Originally Posted by
Neversoft
I thought the music in Death Note was fantastic but then after 20 episodes the opening and ending songs changed to What's Up, People!? and Zetsubou Billy by Maximum The Hormone, which totally blew me away and made me realise the music wasn't just fantastic, but something beyond that!
On the topic of Japanese movie soundtracks - Ping Pong has an amazing one, and one of only two songs that have actually made me cry! The first 20th Century Boys movie had a great soundtrack as well. Haven't seen the second or third yet but I assume they also have good soundtracks.