@christinemarie: From what I've seen in Youtube, Gintama parodies Heidi (Funny as hell!) the anime but not it's opening sequence.
News: This week's Oricon singles chart has 4 anime theme songs occupying the Top 10. One Piece OP13, "One Day" by the Rootless (championed by christinemarie and Flyvedelta), is the only holdover from last week at #5 with 11,944 copies sold. 2 new anime songs likewise debuted as provided below:
"kizunairo" by Lia/Fortune Arterial ~Akae Yakusoku~ OP/#6 with 11,139 copies sold
"Lia's next anime theme single after her best-selling "My Soul, Your Beats!" single. A good song as what you'd expect from Lia and probably the highlight of the low buzz anime series."
"ROSE HIP-BULLET" by GRANRODEO/Togainu no Chi OP/#7 with 11,020 sold
"Arguably, the best song to date of this two piece band headed by the seiyuu voicing Stiyl Magnus of the Index series. Hard rock songs from this band is a welcome respite from the usual anime theme songs"
But the really big J-pop news is that idol girl group AKB48's "Beginner" sold a mindblowing 826,989 copies in it's first week (9th best of all time) and became best-selling single of 2010 (so far) after only 3 days. Their past two singles had sold over 500,000+ copies. In the U.S. only Flo Rida ("Right Round") and Ke$ha ("TikTok") had 500,000+ singles sales debut. And oh lest I forget, Houkago Tea Time's first full album for K-ON!! sold 127,000 copies to debut at #1. That's peanuts compared to Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" album which sold 1,047,000 copies in the U.S. but still an amazing feat for a fictional group. What a great week for the music industry.
Here are my inductions into the Hall of Fame for Week 87 (The Week ending on October 31, 2010):
"Shizuku" by Miwaku Okuda
GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) (TV/Ending Theme #2, eps 17-33/2000)
suggested by christinemarie
"Continued Story" by Hitomi (Hitomi Kuroishi)
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2/Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV/Insert Song, ep. 25/2008)
suggested by Gotank
"From Dusk Till Dawn" by abingdon boys school
DARKER THAN BLACK -Ryuusei no Gemini-/Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (TV/Ending Theme/2009)
suggested by Traece
"CHANGE THE WORLD" by V6
Inuyasha (TV/Opening Theme #1, eps. 1-34/2000)
"Kibouhou" by Strawberry JAM
Spiral ~ Suiri no Kizuna/Spiral ~Lines of Reasoning (TV/Opening Theme/2002)
"Wana" by The BACK HORN
Kidou Senshi Gundam 00/Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (TV/Ending Theme #1, eps 1-13/207)
"Dare yori mo Tooku e" by Maron Kusaka
Tom Sawyer no Boken/The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (TV/Opening Theme/1980)
"Yuki no Tsubasa" by redballoon
Gintama (TV/Ending Theme #3, eps 25-37/2006)
"Minashigo Hutch" by Yuri Shimazaki
Konchu Monogatari Minashigo Hutch/The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee (TV/Opening Theme/1970)
"a little pain" by OLIVIA inspi' REIRA ~TRAPNEST~ (Olivia Lufkin)
NANA (TV/Ending Theme #1, eps 1-8, 10-18, 41/2006)