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Yay! More Set List! I'll be sure to watch it and post my top 10 later when I get to settle down.

I have to say though, I can't help but feel it's not really fair to disqualify OPs from shows that aired in 2014. Like, for my list the Seven Deadly Sins' second OP would rank really highly, but by that rule it wouldn't count. Plus, it's not like it would have counted on last year's either, since the OP itself is from 2015 :/ In fact now that I think about it, my #1 OP of last year, the second OP of SamFlam, is from a show that aired in 2013. That would also go for 2013, where my favorite OP was Psycho-Pass' second OP. Damn, why do carry-overs have such good OPs?

But yeah, just wanted to get that out there. But other than that, can't wait to watch! I've been really excited for it

Brave shine is only number 9 THANK YOU

It was actually really hard for me to chose my top 10 this year just because there were actually 11 stand out numbers to me.

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Wow. JO must really not care for Man With a Mission. That obvious snub aside, one of my favorite anisongs of the year came from a show that practically nobody watched, Mikagura School Suite. The final episode used the song ""Houkago Stride" sung by the main character's voice actress which was previously used as the ending song of the first episode. The song is just a perfect representation of the main character's exuberance and enthusiasm and is a complete ear worm. I doubt I listened to an anisong more this year than I did this version of "Houkago Stride". Juri Kimura just absolutely nails everything about the song, and while I can see why the original song was a big sensation on Niconico when it first came out, I greatly prefer this version to it. Link to the original video but synched using the anisong instead.

Some nice ops

For me I think my best is Boku no Kotoba de wa Nai, Kore wa Bokutachi no Kotoba from Arslan Senki.

Kept holding my breath until the end hoping that Flyers would be on the list and it was #1. Great list and good job overall. Merry Christmas JO, ANN and everyone!

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OK, out of Hope's list, I've only seen live so far:

JoJo Sono Chi no Kioku ~end of THE WORLD~ / JO☆STARS (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OP),

and out of the other artists, I've only seen JAM Project live.

It was interesting seeing how many times anime from Madhouse appeared in Hope's list, and I'm not sure how OP and ED songs/artists are picked for Madhouse anime.

As on previous occasions, for voting it's difficult to associate the anime titles with actual OP songs from 2015 - song titles and artists help. If I had limitless energy I'd put such a list together myself.

(Starting the list, criteria is anime episodes with OP songs that first aired in 2015)

Absolute Duo

Ace of Diamond: Second Season

Ani Tore! EX

Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon

Aoharu x Machinegun

Aquarion Logos

Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA

Assassination Classroom

The Asterisk War

Attack on Titan: Junior High

Baby Steps

Bikini Warriors

Blood Blockade Battlefront

Brave Beats

Cardfight!! Vanguard G

Cardfight!! Vanguard G GIRS Crisis

Castle Town Dandelion

Chaos Dragon

Charlotte

Chivalry of a Failed Knight

Classroom Crisis

Comet Lucifer

Concrete Revolutio

Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!

Dance with Devils

Danchigai

DD Fist of the North Star 2

Death Parade

Diabolik Lovers Phase II

The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

Oooooh, I was about to be disappointed when the list reached 2nd (Jojo), and since the banner shows Sound Euphonium I thought it would be #1, which made me "huh, no Death Parade?"
I even doubt myself, wondering if it is a 2014 series and thus not included. But then after the Jojo's song ended, 'wohooo!' Very Happy

Ahem, the most memorable ones for me are probably Death Parade's and BBB's opening songs.
I enjoyed many of Bump of Chicken's songs, you've got to check them out.
Aimer is something indeed, really liked her ending song for Terror in Resonance.

Wow, ok. Uh, yeah.

I watched the video, I watched which was something I'd swore I wouldn't do since JO's videos from around 2012. Sure, the click bait image was a Kyoto Animation show and there were disclaimers at the start that this would only be 2015 originals so there would be no season restarts like UBW... so yeah... fool me once again, shame on me once again...

My top ten openers, the ones that get hyped for what's coming next. Funny that I thought I'd have a hard time finding ten only to find out that it's hard to keep it just to ten. Also, while I loved all these openers, it doesn't mean I'm a fan of the show. I even forgot some of them entirely...

Gate.It comes it at the bottom of my list for being everything it needs to be, showcasing both the characters and their upcoming world displacement in under two minutes. Awesome, but still only worthy of being last for stopping at competent.
Shomin Sample. "Fuwa, fuwa.." Are they trying to remind me of something? I love the cutout design, the in series references and humor.
My Love Story. A shoujo show from the guy's perspective is still sung by a women, well played. Very appealing overall effect to start each new "chapter" in their story.
Actually I Am. I'm a fan of the pastel color palette and the character designs aren't as off putting as in the show.
Punchline. Really deserved a better show or maybe a more sensible one.
Food Wars. I love the closing song so much and what it did for the characters, I forgot how good the opener is at establishing food.
Monster Musume. After the "mon, mon" start, the opener takes off with a vengeance, making up for lost time. Bright, colorful and utterly hilarious every time.
Chivalry of a Failed Knight. What's black and white and red all over? Used to be a newspaper but it's now this opener. Does a stellar job of contrasting Stella and Ikki and what they have to do to connect in their world.
School Live. "Genki des!" Shout it loud from the rooftops. I love it, you could almost say "Daisuki!"
Rolling Girls. Really number one? I'm afraid so. I'll take punk rock over J-Rock every day of the week and twice on Sundays and holidays. The design, the animation, the song, the point, the meaning, what else can I say except "Go for it!"

Alright, seen it now, great picks! Obviously Death Parade was going to be on there in some form, but there were some good surprises in there too. As for my list:

#1 - Durarara x2 The Second Arc

Alright, this seems like a weird pick, since the majority of people I've seen actually DISLIKE this song, and here I am putting it at number 1. Well this song really stood out to me after first seeing it, both visually and musically. On the music side, I just love the song, it's very catchy and Toyonaga really does a good job singing it (It's hard to tell sometimes that it's Mikado's VA singing).

Visually is where it really impressed me. Sure it's the usual Durarara "introduce all the major players of the season" type stuff, but the way Mikado ominously hangs in the background of every scene was really clever in relation to, lets just say, the direction they took that character. The fact it's technically him singing helps too. This one's easily my most played song of the year.

#2 - Blood Blockade Battlefront

This song was what introduced me to Bump of Chicken too, and I'm really happy I did, it inspired me to look into more of their stuff and damn they're good. Hell, this song even won over my non-anime music elitist friend. Other than that, can't add anything to this Hope didn't already say.

#3 - The Perfect Insider

Alright, the song for this one is nice and all, but damn those visuals. The animation style for this really impressed me, and I even showed this to a lot of my non-anime friends to show off different styles of animation. Really cool.

#4 - Death Parade

Duh

#5 - Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans

I'm a bit of a Man With A Mission fanboy. I can't help it! Their songs are just so cheesy and easy to sing along to, I can't help but love them.

#6 - Gatchaman Crowds Insight

Really loved the first GatchaCrowds OP, this is no different. Maybe not quite as good as the first one, but still damn good.

#7 - Gintama Season 4 OP 2

This is another one where I'm probably picking the least popular one but hey ho, I really love Chico with Honeyworks. Their song for Magic Kaito was one of my favorites (Oh damn, that's ANOTHER song from a show that aired in 2014), but I didn't love it quite as much as this one. Also the visuals had a lot of awesome references to the arcs that cour covered, which was nice too.

#8 - Cute High Earth Defence Club LOVE

Sh-shut up. Yes, I know I'm trash.

#9 - Chaos Dragon

Literally the ONLY good thing about Chaos Dragon, besides the ED that is. And Ka Grava. You didn't deserve that show, Ka Grava. But yeah, there's not really anything special about this song, I just kinda like it. It's nice to listen to. Yeah, really selling it, I know.

#10 - Concrete Revolutio

Honestly, this is the first ZAQ song I actually like. I mean I don't particularly love it, but considering her ED to Rail Wars is, like the show itself, my go to for so-bad-its-good, it's certainly an improvement. But yeah, nice song, I guess. Visuals are pretty too. I guess.

I can't say it was the best year for OPs, honestly. EDs tho? Whooo boy, lotta good ones there. If I were allowed to include songs from shows that aired last year, Seven Deadly Sins' second OP would probably fit in at #3. What can I say, I'm a Man With A Mission fanboy.

My runner up for the year I think is classroom crisis
Congratulations on being way better then your show award goes to Kantei collection
good but has absolutely nothing to do with the show award goes to Death parade

Aria the scarlet ammo Double a- Hate the show and series but I love nano and she hits it out of the park with this one yet again.

Beautiful Bones Sakurakso-san I love the background and strong vocals

Blood blockade battlefront-...bump of chicken amazing animation....

Charlotte decent song very good visuals and animation

gangsta very well done great color design

Gatchman crowds insight- white ash and amazing visuals

Mobile suit- This needs to be used as an amv for a hentai

Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend very great progression

Yamada kun amazing atmosphere and melody

Yatterman Night if this song does not make you pumped then you have no pulse despite the second half of this series totally going off the rails and becoming a dumpster fire

I suppose my list is easy to pin down. There's only 4 that made it onto my playlist: Kantai Collection, Absolute Duo, Symphogear GX, and Noragami Aragoto.

I don't really have specific reasons why I like certain songs. I just enjoy listening to them and don't think too deeply on them. They are all high energy songs so there's that.

Lots of good ones this year but in the end I have to give it to Kancolle. Forget best of the year if I ever tried ranking my entire list it would have a very real shot of being #1. The Pleiades op sure did come close to catching up to it though. After that op I've labeled Kano as someone I should keep an eye out for in the future.

Also a special mention for the Rolling Girls op because its damn near impossible to get that out of your head. It might not be my favorite but id bet money its the song I've looped the most over the past year.

I think this is a solid list, but I was shocked not to see the OP for the Perfect Insider in the top 10. My favorite OP is the one for Charlotte.

Thanks for doing this column Hope.

Strictly as a personal request: May I trouble everyone to please include links for the songs that that they refer to? I'd appreciate that very much; thank you.

I honestly mostly agree with the list, which is rare for lists of this nature. Good job! I might have jiggled the order somewhat, but solid overall. I personally think the School-Live! and Monster Musume OPs should have been on here somewhere, both for very different reasons, but to each their own.
Shout out to Aimer's voice. She has this deeper, husky voice that I just love. It's out of this world.

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