Crunchyroll News has published a feature digging into one of anime's most beloved traditions: the dance sequence in openings and endings.

The piece — cheekily subtitled "Let's boogie" — charts the history of dancing in anime OPs and EDs, the choreographed moments that have launched countless fan recreations and become shorthand for a show's personality before a single episode scene plays.

Its header art nods to the Apocalypse Hotel opening, one of the more recent entries in the dancing-OP lineage. For fans who've ever found themselves rewatching an opening just for the choreography, it's a look at how the tradition took hold and evolved across eras of the medium.