Love, Death + Robots
Three icons — a heart, a skull, a robot — recombined every episode to declare which of the three that instalment is going to be. The shortest possible statement of an anthology's rules.
Love, Death + Robots opens with a main title sequence of 23 seconds.
At 23 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2019, when Arrested Development, Top Boy and Big Mouth were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
23sThe first volume's opening. The symbols are reshuffled per episode, so this is one arrangement of the set.
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