One thing the Winter 2022 season wasn’t short of was incredible openings. While there are many incredible opening theme songs from this season, this list will focus more on opening sequences as a whole. Animations, cuts, replayability, and so much more, including the music, all come into play for the viewer, which is why this list took the complete opening sequences into . From lesser-known anime to the most popular ones of the season, these anime opening sequences from Winter 2022 are going to be ones that fans will re-watch throughout the rest of the year. 333d6z
To start the list is the opening for Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout. As soon as the opening starts, the music instantly hooks you and doesn’t waste any time in keeping you interested. The humor is entertaining and it gets even funnier when you realize Hinata, the main female protagonist, is actually a thirty-year-old man isekai’d to another world. The Kirito reference is still funny no matter how many times you watch the opening and the music fits the visuals and whole vibe of the show perfectly. The opening itself isn’t overwhelming in any department, but it’s definitely solid all-around.
Next up is the opening for Girls’ Frontline. As an anime adaptation of the mobile game, Girls’ Frontline is one of the lesser-known anime airing this season. While the series itself has yet to crack the top-10 of our weekly polls, this opening directed by Kentaro Waki is undoubtedly one of the best this season. He assisted in creating the beautiful openings for Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of the Underworld as the director of photography. Now, Waki makes his OP directing and storyboarding debut with Girls’ Frontline. Thanks to the best transitions out of this entire list and downright gorgeous artwork, this one is more than worthy of making the list. The song doesn’t have a big chorus drop like the rest on this list but the artwork and transitions alone help land Girls’ Frontline in the best 10 anime opening sequences from the Winter 2022 season.
Anime fans are coming around to the fact that MindaRyn doesn’t know how to make a bad opening or ending theme. Last year, she gave us “Like Flames” for Reincarnated As A Slime Season 2 and the ending theme, “Shine”, for SAKUGAN. Now she’s back delivering another phenomenal theme song with “Daylight”. If this list was based on the songs alone, this could possibly be first. This amazing opening sequence is one that could make people become fans of Arifureta, myself included. Although, showing the series name right when the chorus starts is an interesting choice. But solid visuals and action scenes capped off with a wholesome ending that matches perfectly with the lyrics make this opening an easy top-10 choice.
I am more than willing to bet many of you came to this article to find My Dress-Up Darling. Well, here it is! One of the two CloverWorks anime from this season to make this list, My Dress-Up Darling delivers a catchy and wholesome intro that’s impossible to hate. It’s usually difficult for comedy, slice-of-life, and romance anime to match up with other genres in of openings. But once in a while, we receive enjoyable ones just like this. Spira Spica captured the emotions between Gojo and Marin with “Sansan Days” and now the opening recently sured two million views. The official music video is also close to reaching its 500k views milestone. Not only is the series one of the best of the season, but so is the intro. Beautiful visuals, wonderful colors, and a perfect theme rightfully place My Dress-Up Darling’s opening in the top-10.
Survive Said The Prophet became well known after performing the first opening theme for Vinland Saga. So here they are, yet again, performing a wonderful opening theme but this time around for Tokyo 24th Ward—another solid CloverWorks series that is currently airing this season. The use of HUD elements in the beginning instantly draws you in with visuals similar to those of Night Head 2041’s opening and it fits the series’ theme perfectly. Tokyo 24th Ward may not be the most popular this season, but it deserves some recognition—the same goes for this opening. The chorus grows on you the more you listen to it and the transitions between the characters towards the end are beautifully done.
An opening that was on Platinum End as a series.
One of the best new anime to come out of the Winter 2022 season, Sabikui Bisco delivers more than just a unique action-packed thriller of a series—it gave us Idaten Deities, which aired in Summer 2021.
If you haven’t heard of Aimer before, well, you do now. Just as she did with Fire Force’s opening “SPARK AGAIN”, Aimer delivered a stellar performance for the Entertainment District Arc with “Zankyou Sanka”. In the words of Tengen, this OP is indeed “flashy”. Just as they did with the first opening of Demon Slayer, Haruo Sotozaki and Akira Matsushima pulled out all the stops to give fans an eye-popping opening with gorgeous animations, composition, and cinematography. The replayability for this opening is off the charts. And what it excels at—arguably more than any other on this list—is that it gets you hyped for the episode to come. Aimer’s official music video for the song was released back in December 2021 and is close to reaching 60 million views on YouTube.
What more can be said that hasn’t already been said? The new opening for Attack on Titan fires on all cylinders and doesn’t miss a beat and it’s all thanks to Director our interview with SiM!
As fantastic as the openings for Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan are, I don’t see either leveling up to the new Winter 2022 Top Anime Openings/Endings on Spotify and has currently sured 8 million streams. Be on the lookout, because this might end up being the best opening of 2022 overall. Director Shingo Yamashita (Jujutsu Kaisen OP 1 & 2, Naruto Shippuden OP 13) is a true genius and I can’t wait to see more of his work going forward.
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