History OminousLatinChanting / AnimeAndManga

** In the ''[[Anime/SunnySideBattle Sunny-Side Battle!]]'' OVA, an ominous choir can be heard as Itachi starts [[MadnessMantra chanting incoherently]] the instructions to make and egg.

* ''[[Anime/GiantRoboTheDayTheEarthStoodStill Giant Robo: The Animation]]'' not only features ''Dies Irae'' as background music for TheReveal of the BigBad's secret weapon, but it also has Ominous Opera Singing: the leitmotif for the various [[TheRashomon and varying]] flashbacks to the "Tragedy of Bashtalle" is an arrangement of "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from the opera ''L'elisir d'amore''.

* Another example of Badass Latin Chanting is ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' which likes to mix chanting and ''techno music'' when a serious fight is going on; quite suitably as the series is about a cold war between science and magic/religion but ''damn'' if it's not plain awesome. Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYk0mbRw3aE Tsuki Genten,]] first played when Touma faces off with and beats the crap out of Biaggio who's a ''bishop''. Quite an ironic choice of music...

* The ''LightNovel/FateZero'' soundtrack also has many tracks with Latin chanting like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_rYMvCSU7c Point Zero]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2-ELFiPY8Q The battle of the Strong]]. It has even been used for the revised version of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XxTGX5OnM The Sword of Promised Victory,]]'' [[spoiler:also known to many as Saber's ThemeMusicPowerUp.]]

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

* ''LightNovel/ModernMagicMadeSimple'' has this as background music whenever a fight or something juicy is going on.

-->Far in the distance / is cast a shadow,
-->symbol of our freedom, / will bring us salvation.
-->On the horizon, / hope for tomorrow,
-->sweeping across the land / [[AssimilationPlot to give us unity.]]
-->Look to the heavens / with tears of triumph
-->to cherish a new life / and suffer not again.
-->[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Lift up our spirits / from all destruction.]]
-->[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Never shall we return. / From conflict we must learn.]]

* ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'' features ominous German chanting "Töten Sie sie!" ("kill them") whenever the main character activates his Lantern.

** TheMovie of the fourth novel, ''Disappearance'', turns this on soon after a minute or two of QuieterThanSilence (the conflict itself seemed over anyway), when [[spoiler:[[KnifeNut Asakura]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabs Kyon in the waist.]]]] Listen to "Rikishi no Tenkan Ten" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yb7RfwXhxs here]].

** Starting with ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', all of Frieza's {{Leitmotif}}s have this, as befitting of an epic cosmic emperor. There is his ''Kai'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCn_q04qBk theme song]], his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ZDwUXi8h4 resurrection]] theme song in ''Super'', and his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXOFwKDXgs Golden Frieza theme]].

* Shinn Asuka's personal battle theme in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', "Dark Energy", uses this trope; before fans knew the real name, they [[FanNickname called it]] "the Evil Monk Chorus Song". Contrast with Kira Yamato's theme, which uses the OneWomanWail.

* The eighth episode of ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'' launches into a remix of the Weather Trio's theme when Archie awakens Kyogre, with the chanting kicking in when it finishes breaking out of its stone shell. Considering [[ApocalypseWow what happens next]], it is entirely appropriate.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has the unusual variation of ''Badass'' Latin Chanting. [[spoiler:Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'s theme music is a OneWomanWail version of ''Libera Me'' mixed with the HotBlooded rap song that was earlier used as Kamina's theme in the RecapEpisode and they together are called ''Libera Me From Hell''.

* Lots of Kenji Kawai soundtracks feature Ominous Japanese Chanting, most notably in his soundtracks for ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' and ''GITS: Innocence''. And also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ow4tGgZWk "Torukia"]] from ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''.

* Another example of Badass Latin Chanting is ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' which likes to mix chanting and ''techno music'' when a serious fight is going on; quite suitably as the series is about a cold war between science and magic/religion but ''damn'' if it's not CrazyAwesome. Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYk0mbRw3aE Tsuki Genten,]] first played when Touma faces off with and beats the crap out of Biaggio who's a ''bishop''. Quite an ironic choice of music...

* The ''Manga/{{Berserk}} Golden Age Films'' have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LkDfQEFwrs Sounds of Tortured Souls]] as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPP8qTCT1k Blood and Guts]] and there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xf1xYpBQjw this music from the third film.]]

* The opening theme for ''Manga/ElfenLied'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaV6eDvgiG4 "Lilium"]] is Latin with Greek touches, done in a Gregorian chant style. It sets the tone for the anime, which is similarly bleak, sombre, and spooky. The theme is a OneWomanWail, but the song also appears in other scenes, such as next episode previews, sung by a male voice choir that sounds more Gregorian. There is a ThemeTuneCameo in the form of a music box, giving it yet another different sound.

** Half of the ''Anime/MaiOtome'' soundtrack consists of Latin-sounding [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]] chanting (by an all-female choir), mostly during tense, dramatic moments -- and the MagicalGirl TransformationSequence. This also shows up in ''Anime/MyHime'', particularly in ''Mezame'' and its various rearrangements/remixes.

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* ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' uses it to great effect in episode 6 when Gai [[DeathGlare glares down]] ''a deorbited KillSat [[ColonyDrop about to land on his head]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RlTC1LfARU And it's]] '''[[Awesome/GuiltyCrown awesome]]'''.

* The ''Manga/WanganMidnight'' anime has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGsSijjJtc Voices of S30Z]]'' the theme song of the the ominously named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Devil Z]], fitting since the car is not only the fastest on Tokyo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGsSijjJtc Wangan-sen]], but also one of the dealiest to it's drivers (all previous owners had died in crashes, yet the car survives and continues to run). Later on, the song gets used for every major high powered car in the series.

* The Manga/{{Berserk}} Golden Age Films have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LkDfQEFwrs Sounds of Tortured Souls]] as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPP8qTCT1k Blood and Guts]] and there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xf1xYpBQjw this music from the third film.]]

* ''Anime/MyHime'':
** Half of the ''Anime/MaiOtome'' soundtrack consists of Latin-sounding [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]] chanting (by an all-female choir), mostly during tense, dramatic moments -- and the MagicalGirl TransformationSequence. This also shows up in ''Mai-[=HiME=]'', particularly in ''Mezame'' and its various rearrangements/remixes.
** The [=PS2=]/PC game for ''Mai-[=HiME=]'' has one track ("Fortuna" by Yousei Teikoku) that comes surprisingly close to averting this, though -- its lyrics are mainly a smattering of quotes from classical Latin writers, particularly Virgil and Seneca, with classical rather than ecclesiastical pronunciation to boot. Taken as a whole it still doesn't make a lot of sense, but each individual line is perfectly legitimate Latin.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''

* The intro to the ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' anime is rife with ominous ''Italian'' chanting, though this is more of a trademark of the singer Music/AkikoShikata's style. While likely unintentional, the song's name, "One-Winged Bird" (which is a reference to the crest of the main family in the series, the Ushiromiyas), immediately bring to mind a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII certain other]] famous Latin-chanting theme of ominousness. From the visual novel, one of the game's soundtracks, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M--LGs1-Oyg sy]], does have ominous Latin chanting. The phrase is "Dominus mā in dictorē astent in dictorum" (my God stands against the speaker in declaration). There is actually a few Latin words interjected in the Italian chanson.
* The intros to ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' feature ominous ''backwards Japanese'' chanting.

* ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'' features ominous German chanting "Töten Sie sie!" ("kill them") whenever the main character activates his Lantern.
* "Grain," the opening theme of ''Manga/{{Monster}}''.
* A staple of the ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'' soundtrack, particularly when Shadow Angels are involved.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** Throughout the Creator/RonWasserman soundtrack for ''Anime/DragonBallZ''[='s=] original dub, there are various gregorian-like synthesized chanting sounds. They appear quite frequently, and helped give the show's first two seasons a very sinister, almost otherworldly feel. An example of this type of music would be the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNeK0iuBgCU&t=2m25s track]] that plays at the height of Goku and Vegeta's beam struggle.
** Starting with ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', all of Frieza's {{Leitmotif}}s have this, as befitting of an epic cosmic emperor. There is his ''Kai'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCn_q04qBk theme song]], his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ZDwUXi8h4 resurrection]] theme song in ''Super'', and his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXOFwKDXgs Golden Frieza theme]].
** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Beerus' more frightening moments are accompanied by a track called "Beerus Madness", which contains a low chanting.
* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWU1iP2fIuE Beautiful Wings of Light]], the theme of Soldat J, which plays during several of his [[=CMoAs=]], including his introduction and [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]].
* Happens on ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi'', sung by a choir of children during the [[BigGood Pope's]] introductory SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: "Fiat Lux!" "Dixitque Deus!". Coincidentally, a different "Fiat Lux" is used in the ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' OVA. Given what is happening while she sings, and knowing the context behind both the song and her ability to perform it, crosses over into TearJerker territory. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75tydbYWhOY Fiat Lux.]]
* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'', while being a ''manga'' series still fits the trope, as the Den's attack on the Scrapyard in the end of the original series is set to the lyrics of "O Fortuna".

* ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' makes heavy use of Ominous Latin Chanting, mostly in the bombastic themes relating to the hellish dimension [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8Jo371oWM Shangri La]].
* ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica]]'' has some Ominous Latin Chanting, to make sure the titles are also in Latin, with a mix of Italian and Japanese, all collectively referred to as "Kajiuran" after the score's composer, Music/YukiKajiura. One is Mami's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-cETV8xYQ transformation scene]], Sayaka's and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6sxcug8nBc other...]] Well the title says all.
** It also has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBlj0IyB3pk Absolute Configuration]], manages to combine both this trope and ThePowerOfRock.
* ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZH6aKq9w9o Okoreru Kyousenshi/An Angered Berseker]]. "''DIES IRAE, DIES ILLA, SOLVET SAECLUM IN FAVILLA!''"
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' features quite a bit of strange, baroque music, but saves its Latin chanting for when the villain of the Black Rose Saga is [[MoreThanMindControl recruiting]].
* There is some on the ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'' [=OVA=] soundtrack mixing up the Sanctus and some other GratuitousLatin.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' parodies this; ominous Latin chanting comes up whenever Angol Moa uses her Armageddon Attack (even at one one-trillionth power).
** The "one-trillionth power" at least, is justified, as Moa's [[EarthShatteringKaboom Armageddon Attack]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. So at one-trillionth power, it "only" creates a crater the size of a house, instead of, say, cracking the entire planet Earth open like an egg.
* ''Manga/TegamiBachi'' occasionally uses a music cue that resembles it.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has the unusual variation of ''Badass'' Latin Chanting. [[spoiler:Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'s theme music is a OneWomanWail version of ''Libera Me'' mixed with the HotBlooded rap song that was earlier used as Kamina's theme in the RecapEpisode and they together are called ''Libera Me From Hell''.
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' has not quite so Ominous chanting during the Christmas episode where [[spoiler: Kish]] finally realizes that Ichigo will never be by his side.
* Many themes from ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', although the chanting isn't actually in Latin. The language is Kajiurago ([[http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/about-kajiurago/ see here]]).
* The primary battle theme from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' is the imposing, "O Fortuna"-inspired "Dance of Curse". At around the halfway mark, "Dance of the Curse" finds itself supplanted by the ''even more'' ominous and imposing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejyBcX_gUNQ Epistle]]" as the primary battle theme. The fact that this is around the point where [[WarIsHell the battles get increasingly hellish and violent]] is probably not coincidence.

* ''LightNovel/ModernMagicMadeSimple'' has this as background music whenever a fight or something juicy is going on.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh''

* The chanting in "XL-TT", "Manga/AttackOnTitan'' 's go-to 'oh god we're screwed now' track, may not be in Latin, but it's certainly ominous.
* The eighth episode of ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'' launches into a remix of the Weather Trio's theme when Archie awakens Kyogre, with the chanting kicking in when it finishes breaking out of its stone shell. Considering [[ApocalypseWow what happens next]], it is entirely appropriate.
* ''Manga/MariaTheVirginWitch'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WR-VzAamJg Les serments de Chastet]]", a techno metal piece played as the shie witch Dorothy saves Maria from being burned by the church. It somewhat clashes with the orchestral tone the rest of the the soundtrack uses, but it only [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome serves to make the scene more awesome]].
* ''Anime/StarDriver'' features this in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gMBtM7f6A&list=PLoJKznoRFgcdj5qBvSuTm_iTsrJ0QnoVI&index=8 Emperor]]". Appropriately enough, this is basically the theme for Samekh, the giant King Cybody which upon being freed from Zero Time [[spoiler:will absorb all Libido on planet Earth and thus kill every living being]]. There is also "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_olXWbAToc0&index=11&list=PLoJKznoRFgcdj5qBvSuTm_iTsrJ0QnoVI Libido]]", reserved for intense fight scenes.
* ''Anime/AikatsuStars'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ZdMLQWfKM Dreaming Bird]] which uses the "ooh", "aah", "ooo" variant, mixed with EtherealChoir.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''
** What little we saw of the Negi vs. [[spoiler:Chao Lingshen]] battle in the ''Mahou Sensei Negima ~Ala Alba~'' OAD was accompanied with this.
** ''Negima'' runs on this; nearly all the spells are activated by an incantation in either Latin or Ancient Greek. Supplementary materials usually give the translations of these incantations, and they actually manage to retain some ominousness even in English/Japanese.
* ''Anime/MaiHime'':
** Half of the ''Anime/MaiOtome'' soundtrack consists of Latin-sounding [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]] chanting (by an all-female choir), mostly during tense, dramatic moments -- and the MagicalGirl TransformationSequence. This also shows up in ''Mai-[=HiME=]'', particularly in ''Mezame'' and its various rearrangements/remixes.
** The [=PS2=]/PC game for ''Mai-[=HiME=]'' has one track ("Fortuna" by Yousei Teikoku) that comes surprisingly close to averting this, though -- its lyrics are mainly a smattering of quotes from classical Latin writers, particularly Virgil and Seneca, with classical rather than ecclesiastical pronunciation to boot. Taken as a whole it still doesn't make a lot of sense, but each individual line is perfectly legitimate Latin.

* ''LightNovel/YokuWakaruGendaiMahou'' has this as background music whenever a fight or something juicy is going on.

* ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'', while being a ''manga'' series still fits the trope, as the Den's attack on the Scrapyard in the end of the original series is set to the lyrics of "O Fortuna".

* The Manga/{{Berserk}} Golden Age Films have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LkDfQEFwrs&feature=player_embedded Sounds of Tortured Souls]] as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvPP8qTCT1k&feature=player_embedded Blood and Guts]] and there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xf1xYpBQjw this music from the third film.]]

** Episode 226 ended with "Stand Up Be Strong (Part 1)," which features Ominous English Chanting, during Ichigo's second fight with Ulquiorra. There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDoBJkaRfX8&feature=related "Invasion,"]] which plays when Mayuri releases his bankai against Szayelaporro.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** Throughout the Creator/RonWasserman soundtrack for Dragon Ball Z's original dub, there are various gregorian-like synthesized chanting sounds. They appear quite frequently, and helped give the show's first two seasons a very sinister, almost otherworldly feel. An example of this type of music would be the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNeK0iuBgCU&t=2m25s track]] that plays at the height of Goku and Vegeta's beam struggle.
** Starting with ''[[Manga/DragonBall Dragon Ball Kai]]'' all of Frieza's [[LeifMotif Leif Motifs]] have this, as befitting of an epic cosmic emperor. There is his ''Kai'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCn_q04qBk theme song]], his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ZDwUXi8h4 resurrection]] theme song in ''Super'', and his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXOFwKDXgs Golden Frieza theme]].

* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWU1iP2fIuE&feature=related Beautiful Wings of Light]], the theme of Soldat J, which plays during several of his [[=CMoAs=]], including his introduction and [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]].

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' : [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_439qLQzHs Lapis Philosphorum.]] The first episode of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'' starts up the chanting when Frost Alchemist Isaac [=MacDougal=] figures out that Ed and Al attempted human transmutation and ends soon after the Führer [[CleanCut slices him up into chunks]]. Specifically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtX1vKM0q_Y "Lapis Philosophorum."]] There's also Latin singing in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2kwie-gs2o "Trisha's Lullaby,"]] but it's more nostalgic than ominous.

* There is some on the ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'' [=OVA=] soundtrack mixing up the Sanctus and some other [[AltumVidetur gratuitous Latin]].