I’m really digging the new Blood+ season 2 opening sequence and theme.?? The new opening theme is performed by HYDE and is entitled “Season’s Call”.?? The new opening sequence is ‘music video stylish’, not all of it adhering to the usual? model sheet rendering of the characters.
I find the new opening sequence much better composed than the season 1 opening.? Despite?the?use of more ?abstract and metaphoric imagery, I found season 2’s opening sequence less confusing and more appealing than?some of the?bullet-fast action sequences used in season one’s opening.? Unlike season 1’s opening, it’s far less literal and you can’t really guess what the show’s about just by watching it.
What also caught my eye in the new opening sequences were the few, brief, humorous clips of Saya’s former home life, created just for the opening sequence.?? Scarred by violence and forced on a bloody and dangerous?path by Saya’s mysterious destiny, life will never be normal for Saya and her brothers, so the addition of those clips adds an air of poignancy to the opening sequence.??? …and of course there’s HYDE’s “angst-sy” vocalizations. 
If you thought you saw the names Mark Mancina and Hans Zimmer in the credits, you didn’t imagine it!? They worked on the score for Blood+!? If you don’t know who they are, Google their names.?? Chances are you’ve seen some of the Hollywood films they’ve scored.
You can view the opening sequence (7.5MB) here.? You must have DivX codecs installed or a DivX compatible media player.? I highly recommend the VideoLAN player.? No bloat, no spyware.? It’s a?rock solid, straightforward media player.
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I felt like the song wasn’t that great. The high pitched guitar undertones sort of clashed with the guys voice. It had good vocals, but the soundtrack was wrong.
Also, I liked the images from her childhood. They made me chuckle a bit in an otherwise sort of blurs together. There are a few things that stand out beside that, like the close ups on Saya’s white fan and dark hair.
It’s not Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu, but I dig it.
Oh well. To each his own.
Now why can’t Western studios add some decent music to their animated TV productions? It seems like the score’s added in as an afterthought in most cases.
I guess the problem is that since animation in the West is still generally considered a child’s medium, the quality of the soundtrack in that context is not all that important.
Yeah, they get those people that do local car lot commericials to sing some tacky song about fighting. The Pokemon theme was keen.
Gotta catch ‘em alll-hal-hal. *breaks it down OG style*
I have to sing along whenever the Spongebob Square Pants theme is played.