Foreign Language Theme: Difference between revisions

 

May overlap with [[Real Song Theme Tune]].

 

== Anime ==

* Both openings of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' are Russian with a little bit of Latin and English thrown in.

* So is the ending of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.

* And the opening of ''[[Ballad of a Shinigami]]''.

* The ending of ''[[Hellsing]]'' is in English, performed by Mr. Big.

* The Japanese version of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' used Duran Duran's "Girls on Film".

* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'''s first ending theme is in English.

* The closing theme to ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' is the full-English "A Rising Tide".

* ''[[Eden of the East]]'''s opening "Falling Down" by the English band Oasis.

 

== Film ==

* The credits theme to ''[[The Matrix]] Revolutions'', "Navras", takes its [[Ominous Chanting|ominous Sanskrit chanting]] lyrics from the [[wikipedia:Upanishad|Upanishads]].

 

* The solo at the opening of each episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' is a Hindu prayer in Sanskrit. The expository text on screen is in English, however (and has nothing to do with the music).

* Norwegian sitcom ''Hos Martin'' uses the fully English title theme "Lord of the Fools"

** A later episode has it in Hindi.

* While viewers of ''[[Journey to the West|Monkey]]'' may not realize it, the opening theme "Monkey Magic" and the rest of the soundtrack was always [[Surprisingly Good English]] in Japan.

 

== Video Games ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEEI_PyqAnY "Dragonborn"], the theme of ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', is in dragon language.

* ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Red Alert 3'' had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGc a title theme] in such [[Large Ham|bombastic, overwrought]] Russian that no one can decipher it. Its expansion, ''Uprising'', had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC0WSu-bqBc a theme] in Japanese instead, about its [[Breakout Character]] Yuriko.

 

== Western Animation ==

* One episode of ''[[Animaniacs]]'' had its opening title sequence entirely in French.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has both an English and a Japanese version of its [[Opening Theme]]. There is some correlation between the language of the opening and the seriousness of the episode; the English version is a basic [[Expository Theme Tune]], whereas the Japanese one is borderline nonsense talking about, among other things, how they obey all traffic rules.

** Though the speed in which the series runs its theme song renders it [[Foreign Sounding Gibberish]]; Hawaiian isn't really compatible with the [[Motor Mouth]] effect.

 

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