The MangaHelpers Anime Awards 2010 Discussion Thread

[zelllogan]

Most animes with a weekly release based on a weekly manga are not often very good animes. Animation is often poor, lot of poor HS and/or slow pace. The quality can be good in some episodes, not good in others ... And the atmosphere is even sometimes completely different from the manga

Long animes are simply not as good as long mangas ...
The greatest anime masterpieces were IMO all animes of ~13 or ~26 episodes (evangelion, cowboy beebop, samurai champloo, shigurui, ...).

[saladesu]

I definitely agree

Though I'd say there are also some long anime that are good. I liked FMA:Brotherhood, it was faithful to the manga almost all the way (except for Isaac McDougal in ep1, leaving out the Yoki arc [rather, making Yoki tell it in condensed form instead] and some other minor details), and the quality on the whole was very good. I don't recall there being any distinctly bad episodes, though some episodes did get better animators, hence slightly elevated quality eg Mustang vs a certain homunculus.

I rather short anime, though. Or at least break up a longer series into shorter seasons.

[k-dom]

I know that a lot of people hate fillers and disgression with regard canon story. I feel differently. After all, when you have already read the manga, seing the anime adaptation months after loose a lot of the freshness, the fillers, when they are good and relevent, can counter that points. Of course I understand that the anime help bringing people reading the manga. But once the anime has helped me catched the manga, i loose a lot of interest in it.

Actually I think FMA did something really clever, the first serie disgress from the canon story, and such become interesting to watch for itself, brotherhood was displayed so that it synchronised with the end of the manga. That allowed you to remember the story in a short number of episodes.

[saladesu]

It depends, really. Like you said, "when they are good and relevant", then yeah, fillers or anime-only endings can be pretty awesome But when fillers get too long or are stupid and pointless, that's when they can end up ruining an anime... In some cases, it can be so bad the whole anime gets canceled. Like Rurouni Kenshin - apparently the fillers were so bad (this part is true, definitely ) ratings plummeted and the anime was canceled before it could get to what can be considered the best (or maybe second-best, I myself can't decide if I liked the Kyoto arc better or not) and final arc in RuroKen, the Jinchuu arc (part of it, or the impetus for it, was turned into the Tsuioku-hen OVA, though).

The problem with the way FMA did things is that people who didn't watch the original anime or read the manga would find the starting a little too rushed and some stuff seemingly not explained or developed well enough. That's what my mum complained about, when I let her watch FMA:B

[k-dom]

Well why doesn't she read the manga then ? :-) The 2 mediums complete each others and that is what I find good. When it is just a color version of the manga like one piece is currently it has no interest

[HegemonKhan]

just a small comment on FMA vs FMA:B


FMA had one scene (1-2 episodes only I think) that wasn't in FMA:B which was really emotional and well done, made me cry... looks away and whistles...

it was with that alchemist who thought he lost his young fiancee, so remembering loving-obsessed with her youthful beauty, that he never realized her return to him, as an older woman.

this scene broke my heart...

one of the most memorable "filler" scenes that was in FMA, and not FMA:B

I actually liked the hot "Rose-Hohemhiem's old-loved-wife" main villain BETTER than Father, as Father was boring... seen his archetype too much, it's common... "Rose for short" was cool and HAWT

well, Father being the "flasked/imprisoned" humunculis was a cool-neat "back story", but Father himself as "Father" was just boring.

(other emotional one was that girl of the Alchemist father, getting merged with her pet dog by that alchemist father, who had done the same priorly with his wife as well but some other animal... he must like his women being bitches... sorry bad joke... However, this scene was in both FMA and FMA:B)

(Edward, it hurts! the tone the setting-build up my love of dogs and the sweet girl so emotional so sad HK sniffles)

[destiny4ever]

Time to update the nominations! Below are the nominations we have so far, if you notice any mistakes please let me know.

Awards Categories

Best Male Lead

Monkey D Luffy from One Piece (2 votes)
Alucard from Hellsing
Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop (2 votes)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Heero Yuy
Amuro Ray - mobile suit gundam (1979)
Eikiichi Onizuka from Great Teacher Onizuka
Yagami Light (Death Note)
Vash the Stampede from Trigun
Ichigo Kurosaki
Kamina from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Gintoki Sakata (Gintama)
Sebastian Michaelis (Kuroshitsuji)
Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto: Shippuuden

Best Male supporting character

Roy Mustang from Full Metal Alchemist (4 votes)
Batou from Ghost in the Shell
Fakir from Princess Tutu.
Zorro from One piece
Kamina from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
L (Death Note)
Blood+: Haji
Kururugi Suzaku from Code Geass
Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto
Gin Ichimaru (Bleach)

Best Female Lead

Kyouko Mogami from Skip Beat! (2 votes)
"The Major"/Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell
Hitagi Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari
Blood+: Saya Otonashi
Sophie Hatter (Howl's moving Castle)
Revy (Black Lagoon)
Kuronuma Sawako (Kimi ni Todoke)
Balsa from Seirei no Moribito
Suzumiya Haruhi from The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (3 votes)
Haruhi Fujioka from Ouran High School Host Club

Best Female supporting character

Asuka Langley Soryu from Evangelion (3 votes)
Botan (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Jyu Oh Sei: Tiz
Maria from Arakawa under the Bridge

Best Male Seiyuu

Fukuyama, Jun
Hōchū Ōtsuka
Daisuke Ono
Kappei Yamaguchi
Hayami Shō
Takahiro Sakurai
Miyano Mamoru
Daisuke Namikawa
Tomokazu Sugita

Best Female Seiyuu

Kugimiya, Rie (2 votes)
Sayaka Ohara (2 votes)
Matsumoto Wakako
Maaya Sakamoto

Best Opening Theme

Brand New World By D-51, used as One Piece OPENING 6.
Bleach Opening #1: Orange Orange - Asterix
Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion Opening)
We are - First one piece opening
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig
Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino OP -Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi
Opening Theme: Elfen Lied " Lilium "
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! OP #02 - Boys & Girls
Period (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)
The Girl in Byakkoya of Paprika (2 votes)
Nico touches the Wall - Hologram (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP 2). (2 votes)
SID - Rain (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OP5)
Cowboy Bebop
Fastforward by Monkey Majik; in Nurarihyon no Mago OP1

Best Ending Theme

For You By AZU used in Naruto Shippuden ENDING 12.(3 votes)
Berserk: Waiting so Long
Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari (Bakemonogatari ED)
Still Doll (Vampire Knight)
Nodame Cantabile-Konna ni Chikaku de
Saiyuki Reload - ending 2
Tegami Bachi Reverse ED #01 - Wasurenagus (Forget-Me-Not)
Houki Boshi (Bleach)
Best ending theme- Ill be your home from Devil May Cry anime
Bleach Episodes 262-279 "Stay Beautiful" by Diggy-Mo
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu [hare hare yukai ]

Best Insert Song

Chiisana te no Hira (The Palm of a small hand) used in the last episode of Clannad After Story
Hellsing OST (Ruins): Kikyo Kaoru Iroha Michi
Monochrome (Star Driver)
Aria the Origination (Episode 11 & 12) - Yokogao
Yoko Kanno - Deadly Work (Darker than Black)
Continued Story (Code Geass2)
Nyan Nyan Service Medley from Macross Frontier
Kaze no Machi e (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles)
Parade - Paprika
Fuwa Fuwa Time (K-On!)

Best Anime Soundtrack

Hellsing (Albums: Raid / Ruins)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST composed by Yoko Kanno.
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
Sengoku basara 2
Aria (albums: vocal collections and all OSTs by Choro Club)
The "Darker than Black OST"
Fairy Tail OST
Inuyasha OST
Angel Beats
Naruto Shippuuden OST

Best Comedy

Full Metal Panic – Fumoffu (3 votes)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
Golden boy
Gintama (4 votes)
School Rumble
Gintama
Ouran High School Host Club
Arakawa under the Bridge

Best Action

Hellsing
Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners.
Hellsing Ultimate
Black Lagoon (2 votes)
Seirei no Moribito
Hellsing OVA's
Bleach (2 votes)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Best Romance

ef - tale of memories.
Bokura ga Ita
Kimagure Orange Road
Kimi ni Todoke
Vampire Knight
5 Centimeters per Second
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Best Drama

Haibane Renmei (2 votes)
Clannad (seasons 1 and 2) (2 votes)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (2 votes)
Black Lagoon
grave of the fireflies.

Best Mystery

Monster (3 votes)
Death Note (4 votes)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Perfect Blue
GoSick

Best Slice of Life

Aria/Natural/Origination.(2 votes)
Toradora
K-ON!! (2 votes)
Windy Tales
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Clannad

Best Sports

Hajime no ippo
IGPX Immortal Grand Prix
One Outs
Giant Killing
Ookiku Furikabutte
Eyeshield 21
Slam Dunk
Hikaru no Go

Best Horror

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni/Kai. (3 votes)
High School of the Dead
Shiki
Monster
Ghost Hunt
Shiki

Best Sci-Fi

Space Battleship Yamato
Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (season 1 and 2)
Gundam Seed
Eve no Jikan
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Samurai 7
Gundam Wing

Best Fantasy

Spirited Away (2 votes)
Mononoke Hime (3 votes)
Claymore
Soul Eater
Black Butler
Tonari no Totoro
Pandora Hearts

Best Costume Design

One Piece
Code Geass
Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Best Villain

Dessler (Space Battleship Yamato)
Black Beard – One Piece
Johan Liebert (Monster) (4 votes)
Blood+: Diva
Char Aznable- mobile suit gundam (1979)
Tetsuo from Akira
Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist

Best Death

death of Ace ( one piece)

Kamina's death)

(4 votes)
Hellsing Ultimate:

OVA 7: Zorin Blitz

Naruto

The death of Jiraiya

Wolfgang Grimmer

Best Fight

Space Battleship Yamato 2: Earth Fleet vs. Comet Empire
Monkey D luffy vs Rob luccy (One piece )
Asuka vs. the EVA series (End of Evangelion)
Wolf's Rain: The Final Battle
Yu Yu Hakusho - Yusuke & Kuwabara VS the Toguro brothers
Naruto vs. Sasuke at the Valley of the End (Naruto)
Ichigo vs Ulquira
Kenshin vs Saito (Rurouni Kenshin)
Naruto vs. Sasuke at the Valley of the End (Naruto)

Best Kiss

Haruhi and Kyon's in the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Claymore:

Clare <3E> Raki

Takaki and Akari's

Morita and Hagu-chan

Best Episode

Berserk Ep. 25 (final episode)
Naruto (original) 133 (2 votes)

Best Couple

Holo & Lawrence (Spice & Wolf).
Big O: Roger Smith and Dorothy R. Wayneright
Claire Stanfield & Chane (Baccano!)
Kazehaya Shouta and Kuronuma Sawako (Kimi ni Todoke)
Himura Kenshin x Yukishiro Tomoe from Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen

Best Full Cast

One piece
Baccano! (2 votes)
Claymore
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Toaru Kagayaku no Railgun
Eyeshield 21

Best Animation TV series

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Paranoia Agent.
Phantom: Requiem of the Phantom
Death Note
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

Best Animation OVAs

Diebuster
Hellsing Ultimate (all the Hellsing OVA’s)
Darker Than Black Gaiden
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles~ Tokyo Revelations

Best Animation Movies

Ghost in the Shell
Princess Mononoke (3 votes)
Evangelion 2.0: You Can (not) Advance
Final Fantasy: Advent Children (complete)

Best Opening (animation-wise)

Revolutionary Girl Utena
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Cloud Age Symphony - Last Exile OP
Seirei no Moribito – Shine

Best Ending (animation-wise)

Soul Eater ED1
Black Lagoon

Best Artwork/Art Style

Casshern Sins.
Claymore
Kuchu Buranko
Bakemonogatari.

Best WTF Moment

Mami's head getting chewed off...

Claymore: Episode 9: Time 12:50 - 13:00
(this-below doesn't need to be put into a spoiler, as it's just a humorous/funny+WTF scene)
Clare (gently) punching Raki in the forehead to show her appreciation for him being concerned about her.

Best plot-twist

Lelouch geassing Euphemia

Claymore: episode 8: Time 16:00 - 22:00

Priscilla decapitating Teresa and then Awakening

The Gurren Dan's discovery that all their efforts in trying to defeat the Spiral King so that humans could live on the surface was for naught, and that the Spiral King was actually trying to save them by keeping them underground to ensure that the anti-spirals would not destroy mankind

Best OVA

Le Portrait de Petit Cossette.
Hellsing Ultimate
Mars destruction.
Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha Gaiden
Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles: Tokyo Revelations

Best Movie

Ghost in the Shell
Spirited Away (3 votes)
Flight of Dragons
Tonari no Totoro
Evangelion 2.0: You Can (not) Advance
Princess Mononoke

Best Adaptation – Manga

Monster
Big O
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (3 votes)
Bleach (2 votes)

Best Adaptation – Light Novel

Bakemonogatari
Baccano! (2 votes)
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Best Adaptation – Visual Novel/Games

Clannad (2 votes)
Phantom: Requiem of the Phantom
Devil May Cry- just portrays Dante so good
Fate/Stay Night

Best Original Series (Not based off of a manga, visual novel, light novel or game)

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gurren Lagann
Darker than Black
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Samurai Champloo

Best Alteration of Story Line

Hellsing
Fullmetal Alchemist
Soul Eater

Best Studio

Gainax
Madhouse
Ghibli (3 votes)
Gonzo
BONES (3 votes)

Best Old School Anime (only anime older than 2000 can participate in this award category)

Space Battleship Yamato
Dragon ball Z
Neon Genesis Evangelion (2 votes)
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Legend of galactic heroes
Tanoshii Moomin Ikka
Cowboy Beebop
Musashi no Ken
Card Captor Sakura

Best Anime for 2010 / Best new series (anime first subbed in 2010 will be also accepted for this award category)

Tatami Galaxy.
Fullmetal Alchemist
The Legend of the Legendary Heroes.
Tegami Bachi Reverse
Durarara!! (2 votes)

Best Ongoing Anime (only anime that have started airing before 2011 can participate in this award category)

One piece
Star Driver (3 votes)
Bleach

Best Anime Overall (only anime that has ended can participate in this award category

Mushishi
Dragon ball Z
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (3 votes)
Basilisk
Berserk

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You have until this coming Thursday to post your nominations and support your favorite nominees, so be sure to participate in this anime event before the nomination process is over.

[k-dom]

I seconded The Girl in Byakkoya of Paprika for best opening ( also i may have been a bit unclear ) so I guess that's 2 votes

[destiny4ever]

I’m trying to find the first nomination for that song, but I can’t find it. Paprika has another nomination but it is for best insert song.

[k-dom]

Ustegious mentioned it first, so I thought it was a nomination

[destiny4ever]

I thought it was just a question, but I re-read his post and you are right it was a nomination. I will add another vote for The Girl in Byakkoya of Paprika.

[HegemonKhan]

"Best Opening Theme
Blood + Opening 1 - Aozora no Namida It was very hard to choose just one but…it would be a real shame for this song not to be nominated."

I totally forgot how awesome Blood+ openings were, argh! thanks for mentioning/nominating it, hehe

ALL (4 of them) of the Blood+ openings are fabulous!

I personally like the one with Saya in a 3 limb crouch, showing her bottom "in the foreground" with her skirt flapping away, and then the camera on her front side with her biting whatever it was that she was biting with her red lips. err, I have it reversed... stupid bad memory of mine, lol !!!

Saya in Blood+ has THEE SEXIEST LIPS/FACE MAKE-UP I've ever seen, RAWR! Her lips are as good as Angelina Jolie's no exagerration! sooo hot!!! Her face is so hot, especially in the first episode, after she's "kissed", hehe

Berserk Saya has some really awesome faces/facial expressions too (if you're good at pausing the clips at the right times, hehe), I especially like the one where she's "looking down on Haji" (Saya's so SCARILY SEXY, if only we could see her true-real FULL power, but instead she's weak the entire series, as she's starved of blood, sighs. Diva's hella powerful, but she's a mother, Diva the Mother. Saya, would be way more powerful than even Diva, Saya the WARRIOR, if she only gorged herself on blood like Diva does/did)

also the opening/ending with her and Kaori booty swinging/dancing is sooo sexy too! I love how Kaori is wildly swinging her bottom so far left and right, while shy Saya is barely swinging her bottom at all, MMMmmmm !!!!

here's the opening of Blood+ that I like along with a funny+matching song with the booty swinging hehe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jslX...eature=related
(1:10-end of clip)
(1:17-1:18 = SEXY RED LIPS)
(1:18-1:25 =Saya's BOTTOM! RAWR!)
(1:25-end of clip = Sexy Diva, Saya's big sister)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LM6yGDchEA
(hypnotic, mesmerizing, enchanting, spellbinding, hehe)

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Diva's such an awesome villain, giggle giggle laugh laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRO2K5xu18A

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the Claymore "dance" one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDEMlwUmdEU

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[destiny4ever]

As the big Blood plus fan I know you are, I was totally expecting you to nominate some songs from Blood +, so I was surprised when I read you list of nominations and I didn’t find Blood + songs.

The first op is “Colors of the Heart”, that song is great!! I love that song, but the reason why I didn’t nominate it is because I associate that song more with Ichiruki than with Bleach . I remember watching a very cool IchiRuki AMV with that song before I began watching Blood + and since then I can’t help but think of IchiRuki when I listen to that song.

LOL at the Blood + Caramelldansen, for a moment there you got me wondering what opening you were referring to.

And regarding Diva, I agree she is a great villain. If it wasn’t because I’ve already made up my mind about what character I’m going to nominate for that award category, I would def. nominate Diva.

[HegemonKhan]

I editted-added in a bit more to my previous post, such as added the Claymore carmeldansen whatever clip, hehe, as well as other Blood clips or comments of mine.

You can strain your neck and your eyes become very tired if you try to follow Kaori (left eye's gaze) + Saya (right eye's gaze) or the Claymores, hehe

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(if you're interested destiny4ever, or anyone, lita302 has some awesome Blood+ amv clips on youtube.com)

(or if anyone's interested, I have a lot of awesome Blood+, Claymore, and/or other anime clips and ""other"-fanservice" clips on youtube.com favorited/saved, if interested let me know and I'll share/guide you to them, hehe)

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My Favorite Animes:

Bakuretsu Tenshi

Black Lagoon 1 (season 1)
Black Lagoon 2 (season 2)
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail ("season 3", as OVAs)

Devil May Cry

El Cazador de la Bruja

Grenadier

Hellsing
Hellsing Ultimate (as OVAs)

High School of the Dead

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Shikabane Hime: Aka (season 1)
Shikabane Hime: Kuro (season 2)

Soul Eater

Trinity Blood

Afro Samurai (1)
Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2)

Bleach

Berserk

Blood+

Claymore

Devil May Cry

High School of the Dead

One Piece

Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen (OVAs movie)

Samurai Champloo

Shikabane Hime: Aka (season 1)
Shikabane Hime: Kuro (season 2)

Soul Eater

Tenjou Tenge
Tenjou Tenge: The Ultimate Fight (sequel OVAs)

Tokko

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou

Berserk

Bleach

Claymore

Dragon Ball (season 1)
Dragon Ball Z (season 2)
Dragon Ball GT (season 3)

Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shambala (sequel movie for Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Grenadier

MÄR (Machen Awaken Romance)

Naruto (season 1)
Naruto Shippuuden (season 2)

One Piece

Princess Mononoke

Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi (season 1)
Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi Specials (OVAs)
Queen's Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono (season 2)
Queen's Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono Specials (OVAs)
Queen's Blade: Utsukushiki Toushitachi (season 3, as OVAs)

Scryed

Seikon no Qwaser

Seirei no Moribito

Sekirei (season 1)
Sekirei: Pure Engagement (season 2)

Sengoku Basara

Shikabane Hime: Aka (season 1)
Shikabane Hime: Kuro (season 2)

Soul Eater

Spice and Wolf

Spirited Away

Wolf's Rain

Hellsing
Hellsing Ultimate (as OVAs)

Trinity Blood

Vampire Knight (season 1)
Vampire Knight Guilty (season 2)

Berserk

Blood+

Claymore

Devil May Cry

Gantz (season 1)
Gantz 2nd Stage (season 2)

Guyver
Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver (2005)

Shikabane Hime: Aka (season 1)
Shikabane Hime: Kuro (season 2)

Soul Eater

Tokko

Afro Samurai (1)
Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2)

Air Master

Asobi ni Iku yo!

Bakuretsu Tenshi

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou

Basquash!

Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (season 1)
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 (season 2)

Dragonaut: The Resonance

Elfen Lied

Gantz (season 1)
Gantz 2nd Stage (season 2)

Gravion (season 1)
Gravion Zwei (season 2)

Grenadier

High School of the Dead

History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi

Ikkitousen (season 1)
Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny (season 2)
Ikkitousen: Great Guardians (season 3)
Ikkitousen: Xtreme Xecutor (season 4)

Ladies versus Butlers!

Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi (season 1)
Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi Specials (OVAs)
Queen's Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono (season 2)
Queen's Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono Specials (OVAs)
Queen's Blade: Utsukushiki Toushitachi (season 3, as OVAs)

Seikon no Qwaser

Sekirei (season 1)
Sekirei: Pure Engagement (season 2)

Sengoku Basara

Shikabane Hime: Aka (season 1)
Shikabane Hime: Kuro (season 2)

Shinkon Gattai Godannar

Silent Mobius

Soul Eater

Sunabouzu

Tenjou Tenge
Tenjou Tenge: The Ultimate Fight (sequel OVAs)

Tokko

Witchblade

Air Master

Dragon Ball (season 1)
Dragon Ball Z (season 2)
Dragon Ball GT (season 3)

History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi

Ikkitousen (season 1)
Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny (season 2)
Ikkitousen: Great Guardians (season 3)
Ikkitousen: Xtreme Xecutor (season 4)

Samurai Champloo

Tenjou Tenge
Tenjou Tenge: The Ultimate Fight (sequel OVAs)

Bakuretsu Tenshi

Big O

Casshern Sins

Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (season 1)
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 (season 2)

Elfen Lied

Eureka Seven

Gantz (season 1)
Gantz 2nd Stage (season 2)

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (season 1)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig (season 2)

Guyver
Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver (2005)

Jyu Oh Sei

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Movie (sequel movie)

Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Scryed

Silent Mobius

Solty Rei

SoulTaker

Sunabouzu

Trinity Blood

Witchblade

Wolf's Rain

Princess Mononoke

Spice and Wolf

Wolf's Rain

Big O

Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (season 1)
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 (season 2)

Eureka Seven

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Movie (sequel movie)

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou

Berserk

Big O

Black Lagoon 1 (season 1)
Black Lagoon 2 (season 2)
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail ("season 3", as OVAs)

Bleach

Blood+

Casshern Sins

Chuu Bra!!

Claymore

Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (season 1)
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 (season 2)

Death Note

Dragon Ball (season 1)
Dragon Ball Z (season 2)
Dragon Ball GT (season 3)

Eureka Seven

Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Gantz (season 1)
Gantz 2nd Stage (season 2)

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (season 1)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig (season 2)

Grenadier

Guyver
Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver (2005)

Hellsing
Hellsing Ultimate (as OVAs)

High School of the Dead

History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi

Jyu Oh Sei

MÄR (Machen Awaken Romance)

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Movie (sequel movie)

Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e

One Piece

Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Princess Mononoke

Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen (OVAs movie)

Samurai Champloo

Scryed

Seirei no Moribito

Shikabane Hime: Aka (season 1)
Shikabane Hime: Kuro (season 2)

Solty Rei

Soul Eater

SoulTaker

Spice and Wolf

Spirited Away

Tenjou Tenge
Tenjou Tenge: The Ultimate Fight (sequel OVAs)

Trinity Blood

Witchblade

Wolf's Rain

Death Note

High School of the Dead

High School of the Dead

Seirei no Moribito

Soul Eater

Trinity Blood

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I think I didn't get it right, Best Opening (animation-wise) is about the opening animation and setting or about the TV version of the song?