I really like show intros.  I really do.  It probably comes from my time staring, wide-eyed (and, in this utopian past we’re constructing in swift, broad strokes here, undoubtedly optimistic and with no concerns for the future…  uh…  well, shit.) at all the 80s intros I love so well when I was a child.  Sometimes an OP will be the thing that actually gets me into a show.  I hadn’t really heard anything about Lucky Star when it came out, but I saw the intro and thought it was really funny, so I checked out the show.  So I had to reserve one of my twelve days for the best OP of 2008.  Now, not only is this subjective, but it concerns itself with openings I saw in 2008, not openings that premiered in 2008.  I may try to talk the folks at Super Fanicom into doing a best-of for 2008, but until then…  

Watched it yet?  I’ll wait.

Re-watched it?  No, seriously, I don’t care if you’ve seen it before, you need to watch it twice.  I don’t have anywhere else to go…

I was in OGT’s basement way back in January, and in-between bouts of Guitar Hero 3 and Ouendan made more challenging by the crippling cold of OGT’s underground lair, we watched some anime.  I was introduced to several shows I hadn’t heard of — including Baccano! and Bamboo Blade (which I love, by the way, have I mentioned this?).  I’m almost finished with Baccano!, but frankly despite how awesome the show is, and how strangely it puts into action the old Highlander chestnut, really what I think of when I think of this show is its OP.  Usually I like vocals with my OPs — I’m one of the nerds who sings along.  Yes, I’m the target audience for the four- or five-layered karaoke that puts fansubbers through so much trouble.  However, two of my favorite OPs of all time (this being one, and Cowboy Bebop’s the other) have no lyrics.  I mean, aside from Bebop’s world-famous “…Three two one, let’s jam!”  

I suppose the question is, could music with no lyrics work with any other genre of music?  The answer is yes, of course, but it does amuse me, in retrospect, to find my two music-only favorites are both in the same genre of music — a genre I don’t listen to all that often in my free time.  

That’s just about all I can muster.  I show no sign of recovering soon, so Pontifus’ nefarious plan will have time to reach its fruition.  It just means I’ll have to build a protoman in my apartment, high above the city, and lay down some phat rock n roll over top his attempts to save the world from Pontifus’ iron grip.

Tags: baccano

Thus spake Cuchlann on Sunday, 21 December 2008 at 12:53 am, and Anime expanded tenfold. Become privy to further discussion on the matter via RSS 2.0. You might grace us with a brilliant comment, or trackback from a distant podium.