Daily Archives: Sunday, September 16, 2007

One thing that I’ve been in the process of doing has been trying to decide what my favorite anime themes of all time are. This is a pretty daunting task since I have a library of over 500 themes stored away (mostly for my podcast), and so in the first round, I narrowed down the list to 512 songs, eliminating those which were instrumental only, and capping the number of songs coming from any given series (I think Naruto had the most at 11).

I then went through and listened to songs in groups of 8, picking out my favorite 4 songs in each group, thus advancing 256 songs to the Second Round.

While I won’t list out all the songs that advance to the second round here (that’d be one huge list), I’ll list out anime series and performers which did well in advancing songs from the first round.

Series with 8 songs
Fullmetal Alchemist – 8

Series with 6 songs
Ai Yori Aoshi/Enishi – 6
Cardcaptor Sakura + movies – 6
School Days – 6

Series with 5 songs
Ah! My Goddess (TV) – 5

Series with 4 songs
Bleach – 4
Blood+ – 4
Full Metal Panic/Fumoffu/The Second Raid – 4
.hack//Whatever – 4
Kiba – 4
Shakuga no Shana – 4

Series with 3 songs
Chobits – 3
D. Gray Man – 3
Eureka Seven – 3
Girls Bravo – 3
Great Teacher Onizuka – 3
NANA – 3
Project ARMS – 3
Seto no Hanayome – 3
Shuffle/Memories – 3
Tsubasa Chronicles – 3

Series with 2 songs
A hell of a lot

Ok, how did individual artists do?

Artists with 7 songs
Minami Kuribayashi
Yoko Ishida

Artists with 6 songs
Kotoko

Artists with 4 songs
The Indigo
L’Arc~en~Ciel
Mikuni Shimokawa
Miyuki Hashimoto

Artists with 3 songs
Maaya Sakamoto
Nami Tamaki
Oranges & Lemons
Origa
Rie Tanaka
Saeko Chiba
See-Saw
Yoko Takahashi
Yozuca
Yui Horie
Yuria

I’ll post the results from the 2nd round whenever I get done listening to all 256 songs. Once again I’ll do the “listen to 8 and pick 4) thing. I’m not sure whether I’ll start a bracket after 128 or 64 songs, but I will pretty soon.