Metal Vocalist First Time Reaction - The Most Popular Anime Opening of Each Year (1975-2024)

Going Through the TOP Anime Intros from 1975 to TODAY! LETS DO THIS!!!!
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[@KyCe7_]

the way i didn’t know Lupin III was from the 70s 😱 it became a staple here in PH in the 90s.. and Cha-La Head Cha-La is such an iconic OST.. this is such a trip down memory lane..

[@icravetheforbiddenlamp]

Is PH the Philippines?

[@KyCe7_]

@@icravetheforbiddenlamp yes.

[@andreschion2334]

I always knew him as Mr. Satan (mostly because i grew up with the spanish dub. Sidenote... I can't believe DNA was from 1994

[@yz_859]

Thank you for the reaction! I’ve been living in Japan for more than half of my life and I’ll always be a huge anime/manga fan! So for me, it was Mr. Satan:)

[@jackpatterson7110]

Anime openings are insane... that and Ghibli have had so much influence on me 🤣✨️

[@yz_859]

Wow….there are sooo many good anime out there. Don’t even know where to start, lol. Some of them have already been mentioned in the thread, but I’ll see if I can come up with some fairly unknown but cool ones (making sure they have subtitles)

[@mankichiro9432]

I always had Mr. Satan cuz I watched and read it in German and there it is Mr. Satan :)

[@Sakeh13]

In Brazil his name was Mister Satan, in English, but they also called him "Senhor Satan"

[@autumncoffey-ys2eu]

I remember my dad renting a "new" technology. A VCR. And he and I would watch the 1978 Captain Herlock.

[@Plaprad]

Was it bolted into a big plastic briefcase with the cables sticking out the back? My cousin had one like that. Strangely, no one asked where he got it.

[@shinnirmv2135]

It's crazy to me that Saint Seiya was never popular in america but it's popular everywhere else, only bc the english dub sucked lol.

[@madknight2986]

It was called Knights of the Zodiac in the States. It was not super popular but known by some of us. I wish it was more popular back then too but I'm glad I got to watch it as a kid.

[@GaionSputro]

Because u.s.a are conservative nation who think animation with blood in scene are a sin.

[@el3tric153]

Yeah, here in Brazil it is still popular today

[@crowleeisonfire]

My dad wont shut up about los caballeros del zodiaco, aparently it was the ONLY animated content he watched after the age of 15, its famous as hell in spanish speaking countries

[@kaz7886]

@@crowleeisonfire From Italy same situation, my Dad loved "I cavalieri dello zodiaco" in my language, captain harlock, gundam (goldrake here in italy, specific for that gundam), and much more.

[@PotatoBento0.o]

7:32 here in the philippines, he is called Master Pogi (Master Handsome in English LMAO)

[@JohnReavesLive]

lol I LOVE those names!!

[@bunyip-ni6ch]

7:57 Babymetal did a great cover of the theme song for the first Evangelion film: Tamashii no Rufuran (sometimes called Tamashii No Refrain or Soul's Refrain). It's actually one of my favourite Su-Metal solos.

[@ronikhansynz595]

Man I love Cobra. If you ever watch total recall, yeah cobra begin like that too but he's a legendary space pirate with a gun for his hand and plus a hot robot wifu not an agent on mar.

[@TheErsu]

Kimagure Orange Road has one of my favorite soundtracks in anime. It is definitely worth listening to.

[@susijosyntyessaan]

Oh the nostalgia from seeing these! We had Candy Candy as VHS. And songs! I have been fan of Orange Range since I was teenager :D

[@jotarocarecarebaixado]

Idk why but Space Cobra opening just hits different

[@Mark-Elf]

The composer of Z-GUNDAM's OP2, "Mizu-no-hoshini-Ai-wo-komete", is the legendary American singer Neil Sedaka, who also composed the OP1, "Zeta-Toki-wo-koete", sung by Mami Ayukawa.😉

[@marktaylor6491]

Wow. I never knew that.

[@Brauiz90]

Can't believe Dragon Ball Z is a year older than me... childhood memories watching this every day when we (my brother and I got back from school...) we hat a tv channel called RTL two and there were all the animes in the 90s One of my favourites still is Wolf's Rain and the song "Stray"

[@genchan1224able]

1980～90年代は当時はシティ・ポップ(city pop)とは呼ばれていないけどアニメソングにもその特徴が現れてるね♪

[@luferink5218]

Nice list and great reaction Thx! 🤘😁

[@danbuter]

Angel Beats! is fantastic, especially for musicians. So many great songs!

[@ErisianRomantic]

There is a MASSIVE load of classic, ancient anime I am missing out on. I'm just so hyped and enjoying contemporary releases, it's hard to imagine the same level of animation or story telling back in the day. This was a really epic video, though.

[@RudiTheMan]

The bliss moments knowing I was born at the right time to experience Dragon Ball and enjoy all the classics along the way, and I always known him as Mr Satan,

[@HeavyTopspin]

Unfortunately a lot of amazing OPs left off of this. Saga of Tanya the Evil ("Jingo Jungle") and Overlord S3 ("Voracity") by Myth & Roid, Made in Abyss (Kevin Penkin is a god), Slime S2 "Like Flames", several from Fairy Tail, Ya Boy Kongming, other seasons of Attack on Titan. Also a shame this started in 1975 so it couldn't include the original Gatchaman and Speed Racer (in the original Japanese is amazing).

[@boboboy8189]

If we talking about great anime op song, there's too many and impossible to include it unless it's going more than hours. I watch anime from 2000 until 2017 and I heard many underrated great song from unknown anime. There's a person who did ranking for every year starting from 1999 until 2006. Each year represent song compilation of anime song he listen and 2002 has the most great songs better than majority in this compilation

[@ToraBalthumanS]

I only had to say 1994 LeArcnCiel has the honor of be the 1st Asian act on MSQ history(2012) a stunning concert. Listen Ready-Steady-Go a nice song

[@yz_859]

And yes, checked Kickback and can totally totally relate

[@angelichobi__18]

It’s crazy how fire Japanese animation was in the 70s and 80s was when there was little to no animation programs, it was all drawn by hand and most likely filmed like old Disney films were. Of course there were animation programs I know that but there most likely not programs as advanced as there are now. I wasn’t alive in the 1940s when the first computer came out but I’m sure there weren’t professional programs at our level now days Also crazy to think that majority of the very early anime voice actors, animators, and opening singers are either dead or really fucking old. Animation has came so far, and it also amazes me at the same time with how awesome animation could be 40-50 years ago

[@Plaprad]

Check out the original Evangelion VHS if you ever can. There was this weird shaking everyone called the "Gainax shake" on most of their shows. Just a weird shake where you could see the top and bottom of the image jiggle a little bit for a few frames. Saw in an interview that one of the guys who worked there said it was because their camera rig was second hand and old due to them not having money. And there were train tracks just outside the building beyond the wall it was mounted to. Every time they filmed and a train went by it would cause this slight jiggle that no one would notice until the finished product.

[@Nitrinoxus]

I was front-and-center for the anime boom in the '90s, so a lot of the shows from the midpoint onwards are ones I've got a lot of nostalgia for, even considering their flaws. Can vouch for _Hellsing,_ though the _Hellsing Ultimate_ remaster arguably does a better job -- it's pretty grim at points, and there's one scene in particular that likely _can't_ be shown on KZbin, but you'd probably dig it. (If you find you like it, _Black Lagoon_ is another one with a similar vibe, albeit closer to _Cowboy Bebop's_ orbit, and _Deadman Wonderland_ is between _Hellsing_ and _Tokyo Ghoul_ in terms of style and tone.) _Naruto_ is solid, and does a really good job with its supporting cast, but it takes a while to really get into its rhythm. It's straight Shonen, though, so if you loved _Hunter x Hunter_ and _DBZ,_ it's worth a watch at least into the Chunin Exam arc. As for missing _My Hero Academia: _*_fix that._* Seriously, dude, it's *_amazing,_* and its openers are *_bangers._* It's easily one for The Heck to react to, and one to bring Chris in on if he hasn't seen it either.

[@frikismos5512]

1:24 mi mamá tiene un álbum de cande XD 3:42 mis padres vieron esto conmigo y ahora tengo 2 papás 😂 4:58 jackie chan le hizo una buena película 5:07 mi infancia 😢 6:34 mi mamá compró un álbum de esto también 😅 7:44 fan de l'arc en ciel desde que vi ese anime ❤ 7:57 ese año nací 😎 12:38 ese año vote por rising hope de Lisa para mejor opening pero no me quejo que la ganara unravel

[@matijamaksan4344]

1999 Digimon Adventure but i know One Piece OP1 is slightly more popular. 2012 Fate/Zero OP2 but i know its nowhere near most popular. 2019 is just the craziest year in both openings and endings. Have to mention The Promised Neverland and Vinland Saga. 7:00 Never knew that.

[@Volgalist]

What funny is, I was born in 2000, but I can sing along almost every song before 2010. When I heard "Dan Dan", man, I cried knowing there are one less talent in this world.

[@lolyou7027]

with all the respect to ado and her perfect performance TK Songs Meant to be sang by TK for sure

[@otron_tv]

Ajin opening (2016) is madly underrated.

[@Asmaria22]

most of the anime mention on the video i already watched and brings me back to my childhood days

[@icefox94]

yes, you should react to more aimer! i'd recommend Brave Shine at the very least if you haven't heard it already. it's the 2nd op for Fate Stay/Night: Unlimited Blade Works

[@AkumaClaps]

Blue exorcist opening 1, fire force opening 1,Dororo opening 1, Guilty crown opening 1... all of them absolutely CLAP🔥

[@TheErsu]

I saw Mr Satan in Japanese DBZ trading cards in 1993. It makes sense because Mr Satan decided the world into believing he defeated Cell. I like a lot of the late 70s to 90s songs from anime such as Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Saint Seiya, Bubblegum Crisis, Cat's Eye, City Hunter 2, Zeta Gundam, Dragon Ball Z/GT, and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

[@myst0dreamer]

I am so old that my childhood anime was not on the list. You probably wouldn't have heard of most of them. Then I watched some anime in the 80's, but it took a lot of effort. I didn't come back again until the late 2000's. And I didn't watch a lot of the ones on this list. But I've heard a lot of the music.

[@Aqua1515]

Yesssss let’s goooooo! Omfg please idk if u watched Bleach or not but I would love to see a reaction of all their openings cause they all slap 👋

[@JohnReavesLive]

Haven’t seen it but would be down for sure to check out the openings! Maybe even the anime?!?

[@Aqua1515]

@@JohnReavesLiveI won’t lie to u the anime has not aged well if ur really into the shounen genre you’ll love it but the fights and pacing is 😅 but hey never knock something till u try it

[@farleylai1102]

Missing gems: - 鬼神童子ZENKI - ゆずれない願い from Magic Knight Rayearth - every song from Slam Dunk - Crying for Rain from Domestic Girlfriend

[@Mangasoccerenjoyer6475]

I love how every time a new song comes in he says “Yes!” Then says “I love (artist name)” 😂😂

[@ezequielvizcarra4847]

Aimer es una de las voces mas fantasticas de los ultimos años en Japon.

[@lunarlegend8924]

yeah, depending on where you want to draw the line with what's considered anime you could trace it all the way back to 1914

[@fruitpunchsamuraidavid]

Dude!!! I watched most of those older anime growing up. There's was a French channel running re-runs of them so grew up with Saint Seyia, agundam, Captain Harlock, Wolf's Rain.... also 2024 gotta go with Asu (Us) the newest Opening for One Piece

[@noble7065]

Harlock/Albator was my childhood, it still influences my taste in sci-fi.

[@fruitpunchsamuraidavid]

@@noble7065 it is awesome!!

[@loussi1]

it was the same for me

[@chokuchou757]

high note part of 1984 is not women . His name is Masayuki Tanaka. He was at crystal king and he can sing until A6. He also sang Led Zeppelin’s songs. Check him out if you're interested.

[@ParanoiaRadar]

Kotaro Lives Alone - only 10 episodes, but really good. Lots of laughs and tears. As for opening/outro - The Daily Life ofThe Immortal King season 2 - "Arrival" by Liao Jialin

[@megamage911]

In Denmark we have Mr. Satan too xD In fact, in the Danish localization of Dragon Ball, everyone was swearing up a storm, saying piss and shit everywhere xD

[@JackgarPrime]

Honestly I'm surprised the list didn't go back even before '75! Grendizer is like the third show in a series that started with Mazinger Z in '72.

[@PalasDHydrar]

Funnily enough, in the latam dub (or at least in Mexico) sometimes they kept the japanese names, so in here was Mr Satan

[@diatima]

ZAAANKOOKU NA TEEENSHII NOO YOU NI~ Best anime intro 😌✨️ the visual kei band called "A" made a really good cover of it but it can be hard to find because who tf calls their band "A"?? So hard to google 🤣

[@diatima]

Found them! Turns out it's Ace. For anyone interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4vMoY2DfpKiqZosi=F79-E9C2djPfJGVD

[@Warglein]

6:14 this anime broke me qwq

[@declaine7526]

In germany it was Mr. Satan which was quite funny. ^^ And I feel that the english opening to Pokemon should have won that year. Yeah, I know, original opening and all that but dang, the english version is such a banging earworm. And I am surprised that not one of Overlords openings made it on the list. oO Considering how damn good they are. Anyways, great video. ^^

[@lexeum0036]

The fact that SNK came out before Tokyo Ghoul just blowed my mind

[@Italianchef26]

I'm italian and it was Mr Satan for me. It was super confusing though, because in the Italian translation Piccolo's father was called "Al Satan" instead of "King Piccolo". So you had two completely different characters both called "Satan" for whatever reason ahahah

[@datonegrl3828]

Emotional adventure anime: No6, Tegami Bachi Dark action with gritty drama: D.Gray-man, Saiyuki (skip the fillers and OP2 is bossass), and Chrno Crusade Romance with fluffy love: Kimi ni Todoke, Wotakoi, & Clannad Psychological with thinking games: Penguindrum, Moriarty the Patriot, Zankyou no Terror, and Death Parade Dumb stupid fun: FLCL, Senyuu (Watch the 1st OP online, the actual TV series doesn't show it, sadly), Kokkuri-san, & Needless (Watch the 1st OP) Scifi adventure: Last Exile (Watch the 1st OP), & GATE

[@ccmastergad2892]

space adventure cobra is a blend of star wors jams bond and diehard is amezing and cool

[@icefox94]

if you wanna watch more of kuma's videos, i'd recommend checking out his new series where he takes a youtubers favorite anime openings and a group of people from his community help him rank them. so far, he has 2 youtuber lists, GOTGames and NicholasLightTV. might be a fun watch, i certainly enjoyed them.

[@rudidellama3718]

First of the North Star OP is just fire, same goes for Saint Seya, heck most dubs of the op are great, the brazilian version of the OP was sing by Edu Falaschi of the metal band Angra fame

[@piskipa]

Air (from 2005) is a must watch for those that liked Clannad or Kanon :)

[@VerchielxKanda]

Oh, wait until you see the anime from the 1960s- Lupin The III is such a great series. The original Urusei Yatsura openings are superior to the remake, cause they came out in the 80s, where the good music was- InuYasha is a masterpiece and deserves to be seen. Hellsing is a great horror series. Any song by T.M. Revolution is very very good. The Air opening is top tier. The full version is absolutely beautiful. The official Mashle music video that Creepy Nuts uploaded got 3 million views in the first 30 minutes. It's currently sitting at 101 million. The Mashle author deserves all the love and support he receives.

[@putin2012]

You definitely need to take a look at Aimer - she has done some sick songs for Fate series.

[@putin2012]

Also last one - Creepy Nuts. Super fun duo that did a very cool OST for "Call of the night" anime.

[@leonstellar738]

Here in the Philippines we call him Master Pogi literally meaning Master Handsome.

[@SupremeCommanderBaiser]

Gushing over magical girls is missing here. I loove the intro, outro and the epic battle music

[@AreaOfHate]

I expected WHAT'S UP, PEOPLE?! in here, great metal opening, maybe EXiSTENCE by SiM

[@平良真知子-e2u]

ドラゴンボールのところで、めっちゃテンションぷち上がり。 カワイイ。

[@madaophilippines8418]

Filipino has it as "Mr. Pogi" which is translated as Mr Handsome. Ive never heard Hercule

[@kendra_t]

If you haven't yet, check out the Gintama Ops and Eds. They're all bangers

[@JackgarPrime]

I mean there are a million good Gundam openings. You could probably fill this list up almost entirely with Gundam OPs if you really wanted to. An OP I'm really fond of is the one for SSSS.Gridman, which also has a really good music video, BUT! You have to wait until you finish the entire show before watching the music video itself. For story reasons, which you'll get why when you watch it after finishing the series. It's a song called "UNION" by OxP. If you're fond of giant robots, SSSS.Gridman is what's real good.

[@deadline6149]

12:54 can't believe Noragami's OP is more popular than Brave Shine, that's criminal. 14:50 you should, Aimer is amazing.

[@Cyno_.]

Evangelion is weirdly my favorite anime opening of all time

[@edgarortiz5950]

in fact there is another video that go back to the 60's if im not mistaked. the weapon of cobra is a Psyco gun (only he have one) and the protagonist is a ex space pirate. in english they have censured so many animes, to the point to make them forgetable, Mazinger z (not in this list, if from 1972), Knights of the Zodiac (Saint Seiya), the fist version of One Piece made for 4kids, or a mess like Card captors (Card Captor Sakura), In Mexico even being very religius country, they left the name "Mister Satan". I loved Naruto, is a great anime, but im the end the many filler episodes, made me leave the anime to the point of nickname it "Filleruto" (Rellenuto in spanish.)

[@ChronosLawliet123]

In the mexican dub we always had Mr. Satan, whoch is wild because in the fight with Boo everyone would raise their hands for the spirit bomb and repeat "Satan! Satan! Satan!" Lol

[@giovannidesantiago2151]

Not sure if you’ve ever heard it but feel like you’d like Crying for Rain by Minami. Great anime opening but the full song is just great. Only opening Minami has done but she killed the song and her voice is great

[@Trev0413]

Great stuff! TKs First Take lives in my head and will always be the best version to me. Love the Oral Cigarettes song, and yeah Kickback is soooo good, Kenshi and Eve some of my favorites! Cheers for more anime music!

[@Moribax85]

Here in Italy it was Mr. Satan, just so you know :D

[@kurikuri6683]

Noragami is one hidden gem!!! please react to it :)

[@mikeyFREAKINGv]

Watched the English version of DBZ growing up and he was referred to as both Mr. Satan and Hercule Satan throughout the show It’s also so weird seeing the Japanese versions of the DBZ, Pokemon, and Sailor Moon intros in these lists, because I grew up with the English intros so I have no nostalgia for the versions in these lists

[@hix5030]

1:11 That 1975 anime is unbelievably popular in France.

[@seananime_copying]

And there will be new version of Mazinger series this year🤩

[@sonicque77]

Always called him Mr Satan. All songs and anime were awesome. Also do check up LiSA LIVE performance "Believe in Myself" which was the first song she composed. Lyricist and Composer by LiSA herself. She was sick during this LIVE performance with bad cold and bad sore throat but still one of the great performance by her in my opinion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX7SiKynlMx1e68 Also do check up and react to "Itsuka no Tegam". Both of the songs were sang in the same day in one of her concert. Very nice songs. Check up the lyrics as well especially "Believe in Myself". kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGfVp6iDnZukpqM She cried after the concert was overed and blamed herself for not being in good form and let down on her fans.

[@fireaza]

Since you're a metal vocalist and all, have you ever seen Detroit Metal City?

[@martinbabich1920]

I grew up in Italy and it's Mr Satan for me

[@RadeticDaniel]

Hercule was a thing only in the North American dub because they felt the original name would hurt viewership and sales.

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

openings & ending for re0, nichijou, bakemonogatari, mahouka koukou no rettousei, kyokai no Kanata (for now)

[@fabianochevallier]

In Brazil, we call your Hercules Mr Satan

[@ChrisHeindirk]

In Germany we had Mr Satan oh by the way If you Like the japanese openings of Dragonball head over to the German ones its tecnacly the same but translated Into German and a Lot more Rock or the First opening for Dragonball was an edm Track in Germany its worth watching

[@demenion3521]

can't believe you haven't watched noragami. it's about a stray god who walks on earth begging for money, so pretty comedic most of the time, but also pretty tense later on. and visually amazing for sure

[@ccmastergad2892]

See the evolution of anime series ( 1960-2020 ) | history of anime through operation

[@paftaq526]

9:40 you should 100% watch Hellsing and if you want to, you should also react to Hellsing abridged which is probably even more popular than the original now days.

[@JYIL-67]

4:25 for me this is my top one forever.

[@vincentfauvel2774]

Saint seiya OST are so great !! other later anime : GINTAMA !!!! Naruto i really like the OP Closer

[@kirariniwa3948]

Lisa an Kenshi Yonezu in two song, they are amazing

[@momo_G]

Can you react to Gundam OO ops? The songs are fire!!

[@chrisjacobsen7265]

This is just another list for shonen fans. Anime has so much more to offer

[@JohnReavesLive]

Send me a list you’d suggest and I’ll react to it! 🙌

[@chrisjacobsen7265]

@@JohnReavesLive I might take you up on that offer.

[@JohnReavesLive]

@@chrisjacobsen7265 would love to hear your suggestions 🙌🙌

[@aasimarGER]

Anime: Frieren, Beyond jurneys end... Season1 did just end. best Anime ever.. by far

[@dylantheboss1485]

If you like mecha anime then a i can’t recommend Neon Genesis Evangelion enough, it can be confusing but it was worth every second I watched

[@austinmartin612]

That like chill remix of the FF7 world theme is great there at the end, where can we find that?

[@Sprife_]

My favorite opening? Thats easy. Unravel from Tokyo Ghoul. Though I like Ado's version more.

[@Akshay_PJO]

Rumbling done dirty 🥲😂

[@benjamindonahue9434]

While I like both songs Naruto's Blue Bird, and Tokyo Ghoul's Unravel are both at level of fame that confuse me. One that threw me off though for a different reason was Angel Beats. I'd almost swear I saw that in high school (well before 2010)

[@valerialarosa9157]

John, you're a Dragon Ball child, you HAVE to watch Naruto! It's practically his descendant..and i'm sure you'll love it..also Bleach and My Hero Academia are so good

[@Djloui5]

You forgot one piece

[@valerialarosa9157]

@@Djloui5 I think he watched it! By the way he talked about it, no? Instead for Naruto, Bleach, and MHA, he specified he hasn't watched them.. If i'm mistaken, OF COURSE OP, like, are we joking? absolutely

[@tkmsupreme7046]

All are completely different from each other db nothing like nartuo

[@hellothere-ig6jg]

​@@valerialarosa9157really recommend MHA?

[@gitsnak777]

Meh

[@pacapacaZ]

I am Japanese. From my perspective, looking back, I feel homesick, but from your perspective, I think you may have found something new and interesting. There is a lot of pressure on diversity around the world and it's a terrible situation, but here we see true diversity. It was born not out of obligation or peer pressure, but out of inner liberation. At times it becomes a sacred space that no one should invade. We must not stop the movement to respect the culture of many people. Japanese anime will continue to be Japanese anime.