Fuji TV
15 shows, 15 sequences, oldest first.
1 sequenceAstro Boy
1963–1966Fuji TVAnimation
Tezuka's Mighty Atom, the first Japanese television animation series, and the start of the whole industry.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKimba the White Lion
1965–1967Fuji TVAnimation
Tezuka's Jungle Emperor, the first colour Japanese animated series, and a question Disney has been asked about ever since.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDragon Ball
1986–1989Fuji TVAnimation
Toriyama's Journey to the West, from before the series turned into the one everyone remembers.
- Season 1
1 sequenceYu Yu Hakusho
1992–1995Fuji TVAnimation
A delinquent who dies saving a child and is given a job in the afterlife rather than a rest.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIron Chef
1993–1999Fuji TVDocumentary
A cookery contest staged as a martial-arts tournament, presided over by a man in a gold cape.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDigimon Adventure
1999–2000Fuji TVAnimation
Seven children pulled into a digital world, opened by "Butter-Fly" — a song that has outlived every reboot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreat Teacher Onizuka
1999–2000Fuji TVAnimation
A former biker gang leader who becomes a teacher for the wrong reasons and stays for the right ones.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOne Piece
1999–Fuji TVAnimation
The longest-running opening rotation in television — more than twenty distinct sequences over a quarter of a century, each announcing a new arc.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSamurai Champloo
2004–2005Fuji TVAnimation
Nujabes and Shing02 over Edo-period swordplay — hip-hop and historical drama treated as obviously compatible, which nobody had assumed before.
- 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 sequencePing Pong the Animation
2014Fuji TVAnimation
Masaaki Yuasa drawing table tennis in a line nobody else would have approved.
- 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 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 sequenceBeastars
2019–2021Fuji TVAnimation
A boarding school of carnivores and herbivores, opened by a stop-motion sequence unlike the series it introduces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRanking of Kings
2021–2022Fuji TVAnimation
A deaf prince who cannot lift a sword, in a picture-book style that hides how hard the series hits.
- Season 2