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Global Musicians Crown Evangelion's 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis' The Greatest Anime Song Ever - Animehunch (animehunch.com)
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[–] 37 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Top 20:

  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion — A Cruel Angel’s Thesis
  2. Naruto Shippuden — Blue Bird
  3. Dragon Ball Z — CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
  4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Gurenge
  5. Sailor Moon — Moonlight Densetsu
  6. Tetsujin 28-go — Tetsujin 28-go
  7. Astro Boy — Astro Boy
  8. Your Name. — Zenzenzense
  9. One Piece — We Are!
  10. Spirited Away — Always With Me (Itsumo Nando Demo)
  11. Oshi no Ko — Idol
  12. Attack on Titan — Guren no Yumiya
  13. Mashle: Magic and Muscles — Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
  14. GeGeGe no Kitaro — GeGeGe no Kitaro
  15. Obake no Q-Taro — Obake no Q-Taro
  16. Chainsaw Man — KICK BACK
  17. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  18. Ponyo — Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
  19. Sally the Witch — Sally the Witch Song
  20. My Neighbor Totoro — Sanpo (Stroll)

Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don't see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno's 'Tank!'.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I find yhe lack of cowboy bebop on that list concerning

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    Definitely missing the theme of the Gunsmith Cats OVA by Peter Erskine!

    This list looks like:

    1: The song most people probably recognized even if they didn't watch Evangelion

    2-16: Either a recent anime song, or a "classic" anime song regardless of merit of the actual music (ie, we would literally be killed if we didn't include this, even if the song isn't musically that good)

    17-20: Ghibli

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'd have picked "Blue" (the final ED) rather than "Tank!", but at that point it's just a matter of taste.

    Let's see here—of the songs on the list, I remember four, although I must have heard three of the others at least once. There's not just recency bias, but most-popular-series bias. Of course, if someone asked me to make a similar list, most of it would be stuff hardly anyone else remembers.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    I can immediately hear roughly half of them in my head. Ghibli soundtracks are usually great but I don’t think they really should be on this list, there’re many I’d choose before them including Tank and Blue.

    Edit: My personal list would honestly be half yoko kanno

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