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Alternative Foreign Theme Song
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When a dubbing company wants to market a work of media from another country, they'll do the usual stuff like translation and localization. But they've got one problem with it: the theme song. Sometimes when translating the media product, the localizers may opt out of using the original opening and/or ending theme song for their home country. So what do they do about this? Instead of dubbing the original song, they'll replace it with a completely different theme song, of course! Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This usually happens for two reasons. One reason is for marketing purposes. The company may want to replace the song with a different one because they believe it will help make the show more popular with their target audience. This usually results in the tune of the new theme song bringing out very different mood from the original theme song. Another reason for changing the theme song is because the original song is licensed by a singer and they can't use the music. Changing the theme song is common for English dubs of anime series geared towards children, especially if the show is airing on a television network, but it happens outside of North America as well; the practice of having completely different music is arguably even more common in Japan, where there is an entire industry based around creating Anime Theme Songs, and Italy, where it's easier to list the animated series who don't have at least one. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This is also an aversion of The Song Remains the Same, where the original song is kept and left in its initial language, and Translated Cover Version, where the original theme song is dubbed with more-or-less a direct translation of the original lyrics. If the song keeps the same melody of the original, but has radically different lyrics, then it goes under What Song Was This Again?. When the entire soundtrack is replaced, it's a Foreign Re-Score. Not to be confused with Foreign Language Theme, where the original theme is written in another language, or Replaced the Theme Tune, where the show replaces its own theme song with another one. |
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The Korean version of Noonbory and the Super 7 used a unique theme song rather than dubbing the English theme. Some notable differences include it being a "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune, downplaying Title Theme Tunenote it only uses "Tooba Tooba Noonbory" once, whereas the English theme tune uses "Noonbory and the Super 7" six times, and not having any clapping. This is a rare justified example; Noonbory is a Korean propertynote the show itself is an International Coproduction with Canada, and the English version came first, so of course the Korean dub would have a special intro. | |
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AstroLOLogy: While the original version uses a brief instrumental tune for its opening and fortune messages, the Japanese dub adds an extra opening with the song "Hate and Love" by Byua Musume Reloaded and a longer end credits sequence with "Wish Upon a Star" by Akihiro Sakamoto. | |
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The Hungarian dub of several Baby Born ads used an instrumental version of "This Old Man" (AKA Barney & Friends's "I Love You" song) as the theme, as seen here. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf have two examples of this: The Cantonese dub used the Cantonese version of the theme song for the first movie as the theme song for the episodes 101-200 which aired on TVB Jade. The Hindi dub, called Kya Bakra Hai! ("What a Goat!"), features an entirely different theme song with a more Indian feel to it. |
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The English dub of Z-Squad has a very 2000's pop song-sounding theme, which is very different from the original Korean theme, which sounds more action scene-ish. | |
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