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[mecha] OK time to get mad at Top 165 Mecha Anime Openings of the 2010s
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first point of contention: it starts with 166th place
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that's not 165 OPs
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booooooooo
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Time Bokan was still going in 2017? jesus
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I'm just biased against Time Bokan for popularizing the extremely unpleasant designs that are the Three Evils
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I've never even heard of a lot of these
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my only demand of the list is that one of the Aquarion EVOL OPs makes it into the top ten
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ahahaha AKB0048
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what a ridiculous show
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oh god the Iron Man anime
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shame all those marvel anime sucked shit
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Valvrave enters the fray in 142nd place
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on one hand the OP is better than that but on the other hand
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god Valvrave is so bad
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team rocket is the only good time bokan trio
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I peaked in on a series of watch threads that did guilty crown into valvrave into cross ange and valvrave was pretty much unanimously the most hated
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I like the look of the time bokan trio in Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
https://images.plurk.com/D1j8a2wHo3O0XaE7btqIO.png https://images.plurk.com/2bhTogsUlCDrDCfntWdi9G.png
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Valvrave: It's Even Worse Than Cross Ange
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Nadia has one weeeird epilogue spoiler involving them but otherwise yeah
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the show just has fantastic character designs in general
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speaking of bad shows that deserve to be ranked higher only because this is an OP list:
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132nd place: Aldnoah.Zero S2
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OK seriously what the fuck is Danball Senki and why does it have like 20 OPs
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Aquarion Logos in 129th, that's fine
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JAM Project enters the list in 125th place with Ryuusei Lovers
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which yeah is pretty forgettable
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danball senki is vidya tieins
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Gargantia's OP comes in 122nd
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GAY TENNA?
YES
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that's a quite low score
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or is the YES just in response to Gargantia existing in general
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in which case checks out
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113th for Mazinger Z Infinity, yeah it wasn't that good of a cover
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Guilty Crown OP in 108th? that song is so good. shakes head
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none of these are nearly as criminal as the retro list
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danball senki is, essentially, 'what if gundam build fighters but everything was cardboard'
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Zoids takes us into the top 100
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good ol zoids
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Re:Creators... technically counts? I guess??? 98th place
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Fafner's second OP... sounds good, but there's no way it was going to touch Shangri-La
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Aquarion EVOL OP2 in 93rd place?? fuck you
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aaaahaha
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G no Recognuista in 85th... the ED was better
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truth
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Gundam Build Fighters Try OP1 in 71st, deserved to be higher up
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GENKAI NANTE NAI
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Maxon in 65th, bad JAM Project opinions continue
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OH wait I was thinking of the SECOND Guilty Crown OP
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which is much higher, in 61st place (still too low)
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RAISE YOUR FLAG in 58th
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a least we're up to the top half
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Evol OP1 only made 47th place
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this list is now a crime
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I don't even know what's left to make the top 20 at this point
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oh here we go
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the first Gargantia OP made 37th place
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I guess it had two OPs? I don't remember that
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Gridman in 36th
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why are there STILL more Time Bokan OPs
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I'll never be free of fucking Time Bokan
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man, Raise Your Flag wasn't even the second highest-rated Gundam IBO OP
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time to bokan
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TOP TWENTY
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20: Guilty Crown OP3
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19: Majestic Prince
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18: Gundam AGE OP4
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17: Gundam 00 Movie (bad pick)
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16: Zoids Wild OP4
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15: Aldnoah.Zero, heavenly blue
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14: Full Metal Panic Invisible Victory
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the show that had like four recap episodes despite being one cour
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13: Zoids Wild Zero
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lotta Zoids
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tozasareta sekai slander
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12: Re:Creators OP1
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Good song but again, BARELY mecha by a technicality
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11: Comet Lucifer? Never heard of it
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10: Star Driver OP 2
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9: Concrete Revolution: The Last Song
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Revolutio*
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8: Gundam AGE OP2
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7: Macross Delta OP1
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6: Kenzon Robo Daimidaler
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5: Valvrave OP1
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I'm furious but it's a good placement
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4: Gundam Build Divers OP1
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3: Captain Earth
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2: Levius, which is so barely mecha I wouldn't call it even kind of mecha
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those aren't mecha those are prosthetics
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first place, the big winner
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WOW
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REALLY????
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dragon time
Nooooo
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Plane With wasn't listed at all
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I truly do not understand the minds of people who claim to enjoy rgz
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there's no content to enjoy
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it's less than staring at a wall
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there's the part where toddlers make rape threats at other toddlers
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I was going to ask what the hell Robot Girls Z is but clearly ignorance is bliss
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it's go nagai moe gijinka horse piss
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it doesn't even really make a "joke" out of that it's just events soullessly occurring
tutorials georg
Robot Girls Z is unwatchable garbage, and I'm saying that as the target audience for moe anthropomorphism of giant robots.
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The characters barely have anything to do with their inspiration, they're just cardboard moe archetypes, and none of the jokes were funny.
oh i'm scary
setting aside the quality of the show
oh i'm scary
the song is nothing
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AND that
Ken
There’s something about messy 2010s mecha that isn’t nearly as endearing in most cases for me as messy 2000s mecha anime. I don’t know if that’s my age or if it was just a rough decade.
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the 2010s replaced "the plot is kind of a well-intentioned mess" with "there's too much rapey shit in it"
Ken
looks directly at Valvrave
Ken
Yeah
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Robot Girls Z had exactly one good joke and it was a background shot of Mary King in a cardboard box representing Texas Mack https://images.plurk.com/1aawF0w87NVjFicizXojXC.png
Ken
That scans
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Also I hate IBO but Raise Your Flag was 58th? This poster’s got shit taste
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I'm glad I found them
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to inflict Rage on you all
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I mean re:creators does have like three mecha in it, I guess. could be worse. its openings are really good though.
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and I don't hate rage of dust over raise your flag they just both need to be higher
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although I'm also shoving all the Gundam origin ops way higher too
Rama
Man the 2010s were just kinda nothing for good mecha
tutorials georg
There was a lot of good mecha, especially in the genre renaissance that started around the end, it's just that the only ones anyone was watching were the bad ones.
tutorials georg
Way more people saw Darling in the FranXX than Planet With.
Ken
There’s absolutely some good shows but I feel like a lot of the Big Shows just drove into the ground.

I am a bit partial to Macross Delta but I also understand why it didn’t click with some folks like Frontier did
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Gridman not making at MINIMUM the top 20 is about when I figured this list was gonna be horseshit
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UNION is genuinely an all-timer
Ken
Union is nearly as good as Yume no Hero which if you’re doing a Gridman show is the highest compliment you can level
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alright, now i'm confused. because gargantia does not have 2 openings
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lemme look back
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Suisei no Gargantia: Meguru Kouro, Haruka
the low-rated one was from this
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a spinoff OVA
GAY TENNA?
OHH THE OVA THAT MAKES SENSE
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OVAs?
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yeah there was a 2 episode sequel OVA
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it wasn't too bad but the op honestly was so forgettable i forgot it even had one until this plurk LMAO
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so it sounds like 122nd place was about right
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