Not That Guy - Favorite Anime OPs part 3 - Keroro Gunso (Sgt. Frog) ~ Freak and Nitro TV!

In the genre of anime the openings are a serious component. Any anime worth their salt will put substantial effort into a polished opening sequence. While in the American market we treat openings somewhat like a book cover, something appreciated but nothing to judge by, for the anime an opening is often used as the first judgment of a series. It is the chance to not only illustrate the visual appeal and aesthetics but also gives the viewer an indication of the quality of the audio through their choice of soundtracks. In a genre where the visual and audio style can make or break a series the opening serves a vital role of promoting their creation. In many of the examples that I will be covering, you will be left with a strong impression of how you feel about the specific anime just from the OP's. The beauty of this though, is that often, this impression is correct.

Kero kero kero! These OP's and ED's are not particularly innovative, beautiful or awe inspiring instead they are fun and overwhelmingly silly. For those of you not familiar with anime the sequences used for Sgt. Frog will probably closely fit the stereotypical spoofs of anime that many of us are familiar with. The cautionary note here though is that Sgt. Frog is a very satirical anime providing parodies of many well known anime (Gundam obviously, but even Neon Geneses Evangelion). So the nature of their openings are really not all that surprising.

After watching the OP/ED's one develops the impression that the development team are very open minded and drawn to experimentation. There is such a wide variety of different ED's for example that I sometimes wonder if they were even made by the same people. One thing that is constent for most of the OP's and ED's is that the singing can be abhorrent. This series contains some of the worst examples of Japanese singing ever. There are a lot of OP/ED's to watch, the series has just over 350 episodes to its name accompanied by 11 different openings and 18 unique closings so I will not post all of them. Instead I will show one OP and One ED and then link to everything else. Also, sadly alot of the sequences are neither subbed nor dubbed which is a shame since the lyrics are always humorous. I will try to get some fan subs up but in the meantime the links will take you to raws on youtube.

One last thing about Sgt. Frog. The dubbed versions rock. This needs to be pointed out because it is so rare to find good dubbing. The voice team was well choosen and basically given twosixes of the hard stuff and told to go at it with no reservations. As a result the dialogue is crazy and does not always conform to the true script. It is awesome. [Kellen I suggest you watch episode 11 it strikes me that you may relate to the humor of that episode]

There isn't much to say about these OP/ED's. No in depth analyses so without further to do, some of their best:

Season One Ending

A compeltly different style for season 8

The opening for season 5. Yup.

Links to all Openings
Opening 1 "KERO! to MARCH" by Nobuaki Kakuda and Juri Ihata (eps 1-51)
Opening 2 "Zenkoku Musekinin Jidai" by GAGAGA SP (eps 52-78)
Opening 3 "Kimi ni JUICE wo Katte Ageru" by GROUP Tamashii (eps 79-103)
Opening 4 "Hareru Michi ~ Uchuujin (Omeera) Awaseru Kao ga nee!~" by JK (eps 104-129)
Opening 5 "You-You-You" by POLYSICS (eps 130-154)
Opening 6 "Kaettekita KERO! to MARCH" by Ichirou Zaitsu and Yuko Ogura (eps 155-183
Opening 7  "FUNDARI- KETTARI-" by DYLAN AND CATHERINE (eps 184-205)
Opening 8 OP 8 with SUBS  "Nante Suteki na Doyoubi" by KERORO Shoutai (eps 206-)
Opening 9 "HELLO DARWIN! ~Koukishin ON DEMAND~" by JAM Project (eps 232-256)
Opening 10 "KERO! to MARCH (Shoutai Version)" by KERORO Shoutai (eps 257-)
Opening 11

Links to all Endings

Ending 1  "AFRO Gunsou" by DANCE MAN (eps 1-18)
Ending 2  "PEKOPON Shinryaku Ondo" by ONDO GIRL meets KERORO Shoutai (eps 19-26)
Ending 3 "AFRO Gunsou" by DANCE MAN (eps 27-40)
Ending 4  "KERORO Shoutai Kounin! Netsuretsu Kangeiteki Ekaki Uta!!" by KERORO ALLSTARS (eps 41-51)
Ending 5 "Katte ni SHINRYAKUSHA" by Naoya Ogawa and Mayuko Iwasa (eps 52-78)
Ending 6  "KOKORO no Mondai" by toutou (eps 79-103)
Ending 7 "Shouri no Hanabira" by Chinatouchable (eps 104-116)
Ending 8 "Cycling Recycle" by Kirin (eps 117-141)
Ending 9 "Eien ni" by AFROMANIA (eps 142-154)
Ending 10 "Kurutto, Mawatte, Ikkaiten" by KIGURUMI (eps 155-168)
Ending 11 "NIKONIKO CHAMP" by NON STYLE (eps 169-192)
Ending 12 "KERO Neko no TANGO" by Osamu Minagawa and the Hibari Children Chorus (eps 193-205)
Ending 13 "Omatase Chikyuu Icchou!" by KERORO Shoutai (eps 206-218)
Ending 14 "Bokura no Aikotoba" by Natsumi Kiyoura (eps 219-244)
Ending 15 "KE, KE, KERORO no Daisakusen!" by KERORO Shoutai (eps 245-256)
Ending 16 "Daijoubu SUPPONPON FRIEND" by Yoshio Kojima (eps 257-282)
Ending 17 "HaRERUYA!!" (Hallelujah!!) by JAM Project (eps 283-307)
Ending 18 "Kuttsuke Hattsuke Wonderland" by Tamaki Matsumoto (eps 308-)

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