Let's post some of the worst anime songs we can remember of all time! Ranking is optional. We can comment on each others' terrible songs and broaden our lists, too.

Choose however you want, but I recommend including the following criteria:

• how terrible the song sounds on its own musically
• if the song is played too loud in the show
• if the song is too different from other songs in the show
• song is played too often and difficult to skip

With those criteria, anime openings are prime candidates (especially 2nd, 3rd openings, etc) as they often have different composers, and are difficult to skip when they don't play at the very beginning of each episode. Anime bgm and endings work, too. English dub alternate soundtracks of anime are allowed, and extending from that I think cartoons produced in any country are okay.

I think video game music should be excluded, unless maybe the game is really cartoonish, like hentai games. Part of the reason is that the way you play video games is different: the kind of songs that might be too loud and overused would occur at different situations. (A separate thread might be better if someone wants to post those).

Explanations of why some songs are bad might be helpful, and optionally multiple links (anime opening version, full version). For now, this is my incomplete list that I can think of:

#1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW9uiR7PDTM

Since there was a lot of this song in anime medleys maybe other people like it, but to me this is the legendary song of death that inspired this thread. It's neither particularly bad nor loud, yet it's played much too loud in the show and it doesn't match the rest of the music. I have to rush to turn down the volume every time it pops up.

#2


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH_ZMA37TpQ

Probably doesn't deserve to be this high, it's just the song I first heard recently that prompted the birth of this thread. Most of the other very many Gundam Seed and Destiny opening and ending songs are great, so when this came up it was a shocker. I'm also compelled to watch every time to see Cagalli.

#3



Can't forget about this one.

#4



Randomly remembered this, too. Now that I listen, sounds similar to the song above. Probably same artist.

#5 through #9 Too lazy to look up, can probably fill with Ali Project songs. I can generally survive their stuff, just sounds weird and tends to match poorly with show bgms.

#10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovF46e536jo

I actually consider this an above average opening song. It's just not as good as the other Rayearth openings. It sounds different and shocking.

There seems to be a pattern in the songs I've selected, but it's hard to describe what it is. A certain kind of yelling female in songs of specific styles. Strange that there are no guy songs in my terrible list, considering I generally much prefer female singers. I also very much like some other types of songs with female singing styles that I consider to be close to yelling.