These are the best anime songs in history

February is known by some as the "Month of Anime" but the year 2017 marks the centennial anniversary of Japanese animation or so they say. Last weekend, there was a special programming aired on NHK highlighting the best 100 anime songs in history and, as they said, these are the best 100 anime songs in history, be it opening, closing, or insert, whatever maybe as long as they came from anime shows as seen on TV.

Here are the best 30 out of the 100 anime songs in history and you might be amazed which franchise scored big-time.

1. "SNOW HALATION" (LOVE LIVE!)
2. "BOKUTACHI WA HITOTSU NO HIKARI (LOVE LIVE! THE SCHOOL IDOL MOVIE)
3. "ORION WO NAZORU" (TIGER & BUNNY)
4. "History Maker" (Yuri!!! on Ice)
5. "Butter-fly" (Digimon Adventure)
6. "only my railgun" (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
7. "Platinum" (Cardcaptor Sakura)
8. "Cruel Angel's Thesis" (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
9. "Sugar Song and Bitter Step" (Blood Blockade Battlefront)
10. "TRAGEDY" (The File of Young Kindaichi Returns) 
11. "Connect" (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
12. "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" (Bakemonogatari)
13. "Maji Love 1000%" (Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000%)
14. "M@STERPIECE" (THE IDOLM@STER MOVIE: Kagayaki no Mukōgawa e!)
15. "Guren no Yumiya" (Attack on Titan)
16. "Space Battleship Yamato" (Space Battleship Yamato)
17. "Hare Hare Yukai" (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
18. "God knows…" (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
19. "Lion" (Macross F)
20. "Daydream Cafe" (Is the order a rabbit?)
21. "Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki" (Love Live!) 
22. "Mezase Pokémon Master" (Pokémon)
23. "Aishiteru Banzai!" (Love Live!)
24. "Angelic Angel" (Love Live! The School Idol Movie)
25. "SUNNY DAY SONG" (Love Live! The School Idol Movie)
26. "CHANGE THE WORLD" (Inuyasha)
27. "ETERNAL BLAZE" (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's)
28. "Get Wild" (City Hunter)
29. "Zero Ichi Kiseki" (And you thought there is never a girl online?)
30. "Catch You Catch Me" (Cardcaptor Sakura)

μ's Final Love Live

Image: Project Love Live!

Amazingly, the Love Live franchise scored the most songs in the rankings than any other anime shows. From the now legendary μ's to the rising Aqours in Love Live Sunshine, whose first Love Live concert is happening this weekend, it's no wonder that it became one of the most successful anime franchises in history when it comes to anime songs.