History Main / ActionHoggingOpening

*** Also; the opening music is done by [[JAMProject JAM PROJECT]].

* The English dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has a pretty exciting opening, but most of the episodes that have fights seem to show them as the same four frames looping for a couple of minutes, or a BeamOWar and [[SmokeShield obscuring dust clouds]] It should be noted that a fair amount of said opening was taken from the movies.
** But that's nothing compared to the later remake, ''Anime/DragonBallKai''. Its opening is made in a streamlined, all-new style. Its footage is cleaned up versions of the same low budget beam-o-wars from the previous example.

* ''GirlchanInParadise'''s opening is a parody of this, featuring actual fluid animation and a fight between Kenstar and Yusuke. The actual show is mostly LimitedAnimation where the characters stand in place and their lips flap around, and the rare fights are laughable anticlimaxes.

** ''TransformersAnimated'''s English opening is not particularly action-packed, but when the show was dubbed in Japan, it received a new one that featured extremely fluid animation and plenty of fight scenes (Many of which did not and in some cases, ''could not'' occur in the show itself) . Indeed, the longer opening meant that the actual show had to have material edited out.

Compare BaitAndSwitchCredits, FakeOutOpening, DetailHoggingCover, AnimationBump. MerchandiseDriven works will often make this a ProductPromotionParade, ActionPrologue.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', apart from its iconic Western opening, was given a new opening when it was shipped off to Japan. Suffice it to say, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTad94mre8&fmt=18 things were interpreted rather differently there]].

* ''MightyOrbots''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''

* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'''s openings tend to feature Fay fighting with fancy kicks and dodges, but he pretty much engages in only one hand-to-hand fight per season, and he never fights so flashy.

*** Also; the opening [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome music]] is done by [[JAMProject JAM PROJECT]].

** ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie'' has a theme song opening sequence that includes more actual frames of animation than an entire weekly TV episode. It is completely awesome, but must have taken up a disproportionately huge chunk of the budget. [[note]]Anime fan Robert Fenelon met the director (Toei did the animation), who told him "I blew my whole budget on the first 10 minutes!" (You can sometimes find footage of Fenelon Cosplaying Desslock)[[/note]]

* Several openings from ''Anime/{{Inuyasha}}''.

* The fourth opening to ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]]'' of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a massive battle between the Elric brothers and Lust and Gluttony, taking place in the waterfall area leading to the underground city below Central. Yet Ed doesn't even go there until his brother is captured and one of the homunculi they're fighting in the opening is dead.

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* ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' had a moderate amount of action, typically there was at least one sequence per episode, but if the opening credits were to be believed it would have been nothing but 30 minutes of pure ass kicking.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'', apart from its iconic Western opening, was given a new opening when it was shipped off to Japan. Suffice it to say, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTad94mre8&fmt=18 things were interpreted rather differently there]].

* ''DNAngel'' has an epic opening sequence drawn mostly from scenes from the final two episodes of the series, with some images from other parts of the series, and yet since the series is more of a ROMANCE COMEDY than an action-packed battle between two angels… most of the series is a lot less low key. There are episodes with that level of action, and other episodes devoted solely to romance or developing the characters, and thus falling far behind the opening in the action department.

* The English dub of ''Anime/DragonballZ'' has a pretty exciting opening, but most of the episodes that have fights seem to show them as the same four frames looping for a couple of minutes, or a BeamOWar and [[SmokeShield obscuring dust clouds]] It should be noted that a fair amount of said opening was taken from the movies.
** But that's nothing compared to the later remake, ''Anime/DragonballKai''. Its opening is made in a streamlined, all-new style. Its footage is cleaned up versions of the same low budget beam-o-wars from the previous example.

** But that's nothing compared to the later remake, DragonBall Kai. Its opening is made in a streamlined, all-new style. Its footage is cleaned up versions of the same low budget beam-o-wars from the previous example.

* ''{{Mazinger}}'' saga: The openings of the trilogy -''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer''- feature more action -featuring the titular {{Humongous Mecha}}s tearing their way through an army of enemies-, and a better animation than an average episode of their series -especially of ''Grendizer''-.

* ''Anime/TenkuuSenkiShurato'': The opening was packed with action, and featured an absolutely gorgeous, detailed and fluid animation, considerably better than that one used in the series.

* The opening to the Creator/RubySpears ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon made it seemed accurate to the actual games, yet the actual episodes were nothing but standard Saturday morning fare.

** ''TransformersAnimated'''s English opening is not particularly action-packed, but when the show was dubbed in Japan, it received a new one that featured extremely fluid animation and plenty of fight scenes (Many of which did not occur in the show itself) . Indeed, the longer opening meant that the actual show had to have material edited out.

* ''BakuretsuTenshi''.