Smiling Friends
2020–Adult SwimAnimation
A tiny company whose job is making people happy, with a title card that is over almost before it starts.
Smiling Friends kept one opening title sequence, 14 seconds long, across seasons 1–2.
At 14 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Adult Swim in 2020, when Squidbillies, 12 oz. Mouse and Mike Tyson Mysteries were also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–2
14sFrom the show's official channel. The opening itself runs a handful of seconds — this is the only official posting of it, and it carries the end card too.
More animation opening titles from the 2020s
1 sequence
Invincible
A title card that gets progressively more blood-spattered as the season goes on — the show's escalation, tracked in one graphic.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Mighty Nein
Critical Role's second campaign animated, three years after The Legend of Vox Machina did the first.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Legend of Vox Machina
The first Critical Role campaign animated as a series, with a proper broadcast title sequence to go with it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Arcane
Painterly animation of two sisters pulling apart, rendered in the same hand-worked style as the series — one of the few animated openings that is not a step down from the show it introduces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJujutsu Kaisen
Eve's 'Kaikai Kitan' over animation that keeps breaking its own frame — one of the sequences that made the studio's reputation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCyberpunk: Edgerunners
Franz Ferdinand over Night City, cut by Studio Trigger at a speed that dares you to keep up.
- Season 1