Animation · 2020s
The 2020s account for 58 of the 463 animation shows here, and 58 opening sequences.
Netflix carries the most, with 13.
58 shows58 sequences
1 sequence
Invincible
A title card that gets progressively more blood-spattered as the season goes on — the show's escalation, tracked in one graphic.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Smiling Friends
A tiny company whose job is making people happy, with a title card that is over almost before it starts.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequence
The Mighty Nein
Critical Role's second campaign animated, three years after The Legend of Vox Machina did the first.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Legend of Vox Machina
The first Critical Role campaign animated as a series, with a proper broadcast title sequence to go with it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Arcane
Painterly animation of two sisters pulling apart, rendered in the same hand-worked style as the series — one of the few animated openings that is not a step down from the show it introduces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJujutsu Kaisen
Eve's 'Kaikai Kitan' over animation that keeps breaking its own frame — one of the sequences that made the studio's reputation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCyberpunk: Edgerunners
Franz Ferdinand over Night City, cut by Studio Trigger at a speed that dares you to keep up.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLazarus
Shinichirō Watanabe's series with action by Chad Stahelski, opened to Kamasi Washington.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Adventures with Superman
Clark, Lois and Jimmy in their twenties, animated in an anime register with an opening to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
The final arc animated a decade after the original series ended, with a new opening for each cour in the tradition the show established.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDevil May Cry
The Capcom games animated by the Castlevania team, with an opening cut to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEyes of Wakanda
Wakandan agents across four periods of history, opened by a hand-drawn sequence unlike anything else Marvel has put on television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSakamoto Days
A retired hitman running a corner shop, and everyone from the old life who keeps turning up.
- Season 1
1 sequencePantheon
Uploaded human consciousnesses at war, animated and almost entirely overlooked.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhat If...?
The Watcher narrating alternative versions of the films, with a sequence that assembles and dismantles itself every week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLong Story Short
Raphael Bob-Waksberg's family comedy, which jumps decades between scenes and uses its titles to say so.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlue Lock
Football shot like a psychological thriller, with the players lit as though they are about to commit something.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBatman: Caped Crusader
The Animated Series team returning to a 1940s Gotham, with titles that quote their own 1992 sequence without repeating it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCommon Side Effects
A mushroom that cures anything, and everyone who would rather it did not exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Owl House
A human girl apprenticed to a witch on the Boiling Isles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChainsaw Man
An opening built almost entirely out of film references — a different movie restaged in nearly every shot, at a speed that makes spotting them a second viewing's work.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Wars: Visions
Ten seconds and a card, deliberately — an anthology handing each episode to a different studio to open however it likes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKrapopolis
Dan Harmon's mythological Greek city, run badly by a family of gods and monsters.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Trek: Lower Decks
The joke is in the structure: it opens exactly like a heroic Trek title sequence, and then the ship spends the entire minute getting wrecked by everything it meets. The Cerritos never wins a single shot of its own opening.
- Seasons 1–5
1 sequenceThe Boys Presents: Diabolical
Eight animated shorts in the same universe, each by a different studio, and eleven seconds to introduce all of them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceScavengers Reign
Alien biology drawn with botanical-illustration patience — organisms doing something to each other that the show will spend an episode explaining.
- Season 1
1 sequenceScott Pilgrim Takes Off
The O'Malley books animated by Science SARU, with an opening in the full Japanese OP tradition.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Wars: The Bad Batch
The Clone Wars continued with a squad of defective clones, and a title card that keeps the parent series' logo shape.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSpy × Family
Sixties spy-film design applied to a fake family — the parents' cover story rendered as the title sequence they would want.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Trek: Prodigy
Made for viewers who had never seen a Star Trek before, and it shows in the best way — the Protostar streaks through bright, candy-coloured space on a theme with more wonder in it than most of the grown-up entries.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceThe Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
The revival, which rerecorded the 2001 theme with a new cast rather than writing a new one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWind Breaker
A delinquent school whose students defend the town rather than terrorise it.
- Season 2
1 sequenceInside Job
Conspiracy iconography assembled into a corporate onboarding video — every hidden-world cliché filed and badged.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
Six children on Isla Nublar during the events of the 2015 film, which nobody comes to collect.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonsters at Work
Monsters, Inc. after the switch from screams to laughter, told from the maintenance floor.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKiff
An optimistic squirrel and her deadpan bunny best friend in a town that indulges neither.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlood of Zeus
Greek vase painting animated into motion, with the title card restaged for each episode's myth.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRanking of Kings
A deaf prince who cannot lift a sword, in a picture-book style that hides how hard the series hits.
- Season 2
1 sequenceUnicorn: Warriors Eternal
Genndy Tartakovsky's reincarnated heroes in an alternate nineteenth century, animated on a hand-painted look.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
The franchise's first series for preschoolers, set in the High Republic.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHamster & Gretel
A brother and sister given superpowers, except only the hamster got them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Cuphead Show!
The game's 1930s rubber-hose style animated properly, which is the whole point of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimsburg
Jon Hamm as a detective in a town where every case is someone he knows.
- Season 2
1 sequenceThe Apothecary Diaries
A poison expert conscripted into the imperial rear palace, solving what everyone else is covering up.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Ghost and Molly McGee
A relentlessly positive girl and the ghost whose curse bound him to her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDandadan
Aliens and ghosts arguing over the same two teenagers, opened by Creepy Nuts at a sprint.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHailey's On It!
A girl with a list of every thing she is afraid of and a deadline to do all of them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
The Paul Rudish shorts continued, drawn in the 1930s line and paced like it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHouseBroken
A group-therapy circle of neighbourhood pets, run by a poodle who is not qualified.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTeenage Euthanasia
A Florida funeral home, and a mother resurrected by embalming fluid.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt's Pony
A girl whose pony lives in the house and is not remotely house-trained in any sense.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChip 'n' Dale: Park Life
The chipmunks in a city park, dialogue-free, animated in France.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Fungies!
A mushroom child scientist in a prehistoric fungal town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBocchi the Rock!
A guitarist too anxious to speak to her own band, animated with more formal invention than almost anything else in its year.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasters of the Universe: Revelation
Kevin Smith's continuation of the 1983 series, opened in the same fanfare it inherited.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSolo Leveling
Hiroyuki Sawano scoring a power fantasy at exactly the scale it wants to be taken at.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSonic Prime
A shattered multiverse of Sonics, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceX-Men '97
The 1992 series' opening rebuilt shot for shot in modern animation — a revival that understood the titles were the thing people actually remembered.
- Season 1