Podgaku

This decade will be split in two episodes as well, because there’s so much to listen to from completely different backgrounds, genres and artists, classic and new ones! This decade is also called as the golden age of Isekai, but we have just one... and a half, probably! Anyway it’s not my favourite anime genre, so it’s understandable. Forgive me, please!

In this episode we´ll hear:

The 90s looked far away when we looked back in 2005, so in this part of the decade we will hear as openings really different sounds, like darker rock, cheesier pop and, why not, some folk. A few seiyuus were also confirming themselves as singers, abandoning the voice acting eventually and focusing on their musical carreer. And anime itself went to a darker stage on genres and topics, while 3D animation was claiming its place in the game.

In this episode we´ll hear:

The new millenium arrived and japanese animation shifted to new genres while classic franchises like Gundam or Dragon Ball were still the most watched animes. Also, new artists appeared in the Anisong scene with powerful songs that made them well known. In this episode we´ll hear:

New anime genres start to get successful and so their opening songs. Also, a new way to create openings appears: asking modern pop/rock bands to compose them, so the quality of openings and the number of them increases! In this episode we will hear:

Japan in the 80s was transitioning to a new era in multiple terms, and a new aesthetic appeared and sublimated into the pop culture, touching anime itself and its music. In this chapter we'll check how the tradition on the openings from the past decade moved along and mixed with new sounds:

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Music and anime have been linked since the earliest days of animation, and openings have been usually the first attempt to get audience's attention, so usually they were really intense songs with catchy melodies and upbeats. In today's episode we'll cover my favourite openings from the 70s, and we'll hear the opening songs of these animes:

I hope you like the new format of Podgaku, please write me at my email [email protected] or mention @podgaku in your twitts!! Thank you very much for listening!!!