ED from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! more for the music than visuals.
As mentioned in this thread Song of Raindrops and Koko kara, Koko kara are also good
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ED from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! more for the music than visuals.
As mentioned in this thread Song of Raindrops and Koko kara, Koko kara are also good
Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai by Yoko Hikasa - Attack on Titan ED1. The melody is a startling contrast from the anime itself. Unlike the action packed and destructive anime, the song is gentle and pure, sad and foreboding, but with a measure of strength. Like someone (namely Mikasa, featured in the video) desperately fighting to hold on to something that will inevitably escape their grasp.
Michishirube by Chihara Minori from Violet Evergarden
Koko kara, koko kara by Tamaki Mari (CV: Minase Inori), Kobuchizawa Shirase (CV: Hanazawa Kana), Shiraishi Yuzuki (CV: Hayami Saori), Hinata Miyake (CV: Iguchi Yuuka) from A Place Further Than The Universe
Que será será by fhána from Uchouten Kazoku 2
Kimi to nakushimono by Kitazawa Ayaka from Little Busters! Refrain
Mata kimi ni aeru hi by Miyawaki Shion from Ansatsu Kyoushitsu season 2
Odoru Akachan Ningen from NHK ni Youkoso!
I can't find the ED itself but I really love the energy in this song.
Animethemes has it: Odoru Akachan Ningen
I think back when I first watched Welcome to the NHK that song may be what made me realize that the Japanese had also adopted a planet/weekday naming convention e.g. 火星/火曜日 == Mars / Tuesday (Tiw/Tyr's day == Mars's day; more obvious in e.g. French "Mardi", etc.); 土星/土曜日 = Saturn / Saturday; etc.
Thanks! I didn't know a website like this exists.
secret base ~君がくれたもの~」B ver. from AnoHana - because it makes me instantly relive all the emotions felt while watching the anime.
Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no Youna from ERASED - same reason as above.
Dango Daikazuko from CLANNAD - same reason as above.
Tabi no Hidarite, Saihate no Migite from Made in Abyss - sounds like such a fun series, right? Right?! But yeah, I unironically like that song and sing along in the car. Trying to not “same reason as above”.
Okami Blues from Seton Academy - another depressing sing along song that’s actually depressing.
Maid no Komoriuta from Akiba Maid Wars - because it’s hilarious.
Gotta Knock A Little Harder from the Cowboy Bebop Movie - because it’s my favorite song in general.
Kuroi Namida 4th ending from NANA - and we’re back to the depressing shit. Might have a problem.
I love EDs that tell a story!
My favorite one of those is the original Babel II ED from 1973
Along with a classic song by the late great Ichiro Mizuki, it also portrays the henchmen as dangerous, even though our hero manages to defeat them anyway.
A more recent one is Paripi Koumei/Ya Boy Kongming's ED
Another fantastic song from this series by 96NEKO. The story in the ED is an idealized version of the story with SD versions of the characters
Again, going back to the 70s, 1974's Majokko Megu-chan ED
The song by the great Yoko Maekawa isn't the greatest, but the care in the animation and background art is far greater than typical TV anime art for that era. The little dog is very cute, but I don't think it appears in the actual story in the show.
Edit: corrected the link to the Space Dandy ED
Although I enjoy songs mainly because they sound good to me (usually because they are catchy / pop-rocky), there are some endings that stood out to me beyond just their audio:
Comedy a.k.a. Kigeki by Hoshino Gen (Spy x Family)
Sweet Sign by Misaki Nako (100 Girlfriends)
Kimi wa Boku Niteiru by See-Saw (Gundam SEED Destiny)
unlasting by LiSA (SAO: Alicization - War of Underworld)
My Nonfiction by Kaguya-sama cast (Kaguya-sama season 3)
What's an ED?
In the context of anime, an ED is the song/visuals that play at the end of the episode. Similarly, the opening song/visuals are referred to as an OP.
Thanks! I've read of OP more often, not ED as much, didn't think it'd warrant shortening! 😅
Your question actually got me curious, so I tried to search for where it came from and it is literally just short for EnDing. Seems a bit silly really. It does provide a nice symmetry with OP though.
Frieren's ED is phenomenal, no arguments there. Probably one of my favorite EDs of all time. Others that come to mind for me would be:
Love the Konosuba EDs. They're so comfy.
Torikago, from darling in the franxx is one of my favorites. It's definitely also an emotional one