Normalmente música de abertura (e encerramento) de Anime é um saco. Principalmente dos modernos (vide a épica abertura de Yamato aka Patrulha Estelar aka Starblazers). No entanto aqui vão algumas excessões.

Serial Experimentals Lain (opening): Boa – Duvet

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Claymore (opening): Naitomea (Nightmare) – Raison D’etre

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Serial Experimentals Lain (ending): Nakaido Reiichi – Toi Sakebi

A Distant Cry (Toi Sakebi)
(Ending Theme)

nan no tsumi mo nai hazu na no ni
nanraka no batsu wo uketeru
jibun de maita tane de mo nai no ni
sakimidareta hana tsumasareru

Although I must be innocent,
now I am punished.
I wasn’t the one who sewed those seeds, but nevertheless
I have to pull up the flowers that bloomed from them.

shiranai koto to mo ienai ga
katabou katsuida oboe wa nai
jiyuu wo takaku kawasareta ki mo suru ga
kokoro made yasuku utta oboe wa nai

I can’t say I didn’t know about it,
but I don’t remember taking any part in it.
I think my freedom cost me dearly,
but I don’t remember selling my soul so cheaply.

Hey Hey kutabatte osaraba suru made
Hey Hey dare no te ni mo kakaranai
tooi yoru wo urotsuite-iru
shiranai darou eien no narazu mono-tachi wo

Hey Hey Until I die and say farewell…
Hey Hey… no one can touch me.
You probably don’t know
the eternal outlaws prowling in the distant night.

yurusenai shiuchi de mo nai ga
iyaseru kizu de mo aru mai
nakesou na yoru ni wa onna daite
kono chinke na shaba kara taka tobi sa

The act wasn’t inexcusable
but the wounds from it aren’t curable.
On nights when I almost want to cry, I hold a woman
and fly high away from this petty, corrupt world.

Hey Hey kutabatte osaraba suru made
Hey Hey dare no te ni mo kakaranai
tooi yoru wo urotsuite-iru
shiranai darou eien no narazu mono-tachi wo

Hey Hey Until I die and say farewell…
Hey Hey… no one can touch me.
You probably don’t know
the eternal outlaws prowling in the distant night.

nan no tsumi mo nai hazu na no ni
nanraka no batsu wo uketeru
jiyuu wo takaku kawasareta ki mo suru ga
kokoro made yasuku uritobasu hara wa nai…

Although I must be innocent,
now I am punished.
I think my freedom cost me dearly,
but I don’t have the guts to sell my soul so cheaply…

Monster (Ending) – Make it home~

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