#nsopr5

The final bracket:

All final match results:

Blue Bird by Ikimonogakari vs Silhouette by KANA-BOON 63.9% // 36.1%

Hero's Comeback by nobodyknows+ vs Nikawa Ame ni mo Makezu by NICO Touches the Walls 63% // 37%

Diver by NICO Touches the Walls vs Blood Circulator by Asian Kung-Fu Generation 68.3% // 31.7%

Hotaru no Hikari by Ikimonogakari vs new song by tacica vs Karanokokoro by Anly 46% // 28% // 26%

The top 3 closest matches were:

Round 2 Losers: Kaze by Yamazaru vs Karanokokoro by Anly 50% // 50%

Round 2 Losers: Hotaru no Hikari by Ikimonogakari vs Tōmei datta Sekai 50% // 50%

Round 1: Lovers by 7!! vs new song by tacica 56% // 44%

The biggest L matches were:

Round 1: Tōmei datta Sekai by Motohiro Hara vs Diver by NICO Touches the Walls 16.3% // 83.7%

Round 4 Losers: Lovers by 7!! vs Totsugeki Rock by THE CRO-MAGNONS 78.6% // 21.4%

The most voted match was Round 3, Match 1: Hero's Comeback vs Blue Bird with 129 votes. The second highest was Round 3, Match 4: Silhouette vs Blood Circulator with 96 votes. The final match had 83 votes.

It comes with no surprises to me to crown Ikimonogakari's Blue Bird as the best Naruto Shippuden OP! So many bangers in the Naruto Shippuden discog and in my mind there were a lot of brutal match ups - however the voting did show some clear faves over others so maybe my nostalgia blurred my judgements. But for example, I do think Closer would have ranked higher if it hadn't been surrounded by such tough competition? Same with distance - that song had to tap out too early (╥_╥) My big takeaway from this is I should have ranked all OPs. At the time I thought it was too much work but after doing One Piece, it actually helps a lot either rank all of them, or only the winners. With that said, F-Tier tourney when; are there any tracks that deserve redemption; and most importantly, Naruto vs Naruto Shippuden OP tourney when?

Thanks so much for voting and following again, love you all 🫶

ps - this gif is crazy to me but also me giving you flowers for participating