Anime songs that were hits in the 1990s. Recommended masterpieces and popular tracks.
Back in the 1990s, it still wasn’t the age of the internet.
These days, late-night anime and VOD subscriptions are the norm, but when you think of 90s anime, it was all about those early evening broadcasts.
Many of you probably spent your grade-school days rushing home after classes and turning on the TV right away.
This time, we’re featuring anime songs from that nostalgic 90s era!
Be sure to look for tracks from the shows you were obsessed with.
They’re great picks to keep in mind for karaoke, too!
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Anime songs that were hits in the 1990s: Recommended masterpieces and popular tracks (31–40)
Moonlight LegendDALI
This is the opening theme of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, which aired from March 7, 1992 to February 27, 1993.
Since it’s a globally famous work, the song is also passionately supported by people overseas.
Both the music and the lyrics are totally cute, aren’t they?
Parched CryFIELD OF VIEW
Yu-Gi-Oh!, a card game with worldwide popularity, originally began as a manga and was adapted into an anime in 1998.
“A Cry for the Dry” was its opening theme.
Incidentally, the original Yu-Gi-Oh! and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, which focuses on the card game, are different works; the latter depicts stories of characters playing various games with different settings, as in the early parts of the original series.
The radiance is within you.Yume Suzuki
The opening theme of the anime NINKU, which aired in 1995, is Kagayaki wa Kimi no Naka ni by singer-songwriter Yumi Suzuki.
It’s a distinctive song that, unusually for a boys’ anime, conveys a somewhat dark worldview, so many people may still remember it.
Incidentally, the original manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, went on repeated hiatus and remained unfinished for a long time, but it was revived with serialization in Ultra Jump and concluded in 2011.
I want to shout that I love you.BAAD
Slam Dunk is an anime based on the manga by Takehiko Inoue that sparked a basketball boom.
Its theme song is Kimi ga Suki da to Sakebitai, the third single by the rock band BAAD, which peaked at No.
16 on the Oricon chart.
A night when the moonlight softly fallsNanao Ogawa
Many ending themes from old anime tended to leave you with a touch of melancholy, didn’t they? This is Nao Ogawa’s debut single, used as the ninth ending theme for the nationally beloved TV anime Crayon Shin-chan.
Her distinctive vocals, heartwarming lyrics, nostalgic atmosphere, and subtly oriental sound arrangement are all superb.
In the 2010s, artists like Nagi Yanagi and Wednesday Campanella covered the song, so it’s fun to listen while comparing their versions with the original.
Anime songs that were hits in the 1990s. Recommended masterpieces and popular tracks (41–50)
Feelings in your colorSMAP / Shoko Sawada
Broadcast in 1994, Red Riding Hood Chacha is a TV anime based on a girls’ manga serialized in Ribon.
Its opening theme was SMAP’s Kimi Iro Omoi.
The song is very popular—it was even included in a best-of album selected by SMAP fan votes—but when the anime was released on home video, rights issues arose, so the song was replaced with a cover version sung by Seiko Sawada instead of SMAP.
Warrior, rise!Masaaki Endo
This is the theme song from when Masō Kishin Cybaster, which appears in the Super Robot Wars series, was adapted into an anime.
It seems opinions are divided, partly because the anime differed too much from the original, but Masaaki Endoh’s opening theme is undeniably cool.