Tag: cartoon intro cavalcade
Get an awesome theme song and it's a lot easier to get an awesome opening credits sequence to match it. Case in point: the intro to the original Teen Titans animated series, sung by Puffy Ami-Yumi.
The rollicking theme song...
The opening credits sequences to the seminal Japanese anime series Space Battleship Yamato and the more recent Galaxy Railways have three things in common:
Terrestrial transportation vehicles converted into unusual spaceships
A powerful sense of duty and shared sacrifice and the...
As I mentioned in my review of the recently released DVD set, 1998's Godzilla the Series makes a silk purse out of a sow's ear, turning the underwhelming American movie into an enjoyable "monster of the week" action cartoon....
Batman the Animated Series just won in Toonzone's "Battle of the Brackets," getting selected as the top action cartoon in a tournament of 64 different shows, so it's well past time to give the show's superb opening sequence its...
The best thing about the anime series Nerima Daikon Brothers is that the dub track means you practically get two series for the price of one. As I mentioned when I reviewed the series back in 2009, the series...
The Tick (1994) is another example of how a theme song can do a whole lot of the heavy lifting in setting the tone of an opening sequence, and by extension an entire series. Doug Katsaros provides a metric...
I've expressed my love for the 1980's G.I. Joe opening sequences multiple times (especially the one that ran starting with the "The Pyramid of Darkness" mini-series and the TV show proper), but the opening credits for the feature-length G.I....
Ayakashi was an anime TV series that aired in Japan in 2006, recounting three ghost stories set in various periods of Japan's feudal era. The first two, "Yotsuya Ghost Story" and "Goddess of the Dark Tower," were based on...
The opening credits sequence to the Dirty Pair: Project Eden OVA movie are a tantalizing blend of sex, technology, and spy thrillers, along with some bracingly bizarre images and segues. It reminds me of the best Maurice Binder opening...
In 1989, the Nintendo Entertainment System was at the height of its dominance. Millions of kids around the world were becoming familiar with characters such as Mario and Luigi. Merchandising was inevitably all over the place, and a cartoon...