its like the big sister of sao

[@hazzys2638]

I got to know about melon pan from this series because Shana loves them so much🤣

[@joshspades3129]

Finally after months of asking thank you for the reaction

[@diandrarizvi]

I'm watching Shana not long after it aired, and for my young self back then... This anime is DARK AF!!!

[@VideoSayetGame]

I really love this anime. It was the second anime I watched online after Zero No Tsukaima and I listened to its openings a lot in high school. opening 1, 3, 6 and 7 are my favorites. especially 1 and 7 for history themes and the other two for the music itself. I remember the excitement of when the 3rd season premiered several years later. Shakugan no Shana is an anime from 2005 and ended in 2012. I had been waiting for a long time for you to react to these openings and maybe one day to the anime.

[@josegerardoburciaga7529]

YES! At last my favorite Uta-hime Mami Kawada comes to this channel. OP 3 JOINT OP 5 Prophecy (Shakugan no Shana S) OP 7 Serment Yes it's a completely finished anime. No, it only has three seasons. Shakugan no Shana S are a mini series of OVA's. Which is why I don't know if you saw it, but on top of the III was written Final. Greetings man, Thank You For This.

[@naniteslayer]

I've been waiting forever to see this reaction, can't wait for the endings. This is my favorite anime so seeing this was a real treat

[@kurokaen2854]

This and Familiar of Zero, both JC Staff gems, were my some of my first anime that I’ve ever watched. These shows, in my opinion, are an absolute perfect representation of the 2000s era of anime. Just a perfect amount of everything.

[@reignBeaux4946]

Thanks for reacting to these openings..This is one of my childhood favorites and first one that got me hooked to other Animes. I really miss my childhood. Love from the Ph 🇵🇭💙

[@psychjay]

Whoah!! This takes me back. A great anime that goes hard the entire last season. Series starts out on a bit of a small scale that escalates gradually until there’s this massive conflict of tons of characters. The EDs are also great.

[@alucarddgrayson0141]

since my dude finally seems to have found an overlooked gem i hope to see him react to stuff like busou renkin,chrome shelled regios,BECK mongolian chop squad,linebarrels of iron,needless,kenichi mightiest disciple,sengoku basara and of course tenjhotenge gotta have some BOMB A HEAD once in a while am i right

[@goukenslay7555]

Another OG series that just takes me back. I still listen to that 3rd opening with the hard guitar rift

[@GelAbat3]

Shakugan No Shana is one the best anime with a good amount of drama, supernatural, romance and dark theme, most of all it has great action. All the opening theme song are fire. I've watched this anime several times since it 1st aired and still lovin' it.

[@joseluism5105]

Bro. This anime is one of those old gems that you could always watch The OPs are very good, but the OSTs throughout the series are even better. Recommended 10/10

[@explorian11]

Here are my 5 + 2 classic recommendations for your next OP & ED reactions: 1. (2004) Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha OP & ED (with 5 series, 4 movies and 2 games; OPs & some movie EDs sung by that era's anisong queen: Mizuki Nana) 2. (2000) Vandread OP & ED (fire retro 90s/00s songs)(check out the EDs for cheekiness) 3. (2011) Horizon in the middle of Nowhere OP & ED 4. (2018) Yuru Camp OP & ED 5. (2003) Chrono Crusade OP & ED Special mention: (2008) Macross Frontier ED & insert (esp the EDs like "Diamond Crevasse" & "Northern Cross" are a MUST! and their longer forms!, Ao no Ether, Yousei) classic 1. (2000) Inuyasha OP & ED 2. (1996) Rurouni Kenshin (the 1996 series) OP & ED

[@nejifate347]

I wish to see him react to Nanoha OP too, and Nana Mizuki live performance are amazing too, she literally flying during a few of them, it was awesome !

[@kokodin5895]

luke would enyou vandread endings more :P

[@nejifate347]

@@kokodin5895 He could see all of them (nanoha and vandread), problem solved 😆

[@szacsesz]

Yuru Camp is such a vibe and Chrono Crusade is beautiful, both of them are worth checking out

[@explorian11]

@@kokodin5895 😏 Hehe, you know him well!! Cheeky visual endings there! Sensual song too!

[@amirruslan855]

Finally ,, after half year i try to recommend this.. from first opening, me b like, 'oh you wait, oh you wait untill light my fire,, oh you wait luke ' 🔥🔥🔥

[@velsariamyo7730]

Gotta love nostalgia, we need more openings videos like these. Would love for you to check out the opening and ending op The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash. (such a hidden gem of an anime that no one talked about this season).

[@rayzen119]

Other openings you can react to that you didn't see/hear yet and they are all bangers: 1. Tales of Zestiria - "White Light" 2. Black Bullet by fripSide 3. Kamisama no inai nichiyoubi 4. Muv luv alternative total eclipse - "Go to the Top" 5. Shadow's House OP 2 - "Song Shall We Dance?" 6. Ga-Rei Zero - "Paradise Lost" And ofc endings: 1. Gosick - "Resuscitated Hope" (you'll want to hear the full version of this after) 2. Shadows House ED 1 - "Nai Nai" 3. Fairy Tail ED18 - "Don't Let Me Down" 4. Witch Craft Works 5. Occultic;Nine- "Open your eyes" 6. Fire Force - "Veil"

[@deathslinky2768]

The Black Bullet opening is very good, but the Black Bullet ending "Tokohana" is even better. I'm pretty sure Luke has already listened to Nai Nai. Still ReoNa's best song, and that's saying something.

[@rayzen119]

@@deathslinky2768 i think he listened to ED 2 and not 1... at least i don't remember seeing that reaction, so i could be wrong.

[@Hinasis]

Hi! Nice for you to react to it! It's dark fantasy, with great music, great characters, with very detailed troublesome relationships, incluiding love, and a mastermind story, that has and end! ( most anime don't have an end, hehehe ). One of my all-time favorite animes, and the greatest of my teenages.

[@Explosion-]

Watching this anime dubbed before around 2008-ish on tv. When a certain tv network on our country just starting and it shows alot of anime. Clannad, Full Metal Alchemist, Yamato Nadeshiko the Wall Flower, Shakunan no Shana, Golgo 13 were on its program that's why it was memorable for me.

[@moneilwisby61]

This anime gave me such an eerie feeling throughout. I just couldn't forget that the male main character was just a fading placeholder for someone who's already dead. I don't think that was the point of the anime at all, but to me it was a nice side effect.

[@NanaYuru]

Suddenly got hit by nostalgia. :') Please watch this series. I want to experience this anime again with you.

[@GOTGames]

Seems to have a lot of love, might need to check it out 💯💯

[@KeithKVH]

@@GOTGamesPlease do bro, I love this anime (only one I have a physical copy still), but it's such an old hidden gem nobody reacts to it. Same can be said of Gosick too if nobody's recommended it yet.

[@KeithKVH]

Please do bro, I love this anime (only one I still own a physical copy of), but it's such an old hidden gem that nobody reacts to it. Same can be said about Gosick, if no one has recommended that yet.

[@phuonghoangphoenix3177]

I highly recommend you to react to the endings of Shakugan no Shana, it's good as the openings 🙏🙏🙏

[@yuji8592]

Really good anime i gotta say, a lil bit old but rlly good, very recommended watching it, and please listen to the endings.

[@bishensingha1787]

Thank you so much for reacting to Shakugan no Shana Openings..... I am happy and grateful for it! This anime was favourite in my childhood...and the ost in anime hits me with nostalgia!

[@ShiyarokuBasil]

Omg, I love Shakugan no Shana! It's such an amazing anime and the openings and endings as well as the OST are so incredibly good! So glad, you finally react to it!

[@rhodzmonserate2544]

To all anime OSTs , Shakugan No Shana is the BEST of all.

[@alphaedrum]

I suggest giving a try to the endings. Up to this day I still listen to Sociometry and I'll believe since both songs were released.

[@ul2wise4u]

This show was during the time when its competition and most famous show was (A Certain Scientific Index.Railgun,Accelerator series) hince why the music is this type. That series had the best songs and was the music people liked at the time. You might try that series after your done with Shana. Not sure if you have. For music that's sus and rock, hidden gem like drifters you should check out Killing Bites, it's good as Drifters song.

[@sanashi27]

Heck yeah, Shakugan no Shana! Surprised and happy to see you checking out the OPs. It was a pretty popular series back in the day (started on 2005!) with the protagonist, Shana, being one of the most popular tsundere around the time, too. She's voiced by Rie Kugimiya who is popular for voicing tsundere characters and the other popular tsunderes were voiced by her, too - Taiga from Toradora is one if I remember correctly and the other one is Louise from Zero no Tsukaima (she also voiced Alphonse Elric in the JP dub of FMA). I love the first two opening songs. Shakugan no Shana has a lot of action cause of the fights but also has romance with the love triangle between Shana-Yuuji-Kasumi going on there, too. The anime is done, I believe, many years ago lol. There's a ton of anime you've never heard of from that's old and they have pretty awesome OPs. Hope you get to see all of them one day even if it's just their OPs cause you're missing out. And what's that about Detective Conan? Are you gonna watch the show lol? That's a ton of episodes and it's still ongoing (it's ridiculous!) but it's fun. Watch at least season 1 cause I wanna see if you could figure out the mysteries before the show itself reveals them at the end of each case. It's the most fun thing about Detective Conan for me since they do show the viewers the clues and let us know the suspects and hear their alibis.

[@JAERepair]

😂 This is the anime that started everything for me. After this its been years and decades of entertainment content from the East. The premise, the characters, the stakes were all completely new to me. Thank you JC Staff for the continuing journey.

[@The_CodFish69]

Such an underrated show and Op 1 after all of these years is still in my personal top 10.

[@drakke125Channel]

You can't watch Shakugan no Shana without watching Zero no Tsukaima (The Familiar of Zero), same boy/girl voice actor for the same boy/girl romance for both shows. They aired around the same time. There's also an interesting new anime coming out starring both same seiyuus so this will be their 'reunion' as actors. The actor name Rie Kugimiya (and Rie Tanaka) will become familiar to you as you watch more titles. Rie Kugimiya is always the loli squeaky girl while Rie Tanaka is usually the older onee-san character. This singer for the first couple Shakugan no Shana openings is well known as Kotoko, her songs were also used for openings of Hayate no Gotoku (Hayate the Combat Butler). Great nostalgic stuff from early 2000s! I also recommend reacting to the ToAru series if you haven't reacted to that already but I think you might have.

[@jpl111darkstar4]

This is one of my top 10 anime all time is like full metal it has good story and good ending plus is epic fights and sad story and great animation ❤❤

[@EdrickV]

Some of the openings are done by Mami Kawada and some by Kotoko. Interestingly enough this isn't the only time they've both done an opening or ending song for the same show. Mami Kawada did the opening for Starship Operators and endings for Please Teacher/Please Twins, while Kotoko did the ending for Starship Operators and openings for Please Teacher/Please Twins. Mami Kawada also did openings for A Certain Magical Index, and one ending for Hayate No Gotoku! Kotoko on the other hand did openings for Hayate No Gotoku!

[@chaoswingsu]

Shakugan no Shana, Zero no Tsukaima and Tengen toppa gurren lagann were the first not mainstream anime i ever watched. Very fond memories i gotta say.

[@ElPsyCongroooooo]

Gurren Lagann could be considered mainstream today - at least its opening made it somewhat popular the other 2 are hidden gems

[@Snifer02]

Ohhh yeahhh SHAKUGAN NO SHANA!!! I love this anime it may not be my first anime but.... This is the one that got me into anime and introduced me to the one and only tsundere queen Kugimiya Rei

[@user-Toshi999]

I really love this Anime. I think if you love ReZero, you will love this too. BTW, the voice of Yuuji Sakai as a main character is same as overload.

[@FlawlessBastian]

This, zero no tsukaima, toradora and index. Man i need a time machine

[@ElPsyCongroooooo]

if it comforts you: Rie Kugimiya also voices Momo in Jujutsu Kaisen - i feel old....

[@leav4360]

Noo my favorites

[@xlipseheira]

React also in the Opening Songs of Asterisk War!

[@austinpark980]

if you enjoyed early 2000s anime opening like this, try nanoha series opening. one of the best jp female vocal

[@norightturn7047]

Nice, this is one of my favorite anime's. It's not perfect and has a ton of flaws but still a great anime. Also, the voice actress for Shana is so good. So much nostalgia in this. The anime is completed and I think you'd enjoy it.

[@kiritoliger468]

This is a wonderful series. It is a hidden gem amongst the anime and I hope you do react to it someday cuz it is a wonderful, wonderful story and I'm sure you'll enjoy it

[@jesterjaded73]

6:17 JOINT to this day is still in my top 20 ops of all time. Such a hard-core bop of a song.

[@garethcf1016]

I honestly feel so old thinking that so many ppl watching anime now don't know shakugan no shana. And im not even 30 yet.

[@ShadowOfMassDestruction]

Kind of makes me depressed ngl :(

[@APrinnyDood]

Shakugan no Shana's one of my favorites. It's a dark urban fantasy about love between humans & supernatural entities. Basic premise is a boy named Yuji is saved after a girl with flaming hair and her master the Flame of Heaven appear before him, only for them to reveal Yuji is a torch-a leftover fragment of someone who was eaten by a Crimson Denizen

[@cannotdecideusername]

I remember this.... On tv, this anime were put into "adult swims" slots, every wed and thus at 12:15am... Waking up in the morning for school was hell...

[@XxMarcibooxX]

Shakugan no Shana is still one of my favorite animes of all time. I watched it so many times and it was so good for me that after I watched it first time I even bought the mangas. You should watch it.

[@furukawakoyomi8413]

Ah, Shakugan no Shana the anime that introduce me to Mami Kawada, Kotoko, and Altima.

[@GabrielMRTheAnthologyOfLore]

It's a completed series, the third season is the final season of the anime, it's a good adaptation even if somewhat rushed by the sheer number of volumes of the original content. The first two openings is of 1st season; The second two openings is of 2nd season; The fifth opening if of Shakugan no Shana S (special episodes); The last two openings is of 3rd and last season. The original light novel series was abandoned by the english publisher with only 2 volumes launched while here on Brazil the publisher recently published only 3 volumes, and it's on a long hiatus, even if I have signed to receive the first 5 volumes. The light novel is finished on japan with 26 volumes on 2012, but recently in 2023 the author writed a new 27th volume of new short stories.

[@ROBERT0MACHO]

The Pioneer of Japanese Light Novels

[@razna18]

Opening 6 Kotoko - Light my Fire is one the most epic openings for me and of course one of my favourites. Shakugan No Shana have too a really good endings like ending 1 and ending 6. Shakugan no Shana have 3 season + Ova series (Shakugan no Shana S), last season aired in 2011. Please react to more endings, maybe make a series one per month that you will make reaction and catch up the endings (and new openings) from anime series that you already reacted to openings. You have a really long list of anime you only reacted to openings and that list more and more increases and sadly a lot of really good songs were missed because of it. My proposition to next reaction is Kuroko no Basket openings and endings (7 openings and 7 endings)

[@eddythefool]

For reference opening 5 was for the OVAs that focused on the protagonists relationship so it was much softer compared to the other ones. As the series continued and the steaks got bigger the opening's style was updated. Theres three 24 episode seasons and each season switched songs every 12 episodes. There's also a movie that covers the first season but changes how things get resolved to align with how things happened in the original light novel. There's also a series of joke OVAs that were pretty much non canon. The first season's melancholy nature can be attributed to the introduction of torches and what their eventual fate will become.

[@YukiFubuki.]

holy shit SnS this is 1 of the OG anime of the mid 2000s, the story is basically a very elaborate urban fantasy involving a secret war between a secret society of supernatural humans and otherworldly entities the otherworldly entities are called crimson denizens/lords/gods and originate from an adjacent world that exist on another plane that is called the crimson realm but the term 'crimson' to refer to them isnt a proper term in-universe but simply what the characters refer to it in modern times and has alluded to it being called by different names in the past since within the setting these crimson denizen would sometimes crosses over to the human world inspiring various beings in mythology so some of these crimson denizen's are very much outright otherworldly gods or demi-gods but they manifest by consuming the power of existence disrupting the balance in reality so some of these crimson denizen who acknowledges the harm their own kind brings would instead form contracts with and to reside within humans elevating them into a higher being, an ageless immortal known as a flame haze whose duty is to eliminate crimson denizens that crosses over to maintain the balance of the world SnS was written in the early 2000s when there was a light novel boom in the industry in japan so much of the concepts and content may seem a bit cliche but it was revolutionary back then and the character of shana herself is immensely popular that she single-handily created her own stock character archetype her character "alone" is marketable, like in 2021 or was it 2020 the crossing void mobile game release in english which is a crossover between all of dengeki bunko’s intellectual properties shana included and despite not having been mainstream relevant for about a decade she immediately became its most popular character by a long shot and remain its most popular character for a very long time the story follows a male protagonist yuji sekai and his encounter with a flame haze with the title of flaming haired, blazing-eyed hunter (which is what the title "shakugan no shana" means; blazing eyed shana or shana of the blazing eyes) as he discovers that his very existence has already been consumed a long time ago and he simply exist as a remanent of who he once was to slowly fade away from the world's physical influences and people's memories but within him lies an ancient artifact created as a collaboration between a crimson denizen and a human that would every day reset the amount of "existence" he has left essentially perpetually grounding his existence within reality infinitely, news of this gets out and now he gets drawn into war the between the flame hazes and crimson denizens each with their own goal in how to deal with him with shana who appointed herself as his observer slowly falling in love with him every crimson denizen and flame haze essentially have their own flame color unique to each other and shana's flame color is crimson of all things signifying that her contracted crimson lord is none other then Alastor the "Flame of Heaven" and 1 of the only 3 crimson gods of the crimson realm, the God of Retribution who governs judgment and condemnation with shana herself being the next in line to inherit the title and position after her predecessor passed away shakugan no shana is very unique for being a light novel anime adaption that is actually complete in its anime adaption too and one with pretty much a perfect ending you are right in that there is a sort of sadness to it since the plot and premise itself is actually rather heavy like how would you describe to finding out that you're just a shade of an actual person that will soon one day disappear with even reality rewriting itself so that you never exist, the light novels themselves is of the fantasy and romance genre and while there is some comedy occasionally that isnt a huge part of it nor is there much slice of life elements, the anime adaption did tried to do some original content like upping the romance, comedy and slice of life elements it had but eventually it went back to faithfully adapting the novels till the end btw shana herself as a flame haze does not age and is roughly at least a few hundred years old, she looks young because her physical age stopped when she had to emergency sealed the contract with alastor which is implied to be when she was an early teen which up to that point she was previously malnourish before she was picked up off the streets to be trained to eventually take up her position as the flame haze of alastor but as implied by her emergency sealing the contract her training wasnt that long

[@TheJuki2001]

You should definitely check out endings as well! Some of them are pretty great

[@PsychoDiesel48]

DAMN THE MEMORIES! One of the shows I found immediately after finishing TTGL and started my deep dive into Anime. Still need to go back to it someday, and it looks like I have a lot of show left to see which is encouraging

[@nicolesouza8]

This was definitely one of my favorite anime. I even cosplayed the blonde lady, Margery back in the day. I definitely recommend the gundam seed/seed destiny openings, I think you'd definitely dig some of them.

[@Zonvolt]

I've been waiting for this for so long. You need to react to the endings as well.

[@holydashi]

I'm glad people voted for this, I remember recommending this to thechannel I think like a year ago. It just took sometime lol. Now do the endings because some of them are actually really good.

[@brokenphantom3g]

Fantastic Early 00's Jpop from Kawada Mami and Kotoko. If you ever do a series where you check out all of the songs from a given band/singer EITHER of these two would make for a fantastic and jampacked episode.

[@SebCroteau]

- Tasogare Otome X Amnesia - freezing op 1&2 - break blade - black bullet - nobunagun - kurokami op2 - belzeebub - akuma no riddle (first anime I'm aware they put a diff ending for each ep) - rolling girls - binbougami ga - baka to test to shoukanjuu just a list of 10-12 years old anime I could think of, didn't even realise some of them were that old already

[@SebCroteau]

- hamatora - tenjho tenge - rainbow

[@hmmmmname]

Part of the Rie Kugimiya tsundere quartet along with Zero no Tsukaima, Toradora, and Hayate no Gotoku. I think this was right before the transition period where anime started getting more popular (mid 2000's iirc). Really makes me want to watch them again.

[@Otaku_Nerd28]

I open the youtube to be only surprise that luke found a old hidden gem. One of my Best Childhood anime. I still memorize the lyrics of both openings and endings of this anime. Hope luke also react to the endings and soundtracks of SnS.

[@carlosalvarezruiz9351]

So glad you reacted to one of my favorite animes. Shakugan no Shana is really good, but I think is kinda underrated because very few people talk about it. Has a very good story with balanced action scenes with emotional drama, kinda hard to understand the story sometimes because it gets deep and characters are just throwings hints for what's coming next, but if you pay attention and you hold to the 3rd season with the climax, you realize how good this anime is

[@rodnono]

My ranking for this openings: 6, 7, 3, 4, 2, 5 and 1. “Light my Fire” will never leave my anime playlist.

[@matoiyomi_0104]

F**k Yeah! Great series and got one of my most favorites Singers of all time

[@lucygirl1111]

Luke shakugan no shana is finished and it has 3 seasons 24 episodes each and a couple of movies but what i remember their recaps movies with slight differences

[@feodaron89]

Oh yeah...this anime has very good openings. I remember clicking them to death in OSU. The anime itself...I don't remember. I watched it so long ago... and not all seasons... the fights were good but the plot... I didn’t remember at all.

[@ChurinChu]

Holy crap! It's been almost 20 years since this anime aired. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@Dr4wfox]

This anime hits you if watch in your teens

[@Ultimate_Kevin]

确实是，这部动漫是我看的第一部，对我影响很大

[@A-Shu]

Mami Kawada, my fav singer back then. sadly she's retired