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TV Tokyo

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

1981–1982TV TokyoAnimation

Five lions that combine into one robot, later recut in America as Voltron.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Samurai Pizza Cats

1990–1991TV TokyoAnimation

Kyatto Ninden Teyandee rewritten wholesale in English by writers working without translated scripts.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Neon Genesis Evangelion

1995–1996TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

The Vision of Escaflowne

1996TV TokyoAnimation

A schoolgirl pulled into a war between a hidden planet and an empire, scored throughout for full orchestra.

  • Season 1
2 sequences

Pokémon

1997–TV TokyoAnimation

The longest-running video-game adaptation on television, and a theme song that outlasted every cast change.

  • Season 1
  • Season 5
1 sequence

Cowboy Bebop

1998–1999TV Tokyo / WOWOWAnimation

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 sequence

Trigun

1998TV TokyoAnimation

A desert western scored like a spy thriller, with a gunman who refuses to kill anyone.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

2000–2004TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Naruto

2002–2007TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Tokyo Mew Mew

2002TV TokyoAnimation

Five girls infused with the DNA of endangered animals, in the magical girl series that made cat ears a convention.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Bleach

2004–TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

2004–2008TV TokyoAnimation

The Duel Monsters sequel, moved to a boarding school for duellists.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Gintama

2006–2021TV TokyoAnimation

Samurai comedy in an alien-occupied Edo, and one of the longest lists of distinct opening sequences in television.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Gurren Lagann

2007TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Naruto Shippuden

2007–2017TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Toradora!

2008–2009TV TokyoAnimation

Two students agreeing to help each other with the wrong crushes, which goes exactly as expected.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Kodoku no Gurume

2012–TV TokyoDrama

A salesman eating alone in a different restaurant each week, narrating his own meal. Known abroad as Solitary Gourmet.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

One 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 sequence

Re: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 sequence

Black Clover

2017–2021TV TokyoAnimation

A boy born without magic in a world made of it, across thirteen different openings.

  • Season 4
1 sequence

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

2017–2023TV TokyoAnimation

The Naruto sequel, following the son of the boy the first series was about.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Fruits Basket

2019–2021TV TokyoAnimation

The second adaptation, which ran the manga to its end rather than stopping partway.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

2022–TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Chainsaw Man

2022–TV TokyoAnimation

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 sequence

Spy × Family

2022–TV TokyoAnimation

Sixties spy-film design applied to a fake family — the parents' cover story rendered as the title sequence they would want.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Sakamoto Days

2025–TV Tokyo / NetflixAnimation

A retired hitman running a corner shop, and everyone from the old life who keeps turning up.

  • Season 1