[quote name='karsh']Oh, I still think Asterisk is a better song, but it just doesn't fit into Soul Society. WAY too upbeat.[/QUOTE]
It is pretty upbeat, which made it perfectly suited for the beginning of the series. The strange thing was the closing theme was pretty mellow, which kind of threw me for a loop. It was the same for the beginning of Naruto. Upbeat intro, high energy show, but then they closed Akeboshi's "Wind".