Must-See "Atom The Beginning" Anime Opening Published

Among spring 2017's notable anime theme sequences, one of the must-see's is Atom The Beginning, the adaptation of Tetsuro Kasahara's prequel to Osamu Tezuka's seminal Astro Boy. A team with 26 year-old Austrian GIF animator-turned-pro Bahi JD put together a fantastic sequence set to After the Rain's "Kaidoku Funō," which NBCUniversal Anime/Music has published online. 

 

 

オープニングの公式アップロード---> You can watch the opening again here officially---> https://t.co/AICL9UUjLM

— BAHIJD バヒ・JD (@bahijd) April 15, 2017

みんなどうもありがとうございます！Thanks for watching! And thanks to all staff who worked on it.見てくれてありがとうございます！お疲れ様です。

— BAHIJD バヒ・JD (@bahijd) April 15, 2017

『アトム ザ・ビギニング』OPの原画:
・久保田 誓
・伍 柏諭
・Jonathan Djob Nkondo
・山下 清悟
・川野 達朗
・森匡三
・榎戸 駿
・土上いつき
・佐田とし
・黄 成希
・末澤 慧
・吉松孝博
・磯 光雄
・吉田大洋
・荒木佑太
・Bahi JD

— BAHIJD バヒ・JD (@bahijd) March 31, 2017

Not even half the people who worked on Bahi's spectacular ATOM opening got credited in the TV broadcast because of NHK's stupid restrictions

— kViN (@Yuyucow) April 15, 2017

For those unaware, NHK only allows a certain number of people to be credited. That's why you see consistent lists throughout their shows.

— kViN (@Yuyucow) April 15, 2017

Sometimes they skip entire roles! In this case Bahi himself had credited everyone to begin with, but it's pretty disrespectful.

— kViN (@Yuyucow) April 15, 2017

• Contributors included 
• Chikashi Kubota
• Bo Yu Wu
• Jonathan Djob Nkondo 
• Shingo Yamashita
• Tatsuro Kawano
• Tadaka Mori
• Hayao Enokido
• Itsuki TsuchigamiToshi Sada
• Genki Yoshimura
• Kei Suezawa
• Takahiro Yoshimatsu
• Mitsuo Iso
• Oshima Yoshida
• Yuta Araki
• Bahi JD

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.