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* While in Spain ''TheSimpsons'' normally plays this straight, in the ClipShow of musical scenes, the songs were all dubbed despite originally airing in English.
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* In the English dub of ''Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster,'' the songs the nightclub singer sings are left in Japanese.
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* One episode of ''{{Slayers}} Next'' has Lina and Amelia casting a (completely useless) song by dressing in sailor fuku and doing a song and dance routine. They end up doing it twice, once doing it one line at a time, followed by them actually singing the entire song. In dubbed versions, the first pass is done in the dubbed language, while the second is done in the original Japanese.
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* One episode of ''{{Slayers}} Next'' has Lina and Amelia casting a (completely useless) song by dressing in sailor fuku and doing a song and dance routine. They end up doing it twice, once doing it one line at a time, followed by them actually singing the entire song. In dubbed versions, the first pass is done in the dubbed language, while the second is done in the original Japanese. (The English dub even has Lina declaring [[LampshadeHanging "In Japanese!"]] beforehand.)
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* Operas with lots of dialogue are sometimes performed with the songs in the original language but the dialogue translated. (For example, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHMIV46HI8M this performance]] of ''TheMagicFlute''.) In addition to preventing the inherent problems of translating song lyrics, this helps the audience follow the plot better and makes it easier on the singers, who would be familiar with well-known pieces in their original language rather than various very different singing translations, and who may be able to pronounce a foreign language by rote in a song but not speak the language well in spoken dialogue.
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* Operas with lots of dialogue are sometimes performed with the songs in the original language but the dialogue translated. (For example, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHMIV46HI8M this performance]] of ''TheMagicFlute''.) In addition to preventing the inherent problems of translating song lyrics, this helps the audience follow the plot better and makes it easier on the singers, who would be familiar with well-known pieces in their original language rather than various very different singing translations, and who may be able to pronounce a foreign language by rote in a song but not speak the language well in spoken dialogue.
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* The WarioLand 4 song played in Palm Tree Paradise is kept the same (and has hard to understand Japanese lyrics). The song itself is also in the sound test. Hear it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biti1jHGnXM here]]
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* The ''RuneFactory'' series averts this; the theme songs are translated. It actually sounds like they got the same singer of the Japanese songs to peform the English ones, which unfortunately often makes it difficult to understand the lyrics at all.
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* The main criticism leveled against the Hungarian dub of ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is that the songs, which carry about as much significance as the dialogue, are left in English. What makes this even more bothersome is that the subtitles for the songs on the DVD don't even use the same name translations as the dubbed parts (although the subtitles for the spoken dialogue are the same), thus the movie makes no sense if you watch it on DVD. More fitting and beautifully translated subtitles were only available to go with the movie's television broadcasts.
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* Save for a very, very few Hungarian dubs of western cartoon shows (like ''PhineasAndFerb'' or ''SpongeBobSquarepants''), the songs are always in English. Some shows offer subtitles (''FamilyGuy'', ''TheClevelandShow'', ''SouthPark'' and at times ''TheSimpsons''). Usually, though, we don't get subtitles either.
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* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh!}'' just removed the Japanese song completely, replacing it with mostly instrumentals with limited exclamations.
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* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh!}'' just removed the ''YuGiOh'': The Japanese theme song was removed completely, replacing it replaced with mostly instrumentals with limited exclamations.
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* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh!}'' just removed the Japanese song completely, replacing it with mostly instrumentals with limited exclamations.
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* Usually, songs in the DisneyAnimatedCanon are dubbed in Germay. But ''I'm Still Here'' from TreasurePlanet was neither dubbed nor subbed.
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** The songs for ''FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'' are intersting cases. The English titles are different ("Kaze no Ne/Sigh of the Wind" became "Morning Sky" and "Hoshizukiyo/Moonlit Starry Night" became "Moonless Starry Night." However, the lyrics to the English songs are actually very close to direct translations of the originals.
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** The reason for the KingdomHearts songs having English translations is because singer Utada Hikaru was raised in America and fluent in English. As for FinalFantasyXII and TheWorldEndsWithYou, the singers lived in Japan but attended English speaking schools.
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** The reason for the KingdomHearts songs having English translations is because singer Utada Hikaru was raised in America and fluent in English. The singer for FFXII's theme is half-Japanese, half-American and lived in Hawaii for a number of years. As for FinalFantasyXII and TheWorldEndsWithYou, the singers singer lived in Japan but attended English speaking schools.
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* The theme songs for ''OutlawStar'' weren't translated, except for the two times the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1508RBx2w first ending theme]] is featured being [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JaogJZPag&feature=related sung by Mefina]].
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* ''TenchiMuyo!'' and most of its spinoffs featured English dubbed theme songs.
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** Oddly enough, before they bought the rights to, there was [[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/We_Are#English_Version_-_preview a promotional English version]] of "We Are" (who lyrics are somewhat more, well, pirate-y than the original) who's origins are unknown.
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** Oddly enough, before they bought the rights to, there was [[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/We_Are#English_Version_-_preview a promotional English version]] of "We Are" (who lyrics are somewhat more, well, pirate-y than the original) who's whose origins are unknown.
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* Also done in ''NerimaDaikonBrothers'', dubbed by ADVFilms, because the whole series is a musical and it wouldn't have made sense ''not'' to translate the songs, theme included.
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* Also done Averted in ''NerimaDaikonBrothers'', dubbed by ADVFilms, because the whole series is a musical and it wouldn't have made sense ''not'' to translate the songs, theme included.included.
** The one exception is the Prime Minister's theme, which plays in the background when he first appears. The song was only included in the BGM track ADV received, so they couldn't remove the Japanese vocals.
** The one exception is the Prime Minister's theme, which plays in the background when he first appears. The song was only included in the BGM track ADV received, so they couldn't remove the Japanese vocals.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ke1-Hl4cA4 A dubbed one was soon released ]].
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*After spirited discourse in German, Captain Jean-Luc Picard suddenly launches into "A British Tar" with a very British accent in the German dub of Star Trek: Insurrection. The abrupt change is made all the more noticeable by Commander Worf's sudden glance over at the now-singing captain.
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* Played straight in the North American dub of ''InuYasha''. The ''Latin'' American dub, however, has some of the openings translated into, and sung in, laughably bad english. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Cvy9xaj7g The first opening, for example.]] And that's probably the best one.
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* The Spanish dub of {{Naruto}} has a rare exaggeration of this, in that not only they leave the original songs, but add subtitles.... in Japanese. With no Spanish subtitles. [[SarcasmMode That sure is useful]].
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* The Spanish dub of {{Naruto}} has a rare exaggeration of this, in that not only they leave the original songs, but add subtitles.... in Japanese. With no Spanish subtitles. [[SarcasmMode That sure is useful]].useful]].
* The latin american dub of some songs are changed but keep the same meaning as the song, and came out very good ([[YourMileageMayVary or at least I think so]]) Like this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgvvFoQaWEU Op]] from CardCaptorSakura
* The latin american dub of some songs are changed but keep the same meaning as the song, and came out very good ([[YourMileageMayVary or at least I think so]]) Like this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgvvFoQaWEU Op]] from CardCaptorSakura
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** The reason for the KingdomHearts songs having English translations is because singer Utada Hikaru was raised in America and fluent in English. As for FinalFantasyXII and TheWorldEndsWithYou, the singers lived in Japan but attended English speaking schools.
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** Although they have been doing that less and less in recent years. For example, FinalFantasy: DirgeOfCerberus' theme songs "Longing" and "Redemption" (sung by Japanese rock-star {{Gackt}}) remained in Japanese.
** Also, AdventChildren's theme song "Calling" remained Japanese. So did CrisisCore's theme song, "Why".
** Also, AdventChildren's theme song "Calling" remained Japanese. So did CrisisCore's theme song, "Why".
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* The Spanish dub of {{Naruto}} has a rare exaggeration of this, in that not only they leave the original songs, but add subtitles.... in Japanese. With no Spanish subtitles. [[SarcasmMode That sure is useful]].
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* SquareEnix loves averting this. The result is often songs which possess the same melody as the Japanese version but different lyrics. Such as Simple and Clean in Game/KingdomHearts, Sanctuary in KingdomHeartsII, and the majority of TheWorldEndsWithYou soundtrack.
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* SquareEnix loves averting this. The result is often songs which possess the same melody as the Japanese version but different lyrics. Such as Simple and Clean in Game/KingdomHearts, VideoGame/KingdomHearts, Sanctuary in KingdomHeartsII, and the majority of TheWorldEndsWithYou soundtrack.
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* The Finnish dub of ''HappyFeet'' didn't have the songs dubbed but subbed. Usually the songs are also translated in Finland, but propably the company translating Happy Feet couldn't afford to organize translating the songs.
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* The Finnish dub of ''HappyFeet'' didn't have the songs dubbed but subbed. Usually the songs are also translated in Finland, but propably probably the company translating Happy Feet couldn't afford to organize translating the songs.
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*SquareEnix loves averting this. The result is often songs which possess the same melody as the Japanese version but different lyrics. Such as Simple and Clean in Game/KingdomHearts, Sanctuary in KingdomHeartsII, and the majority of TheWorldEndsWithYou soundtrack.
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* The Finnish dub of ''HappyFeet'' didn't have the songs dubbed but subbed. Usually the songs are also translated in Finland, but propably the company translating Happy Feet couldn't afford to organize translating the songs.
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** Except for Chiisaki Mono, the ending theme of PokemonJirachiWishmaker, which was kept as-is in the English version. Or rather, it was half-kept: it starts with a [[SoOkayItsAverage somewhat-average]] translation of the lyrics, fitting the original tune, but then abruptly cuts to the Japanese version halfway through. The full Japanese version is available as a bonus feature on the DVD.
