Will this season's dark horse "Kitaro" OP regain the top spot? The result of "2018 Spring Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll" was announced!

The official voting project "2018 Spring Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll," which was held from May 15 (Tue) to May 30 (Wed) at Akiba Research Institute, has ended. What was the result of the total 26846 votes cast? Let's check it out right away.

No.1 Rin Akatsuki "Early Days" (Experimental Family -Creature's Family Days-) 8624 votes
No. 2 Kiyoshi Hikawa "Gegege no Kitaro" (Gegege no Kitaro (6th season)) 8014 votes
No.3 aki "Sakura-iro Cliche" (Shikaido Yotsukuro Biyori) 2102 votes
No.4 Aoi Eir "Ryusei" (Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online) 1143 votes
No.5 Haruna Oshima "Koi no Balloon" (Akkun to Kanojo) 885 votes
No.6 Kazumi Waki, Marika Takano, Machico, Ayaka Ohashi, Chisaki Kimura, Hitomi Ueda, Saori Onishi "Make Debut!
No.7 Riko Fukumoto "Shoujo ha ano sora wo wataru" (Hijine and Masotan) 605 votes
No. 8 LEO Imai "Bite" (Megalobox) 465 votes
No.9 Kokumikkookgirls (Hikaru Akao, Kaede Hondo, Saori Onishi, Riyo Takahashi) "Memories" (Kokumikkookgirls) 377 votes
No.10 sumika "Fiction" (Otaku ni Koi wa Difficult) 357 votes

The final results, as it turned out, reflected the results of the interim report almost directly.

The two songs that competed until the end were "Early Days" by Rin Akatsuki (Experimental Family - Creature's Family Days) and "Gegege no Kitaro" by Kiyoshi Hikawa (Gegege no Kitaro (6th season)). Following the lead of "Early Days," which slowly gained votes and jumped to the top, "Gegege no Kitaro" also received many votes, but fell one step short. However, it showed the deep-rooted popularity of anime songs loved by all generations.

Third place went to "Sakura-iro Cliche" by aki (Shikafudo Yotsukuro Biyori), which received a large number of votes from the beginning of the voting. It consistently received votes and came in third place.
In fourth place was Aoi Eir's "Ryusei" (Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online). This was the first song from Aoi Eir's return to action, so it probably attracted the attention of anime fans as well as fans of Aoi Eir. It also continued to maintain a high ranking.

It rose sharply from outside the top 10. Riko Fukumoto's "Shoujo ha ano sora wo wataru" (Hizune and Masotan) was considered a hot song in the interim report, but time ran out when it was only 11 votes behind the 6th place song "Make Debut! Make Debut!" was the one that got away from the pack.

LEO Imai's "Bite" (Megalobox) maintained a constant position as it went down and up. It is a song that is as austere as the main story of the anime, but the depth of nostalgia of anime songs is that songs like this also exist. It is a pleasure to see such songs in the Top 10.

Finally, the ranking was reversed between No. 9 "Memories" by KOMIKKU GARZ (Hikaru Akao, Kaede Motofu, Saori Onishi, Riyo Takahashi) and No. 10 "Fiction" by sumika (Otaku ni Koi wa Hanaku).
As they are units made up of popular voice actors, the votes of fans of the various cast members may have been gathered. Memories" came in at a respectable 9th place.

The results of this year's poll were very varied, including popular voice actors, animation song singers, talented singers, character songs, and unique songs. What was your favorite song?
Please check the following page to see the results of the top 10 and below!
⇒ 2018 Spring Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll

Also, "2018 Spring Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll" is currently being held. We hope you will participate in it as well!
⇒2018 Spring Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll