{"id":2551,"date":"2009-05-26T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T23:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2009-05-26T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T23:36:39","slug":"top-five-ops-of-spring-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/top-five-ops-of-spring-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five OPs of Spring 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2553\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/1224188953663.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2553\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2553\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/1224188953663.jpg?resize=450%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I had nothing else to put here.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Of course, this isn&#8217;t counting <em>Haruhi (2009)<\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bouken Desho Desho&#8221; is beyond-godly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxvJj99pZwk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>#5: &#8220;Future Stream&#8221; (<\/strong><em><strong>Hatsukoi Limited<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because youtube never has the actual OP to anything, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x8ybad_hatsukoi-limited-op_shortfilms\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This song is awesome. \u00a0Catchy, awesome, good, uh&#8230; catchy, and I&#8217;m not <a href=\"http:\/\/kielmaru07.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/23\/hatsukoi-limited-op-future-stream-by-sphere\/\" target=\"_blank\">the only one to say so<\/a>. \u00a0Though the animation ain&#8217;t all that impressive (&#8220;Kuusou Rumba&#8221; &gt; everything in that fer&#8217; sure), it&#8217;s got an epic song.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rL8LFPIF53A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>#4: &#8220;Falling Down&#8221; (<\/strong><em><strong>Eden of the East<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has got to be one of the best displays of OP animation I&#8217;ve ever seen (Kuusou Rumba &gt; this, still). \u00a0Incredible eye candy to an English song actually sung by Englishmen (or, if you prefer, English speakers*). \u00a0And it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s totally random &#8211; the words in the background mean something, unlike in <em>ef<\/em>&#8216;s OPs (German? \u00a0Come on.).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GfQ1UV2PvD4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>#3: &#8220;Summer Rain&#8221; (<\/strong><em><strong>Cross Game<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Summer Rain&#8221; is one of the few anime songs I love with a male singer. \u00a0Things like <em>Blood+<\/em>&#8216;s second OP are like chalk on a nailboard to me. \u00a0<em>Cross Game<\/em>&#8216;s first OP has some serious lack of animating skills (that baseball with Wakaba on it looks like it alternates between two frames) &#8211; though the animation as a whole fits the rather laid back song very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1h-4mNlxB9w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>#2: &#8220;nO limiT&#8221; (<\/strong><em><strong>Basquash!<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that I hate this animation of the OP. \u00a0The one that comes later (it&#8217;s in episodes 2 &#8211; 8 so far, I think), with the moon idols, is a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed at how damn fast those words some out. \u00a0It&#8217;s like <em>Pre-Parade<\/em> x 3, and twice as good. \u00a0The tweaked voices sound annoying at first, but it grew on me, and now I speak like a robot.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kviqEdhL3kE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>#1: &#8220;Cagayake Girls!&#8221; (<\/strong><em><strong>K-ON!<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because a KyoAni anime <em>has<\/em> to come up in every other post.<\/p>\n<p>But really, this song is great. \u00a0I love the animation, and it synches perfectly with the song (and so do the subs &#8211; what an incredible job subbing groups did on that&#8230;!). \u00a0I love this song so much that it was registered on my <a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/02\/the-anime-songs-i-never-get-tired-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">list of awesome<\/a>\u00a0only a week after I heard it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">Shitty<\/span> Filler list post is filler.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I wore my Naruto shirt to school today and became gar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-F9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}