Animation · 2010s
123 shows125 sequences
1 sequenceRick and Morty
2013–Adult SwimAnimation
A montage of adventures that mostly never happened, re-cut every season out of clips from episodes that do not exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBluey
2018–ABC Kids / Disney+Animation
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
2019–2024Adult Swim / MaxAnimation
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
2013–2023NHK General TV / MBSAnimation
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
2011–FoxAnimation
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
2010–2018Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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
2019–NetflixAnimation
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
2014–2020NetflixAnimation
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
2012–2016Disney Channel / Disney XDAnimation
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
2012–2014NickelodeonAnimation
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
2014Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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
2010–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation
A blue jay and a raccoon employed as groundskeepers, opened with a synth sting and almost no information.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Loud House
2016–NickelodeonAnimation
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
2016–TV TokyoAnimation
A boy who restarts from a save point every time he dies, and remembers all of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMade in Abyss
2017–AT-XAnimation
A children's-book art style over a descent that gets progressively less survivable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHarley Quinn
2019–DC Universe / HBO MaxAnimation
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
2011Tokyo MXAnimation
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
2013–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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!!
2014–2020MBS / TBSAnimation
Volleyball animated with the weight of a fight scene, over a rock track that never lets the tempo drop.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig Mouth
2017–2025NetflixAnimation
Puberty rendered as a marching band of anxieties, with the hormone monsters given equal billing to the children.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMob Psycho 100
2016–2022Tokyo MXAnimation
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
2019–2021Fuji TVAnimation
A boarding school of carnivores and herbivores, opened by a stop-motion sequence unlike the series it introduces.
- Season 1
2 sequencesVinland Saga
2019–NHK General TVAnimation
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
2010–2022Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation
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
2018–2020NetflixAnimation
The 1985 toy line rebuilt by Noelle Stevenson into something the original could not have carried.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig City Greens
2018–Disney ChannelAnimation
A country family relocated to the city, opened at the speed of a banjo run.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAssassination Classroom
2015–2016Fuji TVAnimation
A class assigned to kill their own teacher, who is the best teacher any of them have had.
- Season 2
1 sequenceWe Bare Bears
2015–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Three bears stacked in a trenchcoat trying to fit into the Bay Area.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Dragon Prince
2018–NetflixAnimation
Twenty-seven seconds of moving illustration, closer to a book being opened than a montage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOverlord
2015–AT-XAnimation
A player left inside a shut-down game as his own undead avatar, playing the villain straight.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDisenchantment
2018–2023NetflixAnimation
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
2016–MBS / TBSAnimation
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!
2014Tokyo MXAnimation
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
2015–2019Disney XD / Disney ChannelAnimation
A magical princess sent to Earth for remedial schooling, with a wand she does not control.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKill la Kill
2013–2014MBSAnimation
Trigger's first series, cut at a speed that leaves the title cards behind.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTron: Uprising
2012–2013Disney XDAnimation
The Grid between the two films, animated with a design sense far beyond its slot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUltimate Spider-Man
2012–2017Disney XDAnimation
Spider-Man trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., opened in eleven seconds flat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmphibia
2019–2022Disney ChannelAnimation
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
2010–2012Disney XDAnimation
The most complete adaptation of the Avengers comics animation has managed, cancelled at two seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAvengers Assemble
2013–2019Disney XDAnimation
The film line-up animated weekly, with an opening as long as a station ident.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHilda
2018–2023NetflixAnimation
Luke Pearson's blue-haired girl and the Nordic folklore living beside her town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInfinity Train
2019–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation
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!!
2010–2016Tokyo MXAnimation
Ikebukuro told through a dozen viewpoints that only connect in the last act.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFood Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
2015–2020Tokyo MXAnimation
Competitive cooking staged as combat, with the reaction shots doing most of the work.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElena of Avalor
2016–2020Disney ChannelAnimation
A crown princess ruling a Latin American-inspired kingdom before she is old enough to be queen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKuroko's Basketball
2012–2015Mainichi BroadcastingAnimation
A basketball player whose entire skill is being unnoticeable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMilo Murphy's Law
2016–2019Disney XDAnimation
A boy for whom anything that can go wrong does, from the Phineas and Ferb creators.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCarmen Sandiego
2019–2021NetflixAnimation
The game-show thief given an origin, animated in flat colour and a lot of red.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Pickles
2013–2019Adult SwimAnimation
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
2018–Tokyo MXAnimation
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
2018–2020NickelodeonAnimation
The turtles redrawn in a hand-animated style closer to a comic than the CG series before it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGenerator Rex
2010–2013Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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
2010–2012Disney XDAnimation
A boy in a stunt suit treating an ordinary suburb as a series of ramps.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFinal Space
2018–2021TBS / Adult SwimAnimation
A prisoner adrift in space with an alien that everyone in the galaxy wants.
- Season 1
1 sequenceClarence
2014–2018Cartoon NetworkAnimation
A relentlessly cheerful boy and two friends, drawn in a loose line that never tidied itself up.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSpace Dandy
2014Tokyo MXAnimation
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
2019–2021Cartoon NetworkAnimation
The DC heroines at high school, from the Powerpuff Girls' creative lineage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCraig of the Creek
2018–Cartoon NetworkAnimation
A wooded creek run entirely by the children who play in it, mapped like a country.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAggretsuko
2018–2023NetflixAnimation
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
2014–2020Adult SwimAnimation
Scooby-Doo's structure with Mike Tyson, a ghost, a pigeon and an adopted daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017–2020Disney ChannelAnimation
The film continued in hand-drawn animation, which the feature never was.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
2017–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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
2010–2011Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Genndy Tartakovsky's mecha series, cancelled after one season for having no toy line.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUncle Grandpa
2013–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Everyone's uncle and everyone's grandpa, travelling in an RV that is also a tiger.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWander Over Yonder
2013–2016Disney Channel / Disney XDAnimation
Craig McCracken's relentlessly cheerful nomad and the villain he will not stop befriending.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHey Duggee
2014–CBeebiesAnimation
A dog running a scout group for small animals, structured around a badge per episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig Hero 6: The Series
2017–2021Disney XD / Disney ChannelAnimation
The film's team continued in 2D, in a San Fransokyo drawn rather than modelled.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFish Hooks
2010–2014Disney ChannelAnimation
A high school inside a pet-shop fish tank, animated over photographed backgrounds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
2011Fuji TVAnimation
Childhood friends reassembled by the one of them who died, who only one of them can see.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBrickleberry
2012–2015Comedy CentralAnimation
A national park staffed entirely by people who should not be near one, opened in ten seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTuca & Bertie
2019–2022Netflix / Adult SwimAnimation
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
2012–2015Adult SwimAnimation
The blaxploitation pastiche film continued as a series, with the seventies title grammar intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
2011–2016NickelodeonAnimation
The DreamWorks films continued weekly, opened in ten seconds of brush-and-ink.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFruits Basket
2019–2021TV TokyoAnimation
The second adaptation, which ran the manga to its end rather than stopping partway.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Casagrandes
2019–2022NickelodeonAnimation
The Loud House spin-off, following the Mexican American family next door into the city.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSanjay and Craig
2013–2016NickelodeonAnimation
A boy and his talking snake, drawn in the loosest line Nickelodeon has ever put on air.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnikitty!
2017–2020Cartoon NetworkAnimation
The Lego Movie character given her own kingdom and a great deal more sugar.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGuardians of the Galaxy
2015–2019Disney XDAnimation
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
2018–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation
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
2010–2015NickelodeonAnimation
A dog secret agent, from the creator of The Fairly OddParents.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTrollhunters
2016–2018NetflixAnimation
Guillermo del Toro's trolls under a Californian town, opened in fifteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Lantern: The Animated Series
2011–2013Cartoon NetworkAnimation
The first fully CG DC series, cancelled after one season when its toy line failed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRandy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
2012–2015Disney XDAnimation
A ninth-grader handed an eight-hundred-year-old ninja suit and no instructions.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNeo Yokio
2017–2018NetflixAnimation
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.
2013–2015Disney XDAnimation
The Hulks as a team, framed as a documentary crew filming themselves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 7D
2014–2016Disney XDAnimation
The seven dwarfs before Snow White, animated in a rubber-hose style by Tom Ruegger's team.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Clover
2017–2021TV TokyoAnimation
A boy born without magic in a world made of it, across thirteen different openings.
- Season 4
1 sequenceApple & Onion
2018–2021Cartoon NetworkAnimation
An apple and an onion sharing a flat in a city of anthropomorphic food.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBless the Harts
2019–2021FoxAnimation
A North Carolina family whose matriarch talks to a Jesus only she can see.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
2019–2020Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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
2015–2017NickelodeonAnimation
A well-behaved bird and the two feral children who are his best friends.
- Season 1
1 sequencePickle and Peanut
2015–2018Disney XDAnimation
A pickle and a peanut, animated over photographed backgrounds and stock imagery.
- Season 1
1 sequencePenn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2015–2017Disney XDAnimation
A part-time hero zapped into a different world every episode, each drawn in its own style.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSarah & Duck
2013–2017CBeebiesAnimation
A girl, her duck, and a narrator who talks to both of them, in fifteen seconds of open.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMotorcity
2012Disney XDAnimation
A hidden Detroit beneath a corporate city, from the Titmouse studio, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictor and Valentino
2019–2022Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Two half-brothers in a Mesoamerican village where the folklore is real and mostly annoyed with them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBordertown
2016FoxAnimation
A Seth MacFarlane-produced border comedy, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWelcome to the Wayne
2017–2019NickelodeonAnimation
An apartment building with a secret in every corridor, and children who map it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoonbeam City
2015Comedy CentralAnimation
A Patrick Nagel pastiche in neon and chrome, which is the entire aesthetic argument of the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLazor Wulf
2019–2021Adult SwimAnimation
A wolf with a laser bolted to his back, in fourteen seconds of open.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChozen
2014FXAnimation
An animated rapper released from prison, from the Archer production team.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFuture-Worm!
2016–2018Disney XDAnimation
A time-travelling worm and the boy who built his flask, from Ryan Quincy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Rising of the Shield Hero
2019–Tokyo MXAnimation
The isekai hero given the defensive weapon and none of the credit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBoruto: Naruto Next Generations
2017–2023TV TokyoAnimation
The Naruto sequel, following the son of the boy the first series was about.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Amazing World of Gumball
2011–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation
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
2014–2019CBeebiesAnimation
A preschool rabbit and the small woollen carer who manages him, from Ted Dewan's books.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCastlevania
2017–2021NetflixAnimation
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)
2017–2021Disney XDAnimation
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
2016Fuji TVAnimation
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
2015–2021NetflixAnimation
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
2019–2022NetflixAnimation
Fifty Seuss words expanded into two seasons, animated with more craft than the premise suggests.
- Season 2
1 sequenceHunter × Hunter
2011–2014Nippon TVAnimation
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!
2016–Tokyo MXAnimation
An isekai where the hero's party is uniformly useless and the show knows it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarch Comes in Like a Lion
2016–2018NHKAnimation
A teenage professional shogi player and the depression the game is holding at bay.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiffy's Adventures Big and Small
2015–2019KRO-NCRV / Tiny PopAnimation
The same rabbit remade in computer animation a decade later, and given considerably more to do.
- Season 1
2 sequencesMiraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
2015–TF1Animation
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
2010–2019The Hub / Discovery FamilyAnimation
A toy line handed to an animator who took it entirely seriously, and an audience nobody had forecast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOctonauts
2010–CBeebiesAnimation
A crew of animals working out of an underwater base, each episode built around a real marine species.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOne Punch Man
2015–TV TokyoAnimation
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
2014Fuji TVAnimation
Masaaki Yuasa drawing table tennis in a line nobody else would have approved.
- Season 1
1 sequencePJ Masks
2015–2024Disney JuniorAnimation
Three children who become animal-themed heroes at night, from the French picture books.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Wars Rebels
2014–2018Disney XDAnimation
Kevin Kiner rewriting John Williams for a series about the Rebellion before it was one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
2012–2017NickelodeonAnimation
The CG revival, which kept the 1987 theme's shape and rebuilt everything around it.
- Season 1