As quoted from Sankaku Complex...
"Wherever you look, all our games and anime are just cutting and pasting the same things over and over.
Fortunately, all major anime have access to at least 8 hair colours, 2 genders and 5 different costumes to help make the cutting and pasting a little less noticeable."
But still, as a self-learning film/theater/literature student, I gotta say that it does play some part in the limitations of cinematic styles.
Sea = Peace
Hawk = A new beginning, powerful beast of protection
Backs facing screen = Resolve
Turning around = Belief that it will work out, hope.
Hand extended downwards = Support
Lone Characters = Shouldering hardships that no one can understand.
2 Characters = to draw comparison, if they are mirroring each other, they are equals either as foes in combat, or 2 sides affecting the story, if foreground/background, one is the hero, the other supports or waits for him/her
Running = normally done from right to left (shows running towards something, opposed to running from left to right, which subconsciously signifies escaping from something, since the entrance > exit is normally left > right)
But unless you are a big anime buff like me, I doubt you will recognise half of the openings here =P...
.... Still, if you ever wanna know the list of animes that went into it, Click here ^^x...
Anime involved: 009-1
Ah! My Goddess
Ai Yori Aoshi
Angelic Layer
Asu no Yoichi
Azumanga Daioh
Berserk
Big O
Black Lagoon
Bleach
Blood+
Blue Dragon
Burst Angel
Cardcaptor Sakura
Chrono Crusade
City Hunter
Clannad
Claymore
Cobra
Code Geass
Cowboy Bebop
D. Gray Man
Death Note
Diebuster
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
H2O Footprints in the Sand
Eureka Seven
FateStay Night
Full Metal Panic!
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Full Metal Panic The 2nd Raid
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fushigi Yuugi
GaoGaiGar
Genshiken
Ghost Stories
Girls Bravo
Gokusen
Golgo 13
Gosyusho sama Ninomiya-kun
GTO
Gundam 00
Gundam Wing
Gurren Lagann
Hajime no Ippo
Hellsing
Hikaru no Go
Ikki Tousen
Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny
Inu Yasha
K-On!
Kanokon
Kare Kano
Kaze no Stigma
Last Exile
Love Hina
Love Hina Again
Mahoromatic
Mai Hime
Mai Otome
Martian Successor Nadesico
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Midori Days
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Nadia -- The Secret of Blue Water
Nana
Nanatsuiro Drops
One Piece
Planetes
Rahxephon
Ranma 1/2
Read or Die OAV
Ruin Explorer
Sailor Moon
Samurai Deeper Kyo
School Days
School Rumble
Shakugan no Shana
Strawberry Panic
Strike Witches
Tenchi Muyo Universe
Third -- the Girl with the Blue Eye
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Toward the Terra
True Tears
Tsukihime
Utawarerumono
Welcome to the NHK
Wolf's Rain
X-Men
Yu Yu Hakusho