Animation · 2010s
The 2010s account for 123 of the 463 animation shows here, and 125 opening sequences.
No decade here has more animation openings than this one.
Cartoon Network carries the most, with 21.
123 shows125 sequences
1 sequence
Rick and Morty
A montage of adventures that mostly never happened, re-cut every season out of clips from episodes that do not exist.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Bluey
A blue heeler puppy and her family, animated in Brisbane, whose titles introduce the whole household in under half a minute.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequencePrimal
Twenty seconds of charcoal and blood, with no dialogue anywhere in it — which is also true of most of the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAttack on Titan
A new opening for almost every cour, each one restating the series' situation as it currently stands — which over four seasons means the titles document a war changing sides.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBob's Burgers
Three running gags in nineteen seconds — the burger of the day, the shop next door, and the pest-control van — all three rewritten for every single episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAdventure Time
Twenty-five seconds of a candy world that turns out to be a post-apocalyptic one, sung by a boy and a dog who have not noticed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLove, Death + Robots
Three icons — a heart, a skull, a robot — recombined every episode to declare which of the three that instalment is going to be. The shortest possible statement of an anthology's rules.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBoJack Horseman
A man drifting through his own life on his back while Los Angeles slides past above him, ending in a pool. Six seasons of the same slow fall, with the crowd around him quietly changing.
- Seasons 1–6
1 sequenceGravity Falls
A cipher hidden in the last second of every opening, so the title sequence is itself a puzzle the audience was expected to solve across two seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Legend of Korra
The Avatar sequel, which keeps the four-element structure of its predecessor's opening and moves it into an industrial age.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOver the Garden Wall
Nineteenth-century American illustration and a wax-cylinder recording, for a miniseries that spends ten episodes pretending to be much older than it is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRegular Show
A blue jay and a raccoon employed as groundskeepers, opened with a synth sting and almost no information.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Loud House
One boy, ten sisters, and a theme song that has to introduce all eleven of them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRe:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
A boy who restarts from a save point every time he dies, and remembers all of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMade in Abyss
A children's-book art style over a descent that gets progressively less survivable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHarley Quinn
The adult animated Harley, whose opening is short enough that the show keeps rewriting it episode to episode.
- Season 1
1 sequencePuella Magi Madoka Magica
A magical-girl opening played completely straight, which turns out to be the series' first and most effective lie about what it is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSteven Universe
A theme sung by the characters about themselves, rewritten as the line-up of those characters changes — which for this show is the plot.
- Season 5
1 sequenceHaikyu!!
Volleyball animated with the weight of a fight scene, over a rock track that never lets the tempo drop.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig Mouth
Puberty rendered as a marching band of anxieties, with the hormone monsters given equal billing to the children.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMob Psycho 100
Paint, distortion and animation techniques that change every few seconds — a title sequence used as a showcase for what the studio can do.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBeastars
A boarding school of carnivores and herbivores, opened by a stop-motion sequence unlike the series it introduces.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Vinland Saga
Norse violence scored with post-hardcore, and an opening that gets quieter as the series abandons the war it started with.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceYoung Justice
Twenty-two seconds and a card, from a superhero series that assumed its audience already knew everyone.
- Season 1
1 sequenceShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power
The 1985 toy line rebuilt by Noelle Stevenson into something the original could not have carried.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig City Greens
A country family relocated to the city, opened at the speed of a banjo run.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAssassination Classroom
A class assigned to kill their own teacher, who is the best teacher any of them have had.
- Season 2
1 sequenceWe Bare Bears
Three bears stacked in a trenchcoat trying to fit into the Bay Area.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Dragon Prince
Twenty-seven seconds of moving illustration, closer to a book being opened than a montage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOverlord
A player left inside a shut-down game as his own undead avatar, playing the villain straight.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDisenchantment
A fantasy kingdom introduced with the same long pan Groening's other shows use, and the same willingness to hide jokes in the background.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Hero Academia
Superhero iconography by way of shonen convention, with a new opening for each season announcing how much worse things have got.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAkame ga Kill!
An assassin's guild against an empire, in a series that kills its cast far faster than the genre allows.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar vs. the Forces of Evil
A magical princess sent to Earth for remedial schooling, with a wand she does not control.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKill la Kill
Trigger's first series, cut at a speed that leaves the title cards behind.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTron: Uprising
The Grid between the two films, animated with a design sense far beyond its slot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUltimate Spider-Man
Spider-Man trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., opened in eleven seconds flat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmphibia
A Californian teenager stranded in a world of frog people, with a banjo theme to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
The most complete adaptation of the Avengers comics animation has managed, cancelled at two seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAvengers Assemble
The film line-up animated weekly, with an opening as long as a station ident.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHilda
Luke Pearson's blue-haired girl and the Nordic folklore living beside her town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInfinity Train
A train of endless carriages, each its own world, with a nine-second open that refuses to explain any of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDurarara!!
Ikebukuro told through a dozen viewpoints that only connect in the last act.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFood Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
Competitive cooking staged as combat, with the reaction shots doing most of the work.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElena of Avalor
A crown princess ruling a Latin American-inspired kingdom before she is old enough to be queen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKuroko's Basketball
A basketball player whose entire skill is being unnoticeable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMilo Murphy's Law
A boy for whom anything that can go wrong does, from the Phineas and Ferb creators.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCarmen Sandiego
The game-show thief given an origin, animated in flat colour and a lot of red.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Pickles
A family dog who is secretly satanic, opened in the visual language of a wholesome fifties cartoon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThat Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
A salaryman reincarnated as the weakest monster in the game, who builds a country anyway.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The turtles redrawn in a hand-animated style closer to a comic than the CG series before it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGenerator Rex
A boy who can rebuild his own limbs into machines, in a world where nanites turned everything else monstrous.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
A boy in a stunt suit treating an ordinary suburb as a series of ramps.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFinal Space
A prisoner adrift in space with an alien that everyone in the galaxy wants.
- Season 1
1 sequenceClarence
A relentlessly cheerful boy and two friends, drawn in a loose line that never tidied itself up.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSpace Dandy
Shinichiro Watanabe again, and again the opening is a music cue with a visual identity of its own — surf rock, neon and a pompadour.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDC Super Hero Girls
The DC heroines at high school, from the Powerpuff Girls' creative lineage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCraig of the Creek
A wooded creek run entirely by the children who play in it, mapped like a country.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAggretsuko
Sanrio character design and death metal, in an opening that switches between the two exactly as the protagonist does.
- Season 5
1 sequenceMike Tyson Mysteries
Scooby-Doo's structure with Mike Tyson, a ghost, a pigeon and an adopted daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRapunzel's Tangled Adventure
The film continued in hand-drawn animation, which the feature never was.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
A hero-supply plaza run as a beat-em-up, with the video game's grammar kept in the titles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSym-Bionic Titan
Genndy Tartakovsky's mecha series, cancelled after one season for having no toy line.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUncle Grandpa
Everyone's uncle and everyone's grandpa, travelling in an RV that is also a tiger.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWander Over Yonder
Craig McCracken's relentlessly cheerful nomad and the villain he will not stop befriending.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHey Duggee
A dog running a scout group for small animals, structured around a badge per episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig Hero 6: The Series
The film's team continued in 2D, in a San Fransokyo drawn rather than modelled.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFish Hooks
A high school inside a pet-shop fish tank, animated over photographed backgrounds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Childhood friends reassembled by the one of them who died, who only one of them can see.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBrickleberry
A national park staffed entirely by people who should not be near one, opened in ten seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTuca & Bertie
Buildings with faces and plants with opinions — a city drawn as though everything in it is slightly alive, which in this show it is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Dynamite
The blaxploitation pastiche film continued as a series, with the seventies title grammar intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
The DreamWorks films continued weekly, opened in ten seconds of brush-and-ink.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFruits Basket
The second adaptation, which ran the manga to its end rather than stopping partway.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Casagrandes
The Loud House spin-off, following the Mexican American family next door into the city.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSanjay and Craig
A boy and his talking snake, drawn in the loosest line Nickelodeon has ever put on air.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnikitty!
The Lego Movie character given her own kingdom and a great deal more sugar.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGuardians of the Galaxy
The team animated after the first film, in the same eleven-second house style as the rest of the block.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSummer Camp Island
A camp where the counsellors are witches and the moon is a person, drawn in chalk pastel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceT.U.F.F. Puppy
A dog secret agent, from the creator of The Fairly OddParents.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTrollhunters
Guillermo del Toro's trolls under a Californian town, opened in fifteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Lantern: The Animated Series
The first fully CG DC series, cancelled after one season when its toy line failed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRandy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
A ninth-grader handed an eight-hundred-year-old ninja suit and no instructions.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNeo Yokio
Ezra Koenig's magistocrat comedy, animated in Japan and pitched somewhere nobody has located since.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
The Hulks as a team, framed as a documentary crew filming themselves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 7D
The seven dwarfs before Snow White, animated in a rubber-hose style by Tom Ruegger's team.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Clover
A boy born without magic in a world made of it, across thirteen different openings.
- Season 4
1 sequenceApple & Onion
An apple and an onion sharing a flat in a city of anthropomorphic food.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBless the Harts
A North Carolina family whose matriarch talks to a Jesus only she can see.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
A cat sheriff who wants to be a legendary hero and is instead responsible for a valley of fruit people.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHarvey Beaks
A well-behaved bird and the two feral children who are his best friends.
- Season 1
1 sequencePickle and Peanut
A pickle and a peanut, animated over photographed backgrounds and stock imagery.
- Season 1
1 sequencePenn Zero: Part-Time Hero
A part-time hero zapped into a different world every episode, each drawn in its own style.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSarah & Duck
A girl, her duck, and a narrator who talks to both of them, in fifteen seconds of open.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMotorcity
A hidden Detroit beneath a corporate city, from the Titmouse studio, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictor and Valentino
Two half-brothers in a Mesoamerican village where the folklore is real and mostly annoyed with them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBordertown
A Seth MacFarlane-produced border comedy, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWelcome to the Wayne
An apartment building with a secret in every corridor, and children who map it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoonbeam City
A Patrick Nagel pastiche in neon and chrome, which is the entire aesthetic argument of the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLazor Wulf
A wolf with a laser bolted to his back, in fourteen seconds of open.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChozen
An animated rapper released from prison, from the Archer production team.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFuture-Worm!
A time-travelling worm and the boy who built his flask, from Ryan Quincy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Rising of the Shield Hero
The isekai hero given the defensive weapon and none of the credit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBoruto: Naruto Next Generations
The Naruto sequel, following the son of the boy the first series was about.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Amazing World of Gumball
A cat, a goldfish with legs, and a suburb assembled by layering drawn animation, models and live-action photography in the same shot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBing
A preschool rabbit and the small woollen carer who manages him, from Ted Dewan's books.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCastlevania
Gothic architecture and stained glass rendered as a slow climb, refusing the game series' rock score for something closer to a requiem.
- Seasons 1–4
1 sequenceDuckTales (2017)
The reboot, which rerecorded the 1987 theme rather than replacing it — the rare remake that understood the song was the asset.
- Season 1
1 sequenceErased
A man sent back to his own childhood to prevent a murder, opened with the cold blue of a Hokkaido winter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceF Is for Family
A 1970s sitcom opening built out of wood panelling, cigarette smoke and a father arriving home — the era's own title design, with the warmth removed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Eggs and Ham
Fifty Seuss words expanded into two seasons, animated with more craft than the premise suggests.
- Season 2
1 sequenceHunter × Hunter
One opening held for most of a hundred and forty-eight episodes, which for a shonen series of that length is close to unheard of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!
An isekai where the hero's party is uniformly useless and the show knows it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarch Comes in Like a Lion
A teenage professional shogi player and the depression the game is holding at bay.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiffy's Adventures Big and Small
The same rabbit remade in computer animation a decade later, and given considerably more to do.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Two Parisian teenagers who transform into superheroes and spend six seasons not working out who the other one is.
- Season 5
- Season 6
1 sequenceMy Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
A toy line handed to an animator who took it entirely seriously, and an audience nobody had forecast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOctonauts
A crew of animals working out of an underwater base, each episode built around a real marine species.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOne Punch Man
A screaming rock track and animation of enormous ambition, for a hero who wins every fight in one hit and is bored by it.
- Season 1
1 sequencePing Pong the Animation
Masaaki Yuasa drawing table tennis in a line nobody else would have approved.
- Season 1
1 sequencePJ Masks
Three children who become animal-themed heroes at night, from the French picture books.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Wars Rebels
Kevin Kiner rewriting John Williams for a series about the Rebellion before it was one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
The CG revival, which kept the 1987 theme's shape and rebuilt everything around it.
- Season 1