With the final cour of Stone Ocean having aired, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fans now have two more of the best anime openings to enjoy. JoJo openings are famously upbeat, colorful, and intensely creative. Ever since Part 1 of the anime began airing in 2012, their bright imagery and combination of traditional and computer animation have made them stand out among other, more typical anime openings.

Naturally, this is in keeping with the appearance and feel of the show itself. JoJo is known for many things, including its distinctive art styles and habit of showing its characters in several varying color palettes. The best openings of one of the coolest shonen anime combine this one-of-a-kind look with the fast-paced action that fans keep coming back to each new season for.

10 Stone Ocean - Stone Ocean

After almost ten years of waiting for Part 6 of the manga to receive an anime adaptation, fans were rewarded for their patience with this rocking opening. It is flashy and dynamic, with a color palette of mostly greens, pinks, blues, and yellows. The camera soars and swoops from the road into Green Dolphin Street Prison to the rest of the facility that Jolyne Cujoh and company are living and fighting in.

Fittingly, “Stone Ocean” is one of the only JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure openings to be performed by a female voice artist, just as Jolyne is the series’ first and to date only female protagonist, a fact which JoJo's Bizarre Adventure mangaka Hirohiko Araki fought for. ichigo of Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets performs this song detailing Jolyne’s determination to move past what’s been done to her and break free of Green Dolphin Street.

9 Stand Proud - Stardust Crusaders

This opening features a bold and dynamic number by Jin Hashimoto. He also contributed iconic openings to several series in the Kamen Rider franchise. The title has a double meaning: not only does it refer to the new heroes’ confidence in their powers, but to the new Stand abilities that will get them through their journey across the desert.

In fact, “Stand Proud” opens the first part of JoJo to feature Stands, powerful entities generated from a being’s life energy. It goes out of its way to show off Star Platinum, Hierophant Green, and the Crusaders’ other Stands in action beside them. Each member of a suddenly larger main cast gets time in this opening, and there’s even room for glimpses of the late Jonathan.

8 Sono Chi No Kioku - end of the WORLD - Stardust Crusaders

Much like Jotaro and Joseph, TOMMY and Coda team up for the final arc of Part 3. It’s decidedly more dramatic than “Stand Proud,” with faster vocals and more intense lighting and colors. This change fits perfectly for the final battle against DIO, who is stronger and crueler than any of his minions.

It's littered with hints about The World’s time-stopping powers, a secret built up the entire Part, from the ominous ticking clock imagery to the sequence where each Crusader freezes in place. Eagle-eyed viewers will also catch a moment near the end where the opening seems to skip. In the last episodes, they find out why in anime openings’ best plot twist: those few missed seconds were Dio using The World, mocking Jotaro and the viewer.

7 Great Days - Diamond Is Unbreakable

Part 4’s openings have a few firsts. They are the first ones in the series to be traditionally animated rather than computer animated, and “Great Days” is the first opening to feature a female voice artist. Jazz singer Karen Aoki s Daisuke Hasegawa for this theme song highlighting Josuke Higashikata’s optimism and love for his town of Morioh.

From its famous “Breakdown, breakdown!” beginning, to its final shot featuring the main cast posing together, “Great Days” is upbeat all the way through. Morioh may be a small town, but this opening does a great job of making it look packed and fast-paced. It also highlights how much of an aberration Kira Yoshikage, one of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure's best villains, is to the place, with his purplish colors clashing with Morioh’s bright yellows and greens.

6 Heaven’s Falling Down - Stone Ocean

This most recent opening certainly doesn’t disappoint. sajou no hana is an alternative rock band well known for performing openings for anime such as Sword Art Online, Mob Psycho 100, and A Certain Scientific Railgun. The powerful voice of their vocalist, sana, expresses Jolyne’s determination to be like her family and fight to the end to keep Pucci from achieving Heaven.

“Heaven’s Falling Down” is no exception to the trope of a show’s last opening being its most intense, in a finale that had reluctant viewers finally sold on Stone Ocean. Combining traditional and computer animation, its darker, deeper color palette is a stark contrast to “Stone Ocean,” until the final explosion of bright green, blue, and pink that marks her final showdown with Pucci. For an extra treat, this opening brings back the animated reel of manga s from “Sono Chi no Sadame,” bringing the series full circle.

5 Traitors’ Requiem - Golden Wind

This opening kicks in for the second half of Part 5, after Bucciarati’s team discovers the awful truth behind their boss’ pursuit of his daughter Trish. With Trish in tow, the team flees across Italy while being pursued by other gangsters. Likewise, “Traitors’ Requiem” is far darker in tone than the brighter and punchier “Fighting Gold,” featuring the team distressed and in dire straits as they fight some of the scariest Stands in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

It also pulls a similar “villain interrupts the opening” move as “Sono Chi no Kioku.” Once Diavolo is fully revealed, he uses King Crimson to stop the opening and intimidate Giorno in harsh Italian, before the time is erased and the song starts up again. The difference here is that Giorno gets to turn it back around on him in the final episodes, using Gold Experience Requiem to reverse King Crimson’s effects and reveal the true meaning of the title.

4 Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town - Diamond Is Unbreakable

J-Pop band THE DU, as fans might be able to tell from their name, were formed solely to perform Part 4’s first opening and then immediately disbanded. They make a strong impression for the short time they were together, however. From the first sound of the bouncy, jazzy saxophone, viewers know they’re in for a fun time with one of JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure's best heroes.

This traditionally animated opening features enough neon colors and geometric patterns to make a bowling alley carpet blush. Josuke Higashikata and the rest of the main cast dance to the music and strike poses amid spotlights and smoke. It’s an excellent introduction to the town of Morioh and all the strange happenings viewers will encounter there.

3 Bloody Stream - Battle Tendency

After leaving the rock band No Regret Life, Kazusou “Coda” Oda recorded one of the most iconic JoJo openings solo. He would later return to do several more songs for the show, but “Bloody Stream” remains a top contender for the best. Jonathan and Joseph’s designs were based on Western action movie stars, and this upbeat and energizing opening couldn’t match the tone of Battle Tendency better.

If it wasn’t obvious enough that Joseph Joestar is a whole different beast than his grandpa Jonathan, this opening hammers it in. Joseph and his companions are represented by bright colors and patterns as opposed to the deeper, bolder solid colors seen in “Sono Chi no Sadame.” Joseph and Caesar leap and kick across the screen together, delighting in the battles they’re charging into almost enough to distract viewers from the foreshadowing of Caesar’s death at the very end.

2 Fighting Gold - Golden Wind

Featuring another standout performance by Coda, some of theJoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are hyped up in this opening. Its lyrics are presumably from the point of view of not just Giorno Giovanna, but all of his new teammates. They introduce viewers to the story of a group of outcasts determined to break out of the fates that have been decided for them.

This opening more than any other shows off JoJo’s tendency to show the characters in several different color palettes. It uses chain, vine, and hourglass imagery to symbolize the constraints Team Bucciarati is trying to escape. Viewers who look closely will spot hints of King Crimson as well, foreshadowing the biggest threat looming in the team’s future.

1 Sono Chi No Sadame - Phantom Blood

This bold and bombastic number by rock singer Hiroaki “TOMMY” Tominaga of the band BLUFF perfectly introduces not only its noble hero Jonathan Joestar but its famously cruel villain Dio Brando. The very first JoJo opening set the tone for not only the show as a whole but for all the opening sequences that would come after it. Notably, it begins with a rapid montage of animated s from throughout the manga, giving fans split-second glimpses of future protagonists from Joseph to Jolyne.

“Sono Chi no Sadame” takes a more direct approach to telling the story of Phantom Blood, adapting scenes such as Jonathan and Dio first meeting and Dio obtaining the Stone Mask. It does an excellent job of showing the pure good-versus-evil dynamic of Jonathan and Dio. Jonathan is depicted standing tall in the sun, while Dio is depicted against darker colors, lounging on a stone throne. And of course, the final long note of “JoOOOOOOOO-JO!” remains iconic to fans of JoJo's Bizzare Adventure over ten years later.