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MBS opening titles

MBS accounts for ten shows here, running from 2006 to the present, and ten opening title sequences between them.

Mostly animation — 8 of the 10.

None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

10 shows · 10 sequences · oldest first

7 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

Still from the opening titles of Code Geass1 sequence

Code Geass

2006–2008MBS / TBSAnimation

Mecha and monarchy over a rock track, with the aristocratic cast posed like a fashion shoot.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood1 sequence

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

2009–2010MBS / TBSAnimation

Alchemical circles and transmutation, animated at a scale the first adaptation could not afford.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Midnight Diner (2009)1 sequence

Midnight Diner (2009)

2009–2014MBSDrama

The original MBS run of the Shinjuku diner open from midnight to seven, seven years before Netflix continued it as Tokyo Stories.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Attack on Titan1 sequence

Attack 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
Still from the opening titles of Kill la Kill1 sequence

Kill la Kill

2013–2014MBSAnimation

Trigger's first series, cut at a speed that leaves the title cards behind.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Haikyu!!1 sequence

Haikyu!!

2014–2020MBS / TBSAnimation

Volleyball animated with the weight of a fight scene, over a rock track that never lets the tempo drop.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories1 sequence

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016–2019Netflix / MBSDrama

Two minutes of Tokyo at night before anyone speaks — a series whose opening is longer and slower than most shows' cold opens, deliberately.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of My Hero Academia1 sequence

My 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
Still from the opening titles of Jujutsu Kaisen1 sequence

Jujutsu Kaisen

2020–MBS / TBSAnimation

Eve's 'Kaikai Kitan' over animation that keeps breaking its own frame — one of the sequences that made the studio's reputation.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Wind Breaker1 sequence

Wind Breaker

2024–MBSAnimation

A delinquent school whose students defend the town rather than terrorise it.

  • Season 2