...Why am I getting flashbacks to like a dozen Naruto openings? Like Salad leaning against a fence with a purple background I swear is something Sakura did exactly in a Naruto opening. ..Yes, it from opening 7 exactly with one detail different: Sakura doesn't have the sharingan.
Screw it I got a few minute might as well.
So the opening starts out with Nail face shadowed with ominous red eye turning around face the audience raising his hand as it pulls back further to show the village being reduced to rubble and lifted into the air. While the song just goes DADADAHDADADAHDADADADADAH. I guess this is both to warn the audience that this mysterious person is going to be a threat to the village, and to remind them that he even exist since he hasn't appear for 150 episodes now.
Bolt in a flooded ruined street with a reddish-pink background...I swear this looks familiar.
The camera seizures out as it switches to Cups with a snake in a tree with the village in the background with a blue tint.
Then mentioned this before she looks to the ground and then takes off her glasses to look at the sky with her sharingan activated.
Back to Nail's back. Camera seizures to some random street with crows pecking at garbage. Focus on a crow with some meat; then the murder flies off.
Bolt's karma seal on his hand is glowing before clenching it to stop the glowing (well I haven't being watching the anime so I assume this is to point out that seal will be relevant now; not sure they been using it). Pulls back to Bolt's friends...in another callback to an old Naruto opening. The dark tone of the setting the opening is trying to pull doesn't really work with the cheap cartoony look of the kids. When they used to do this is Naruto's opening they added more detail.
Kara in black cloaks overlooking the village...oh wait people don't read the manga so this is supposed to hint a the new threat that is approaching and watch the village while the cast is unaware.
Oh that the lab from Nails' flashback. Looks like a bunch of blood IV bag with Nail in one of them.
Showing villains face. They pose on a street stair that I swear I've seen the akatsuki do for an image once.
Kids running in a field another call back to a Naruto opening that I actually recognize, but they did it too short for it to work and not enough detail to be impressive.
Then fighting Kara. Looks like something based off some shippuden opening. Bolt starts fighting. A cut to show all his friends are beaten. He starts to....roar...power up...something? Too short, not enough detail. Bolt fires off a pink rasengan that... leads to a Destructive Finish?
Ok. Now in a ruin street in the village with Bolt is sitting down looking depressed and worn out with a glowing Nail in front of him. Nail approaches while obscured by glowing light. Bolt looks up. The village monument instantly fixes itself? A bit too quickly. Bolt gets up in a glowing background and walks back towards the shadowy covered Nail. While a crow flies off between them.
So, overall this ending is suppose to show the danger of Nail (also the threat of Kara and how they are like the akatsuki), but also the chance he could remain good. While uses a lot of imagery from the Naruto opening from the Rescue Sasuke arc to reference the attempt to save him and his inevitable fall back up by the fact; they spoiled this in the first episode. The crows represent Bolt and Nails friendship...I think. The darkness is to show Nail as a potential threat and that the audience doesn't the cast don't know him yet.
There are a lot of scenes taken straight from old Naruto openings (Sasuke Rescue arc ones for Nail and Shippuden ones for kara). But done poorly mainly because they cut the scene too short and they don't add the detail that the Naruto openings did for the dark scenes of the opening. Instead keeping them cartoony which doesn't mesh well with the dark tone in some images.
The song fine. The lyrics are a bit generic being about standing up, believe in yourself, be open about your feelings, looking towards the future, friendship, and such.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 07 April 2020 - 02:44 PM.