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Ranking of OPs & EDs 2021

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Welcome back to the second part of Erufailon4's Best Anime of 2021 series. This time I'll be going through my top 10 openings and endings of the year. Easy task, right? ... Right?  So yeah, this is going to be a very arbitrary list that is more of a reflection of how strongly I feel about each entry at this moment, rather than any judgement of quality. All of these OPs and EDs are excellent, and ranking them was not easy.  Now then, let's get started.  Top 10 OPs 10. Re:Zero Season 2 Part 2  OP "Long shot"    This was one I was not initially the biggest fan of, but it grew on me eventually. The song is okay, and the lyrics vaguely fit the series, but the best part is the visuals, which are at some points very striking and hold quite a lot of meaning too - child Emilia with blood on her face, as well as the quick sequence of Subaru, Emilia, Ram and Beatrice's eyes with their most important persons reflected in them, are some of my favourite shots in the OP. ...

Ranking of Key Visuals 2021

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It's December - exactly three weeks before the end of the year, to be precise. You know what that means? It means that time has come to look back on the year and its many bangers. This is Erufailon4's Best Anime of 2021 series, part 1: my top 10 key visuals of the year.  Included may be any anime series that aired at least a half of its episodes in 2021, and anime movies that were released in my home country (and usually also internationally) during the year. Without further ado, let's get started.  10. Takt op. Destiny  KV2  It's not a very flashy or otherwise eye-catching KV, but despite that I personally like it quite a bit. Takt op. Destiny  is a road trip series (at least that's my impression based on the admittedly few episodes I have seen) and this KV certainly communicates it at a glance. Having the characters in the middle third and the upper and lower third be filled with the open blue sky and the asphalt of the road creates a nice balance. The charact...