History LyricalDissonance / Anime

--->'''Ryuko'': "Hey, when she's on a roll, no one can make her stop."

* The [[MoodDissonance relentlessly cheery opening]] to ''Manga/{{Narutaru}}'', "Nichiyoubi no Taiyou" (the Sun of Sunday) has lyrics about someone sitting in a park waiting for someone who will never show up, with the implication that the other person is dead and the singer is deluding himself into thinking otherwise. This, of course, means that the lyrics fit the actual content of the series much closer than the music.

** From the same creator ''Anime/DaiMahouTouge'' has Punie singing about her ideals of life. The fact that her incantation says "Kill them all" should tell you something isn’t right with her.

* Many people are familiar with the song ''Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari'' from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', especially with the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]] moment where Senjougahara points out Altair, Vega and Deneve to Araragi, seemingly taken from the song. However, the whole song is about the singer lamenting their lost chance at love in the past, in spite of the upbeat and catchy tune.

-->''Just like the night after a festival,''
-->''Only loneliness awaits''

* The iconic opening to ''[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Fist Of The North Star]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-POzIrRh0c Ai Wo Torimodose]]'', is often seen by many to be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, and rightfully so. The music behind it is reported by many to make anyone feel better about themselves and also feel courageous. A closer look into the lyrics reveals that it is actually a ''love song''! When translated into English, ''Ai Wo Torimodose'' comes out as "Bring back my love!".

** The {{DVD}}/Blu-ray ending of the first two episodes (sung by Madoka's [[Creator/AoiYuuki seiyuu]]) has an even more cheerful melody with a very sweet singing voice, but the lyrics are even sadder than the opening's.

* ''LightNovel/R15'' has one eyebrow-raising song: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLPuRnsR84 Kannou no Eden]] with majestic melody and LEWD (as in erotic) lyrics. Expected though, as the canonic lyricist is young porn writer.

** In Gundam SEED Destiny, we also have Fields of Hope, song by Lacus Clyne, while some ZAFT-pilots are busy executing a Colony Drop, while the rest of ZAFT's forces are trying to prevent it.
** Gundam 00 has Tomorrow, a very beautiful song by Ayumi Tsunematsu, who voices Marina Ismail, who in turn is shown to write and sing the song, along with some kids. Both in episode 14 and in the final battle between Exia and 0 Gundam, piloted by Setsuna and Ribbons respectively, the song plays in the background. Episode 14 even uses it as its ending, while Setsuna and Ali fight. Both times, it also makes the battles that much more awesome, thus turning them into Crowning Moments of Awesome Heartwarming.
*** That's true. Just try watching the final battle between Exia and 0 Gundam without sound, and then with sound, and you will notice that it becomes a hundred times more epic with Tomorrow playing. The sound effects don't even make that much of an impact, considering that most viewers can make the sound effects in their heads.
*** Not to mention the fact that it even plays on the radio in 2314, while the ELS are busy attacking the Earth Sphere Federation.

-->[[EarWorm It all returns to nothing,
-->it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.
-->It all returns to nothing,
-->I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down.]]

-->it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.
-->It all returns to nothing,
-->I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down.

* The lyrics formerly in the trope entry are a real song: "Komm, süsser Tod" (in German, "Come, Sweet Death"), from the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' soundtrack. And yes, it's every bit as disturbing as you'd think -- appropriate, given the series, and when the song is played: [[spoiler: during the Third Impact[=/=]Instrumentality sequence in ''Evangelion.'']] Doubly ironic, the film synchs the line, "my world is ending" with [[spoiler: apocalyptic imagery of the TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, in the literal sense of the words.]] And all of this deep commentary and lyrics based around giving up and '[[DrivenToSuicide leave(ing) forever]]' are set to a bright and upbeat piece played with a grand piano, an acoustic guitar, and a percussive organ. The song begins to sound [[SanitySlippageSong insidiously convoluted near the end]], like an LSD trip or an exorcism...or both, culminating in the voices of thousands of people.
** The worst part is, perhaps, that it's such a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to "Hey Jude" by Music/TheBeatles, but the lyrics sound more like "Crawling" by Music/LinkinPark.

* ''LightNovel/R-15'' has one eyebrow-raising song: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLPuRnsR84 Kannou no Eden]] with majestic melody and LEWD (as in erotic) lyrics. Expected though, as the canonic lyricist is young porn writer.

** The worst part is, perhaps, that it's such a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to "Hey Jude", a song that is its polar opposite in mood.

* ''[[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'' has for it's ending a song set to a peppy tune that is easy to get into, however ''[[http://suisei.kokidokom.net/2012/02/01/claris-naisho-no-hanashi-lyrics-translation/ the lyrics]]'' are about a girl who wants her crush to notice her when she has been with him for a long time and he only considers her a friend. That's right, and [=ClariS=], the singers who gave us the {{Tsundere}} anthem in ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'', have teamed up with {{supercell}} to give us the ballad of the UnluckyChildhoodFriend.

* In ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', as Mugen is drowning in Part 2 of "Misguided Miscreants", we get this depressingly beautiful "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvQb6wqu2A Obokuri Eeumi (Obtain Our Bearings)]]" by Ikue Asazaki, about a woman who is building a house in the search for land while being barely dressed... and yet she feels like she is stalked. Here's the translation of the lyrics shown below:
-->''In search of new lands,''\\
''I build a new house.''\\
''I thatch the house with reed stalks''\\
''Gathered neatly in bundles.''\\
\\
''At the stone wall''\\
''Let us celebrate the golden house''\\
''That was built''\\
''By a hundred carpenters.''\\
\\
''The eighth month is fast approaching''\\
''And yet I have nothing to wear.''\\
''I want to dress up, so brother,''\\
''Will you lend me just one sleeve?''\\
''I wish to dress my children and loved ones''\\
''In the one kimono that I own.''\\
''As for me, I will wear vines''\\
''That I plucked deep in the mountains.''\\
\\
''The light of the full moon shines down,''\\
''Illuminating the world with its divine light.''\\
''When my lover sneaks in to visit me,''\\
''I wish that the clouds would hide that light just a little.''

** The song also shares it's name with the Music/JohannSebastianBach song, which is about a man [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komm,_s%C3%BC%C3%9Fer_Tod,_komm_selge_Ruh seemingly praying for the peace of Death]] as he is tired of a cruel "torture chamber" of a world, and want's nothing more than to see Jesus and stand amongst the angels. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial This is NOT]] [[RuleOfSymbolism in any way]] [[FauxSymbolism symbolic]].

* The lyrics formerly in the trope entry are a real song: "Komm, süsser Tod" (in German, "Come, Sweet Death"), from the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' soundtrack. And yes, it's every bit as disturbing as you'd think -- appropriate, given the series, and when the song is played: [[spoiler: during the Third Impact[=/=]Instrumentality sequence in ''Evangelion.'']] Doubly ironic, the film synchs the line, "my world is ending" with [[spoiler: apocalyptic imagery of the TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, in the literal sense of the words.]] And all of this deep commentary and lyrics based around giving up and '[[DrivenToSuicide leave(ing) forever]]' are set to a bright and upbeat piece played with a grand piano, an acoustic guitar, and a percussive organ. The song begins to sound [[SanitySlippageSong insidiously convoluted near the end]], like an LSD trip or an exorcism...or both.

* The song [[http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/hunterxhunter/inori.htm "Inori"]] ("prayer"), a character song from ''HunterXHunter'', sounds cheerful and even triumphant...but if you read the translation of the lyrics--well, it ''starts'' with "A smile stolen from the eyes I watched / That distant night when blood was shed...". And the refrain's mention of "bringing home the flame-colored eyes" is a lot [[{{Squick}} squickier]] if you know from the anime that [[spoiler: said eyes are [[BodyHorror entirely literal.]]]] Oh, and the the prayer from the the title? That he'd never stop being angry.

* The song [[http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/hunterxhunter/inori.htm "Inori"]] ("prayer"), a character song from the anime HunterXHunter, sounds cheerful and even triumphant...but if you read the translation of the lyrics--well, it ''starts'' with "A smile stolen from the eyes I watched / That distant night when blood was shed...". And the refrain's mention of "bringing home the flame-colored eyes" is a lot [[{{Squick}} squickier]] if you know from the anime that [[spoiler: said eyes are [[BodyHorror entirely literal.]]]] Oh, and the the prayer from the the title? That he'd never stop being angry.

* The iconic opening to ''[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar FistOfTheNorthStar]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-POzIrRh0c Ai Wo Torimodose]]'', is often seen by many to be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, and rightfully so. The music behind it is reported by many to make anyone feel better about themselves and also feel courageous. A closer look into the lyrics reveals that it is actually a ''love song''! When translated into English, ''Ai Wo Torimodose'' comes out as "Bring back my love!".

* The lyrics formerly in the trope entry are a real song: "Komm, süsser Tod" (in German, "Come, Sweet Death"), from the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' soundtrack. And yes, it's every bit as disturbing as you'd think -- appropriate, given the series, and when the song is played: [[spoiler: during the Third Impact[=/=]Instrumentality sequence in ''Evangelion.'']] Doubly ironic, the film synchs the line, "my world is ending" with [[spoiler: apocalyptic imagery of the TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, in the literal sense of the words.]] At least the song begins to sound [[SanitySlippageSong insidiously convoluted near the end]], like an LSD trip or an exorcism...or both.

** Sailor Jupiter's ImageSong from ''Anime/SailorMoon R'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD5CBrOwkq0 is pretty catchy]] and sounds like another fun song on the soundtrack. [[http://sailormusic.net/lyrics/Wasureru_tame.html Check out the lyrics.]]