Anime openings from the 00s - First Half

This decade will be split in two episodes as well, because there's so much to listen to from completely different backgrounds, genres and artists, classic and new ones! This decade is also called as the golden age of Isekai, but we have just one... and a half, probably! Anyway it's not my favourite anime genre, so it's understandable. Forgive me, please!

The 90s looked far away when we looked back in 2005, so in this part of the decade we will hear as openings really different sounds, like darker rock, cheesier pop and, why not, some folk. A few seiyuus were also confirming themselves as singers, abandoning the voice acting eventually and focusing on their musical carreer. And anime itself went to a darker stage on genres and topics, while 3D animation was claiming its place in the game.

The new millenium arrived and japanese animation shifted to new genres while classic franchises like Gundam or Dragon Ball were still the most watched animes. Also, new artists appeared in the Anisong scene with powerful songs that made them well known.

New anime genres start to get successful and so their opening songs. Also, a new way to create openings appears: asking modern pop/rock bands to compose them, so the quality of openings and the number of them increases!

Japan in the 80s was transitioning to a new era in multiple terms, and a new aesthetic appeared and sublimated into the pop culture, touching anime itself and its music. In this chapter we'll check how the tradition on the openings from the past decade moved along and mixed with new sounds

Music and anime have been linked since the earliest days of animation, and openings have been usually the first attempt to get audience's attention, so usually they were really intense songs with catchy melodies and upbeats. In today's episode we'll cover my favourite openings from the 70s.

El género Visual Kei vuelve a Podgaku de la mano de Dir En Grey, apadrinados por el mismísimo Yoshiki Hayashi (X Japan) y con una actitud irrepetible en la escena. Su discografía está marcada por varios cambios de estilo musical y está coronada por éxitos como Cage o Umbrella

El grupo de rock Janne Da Arc ha sabido desmarcarse con sus potentes guitarras y el sonido de sus sintetizadores, con la inestimable ayuda de Yasu a las voces, quien fundaría más adelante Acid Black Cherry. En este programa podremos escuchar éxitos como Shining Ray y Red Zone.

Ayumi Hamasaki fue durante mucho tiempo la definición del JPop, reinando las listas de éxitos y dando a conocer el género de forma internacional. Los remixes de sus canciones han sonado en los clubs más importantes, y aunque ahora mismo su carrera está de capa caída por cuestiones de salud, nos ha dejado un legado impresionante tanto en cifras como en calidad musical

Volvemos a escuchar grandes éxitos de Enka de las voces de Sakamoto Fuyumi, Nakamura Mitsuko y Oyonezu entre otros.