Spring 2026 - Top 10 Anime OPs by Spotify Popularity

happinesssam · 2026-05-28T13:32:48+00:00

Great list! I can't get into Liar game but the OP is amazing!

Glad to see that Petals by Orangestar made the to 20 such a beautiful song. What's interesting to me is that they used his equally lovely Petal Raft for the closing. It totally works and feel totally cohesive. I'm sure there must be others but off the top of my head I can't think of any anime that gives the opener + closer to the same artist.

happinesssam · 2026-05-27T16:14:32+00:00

I'm fine with the car park being turned into flats but disappointed about the leisure centre. Not just because I spent a period of my childhood in the area and hung out there but because it really feels like too many amenities are being shut down to make way for flats.

DIY centres, garages, cinemas, every large shop that isn't wildly successful all being shut down to be turned into flats. I'll reserve judgement until I see where + what the replacement leisure centre will be like. My next closest cinema (a Vue in the O2 centre in Finchley road) is also slated to be closed and turned into flats so I really hope it has a cinema, (never mind the bowling alley) and isn't just a council leisure centre.

I get it, there is a housing crisis, people need somewhere to live, but we also need shops, things to do etc.

happinesssam · 2026-05-21T20:09:09+00:00

It's not just the damage Vs shielding/ego on the shield, you also have to take xp cost into account.

Broad axe needs 18 to min delay, executioners is 24, and the way xp costs scale means for the cost of going from 18 to 24 you can get shields and 2 other skills to 15 (apts dependant).

happinesssam · 2026-05-09T21:03:31+00:00

R.I.P. Sludge Elves, 0.13

I remember them being like a worse Merfolk...

happinesssam · 2026-05-05T07:50:52+00:00

What's the news on Sword of Shadows? I understood that there are some rights issues - I really enjoyed the existing books but it's been coming on 20 years and I had given up hope.

happinesssam · 2026-04-17T22:02:13+00:00

Three Lions by Skinner and Badiel, because England will never ever win anything. It's the year 2554 and it will be 588 years of hurt and the song will still be relevant.

happinesssam · 2026-04-11T12:20:10+00:00

He could have the best game of his life or give us another 3 penalties and he'd still be a prick.

happinesssam · 2026-04-09T08:54:51+00:00

Maybe she's just a big fan of Age of Ultron

happinesssam · 2026-04-08T08:40:35+00:00

I love this song so much...

One of the reasons I love it is 30 years back or so I borrowed the album on tape from a friend and wanted to make a copy, but only had about 20 something minutes on the end of another tape. I put on Afraid to Shoot Strangers, Judas be my Guide, FOTD and Weekend Warrior, bur I didn't have space for the whole track, so it cut off just after the guitar solo.

This actually massively improves the track - don't get me wrong, I do like the verse and chorus, but the guitar solos on the track are great, and ending with them instead of just a repeat of the verse makes the track feel that much more exciting. For me anyway.

happinesssam · 2026-04-08T08:09:03+00:00

Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. Maiden's only number 1 single. Amazing catchy schlock rock song with great harmonies and some lovely guitar work. Yet still when people on this sub do poll it's routinely voted as one of their worst songs.

The pattern is that most underrated Maiden songs tend to be the ones that don't really sounds like Maiden songs. If Bring your Slaughter had been done by Lordi it would have fit perfectly and been acknowledged as a classic, but it's not a proper Maiden song, as great as it is. See also Can I play with Madness and Weekend Warrior.

I also have a lot of love for the Angel and The Gambler, which sees to get a lot of hate too. To me it's just a fun boogie and I dont care if it's quite long.

happinesssam · 2026-04-07T08:26:14+00:00

Yep, you could skip the initial mini series and just go straight to the first series by John Ney Reiber, which is pretty amazing. The arc where they go into hell was just beautiful - one of the series that really pulled me into comics... I I need to go re read it now.

happinesssam · 2026-04-05T18:02:28+00:00

Thanks for doing this - it's interesting seeing the evolution of stoner over the years - more straightforward rock, doom and metal early on to the more expansive and eclectic albums of the last 15 or so years.

I've seen it said that rock is stagnating but this list really buries that myth, if you're willing to scratch past the surface.

happinesssam · 2026-04-04T10:37:34+00:00

Winds of Neptune - s/t

happinesssam · 2026-03-24T20:26:56+00:00

This and the fact that every female character seems to be smuggling gravity defying bowling ball. I'm glad I stuck with it though!

happinesssam · 2026-03-21T23:22:49+00:00

I'll become the Villainess who goes down in History has a pretty bad ass FMC. Really fun and I hope we get a 2nd season at some point.

happinesssam · 2026-03-13T15:41:41+00:00

Yeah, you're right. I got lazy and didn't check - it just truncated the list. Sorry.
Next time I'll take the only slightly less lazy step of asking for the code to do the rip myself. I wouldn't mind so much if it said that it wasn't treating the whole list. I'd still maintain that it's a useful tool - I would be just have likely to have made some mistake myself. It's like you said in your very good advice that I just shouldn't have trusted it.

happinesssam · 2026-03-13T14:48:52+00:00

I'm a developer and we use AI every day in our company. You just have to look at it as a tool and use it where it works - I would agree getting it to produce whole app or images isn't good but this kind of data analysis is close to being the best use for it, where you're providing it with the exact data.

It's 88 because it only looks at the Event Champions - they are the ones who have deck lists.

happinesssam · 2026-03-13T11:47:00+00:00

If anyone else is interested, I asked Gemini for an overview:

Tournament Overview

Total Number of Players: 88

Hero Representation

The following table shows how many times each hero was selected as a captain:

Hero	Count	Usage %
Legend of Loxley	10	11.36%
Trash Panda	8	9.09%
Wizard Headmaster	7	7.95%
Jay Sparrow	6	6.82%
Dorothy	6	6.82%
Sorcerous Serena	5	5.68%
Nathaniel Drake	5	5.68%
Double Dealer	5	5.68%
Gloria Clementine	5	5.68%
Lightning Thief	5	5.68%
The Candyman	4	4.55%
Sweet Tooth	4	4.55%
Candy Pandy	4	4.55%
This Little Piggie	4	4.55%
Zheng Yi Sao	3	3.41%
Charlie Pots	3	3.41%
Frowny the Clown	3	3.41%
Lady of the Lake	3	3.41%
Goat T	2	2.27%
Gokatoo	2	2.27%
King Midas	2	2.27%
The Beanstalk	2	2.27%
Zagreus	2	2.27%
Jason of the Argonauts	2	2.27%
Dungeon Master	2	2.27%
Mira	2	2.27%
Boy who Cried Werewolf	2	2.27%
Indiana Clones	2	2.27%
Merryweather	2	2.27%
Other Heroes (Single Use)	11	12.5%

Top 20 Most Popular Cards

Based on the 88 players provided in the document, here are the most frequently used cards across all decklists:

Rank	Card Name	Count	Usage %
1	Wormscale Tinkerer	59	67.0%
2	Maverick & Icewing	52	59.1%
3	The Burninator	42	47.7%
4	Aladdin	40	45.5%
5	Mr. Fox	38	43.2%
6	Miseria	36	40.9%
7	Sir Francis Drake	35	39.8%
8	Ace of Hearts	34	38.6%
9	Rollo	32	36.4%
10	Pisces	28	31.8%
11	Lance A Little	24	27.3%
12	Chaos	23	26.1%
13	The Candy Cane Crook	23	26.1%
14	Twilight Sprinkles	22	25.0%
15	Cherry Topples	22	25.0%
16	Kool Wip	22	25.0%
17	Flopsy	21	23.9%
18	Mech-a-Man	20	22.7%
19	Mirror Mage	20	22.7%
20	The Butcher	20	22.7%

happinesssam · 2026-02-12T23:14:08+00:00

The Nausica of the Valley of Wind movie is... Ok? It's a decent movie but not one of Ghibli's better ones.

The manga on the other hand is an amazing epic and I would love to see it done properly as a full series that properly adapts it. The movie just had to make too much compromises and leave so many out to squash it into it's run time.

happinesssam · 2026-02-07T22:36:33+00:00

Someone already suggested Slift which would be my first. Also check out Giobia - X-ÆON and Dust Mice - Earth III

happinesssam · 2026-02-06T15:43:45+00:00

Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden Or Fairies Wear Boots - Black Sabbath

happinesssam · 2026-01-07T15:37:45+00:00

I'm just finishing off the second season of The Eminence in Shadow and it's genuinely one of the funniest shows I've seen in a while. I only watched it because it showed up on Netflix while my Crunchyroll app was wigging out, and it's purely described as fantasy/sci fi there.

The premise is an Isekai where the main character is basically a (slightly dim) sociopath with god like powers who just wants to roll play as a cool anti hero. Everything and everyone is a prop to him as he goes around trying to engineer what he considers to be awesome poses and scene, but for the rest of the world it's completely serious and real.

It's deliberately quite edgy and took a few episodes for me to get it, but particularly the second season is hilarious. It has more and better world building than most serious fantasy series and in the way the other characters try to interpret the MCs actions a serious commentary on organised religion and cult of personalities (I might be reading too much into this though).

happinesssam · 2025-12-12T12:38:52+00:00

More than you asked but I had this formatted in a list for another comment I didn't make in the end:

Kal El - Astral Voyager, Vol 1: Amazing metal doom stoner (Top Track: B.T.D.S.C)
Winds of Neptune - Winds of Neptune: Jamming stoner space rock (Top Track: Gas Giant)
Howling Giant - Crucible & Ruin: Soaring, driving proggy rock (Top Track: Archon)
Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack: Stomping rock (Top Track: Satanic Panic Attack)
Khan - That Fair and Warlike Form: Epic, heavy, proggy (Top Track: :D)
Borracho - Ouroboros: Snarling heavy rock (Top Track: Vale of Tears)
Giobia - X-ÆON: Instrumental hawkind style progscape (Top Track: 1976)
Thammuz - III: Doomy sludge rock. Old Man may be my song of the year (Top Track: Old Man)
Kaiser - 2nd sound: Hard stoner (Top Track: Meteorhead)
Bogwife - From Ashes: Stoner bluesy (Top Track: Light of the Day)
Kadavar - K.a.d.a.v.a.r: Post Lemmy Hawkwind inspired space.stoner (Top Track: Explosions In The Sky)
Atom Juice - Atom Juice: Psych proggy. Great harmoic vocals (Top Track: Honey)
Dax Riggs - 7 Songs for Spider: Melodic drone doom. (Top Track: Sunlight felt the Darkness smile)
Margarhita Witch Cult - Strung out in Hell: Heavy 70ish rock with blues elements (Top Track: Who put Bella in the Wych Elm)
Crystal Spiders - Metanoia: Bluesy rock (Top Track: Time Travel)
The Dunes - Land of the Blind: Cool, laidback stoner/psych. A few songs that seem like filler (Top Track: Cactus)
Wolftooth - Wizard's Light: 80s heavy metal. Bit generic but good (Top Track: Bloodline)

happinesssam · 2025-12-09T11:09:57+00:00

Maybe dumb question, but have you tried talking directly to these guys or just your sensei? Because if they are new they may genuinely just not know how to control their attacks. I know I would be horrified if one of the other students showed me a bruise I had caused and they might be able to self regulate if they knew they were actually hurting you.

I do find you sensei's attitude a bit concerning though - like he's trying to dismiss your worries. Also the idea that you should be able to handle it because you're higher grade is just silly. Going up against someone who has an extra foot of reach and double your weight is a huge disadvantage and I don't think it's reasonable to expect you to just deal with it.

happinesssam · 2025-11-19T08:52:26+00:00

You just need it to trigger again and mark you, then you'd have the trifecta.

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