Future Funk Songs That Sound Like Anime Openings

Future Funk Songs That Sound Like Anime Openings

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• The opening theme of Laid-Back Camp (Yurucamp), "SHINY DAYS!! Atarashii kaze!" is very like to The Jackson 5's I Desire You Back and ABC, and the internet didn't pass up on the opportunity.
• Mazinkaiser 's opening theme, Burn Wars by JAM Project sounds very much like Bon Jovi'southward Y'all Give Love a Bad Proper noun .
  • Someone even put the latter to the intro and it suprisingly synchs up very well with the blitheness.
• "Tension" music from Slayers . "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. ane" by Rex Ruby-red. Yous may find a slight similarity.
  • "Beginning", from Mobile Suit Gundam Iii sounds very like to Blood-red's Prince Rupert Awakes. Observe .
• From 1974's Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) , No One's Happier Than I sounds eerily similar to the Carpenters' Meridian Of The World
• "Uprising " sung by the English rock band Muse takes its inspiration from the song Pray For Yous sung by Cindy Wood from the Opening of the 1983 anime film Golgo xiii .
• The lyrics of the vocal "Golgo thirteen and I " sung past Cindy Wood from the 1983 anime film Golgo 13 sounds closely familiar to the 1970 spaghetti western Opening theme of Indio Black/Adios Sabata composed past Bruno Nicolai.
• Orochimaru'south theme in Naruto borrows part of its tune from Bach'southward Toccata and Fugue in D small.
• Bomberman Jetters : Mujoe's theme sounds more than like a Shout-Out to the Seinfeld theme , as it uses ALL the instruments and organization of the infamous theme, but with just fiddling changes on some notes.
• The theme "Nunnally" from Code Geass uses the same melody, same lead instrument, Aforementioned KEY, and a similar chord progression to the chief theme from an obscure Ennio Morricone-scored film, Malena. Hear for yourself.
• For whatever reason, Gojou Shioji from Excel Saga appears to have "Another One Bites the Dust" as his theme song, with a few courtesy notes thrown in.
  • The second episode uses a parody of Metallica'due south "Lamentable but Truthful."
  • The track "Ikamino Gekiban" sounds similar the theme song from The Simpsons for some reason.
• Nandemo Q was a children's television prove which aired on NHK between 1995 and 2004 that featured educational Suspiciously Similar Songs of popular western songs that often featured Pun Based Titles such as "Hotaru California ".
• Full Metal Panic! : "Tokkou Yarou" , a background theme used in that series is incredibly similar to the theme from The A-Team . The championship is really "Tokkou Yarou?" / 「特攻野郎？」(yeah, with question mark) which means something along the lines of "Gung-ho guys". Lampshaded with a cameo equally a cellphone ring tone and someone says information technology sounds like an old American TV evidence (which indeed was called Tokkou Yarou A-Chiimu when broadcast in Nippon).
• Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation has an end credits theme that has a soundalike of Brian Culbertson's "Colors of Love", entitled "Neptune Sagashite" past Afilia Saga.
• One of Shirou Sagisu's pieces ("Decisive Boxing ") for Neon Genesis Evangelion is suspiciously similar to a John Barry composition, "007" , used in From Russia with Honey .
• In what can only exist chosen a hilarious example of Follow the Leader , RahXephon has The Chariot , aka Ayato's impale music, which is a hybrid of "Decisive Battle" with "The Brute 2" (the theme of berserk Eva-01). Since "Decisive Battle" already sounds suspiciously similar to "007" above, this turns it doubly suspicious.
• The Italian version of Mermaid Tune Pichi Pichi Pitch , which composed all-new songs, made many of them sound suspiciously like the songs they were replacing. Endeavor comparing Assoluto Affection , Sara'south Villain Song, with its original, Return to the Sea , and come across what nosotros mean.
• One episode of Gintama has a Suspiciously Like Vocal to the Rocky theme . This gets lampshaded by Gintoki and Kagura.
  • Speaking of Rocky, the boxing OVA Bewitching Nozomi'' featured a Suspiciously Like Song to "Eye of the Tiger".
  • Another Suspiciously Similar Song of the aforementioned often accompanied the Acquit'southward advent in Gakuen.
  • In Gintama, at that place's likewise a Supiciously Similar Song of Fist of the Due north Star 'south Ai wo Torimodose. Hilariously, the song lyrics only consist of the parts of "You Wa Stupor" inverse into "I Am Shock".
  • Gintama's Dragon Ball parody ep introduced the song "Dondake" (basically a Japanese "WTF?"), a Suspiciously Similar Song to Hironobu Kageyama'due south Dragon Ball themes.
• Soul Eater occasionally uses a music piece that sounds like that damn Milkshake song.
  • And one that sounds oddly like the opening to "Gimme Shelter".
• The Due south Cryed theme "Reckless Fire" sounds slightly similar to Ricky Martin's "She Bangs".
• Air Gear was inspired past the Jet Set Radio series, and has several groundwork songs that are soundalikes to the music used in those games. Compare: Not Hummin' But Vibin' (Air Gear) vs. Hummin' The Bassline (Jet Set Radio); Heaven 2 High (Air Gear) vs. Wing Like A Butterfly (Jet Set Radio Future).
• The Training Montage in the first episode of GunBuster uses a musical cue substantially ripped off from Vangelis' theme from Chariots of Fire . So much then, in fact, that Studio Gainax ordered the US distributors to supplant the music in the N American re-release.
  • Public Domain Example: The last episode uses a clearly-synthesised piece of music that sounds suspiciously similar to the Hallelujah chorus. Considering that the original song would later turn up in Neon Genesis Evangelion , this example'due south rather perplexing.
• In an earlier instance of ripping off Vangelis, the music from the first scene in the original Bubblegum Crisis OVAs is suspiciously similar to the opening theme from Blade Runner .
• The opening theme to The Big O sounds suspiciously like Queen'due south "Flash Gordon". This one was also replaced for the U.s. DVD re-outcome, although not from Developed Swim. The full version also contains a tiny hint of "Maverick Rhapsody"; information technology appears the artist is a major Queen fan.
• Battle Developer Shirase 's opening melody bears an uncanny resemblance to, you guessed it, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna give Y'all Up".
• Kogarashi's Theme from Kamen no Maid Guy is suspiciously similar to the Pirates of the Caribbean theme (or a pastiche thereof). This doesn't preclude information technology from being awesome.
• An Imagine Spot in Lucky Star of a trip to the dentist as a Super Robot show is accompanied by a brief Suspiciously Like Vocal to the Gunbuster theme "Active Centre".
  • "Yuuchou Sentai Dararenja" has a part that sound suspiciously similar a remix of Snake Man'due south theme from Mega Man 3 , and "Ore no Wasuremono" is reminiscent of Tempest Eagle's theme from Mega Homo X
  • The repeated use of an near-only-not-quite "Gunbuster March" cue.
  • And the 1942 beat used a few times... And 24, and... A lot of others.
  • Gravity past MOEV sounds very much like Noizy Tribe by one thousand.o.5.east. Fitting, since it'south played during the Initial D parody.
• The music from Mr. Lonely Chaser, theme song for the Transforming Mecha show Super High Speed Galvion sounds suspiciously similar to Michael Jackson's "Trounce It". The lyrics, still are something else altogether.
• One of the riffs from CLANNAD 'south Dango Daikazoku / Chiisana Te No Hira -- Rock Version sounds like "Oh Come All Ye True-blue".
• Viral'due south Leitmotif Nikopol sounds a lot like Linkin Park's Points of Authorization , minus the rap $.25.
• It'southward a lot harder to recognize than virtually examples, but Shinken from 1 of the Honey Hina soundtracks is suspiciously like to "Eye Of The Tiger".
• In SonicX , the Ten-Tornado theme from the eighth episode can be similar to the music that is played when Tina uses her psychic powers from the motion picture Fri the 13th Part Vii: The New Claret .
• The Trigun theme is eerily like to Led Zeppelin's "Black Canis familiaris".
• A recurring piece in Magical Daughter Lyrical Nanoha , from A's on, is suspiciously similar to the Metroid primary titles.
• In Expiry Note , one of Mello's themes sound like the Terminator 2: Judgment Day theme.
• "Ark" from Yoko Kanno's Brain Powerd soundtrack starts off like the Terminator theme with bagpipes. Och, I'll be back, laddie!
• Too past Yoko Kanno, "Jig" from ∀ Gundam resembles John Williams' "Letting Off Steam" from Far and Abroad.
• In Genesis of Aquarion , Kanno's piece "Exodus" borrows from "Victorius Titus", from the Titus score by Elliot Goldenthal.
• Somebody in charge of Bleach 'southward soundtrack seems to be a fan of Andrew Lloyd Weber...
• Near the end of the Ah! My Goddess OVA, a Suspiciously Similar Song to "50'amour est bleu" shows upwards in the scene where Keiichi works several part-time jobs to purchase Belldandy a ring.
• On the soundtrack for Mobile Adjust Gundam 0083: Stardust Retention , Mitsuo Hagita straight copies, annotation for note, extensive parts of two pieces from James Horner's Brainstorm score: "The Battle of Solomon Ocean" was Brainstorm's "Race For Fourth dimension", and "Burn down" was "Lillian'south Heart Set on".
• "Blitz! Issei and Yohshi" from the score of Giant Robo OVA 2 is a suspiciously like to the How the West Was Won theme.
  • "Vogler'southward Landing" from OVA 3 rips off a passage from Igor Stravinsky'due south "Rite of Spring".
• Yoko Kanno pulled this off over again several times in Macross Frontier :
• Speaking of sorcerers, "Materialise" from Kuniaki Haishima's My-Otome 0~Due south.ifr~ soundtrack copies verbatim from the Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer" , meliorate known as the theme from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
• Yuki Kajiura isn't immune from this either. The track "Sacrifice" from Tsubasa -RESERVoir Relate- shares many similarities with "Navras" from The Matrix Revolutions .
• Episode 7 of My Bride is a Mermaid has a Suspiciously Similar Song to Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • And then does Ponyo on the Cliff by the Bounding main ; or rather, Joe Hisaishi reworks the Ponyo theme In the Style of... "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • Mermaid also has a Suspiciously Similar Vocal to the Terminator 2: Judgment Day theme (the iconic metallic trounce) because, well, one of the characters IS the Terminator.
• "Daybreak Symphony" from Yakitate!! Japan sounds quite suspiciously similar a certain other Britpop "Symphony" ... with the "Nosotros Volition Rock Y'all" trounce too thrown in only for expert measure.
• The opening theme of Tenamonya Voyagers is suspiciously like to theme from Mel Brooks' Silent Movie. Both are played by marching bands.
• Umineko: When They Weep : Jessica's image song, Dokkyun Heart is a faster-sung and slightly cheerier version of Tsurupettan.
• 1 of the BGM tracks in Coyote Ragtime Show sounds strikingly similar to the Mission: Impossible theme song.
• The BGM track from K-On! chosen "Pinch Daisuki!" is suspiciously like to the 1970s synthesizer piece "Popcorn" .
  • And "Happy End" sounds a lot like "Daydream Believer" .
  • A Suspiciously Similar Vocal to Pachelbel's Canon plays during the graduation ceremony in K-ON!! episode 24, which is peculiar because, again, it's in the public domain.
  • When the music shop clerk tells the history of Sawako'southward guitar, images of Eric Clapton, Angus Immature, Tony Iommi and Pete Townshend are shown, along with Suspiciously Similar Songs to Sunshine of Your Love, Thunderstruck, Paranoid, and Won't Get Fooled Again respectively.
  • The opening riff in "Cagayake GIRLS!" sounds oddly similar to the melody that occurs 20 seconds into a piece of music from the unreleased Sega Genesis version of the game Time Trax.
  • Air Of Northern Countries from the movie is practically an instrumental cover of Where The Streets Have No Name past U2.
• There are and so many examples of this across Dragon Ball Z media that recurring composer Kenji Yamamoto ^annotation not the one from Metroid ! was publicly blacklisted for plagiarism in 2011. As a upshot, all of his music for Dragon Brawl Z Kai was replaced with Shunsuke Kikuchi's score for the original anime and Dragon Brawl Z: Budokai Hard disk Drove replaced his tracks with songs from the Budokai Tenkaichi games. Some examples from Yamamoto:
• The first opening of Nuptials Peach lends some notes from 1960s vocalizer France Gall .
  • Carbohydrate Sugar Rune 's theme is based on the same song, just more than blatantly.
• The 2d opening of A Sure Scientific Railgun sounds sort of like Hong Meiling's stage theme. Take a mind.
• One of the pieces of music from Read or Die sounds like the stock music piece "Valse Aux Champs-Elysees", which was used on The Ren & Stimpy Show .
  • That's minimal, Read or Die'due south main theme rips off from every musical aspect of James Bond's primary theme... without actually ripping a annotation from it, and made a much more cohesive, surprising and captivating version, like Picasso (allegedly) said "Good artists infringe, great artists steal".
• The first ending theme in the English dub version of Haré+Guu sounds suspiciously like the soul archetype "T.Southward.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)".
• The opening song of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX English dub sounds an awful lot like blink-182's "Dammit" at times.
• A track on the Baccano! soundtrack, "Yurumikatta Kannou no Dance ", sounds distinctly similar to the famous "Habanera " from Suite No. two of Bizet's Carmen.
• 1 of the Character Songs from Hetalia: Centrality Powers , "Carrots and Sticks", is sung by Republic of belarus and Ukraine. If you pay attention to the Background Music, it sounds like a pitched-downwards, remade version of t.A.T.u.'s "All The Things She Said".
  • To say nothing of the music cue for the opening titles, which strongly evokes "Too Sprach Zarathustra" (AKA the 2001: A Infinite Odyssey theme).
• The Monster anime has "Over The Rainbow" played multiple times; it's fifty-fifty explicitly referred to equally such. Except, information technology's instrumental and only vaguely sounds similar it. The song isn't in the public domain. Information technology's non known if the original Japanese version had this problem or not.
• This parody scene of William Shakespeare'south Romeo + Juliet from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has a Suspiciously Similar Song to "I'thousand Kissing You" by Des'ree .
  • "The Diet Syndrome" from has two tracks that play in succession to 1 another: the first one sounds like "Gonna Fly Now" or "Eye of the Tiger", and the second one sounds like "Theme from Mission: Impossible".
• The chorus of the song "Cendrillon" from past Kagamine Len sounds an atrocious lot like the chorus of the Transformers: Animated Japanese opening theme. Or is it the other fashion around?
• In Ultra Maniac , a Suspiciously Similar Song to the theme song of The Powerpuff Girls plays whenever Nina's cousins arrive. The creator of the manga, by the way, loves the PPG.
• In Bakemonogatari , the song Suteki Meppou past Kousaki Satoru has a jazzy piano chord progression and rhythm that sounds like Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Quartet'southward Take V There's also Hyouri , which sounds quite a bit like Tubular Bells , of The Exorcist fame.
• The vocal "HARDBOILED" off of the The Girl Who Leapt Through Space soundtrack sounds like it could have been an outtake from David Gilmour's solo anthology On An Island.
• Momiji'south song in the Fruits Basket anime is just a few notes off from "Momiji " (a folk song). Given the name, it'southward doubtful that it was a coincidence.
• The Acrimony of Cherry-red Lotus from Fairy Tail sounds as if composer took Grass Theme from Heroes of Might and Magic Iv , cutting it in pieces, sew them randomly together, and added stone-way accompaniment over all of information technology.
• Toradora! has very short song that's suspiciously similar to Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire" in episode 8, when Taiga is practicing swimming for the competition.
• In that location'southward a series of Youtube videos from a Japanese cartoon that are suspiciously similar to various western rock songs. NOT "Separate Ways" By JOURNEY , Non "Don't Look Dorsum" By BOSTON Not "All You Need Is Love" by BEATLES , NOT "Europa" by SANTANA , and many others. They can be institute on this Youtube channel .
• The Ginga Densetsu Weed vocal "Dash!" sounds almost identical to the Digimon Hazard 02 opening theme .
• Yoroiden Samurai Troopers ' first opening theme, "Stardust Optics" , borrows heavily from "It's A Sin" past The Pet Shop Boys.
• The Kodomo No Jikan ending "Hana Maru Sensation" sounds almost exactly like the chorus from The Offspring's I Fine Solar day, which in turn sounds like the chorus of the Kiteretsu Daihykka theme vocal "Suimin Bosukou".
• The concluding battle theme of Cowboy Bebop: The Motion picture , Pushing the Sky , sounds very similar to the Lunatic Calm song Go out You Far Behind .
  • "Bad Domestic dog No Biscuits" from the 2d episode is basically a slightly more bombastic version of Tom Waits' "Midtown".
  • And, of grade, "Go Go Cactus Man " sounds similar it was scored past Ennio Morricone for use in For a Few Dollars More . This one was, at least, probably fully intentional given whose leitmotif information technology is.
• In Zoids: Chaotic Century , the theme that plays when the Ultrasaurus awakens sounds an awful lot like the Jurassic Park theme . They audio near identical when both themes climax. As well consider how similar the scenes with the Ultrasaurus first moving and Dr. Grant seeing the living Brachiosaur are, peculiarly since the aforementioned themes first playing in both instances.
• Skip Crush! is an interesting case in that information technology's a plot point when some random band comes out of nowhere and plagiarizes Fuwa Sho's released piece of work and make it big. No one in the manufacture comments, and Sho ends upward getting only more and more pissed. Then Kyouko enters the picture.
• When listening to A Ke Mi Ya Ma Sa Ki from Sasameki Koto anime practise you feel like roaming among blasted town ruins covered by lush vegetation on a calm sunny twenty-four hours with occassional feelings of tension or threat? Medal of Honor: Allied Assault The Nebelwerfer Chase anyone?
• Pretty Cure :
• The chorus of the theme song to Prism Generations: Prism Magical sounds a lot like the chorus to the theme vocal to Takashi Murakami's Six Hearts Princess .
• The beginning office of Yliaster Battle Mode from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's sounds similar to the first part of Sword of Promised Victory from Fate/stay night .
• Elsewhere in the Nasuverse franchise, all of Funfair Phantasm 's BGM rail "Event Taikai" except the bridge is a ripoff of "76 Trombones" from The Music Man.
• "Oi, Oi" from Haruhi Suzumiya has a timpani rhythm that sounds exactly like the timpani rhythm in Fatboy Slim's "Everybody Loves a Carnival" , only a half-step lower.
  • "Itsumo no Fuukei" is incredibly like to the game over song from Mega Man 3 .
• The theme "The Original Sin" from the Hellsing RAID OST has a lot in common with the famous track "Ave Satani" from The Omen (1976) .
• Gundam AGE-FX , the theme used by the eponymous mobile adapt from the third generation of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is very similar in tune in tune and atmosphere, admitting faster, every bit Into Acrimony and Fears , used when Annelotte uses her Superpowered Evil Side in Queen's Bract Rebellion.
• Merry Get Round of Life from Howl's Moving Castle is quite similar to the opening phrases of Memories of Fanelia from The Vision of Escaflowne . Joe Hisaishi (composer for Howl), the composer for Studio Ghibli, was the i to notice Yoko Kanno and lead her into anime music limerick. However, Escaflowne actually came first, meaning the teacher referenced the educatee.
• The chorus of the Getbackers' song, "Namida no Hurricane", sounds an awful lot like "Hey Mickey."
• The opening theme to Ouran High School Host Lodge has an underlying guitar melody taken notation-for-note from the bridge synth of "Kiss Me Mortiferous" past Lita Ford, and "Sk8ter Boi" by Avril Lavigne.
• There is a particular BGM track in YuYu Hakusho in which the bassline interpolates the opening riff in The 4 Tops' "Saccharide Pie Love Bunch". Another i is a soundalike of "Thriller".
  • Yet another piece of BGM is a pastiche of "Time of the Season" by The Zombies.
• The chorus of the first Super Sonico opening, "Beat Goes On!" sounds like the chorus of "Hot Patootie" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show .
• The last office of Brynhildr in the Darkness 'due south start opening is reminiscent of the X-Men cartoon's theme.
• "Scatterbrain" from the original Crewman Moon OST sounds like the original Sesame Street theme.
  • "Fire Soul Love'' , i of the Sailor Mars prototype songs, is a few notes off from existence "Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson.
  • The battle theme "Ai no Senshi" is pretty shut to much of the music used in Ys Volume I & Ii, while sounding much like a sped-upwards version of the Palace theme.
  • "Moonlight Densetsu" , the original theme song, sounds like a mash-up of Bon Jovi'southward You Give Love a Bad Name and Van Halen'southward Bound . Its melody was as well inadvertently borrowed from the 1965 J-Popular song, "Sayonara wa Dansu no Ato ni (Bye later the End of the Dance)", which was performed past Chieko Baisho. This actually led to an arbitration case betwixt the songs' respective composers, Daria Kawashima (aka Tetsuya Komoro) and Hirooki Ogawa, when the series starting time aired; as a result, Ogawa obtained a pct of the "Moonlight Legend" royalties.
  • The guitar solo in "Usagi vs. Jadeite", a piece of Background Music for the first flavour, is very like to the solo in "Immature Lust" by Pink Floyd.
  • "Determination" another piece of Background Music in the show, sounds similar to both "Heart of the Tiger" past Survivor and "Rock 'n' Roll Children" by Dio.
• "Kirby!" , the second opening of Kirby: Right Dorsum at Ya! , sounds oddly similar to the opening theme for Sailor Moon Sailor Stars , with certain portions of both songs sounding oddly akin and the ii sharing identical musical structures.
• Both Baki the Grappler 'southward opening "All Lone " and Parappa The Rapper 'south ending "Yellow Airship " sound similar to Cathy Dennis' "Too Many Walls ".
• A background track heard in episode 8 of Paranoia Agent resembles "Linus and Lucy" by Vince Guaraldi.
• Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! has the championship character'southward battle theme "Nyarko, Sanjou!", which is intentionally modeled on "Ore, Sanjou!", Momotaros' battle theme from Kamen Passenger Den-O , even opening with the verbal same riff. It helps that the show is Reference Overdosed and Kamen Passenger is one of its favorite works to homage; Nyarko even performs Momotaros' signature pose and Catchphrase a few times ^annotation Though she changes the "ore" to the feminine "watashi".
• The main riff of GUN×SWORD 's opening theme (too heard in the eyecatch) sounds a lot like a sped upwards version of the Super Dimension Fortress Macross boxing theme , which is also used in its testify'south eyecatch.
• Attack on Titan :
• Beast Fighter has an instrumental melody that sounds mainly in moments where Shinichi decides that it's fourth dimension to plow badass and trounce the crap out of the bad guys. It sounds a lot similar Queen'south "Nosotros Will Rock You lot ". Check it out here at iv:08.
• The opening theme to Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi , "Treat or Goblins" , sounds like a stripped-down version of Alexander O'Neal'south "(What Tin can I Say) To Make Yous Dearest Me" .
  • The anime itself features occasional soundalikes of themes from other media, such every bit "The Beast" from Neon Genesis Evangelion and The Royal March and Main Theme from Star Wars , all of which support the parody-happy nature of the show.
• Samurai Flamenco has "Usankusai ", which sounds a lot like Henry Mancini'south Pinkish Panther Theme.
• The second PriPara opening, Miracle ☆Paradise! , sounds very similar to Music S.T.A.R.T! from Dearest Live!! Information technology is unknown if this was intentional or not.
• The third opening to Owarimonogatari , Mein Schatz , sounds similar to Umineko: When They Weep 'due south principal theme .
• In My Love Story!! , during Takeo's Preparation Montage in episode seven an offbeat version of "The Final Countdown" past Europe plays.
• The ending theme of Macross Delta performed past Walkure, "Rune ga Pikatto Hikattara", sounds similar to "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire. Which leads to this mashup . The song "Giraffe Blues" sounds similar to "Un-break My Heart" past Toni Braxton. Which leads to this mashup .
• The Aikatsu! theme song "Practice Wa Exercise Wa Practise IT! " sounds like ROCO's "Colorful Parade ".
• Parts of "Kataware Doki" from Your Proper noun sound enough like Yiruma's "River Flows In You" that covers have seamlessly incorporated the latter.
• The kickoff twoscore or so seconds of "Let the Games Begin!!" from Haikyuu!! sound somewhat like to the opening of "The Launch" from Apollo 13 past James Horner.
• The opening of "Welcome to the Globe ", Joseph'south theme from the Animated Adaptation of Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency , sounds like the iconic pickup from "Possessor of a Alone Center " by Yes. Since JoJo is well known for referencing Western music and musicians (including of course Yes), this may well accept been an intentional homage.
  • Also happens in JoJo's Bizarre Hazard: Aureate Wind : a song that sounds a lot like Prince'south "P. Command" plays during the infamous trip the light fantastic scene on the gunkhole.
• In the Love Live! movie, when the group showtime catches sight of New York City, the BGM takes cues from Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blueish".
  • The vocal "Guilty Night, Guilty Kiss" from Love Live! Sunshine!! sounds a lot similar Katy Perry'southward "Teenage Dream". Taken to its logical past SiIvaGunner here .
    • The song "Awaken the power", also from Love Live! Sunshine!!, sounds very similar to My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade".
• In High School D×D , the runway "Ano Hi no Omoi" is similar to the main theme from the Dear Story soundtrack past Francis Lai.
• The Recurring Riffs from Voices of a Distant Star call to heed Starman Leaves from Starman .
• When Digimon Adventure tri. was dubbed into English language by Toei and Eleven Arts rather than Saban, rights issues led to the lack of the original English language theme song, "Digimon are the Champions". Therefore, a new song with a similar experience to the original called "Digimon are Dorsum Again" was recorded and used.
  • The riff of the original Saban theme itself shares similarities with the guitar riff in the beginning of the song "Rocka Rolla" past Judas Priest.
• Rurouni Kenshin 's beginning opening theme, "Sobakasu (Freckles)" , especially the first half, is suspiciously similar to Electric Light Orchestra's "Mr. Blue Heaven" .
• In episode seven of Massugu ni Ikou at that place is an Imagine Spot where Mametarou imagines Jack boxing him for Hanako'southward center. An off-beat out version of "Gonna Wing Now" from Rocky can be heard in the background during this sequence.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica 's Decretum can easily be rendered as a Night Reprise of Greensleeves. With this in listen, a version combining the 2 is made, requiring some knowledge well-nigh both melody lines in order to distinguish the two.
• The vocal "Ai wo Shitta Yajuu no You ni" from the Anime/Dancougar soundtrack has the same opening and middle 8 as Stan Bush-league's "Dare" from "The Transformers: The Movie
• Sonic X : The opening riff to the second Japanese ending theme bares a striking resemblance to the Meat Loaf vocal Bat Out Of Hell.
• Parts of the opening theme song to the Ruby-red Businesswoman mecha anime sound similar to "Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes", a disco striking from 1979.
• "Nee ", the theme song for Chi'south Sweet Take a chance , sounds very similar to "Koi wo Surutabini Tsuzutukiyasuku ", the theme song for the magical girl anime Nurse Angel Ririka SOS .
• The song "Failure " in Kaguya-sama: Dearest Is State of war sounds a lot like "You Spin Me Circular (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive.
  • The track "Positive ", ironically enough, sounds eerily similar to the infamous runway "Sayonara" from Doki Doki Literature Social club! .
• The Song "Never Get Away " in Fushigi Yuugi shares similarities with the Song "Delinquent" by Bon Jovi in the first verse, especially the piano.
• The main theme from the anime adaptation of Instance Closed sounds remarkably close to the theme tune of old-school Japanese cop show Taiyo Ni Hoero . No surprise, since the aforementioned composer (Katsuo Ohno) was hired for both series and Conan was a golden opportunity to pay homage to his previous work.
• Zombie Land Saga : Saki'southward image vocal from episode 9, "Tokkou Dance", clearly draws a lot of inspiration from "One Night Carnival" by Kishidan, a J-rock grouping that got its first in 1997, effectually the time Saki died.
• The theme vocal of Legend of Galactic Heroes: Dice Neue These, "Binary Star" , sounds an atrocious lot like Starship'south "Nothing's Gonna Stop U.s. Now" .
• Slam Dunk 's opening theme, Kimi ga suki da to sakebitai sounds similar to Van Halen's Panama .
• Minmay's titular song in Macross: Do You lot Call up Love? sounds similar to Air Supply'southward "Even the Nights Are Better" .
• The intro to "All In Good Time" , the closing theme from the Shakugan no Shana S OVA series, sounds very similar to the chorus of "Listen To Your Eye" by Roxette.
• "Swordland " from Sword Fine art Online has similarities to "Invasion of Gracemeria " from Ace Gainsay half dozen: Fires of Liberation , as noted for example here .
• In episode iii of the anime Complimentary! , the Background Music in the scene where Rei Ryugazaki is dragged to train on the swimming cake, more than specifically the "bassline" ; sounds eerily similar to a song called "I'thou Free" by The Soup Dragons. A song that happens to have a shut title to the anime itself.
• "Where Does This Body of water Go" from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex sounds very similar to the song, "Hyperballad," past Björk.

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