Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

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Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:23 pm

I've always really liked the 2nd and 4th closing animations for Dragon Ball GT. They really reflect how awesome the characters are and how long the series is.

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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by GotenDaisuki » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:25 pm

My favourite opening is the second animation of "Makafushigi Adventure" (shame the current sets don't contain it).

My favourite ending would be... all of GT's, I can't choose!
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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by Insertclevername » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:36 pm

All of GT's ending are awesome, though I feel that the fourth is my least favorite.

Can't go wrong with We Gotta Power. Which, contrary to popular Youtube belief, was not composed by Bruce "falconnor" but by Mr. Plagiarism himself, Kenji Yamamoto (right?).
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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by chaosyoshimage » Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:30 am

"Dragon Soul" (Probably once the Androids and Cell are in it), "Makafushigi Adventure" (I've only seen the first version, but I love it), "Cha-La Head-Cha-La", "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!", and "We Were Angels" in that order.

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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by B » Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:53 am

The best opening animation is DBZ 2/Budokai 2's. It's just beautiful and has a good mix of action and characters doing fun stuff.
The best ending was Orange Hero. The choice to make the whole thing look like old paintings was nice.

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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by Unicorn_Bazooka » Thu May 02, 2013 11:26 am

There are way too many to choose from, but personally i most like Makafushigi Adventure, good old Chala-Head-Chala,(also the Konata version was awesome) Yeah! Break! Care! Break! and Kokoro no Hane and the final ending for GT, because it has the same singer who sang the ending of Yu-Gi-Oh season zero.

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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by Cold Skin » Thu May 02, 2013 11:57 am

Dragon Soul (4th version with all of Cell's forms) for the opening. The whole opening was impressive and had the right feel, but Gohan at the top of God's sanctuary was absolutely breathtaking!

Orange Hero for the ending. Perfect vision of Goku's history, starting as a kid, meeting his future wife, seeing his grandpa again, then forming his own family, then being united to his son's girlfriend family and then all the way back to the very first shot of the story when he was still alone and unaware of how many people would enter his wonderful life!! That's where you think "this is truly a beautiful story of a beautiful journey!", with one of the most uplifting and best Dragon Ball songs (and ironically among the only ones that weren't released as full versions... unless perhaps they use it on Kai's Boo arc, then we might have a tiny chance of having a full version!!)

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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Thu May 02, 2013 12:00 pm

I'm assuming we're judging just simply the animation of them, disregarding the songs completely, right?

Because in that case...hmm. That actually makes picking one for the opening rather hard. It's a tough choice between the original 'Makafushigi Adventure' animation for Dragon Ball, or 'We Gotta Power' for DBZ. I'm also kind of fond of Budokai 3's opening, at least in parts of it.

Favorite ending animation is easy though, Orange Hero, for all the reasons said above. I really can't say it any better than that - it's just a great animation piece.
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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Thu May 02, 2013 12:10 pm

Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Animation:
> Dragon Ball GT OP
> Dragon Ball Kai OP
> Dragon Ball Z OP2
> Dragon Ball

Music:
> Dragon Ball GT OP
> Dragon Ball GT ED1
> Dragon Ball Kai OP
> Dragon Ball Kai ED1
> Dragon Ball Z OP2
> Dragon Ball Z ED2
> Dragon Ball OP

DBGT's music in its opening and endings is just better for me, the songs are catchy and upbeat. The series' music is excellent, imo, but I still prefer Kikuchi's in DB/Z.
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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by Linnom » Thu May 02, 2013 12:44 pm

First post here! :D

Anime opening - Chala head chala
The eternal classic who never get old.

Anime ending - Romantikku Ageru Yo ( first version )
Another classic, this music is so beautiful.

Game opening - Biggest Fight (Final Bout)
Serious, this opening is so good and the music kick ass, i don't know why, but everyone in this opening look so cool, even Pan! :o

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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by DarkPrince_92 » Thu May 02, 2013 3:25 pm

Budokai 2, Final Bout, Ultimate Tenkaichi, We Gotta Power.
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Re: Favourite Opening or Ending Animation?

Post by Puto » Thu May 02, 2013 5:09 pm

Animation-wise, I'm gonna have to go with the second version of Makafushigi Adventure.
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