TV Tokyo opening titles
TV Tokyo accounts for 26 shows here, running from 1981 to the present, and 27 opening title sequences between them.
Mostly animation — 25 of the 26.
One rebuilt its titles mid-run: Pokémon, with two distinct sequences.
26 shows · 27 sequences · oldest first
2 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Beast King GoLion
Five lions that combine into one robot, later recut in America as Voltron.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSamurai Pizza Cats
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee rewritten wholesale in English by writers working without translated scripts.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNeon Genesis Evangelion
Ninety seconds cut faster than the eye resolves, with whole frames of text and diagram flashed for one frame each. Yoko Takahashi's theme is bright, major-key J-pop laid over imagery that is doing nothing of the kind, and the mismatch is the point rather than an accident.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vision of Escaflowne
A schoolgirl pulled into a war between a hidden planet and an empire, scored throughout for full orchestra.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Pokémon
The longest-running video-game adaptation on television, and a theme song that outlasted every cast change.
- Season 1
- Season 5
1 sequenceCowboy Bebop
A jazz record given ninety seconds of animation. Silhouettes and hard-edged colour panels cut on the beat of a big band, borrowing the grammar of 1960s film titles so completely that the show it opens looks like a rediscovery rather than a debut.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTrigun
A desert western scored like a spy thriller, with a gunman who refuses to kill anyone.
- Season 1
1 sequenceYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
A card game staged as a series of duels to the death, with an opening rebuilt several times inside its first season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNaruto
Nine openings across five years, each announcing a new arc — and the first is the one an entire generation can still hum.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTokyo Mew Mew
Five girls infused with the DNA of endangered animals, in the magical girl series that made cat ears a convention.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBleach
Fifteen different openings across its original run, each one a complete restyling — a long-running series that treated its titles as a rotating commission rather than a fixed asset.
- Season 1
1 sequenceYu-Gi-Oh! GX
The Duel Monsters sequel, moved to a boarding school for duellists.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGintama
Samurai comedy in an alien-occupied Edo, and one of the longest lists of distinct opening sequences in television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGurren Lagann
A mecha series whose opening escalates as fast as the show does, and which by the end is operating at a scale the first episode could not have suggested.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNaruto Shippuden
Twenty distinct openings across a decade, changed roughly every cour — one of the largest rotations of title sequences any series has produced.
- Season 1
1 sequenceToradora!
Two students agreeing to help each other with the wrong crushes, which goes exactly as expected.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Kodoku no Gurume
A salesman eating alone in a different restaurant each week, narrating his own meal. Known abroad as Solitary Gourmet.
- 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 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 sequenceBlack Clover
A boy born without magic in a world made of it, across thirteen different openings.
- Season 4
1 sequenceBoruto: Naruto Next Generations
The Naruto sequel, following the son of the boy the first series was about.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFruits Basket
The second adaptation, which ran the manga to its end rather than stopping partway.
- 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 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 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 sequenceSakamoto Days
A retired hitman running a corner shop, and everyone from the old life who keeps turning up.
- Season 1