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nobahn
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Do any readily come to your mind?
For me, one sickeningly does: Gurren Lagann. To me, it just SCREAMS out: "My target audience is young children!" I couldn't even get through the first episode when it was broadcast on SciFi.....er....."SyFy" (grrr, what a stupid name change  )
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dtm42
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Well, it didn't turn me off completely from the show, but NieA_7's OP may just be the worst I have ever had the displeasure to hear.
Kids, don't smoke, otherwise *that* will happen to your voice. |
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15546 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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Probably the worst opener I can think of is the opening to Kure-nai. It is a realy good show, but the opening is so horible it almost scared me off and I avoid the opening as much as possible.
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RedLeader
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Oh, I LOVE the Gurren Lagann opening!
 It's one of my favorites!  It's got that nice balance of silliness and Hot Blooded Super Robot Spirit. ^^
Now, Bleach's openings and closings got under my skin while I was trying to watch it. I'm pretty glad I don't have to look at them anymore. :p |
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zawa113
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I've yet to have a bad opener ruin a show, there are plenty of other ways a show can ruin itself that are a lot more substantial if you ask me.
But as for shows where I looked at the OP and went "...is there any hope in hell I'm going to like this?", yeah I've got them and sometimes I ended up liking the show perfectly fine and more often than not I've had the exact opposite happen with kickass OP and terrible show. Now, for an OP that I kinda looked at puzzled but never once turned off the series for, Shingu's sounds like it was stolen from the world's most boring elevator track music. Thank god the show was actually quite good but that OP, skip it every time. Then there are OPs I look at and I can't tell if I'm going to like the show, Gurren Lagann actually did that for me but then everyone pressed me to watch it sooner so I did and I fell in love with it! And now I actually like the OP more too even if I didn't think it was anything special at first. Still don't like the first ED but I love the 2nd one. |
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RHachicho
 Posts: 897 Location: Essex, UK |
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Aye I didn't really see that much wrong with GL's opening it was very much in the spirit of the rest of the show. I know what you mean though frankly the OHSHC opener made me want to hide my face in shame after about 10 seconds into it. I never watched more than 2 seconds of it again.
I doubt I would ever be put off something because it looks like it's "for kids" but then some of my favorite western animated movies are for kids like flight of dragons or transformers (original movie). I guess everyone just has buttons they don't like getting pushed. |
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LydiaDianne
 Posts: 5634 Location: Southern California |
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At the moment, I can't think of any openers that make me cringe, but I absolutely LOATHE Bleach's Happy People that was the closing episode throughout much of the Rescue Rukia arc. That has got to be the worst closing song considering what the storyline was about.
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the Rancorous
 Posts: 2248 Location: Hunting the Dragon in Gransys |
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I Youtubed it... so that's why I couldn't remember what it sounded like, I had blotted it from my memory. Different does not always mean good. Tokko's opening is quite the ear-grater. I can picture it being played at a trashy strip-joint in those middle-of-nowhere towns you see in movies. Everything about that opener sucks. The vocals are obnoxious and the "music" sounds like old-school video game quality. Bleh! |
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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The worst opener I've seen, by far, is the one for Honey and Clover. What the heck does all that ugly food have to do with anything?! Plus, the shrimp-cocktail-hand at the end freaks me out. *shudder* I have never been so gung-ho to skip past an opening every episode... watching it definitely takes me out of the mood for the show.
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egoist
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The ugly food from Honey and Clover has something to do with the girls' cooking choices. So, it's not entirely random. The music is good, so it's not absolutely essential to skip it.
What the hell were they thinking when NieA_7's op were made? lol |
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DuelLadyS
Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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I did think of that- but their food just tasted bad, it didn't look bad. The whole of it just doesn't seem to jive with the pastel, artsy, youth-finding-their-way-in-life-and-love thing the show has going on. It's jarring. (And the prawn hand made me jump the first time I saw it.  )
It's been awhile since I saw the NieA opening... but I seem to remember they were actively trying to make an anime that was (I quote) "lame". Perhaps they tried too hard? 
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egoist
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Hm, from what I understood it's not that their cooking is bad, it's just their choices. Thus, why I didn't actually mention the bad taste. Certainly, chocolate stewed with vegetables isn't exactly a simple matter of bad taste. So, I could imagine the girls doing something like that, because they apparently really enjoy cooking, and not to forget their artistic skills. I'm not exactly defending it though, since I haven't looked at the screen while watching that opening after the first time I saw it. But I still enjoy the music. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Here's another opening that I hate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTlu91tS30 It is for Hoop Days, which was a surprisingly enjoyable series. But I found the opener to be so horrid that I watched it once and then skipped it for all the other episodes. Watching it again, I don't find it as awful as I used to think it was, but it still is pretty hideous. The ending is even worse, if I remember correctly. |
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egoist
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Oh, yes. Let's not forget about one of the most famous openings of all times. One Piece's incredible 4Kids opening. Definitely befits a pirate anime.
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ShellBullet
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I really liked the Niea_7 opener. It's a good tune, and the weathered voice fits the theme fairly well; it's stands out from a lot of the interchangeable J-pop ditty's that so many other series choose.
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