Welcome Titles
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A Title Sequence done in the same format as the show itself. Original footage is created to showcase elements of the show's world. Often, this takes the form of a main character walking though his neighborhood, greeting other characters on their way to work.
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Fairly common in animation, but rare otherwise, probably due to the cost of creating such footage.
Examples of Welcome Titles include:
- Coupling (US version)
- Sesame Street
- The Simpsons
- TV Funhouse
- Everybody Loves Raymond had the family introduced while passing by on a conveyor belt for a while.
- At least one season of Ranma 1/2 had a brief segment after the Anime Theme Song titles introducing the main characters.
- Several of the later OVA episodes began with a song called "Where Do We Go From Here", during which the various cast members were shown around the neighborhood and/or on their way to school.
- Nagasarete Airantou
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- Monday Night Raw had titles like this for a while, featuring Steve Austin. Oh, and the supporting cast were all fighting. And "neighbourhood" was a disused factory on fire.
- Transformers openings tend to use this, except for the series that animate the Transformers in CGI.