The credits said what!?

[nakimushi]

I'm not a big credit reader, usually I'll only read the cast list, the director and occasionally the list of animation studio credits, but I don't necessarily avoid them either since I never skip the closing songs.

I just finished Simoun, which I really enjoyed, and while the credits rolled by, something that I thought to be very unusual caught my eye:

Scientific Elements in the Story Verified by: Hiroaki Murakami


I burst out laughing! Again, I really enjoyed the show, but I can't think of anything in it that was even close to being semi-realistic sci-fi. I found the story and the characters to be very good, and the world to be interesting, but it did not seem to based on any scientific fact or principles.

Seriously, I thought the credit should have read:

Absence of Scientific Elements in the Story Verified by: :)


Anyway, have you read anything in the credits of a show that you found to be interesting, funny, or unusual?

[TornadoTatsumaki]

I'm not a big credit reader, usually I'll only read the cast list, the director and occasionally the list of animation studio credits, but I don't necessarily avoid them either since I never skip the closing songs.

I just finished Simoun, which I really enjoyed, and while the credits rolled by, something that I thought to be very unusual caught my eye:

Scientific Elements in the Story Verified by: Hiroaki Murakami


I burst out laughing! Again, I really enjoyed the show, but I can't think of anything in it that was even close to being semi-realistic sci-fi. I found the story and the characters to be very good, and the world to be interesting, but it did not seem to based on any scientific fact or principles.

Seriously, I thought the credit should have read:

Absence of Scientific Elements in the Story Verified by: :)


Anyway, have you read anything in the credits of a show that you found to be interesting, funny, or unusual?
Excel Saga comes to mind.

[HitokiriShadow]

Pay attention the credits in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei's openings, at least in the first few episodes. They are full of random and bizarre credits.

[Orihimes_Boyfriend]

I found it amuzing that the opening credits for The Melancholey of a Haruhi Suzumiya lists Haruhi as the "Ultra Director"

[DocWatson]

Frederik L. Schodt is apparently credited as a "planning brain" for Space Firebird (Phoenix 2772)—and has no idea why. (The Anime Encyclopedia, Rev. & Exp. Ed., p. xiv.)

[Ty]

Pay attention the credits in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei's openings, at least in the first few episodes. They are full of random and bizarre credits.

The whole reason I ended up not liking that show much is because the amount of effort it took to actually take in all the visual humor (the writing on the chalkboards, the lists that forced you to frame by frame advance to read them, etc.) made the show feel like work instead of fun. Gags in the credits were almost like adding insult to injury. Shinbo needs to learn some moderation.

[zaldar]

If there is any show that had science that needed to be verified by someone it would be Ghost in the Shell. Look up the guys name from simon see if he is a real scientist...

[Ryos]

On the subject of Haruhi, the credits for the English dvd promo videos are almost as entertaining as the videos (most of the time).

[Isuzu Inugami]

Paniponi Dash episdode 24 the characters adopt parodies of their own names, which are used for the cast credits at the end.

The Supergal / Maris the Chojo. Nothing in the credits per se, but as they roll, the background imagery is a Jackie Chan style blooper reel of messed up stunts from the show. The anime show.

(Similarly, but even farther afield, I always admired ADV's creditless ending extra for Golden Boy. A show in which the ending credits ran over a black screen.)

[DocWatson]

The Supergal / Maris the Chojo. Nothing in the credits per se, but as they roll, the background imagery is a Jackie Chan style blooper reel of messed up stunts from the show. The anime show.
Side note: Jackie Chan got the idea from Cannonball Run, in which he was featured.

[Isuzu Inugami]

The Supergal / Maris the Chojo. Nothing in the credits per se, but as they roll, the background imagery is a Jackie Chan style blooper reel of messed up stunts from the show. The anime show.
Side note: Jackie Chan got the idea from Cannonball Run, in which he was featured.

Oho! They're always fun, but the fact that someone went to the trouble of animating a fake one blows my mind.

[StefanieTN]

The Supergal / Maris the Chojo. Nothing in the credits per se, but as they roll, the background imagery is a Jackie Chan style blooper reel of messed up stunts from the show. The anime show.
Side note: Jackie Chan got the idea from Cannonball Run, in which he was featured.

Oho! They're always fun, but the fact that someone went to the trouble of animating a fake one blows my mind.

The first Silent Hill video game did the same thing for the closing credits. It was an interesting contrast to the content of the game. :)