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The Set List - Top 10 EDs of 2004

Another great list, as per usual. Just to satisfy my curiosity, since you seem to be doing these year op lists in pairs, will you be doing an ED list for the years you've already covered back when you were on TGWTG?

I hate to be critical over such a tiny nitpick and have held back from mentioning it til now, but it looks like there's a hair over the upper left corner of the video's white frame and it's very distracting (in full screen). I keep wanting to reach out and brush it off.

By the way, I guess very soon we will find videogames music, isn't it? Since it's said everytime at the start of the episode, I'm curious about what kind of games or if they have to be related with anime or something.

Always thought the Afro Gunsou animation wasn't supposed to be a "Saturday Night Fever" parody, it was supposed to be a Dance Dance Revolution parody.

Saturday Night Fever was a hit in Japan actually. It gets referenced in a lot of anime and other things. But the resemblance is pretty...

Ending Theme:
#1: "Reason" by Nami Tamaki (eps 1-13)
#2: "Life Goes On" by Mika Arisaka (eps 14-25)
#3: "I Wanna Go To A Place..." by Rie Fu (eps 26-37)
#4: "Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru" (君は僕に似ている; You are Similar to Me) by See-Saw (eps 38-50)

JesuOtaku wrote:

Saturday Night Fever was a hit in Japan actually. It gets referenced in a lot of anime and other things. But the resemblance is pretty...

Actually, was trying to explain the columnist's puzzlement with "And why the jerky CGI animation, that looks like some kind of video game?"
(....Nowwww d'you get it?)

It's difficult to know what one is voting for when there is a voting selection "Gundam Seed Destiny" and one sees in the encyclopaedia entry:

Quote:

Ending Theme: #1: "Reason" by Nami Tamaki (eps 1-13) #2: "Life Goes On" by Mika Arisaka (eps 14-25) #3: "I Wanna Go To A Place..." by Rie Fu (eps 26-37) #4: "Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru" (君は僕に似ている; You are Similar to Me) by See-Saw (eps 38-50)

Any of them and all of them.
...
The Gundam SEED entry counts for all the ED themes.

JesuOtaku wrote:

Any of them and all of them. ... The Gundam SEED entry counts for all the ED themes.

OK, thanks!

Is there any better way to get a list of 2004 anime series than using:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2004_anime_television_series?

So that's actually a texture crack in the photograph frame onscreen, but because the video is rendered at a fairly low-ish bitrate for 1280x720, you can't quite tell that it's a texture crack or even that the white frame is a physical polaroid frame sort of. It is kinda hard to tell at the lower bitrate/resolution in the window, so maybe I will de-texturize it so it won't be so distracting.

For whatever reason, there are never as many ED songs I like as much as OP songs. For every ED song I like, there's about 10 more OPs that I like.

So the only 2004 anime EDs I can even remember liking off the top of my head are Kannazuki no Miko and School Rumble.

But wow, it didn't even occur to me how different the music was back then for the OPs and EDs. The OPs today are usually all j-pop or j-rock and the EDs are usually the same, but "softer" and "quieter." Not to say that there aren't as many GOOD OPs and EDs -- there are a bunch -- but there's not too much variety now in terms of music genre.

I did not see it coming as I assumed For the Love of Life would take the top spot. Poor Monster, always the bridesmaid.

I actually perked up at the Doki Doki School Morning cover of Furare kibun de Rock'n Roll. Good choice, too. Take a look at this glorious raw 80s.