The top ten finishers in the fist round of the “best opening” poll were pretty much the ones I would have predicted (though I did expect a better performance from Azumanga Daioh). Cowboy Bebop took a clear first place when voters could choose three. Will it still be the winner when the voters can only choose one?
Toradora:
Serial Experiments Lain:
Paranoia Agent:
Noir:
Lucky Star:
Last Exile:
Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni:
Haibane Renmei:
Cowboy Bebop:
Baccano!:
To me, it really looks like people are voting for the show, not the OP (in both rounds). Or maybe they just really like Tank.
-j
The “problem” with any poll like this is it’s a popularity contest, either explicitly (as you said, people voting for their favorite show), or implicitly (since part of this particular question is “how well does the music & graphics represent the show”, you can really only vote for a show you’ve seen.)
Thus, long-running-on-Adult-Swim shows seem to do disproportionately well in these polls, since they’ve got the largest pool of voters.
Though (not-on-TV) Lucky Star and (not-on-TV and out-of-print-on-DVD) Haibane Renmei are currently making a good showing here…
(I didn’t vote for Tank… the OP makes me think “classic Bond flick”–mostly the sliding silhouette graphics–and the show ain’t that.)
I didn’t vote in the first round for just that reason, I’d only seen a small percentage of the selected shows and didn’t have the time to go to my shelf and re-watch openings, so it would just have been a matter of which show did I like best.
For this round, I watched all the embedded openings, and Cowboy Bebop was the clear winner for me, even though Tank isn’t one of my favorite songs.