The History of Mecha Anime Openings

 

The opening animation in any anime is an important factor to the entire show, whether you skip it or not. I love anime openings of every kind, they are mini-trailers and little stories onto themselves. Good ones put you in the right mood to enjoy the upcoming episode, while bad ones tend to make you press the fast forward button more often. I love them all, but what I love the most are the openings to mecha/ super robots anime. I prayed to God that one day someone would just collect all these openings together and release it as one giant video. My prayers were answered and someone did just that, and now I’m here to share this slice of history with all of you.

Robot Anime Japanese Opening Collection 1963-1984
Robot Anime Japanese Opening Collection 1985-1992
Robot Anime Japanese Opening Collection 1993-1998
Robot Anime Japanese Opening Collection 1999-2003
Robot Anime Japanese Opening Collection 2003-2007

Each video is roughly around two hours each, totally up to ten hours worth of pure mecha history! It contains practically every single mecha opening in existence, and music videos for films which don’t have an opening; how thoughtful! Each era has it’s own unique feeling to it. Most of the early years opening songs were sung by little children, the eighties openings had that trademark eighties music in them, early nineties featured main characters who were mostly children, while the late nineties started to become darker, and then suddenly we are in the modern day opening era inundated with popular music and fanservice.


Now that we have history at our fingertips, what is the best way to watch all of this? Well, if there was a museum I would throw it in there, but since we don’t have a museum I say just throw a Super Robot party and have this on the TV. So do yourself a favor and take some time to study mecha history; because it will be on the test.