English Songs That Sound Like Anime Songs

English Songs That Sound Like Anime Songs

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• The opening theme of Laid-Dorsum Camp (Yurucamp), "SHINY DAYS!! Atarashii kaze!" is very similar to The Jackson 5's I Want Yous Back and ABC, and the cyberspace didn't pass up on the opportunity.
• Mazinkaiser 's opening theme, Fire Wars by JAM Project sounds very much like Bon Jovi's Yous Requite Love a Bad Proper name .
  • Someone even put the latter to the intro and it suprisingly synchs up very well with the animation.
• "Tension" music from Slayers . "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. 1" by Rex Crimson. Y'all may find a slight similarity.
  • "Beginning", from Mobile Adapt Gundam III sounds very similar to Ruby'southward Prince Rupert Awakes. Find .
• From 1974'due south Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) , No One's Happier Than I sounds eerily similar to the Carpenters' Top Of The World
• "Insurgence " sung by the English stone band Muse takes its inspiration from the song Pray For You sung by Cindy Wood from the Opening of the 1983 anime film Golgo 13 .
• The lyrics of the vocal "Golgo xiii and I " sung past Cindy Wood from the 1983 anime film Golgo xiii sounds closely familiar to the 1970 spaghetti western Opening theme of Indio Black/Adios Sabata equanimous by Bruno Nicolai.
• Orochimaru'due south theme in Naruto borrows part of its melody from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
• Bomberman Jetters : Mujoe'due south theme sounds more similar a Shout-Out to the Seinfeld theme , equally it uses ALL the instruments and arrangement of the infamous theme, only with just trivial changes on some notes.
• The theme "Nunnally" from Code Geass uses the same tune, same lead instrument, Same 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 take "Another I Bites the Grit" as his theme vocal, with a few courtesy notes thrown in.
  • The second episode uses a parody of Metallica'due south "Pitiful only True."
  • The track "Ikamino Gekiban" sounds like the theme song from The Simpsons for some reason.
• Nandemo Q was a children's telly show 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 every bit "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 actually "Tokkou Yarou?" / 「特攻野郎？」(yes, with question mark) which means something along the lines of "Gung-ho guys". Lampshaded with a cameo as a cellphone ring tone and someone says information technology sounds like an old American TV show (which indeed was called Tokkou Yarou A-Chiimu when broadcast in Japan).
• Hyperdimension Neptunia the Blitheness has an end credits theme that has a soundalike of Brian Culbertson's "Colors of Love", entitled "Neptune Sagashite" past Afilia Saga.
• Ane of Shirou Sagisu's pieces ("Decisive Battle ") for Neon Genesis Evangelion is suspiciously similar to a John Barry composition, "007" , used in From Russia with Honey .
• In what tin can only be called a hilarious case of Follow the Leader , RahXephon has The Chariot , aka Ayato'due south kill music, which is a hybrid of "Decisive Battle" with "The Animate being 2" (the theme of berserk Eva-01). Since "Decisive Boxing" already sounds suspiciously similar to "007" to a higher place, this turns information technology doubly suspicious.
• The Italian version of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch , which equanimous all-new songs, made many of them sound suspiciously like the songs they were replacing. Try comparing Assoluto Affection , Sara's Villain Song, with its original, Return to the Ocean , and see what we hateful.
• One episode of Gintama has a Suspiciously Similar Vocal to the Rocky theme . This gets lampshaded by Gintoki and Kagura.
  • Speaking of Rocky, the boxing OVA Bewitching Nozomi'' featured a Suspiciously Similar Song to "Eye of the Tiger".
  • Some other Suspiciously Similar Song of the same oft accompanied the Bear's appearance in Gakuen.
  • In Gintama, there's too a Supiciously Similar Song of Fist of the North Star 'southward Ai wo Torimodose. Hilariously, the song lyrics simply consist of the parts of "You lot Wa Shock" changed 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'south Dragon Ball themes.
• Soul Eater occasionally uses a music slice that sounds like that damn Milkshake song.
  • And one that sounds oddly similar the opening to "Gimme Shelter".
• The S Cryed theme "Reckless Fire" sounds slightly similar to Ricky Martin'south "She Bangs".
• Air Gear was inspired by the Jet Gear up Radio series, and has several background songs that are soundalikes to the music used in those games. Compare: Non Hummin' But Vibin' (Air Gear) vs. Hummin' The Bassline (Jet Set up Radio); Sky 2 High (Air Gear) vs. Fly Like A Butterfly (Jet Ready Radio Futurity).
• The Training Montage in the first episode of GunBuster uses a musical cue substantially ripped off from Vangelis' theme from Chariots of Burn down . Then much so, in fact, that Studio Gainax ordered the Usa distributors to replace the music in the North American re-release.
  • Public Domain Example: The last episode uses a conspicuously-synthesised piece of music that sounds suspiciously similar to the Hallelujah chorus. Considering that the original song would later plough upwards in Neon Genesis Evangelion , this example's rather perplexing.
• In an earlier case of ripping off Vangelis, the music from the first scene in the original Bubblegum Crisis OVAs is suspiciously similar to the opening theme from Bract Runner .
• The opening theme to The Big O sounds suspiciously like Queen'south "Flash Gordon". This one was also replaced for the U.s.a. DVD re-issue, although not from Adult Swim. The total version as well contains a tiny hint of "Maverick Rhapsody"; it appears the artist is a major Queen fan.
• Battle Programmer Shirase 's opening tune 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 prevent it from being awesome.
• An Imagine Spot in Lucky Star of a trip to the dentist as a Super Robot show is accompanied past a cursory Suspiciously Similar Song to the Gunbuster theme "Agile Heart".
  • "Yuuchou Sentai Dararenja" has a part that audio suspiciously like a remix of Snake Man's theme from Mega Man 3 , and "Ore no Wasuremono" is reminiscent of Storm Eagle's theme from Mega Man X
  • The repeated utilise of an almost-only-not-quite "Gunbuster March" cue.
  • And the 1942 beat used a few times... And 24, and... A lot of others.
  • Gravity by MOEV sounds very much like Noizy Tribe by grand.o.v.eastward. Fitting, since information technology'south played during the Initial D parody.
• The music from Mr. Lonely Chaser, theme vocal for the Transforming Mecha bear witness Super High Speed Galvion sounds suspiciously like to Michael Jackson's "Beat It". The lyrics, however are something else altogether.
• I of the riffs from CLANNAD 's Dango Daikazoku / Chiisana Te No Hira -- Rock Version sounds like "Oh Come All Ye Faithful".
• Viral's Leitmotif Nikopol sounds a lot like Linkin Park's Points of Authority , minus the rap bits.
• It'southward a lot harder to recognize than well-nigh examples, just Shinken from i of the Love Hina soundtracks is suspiciously like to "Heart 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 film Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood .
• The Trigun theme is eerily similar to Led Zeppelin's "Blackness Dog".
• A recurring piece in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha , from A'southward on, is suspiciously like to the Metroid main titles.
• In Death Note , one of Mello's themes audio like the Terminator two: Judgment Twenty-four hour period theme.
• "Ark" from Yoko Kanno's Encephalon Powerd soundtrack starts off like the Terminator theme with bagpipes. Och, I'll be back, laddie!
• Besides by Yoko Kanno, "Jig" from ∀ Gundam resembles John Williams' "Letting Off Steam" from Far and Away.
• In Genesis of Aquarion , Kanno's slice "Exodus" borrows from "Victorius Titus", from the Titus score by Elliot Goldenthal.
• Somebody in charge of Bleach 's soundtrack seems to exist a fan of Andrew Lloyd Weber...
• Near the stop of the Ah! My Goddess OVA, a Suspiciously Similar Song to "Fifty'flirtation est bleu" shows upward in the scene where Keiichi works several part-time jobs to buy Belldandy a band.
• On the soundtrack for Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory , Mitsuo Hagita directly copies, notation for note, extensive parts of two pieces from James Horner's Brainstorm score: "The Battle of Solomon Body of water" was Brainstorm's "Race For Time", and "Fire Downwardly" was "Lillian's Heart Attack".
• "Rush! Issei and Yohshi" from the score of Giant Robo OVA two is a suspiciously similar to the How the West Was Won theme.
  • "Vogler'southward Landing" from OVA 3 rips off a passage from Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Bound".
• Yoko Kanno pulled this off over again several times in Macross Frontier :
• Speaking of sorcerers, "Materialise" from Kuniaki Haishima'due south My-Otome 0~South.ifr~ soundtrack copies verbatim from the Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer" , ameliorate known as the theme from The Hitchhiker'southward Guide to the Milky way .
• Yuki Kajiura isn't immune from this either. The track "Sacrifice" from Tsubasa -RESERVoir Chronicle- shares many similarities with "Navras" from The Matrix Revolutions .
• Episode 7 of My Helpmate is a Mermaid has a Suspiciously Similar Song to Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • So does Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea ; or rather, Joe Hisaishi reworks the Ponyo theme In the Style of... "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • Mermaid also has a Suspiciously Like Song to the Terminator two: Judgment Day theme (the iconic metallic vanquish) because, well, one of the characters IS the Terminator.
• "Daybreak Symphony" from Yakitate!! Nippon sounds quite suspiciously similar a certain other Britpop "Symphony" ... with the "Nosotros Will Rock You" beat also thrown in just for good measure.
• The opening theme of Tenamonya Voyagers is suspiciously similar to theme from Mel Brooks' Silent Film. Both are played by marching bands.
• Umineko: When They Cry : Jessica'southward image song, Dokkyun Heart is a faster-sung and slightly cheerier version of Tsurupettan.
• One of the BGM tracks in Coyote Ragtime Show sounds strikingly similar to the Mission: Incommunicable theme song.
• The BGM rails from 1000-On! called "Pinch Daisuki!" is suspiciously similar to the 1970s synthesizer piece "Popcorn" .
  • And "Happy End" sounds a lot like "Daydream Believer" .
  • A Suspiciously Like Song to Pachelbel's Canon plays during the graduation anniversary in Yard-ON!! episode 24, which is peculiar because, over again, it's in the public domain.
  • When the music shop clerk tells the history of Sawako'due south guitar, images of Eric Clapton, Angus Young, Tony Iommi and Pete Townshend are shown, forth with Suspiciously Similar Songs to Sunshine of Your Beloved, Thunderstruck, Paranoid, and Won't Get Fooled Over 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 so many examples of this across Dragon Ball Z media that recurring composer Kenji Yamamoto ^note non the one from Metroid ! was publicly blacklisted for plagiarism in 2011. As a consequence, all of his music for Dragon Ball Z Kai was replaced with Shunsuke Kikuchi's score for the original anime and Dragon Brawl Z: Budokai Hd Collection replaced his tracks with songs from the Budokai Tenkaichi games. Some examples from Yamamoto:
• The showtime opening of Wedding Peach lends some notes from 1960s singer France Gall .
  • Sugar Saccharide Rune 's theme is based on the same song, only more blatantly.
• The second opening of A Certain Scientific Railgun sounds sort of like Hong Meiling's stage theme. Take a heed.
• 1 of the pieces of music from Read or Dice sounds similar the stock music piece "Valse Aux Champs-Elysees", which was used on The Ren & Stimpy Prove .
  • That'south minimal, Read or Die's chief theme rips off from every musical aspect of James Bond's chief theme... without actually ripping a notation from it, and fabricated a much more than cohesive, surprising and captivating version, like Picasso (allegedly) said "Skillful artists borrow, great artists steal".
• The get-go ending theme in the English dub version of Haré+Guu sounds suspiciously like the soul classic "T.S.O.P. (The Audio of Philadelphia)".
• The opening song of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX English dub sounds an atrocious lot like glimmer-182'due south "Dammit" at times.
• A runway on the Baccano! soundtrack, "Yurumikatta Kannou no Dance ", sounds distinctly like to the famous "Habanera " from Suite No. 2 of Bizet's Carmen.
• I of the Character Songs from Hetalia: Axis Powers , "Carrots and Sticks", is sung by Republic of belarus and Ukraine. If you pay attending to the Groundwork Music, information technology sounds similar a pitched-down, remade version of t.A.T.u.'due south "All The Things She Said".
  • To say zero of the music cue for the opening titles, which strongly evokes "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (AKA the 2001: A Space Odyssey theme).
• The Monster anime has "Over The Rainbow" played multiple times; it's fifty-fifty explicitly referred to as such. Except, it'south instrumental and only vaguely sounds like it. The song isn't in the public domain. It's not known if the original Japanese version had this trouble or not.
• This parody scene of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has a Suspiciously Similar Song to "I'grand Kissing You" by Des'ree .
  • "The Diet Syndrome" from has 2 tracks that play in succession to 1 another: the first one sounds like "Gonna Fly Now" or "Eye of the Tiger", and the second 1 sounds similar "Theme from Mission: Impossible".
• The chorus of the song "Cendrillon" from by Kagamine Len sounds an awful lot like the chorus of the Transformers: Animated Japanese opening theme. Or is information technology the other way around?
• In Ultra Bedlamite , a Suspiciously Similar Song to the theme vocal of The Powerpuff Girls plays whenever Nina's cousins arrive. The creator of the manga, by the style, loves the PPG.
• In Bakemonogatari , the song Suteki Meppou by Kousaki Satoru has a jazzy piano chord progression and rhythm that sounds like Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Quartet'due south Take 5 There's as well Hyouri , which sounds quite a bit like Tubular Bells , of The Exorcist fame.
• The song "HARDBOILED" off of the The Girl Who Leapt Through Space soundtrack sounds similar information technology could take been an outtake from David Gilmour's solo anthology On An Isle.
• Momiji'southward vocal in the Fruits Basket anime is simply a few notes off from "Momiji " (a folk vocal). Given the name, information technology's hundred-to-one that it was a coincidence.
• The Anger of Crimson Lotus from Fairy Tail sounds as if composer took Grass Theme from Heroes of Might and Magic Iv , cut it in pieces, stitch them randomly together, and added rock-mode accompaniment over all of it.
• Toradora! has very short vocal that's suspiciously similar to Vangelis' "Chariots of Burn" in episode 8, when Taiga is practicing swimming for the competition.
• There's a series of Youtube videos from a Japanese drawing that are suspiciously similar to various western stone songs. Not "Separate Ways" By JOURNEY , NOT "Don't Look Dorsum" By BOSTON Non "All Yous Need Is Love" by BEATLES , Non "Europa" past SANTANA , and many others. They tin be found on this Youtube channel .
• The Ginga Densetsu Weed song "Nuance!" sounds about identical to the Digimon Gamble 02 opening theme .
• Yoroiden Samurai Troopers ' first opening theme, "Stardust Eyes" , borrows heavily from "It's A Sin" by The Pet Shop Boys.
• The Kodomo No Jikan ending "Hana Maru Sensation" sounds nearly exactly like the chorus from The Offspring's Ane Fine Day, which in turn sounds like the chorus of the Kiteretsu Daihykka theme song "Suimin Bosukou".
• The final battle theme of Cowboy Bebop: The Picture show , Pushing the Sky , sounds very similar to the Lunatic Calm song Leave You lot Far Behind .
  • "Bad Dog No Biscuits" from the 2nd episode is basically a slightly more bombastic version of Tom Waits' "Midtown".
  • And, of class, "Go Go Cactus Homo " sounds like information technology was scored by Ennio Morricone for use in For a Few Dollars More than . This 1 was, at least, probably fully intentional given whose leitmotif information technology is.
• In Zoids: Cluttered Century , the theme that plays when the Ultrasaurus awakens sounds an awful lot like the Jurassic Park theme . They sound almost identical when both themes climax. Besides consider how similar the scenes with the Ultrasaurus first moving and Dr. Grant seeing the living Brachiosaur are, especially since the aforementioned themes start playing in both instances.
• Skip Trounce! is an interesting example in that it'southward a plot point when some random band comes out of nowhere and plagiarizes Fuwa Sho'south released piece of work and make it big. No 1 in the industry comments, and Sho ends upwardly 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 do you experience like roaming among blasted town ruins covered by lush vegetation on a at-home sunny mean solar day with occassional feelings of tension or threat? Medal of Honor: Allied Set on The Nebelwerfer Hunt anyone?
• Pretty Cure :
• The chorus of the theme song to Prism Generations: Prism Magical sounds a lot like the chorus to the theme song to Takashi Murakami's Six Hearts Princess .
• The beginning part of Yliaster Battle Mode from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's sounds similar to the kickoff part of Sword of Promised Victory from Fate/stay night .
• Elsewhere in the Nasuverse franchise, all of Carnival Phantasm 's BGM track "Event Taikai" except the span 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'southward "Everybody Loves a Funfair" , just a half-pace lower.
  • "Itsumo no Fuukei" is incredibly similar 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 suit from the third generation of Mobile Suit Gundam Age is very like 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 Go Circular of Life from Howl'southward 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 one to notice Yoko Kanno and pb her into anime music composition. Still, Escaflowne really came first, meaning the teacher referenced the student.
• The chorus of the Getbackers' vocal, "Namida no Hurricane", sounds an atrocious lot like "Hey Mickey."
• The opening theme to Ouran High School Host Order has an underlying guitar melody taken notation-for-annotation from the bridge synth of "Osculation Me Deadly" by 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 Four Tops' "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch". Another one is a soundalike of "Thriller".
  • However another slice of BGM is a pastiche of "Fourth dimension 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 Motion-picture show Show .
• The final part of Brynhildr in the Darkness 'due south first opening is reminiscent of the Ten-Men cartoon'south theme.
• "Scatterbrain" from the original Sailor Moon OST sounds like the original Sesame Street theme.
  • "Fire Soul Beloved'' , ane of the Crewman Mars image songs, is a few notes off from beingness "Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson.
  • The battle theme "Ai no Senshi" is pretty close to much of the music used in Ys Book I & 2, while sounding much like a sped-up version of the Palace theme.
  • "Moonlight Densetsu" , the original theme song, sounds similar a brew-up of Bon Jovi's You Give Dearest a Bad Proper noun and Van Halen'south Jump . Its melody was besides inadvertently borrowed from the 1965 J-Popular song, "Sayonara wa Dansu no Ato ni (Goodbye afterward the Finish of the Dance)", which was performed by Chieko Baisho. This actually led to an arbitration case between the songs' corresponding composers, Daria Kawashima (aka Tetsuya Komoro) and Hirooki Ogawa, when the series first aired; as a effect, Ogawa obtained a percentage of the "Moonlight Legend" royalties.
  • The guitar solo in "Usagi vs. Jadeite", a piece of Background Music for the first season, is very similar to the solo in "Young Animalism" by Pinkish Floyd.
  • "Decision" another slice of Background Music in the show, sounds similar to both "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor and "Rock 'northward' Gyre Children" by Dio.
• "Kirby!" , the second opening of Kirby: Right Back 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 two sharing identical musical structures.
• Both Baki the Grappler 's opening "All Alone " and Parappa The Rapper 'southward ending "Yellow Balloon " sound similar to Cathy Dennis' "Besides Many Walls ".
• A background rail heard in episode viii of Paranoia Agent resembles "Linus and Lucy" by Vince Guaraldi.
• Nyaruko: Itch with Love! has the title character's boxing theme "Nyarko, Sanjou!", which is intentionally modeled on "Ore, Sanjou!", Momotaros' battle theme from Kamen Passenger Den-O , even opening with the exact same riff. It helps that the show is Reference Overdosed and Kamen Passenger is i of its favorite works to homage; Nyarko even performs Momotaros' signature pose and Catchphrase a few times ^note Though she changes the "ore" to the feminine "watashi".
• The main riff of GUN×SWORD 'southward opening theme (also heard in the eyecatch) sounds a lot like a sped up version of the Super Dimension Fortress Macross battle theme , which is also used in its prove'due south eyecatch.
• Attack on Titan :
• Beast Fighter has an instrumental tune that sounds mainly in moments where Shinichi decides that it'southward fourth dimension to turn badass and beat the crap out of the bad guys. It sounds a lot similar Queen'due south "We Will Rock You ". Check it out here at 4:08.
• The opening theme to Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi , "Treat or Goblins" , sounds like a stripped-down version of Alexander O'Neal's "(What Can I Say) To Make You Dear Me" .
  • The anime itself features occasional soundalikes of themes from other media, such every bit "The Beast" from Neon Genesis Evangelion and The Imperial March and Main Theme from Star Wars , all of which back up the parody-happy nature of the show.
• Samurai Flamenco has "Usankusai ", which sounds a lot like Henry Mancini's Pink Panther Theme.
• The second PriPara opening, Miracle ☆Paradise! , sounds very similar to Music S.T.A.R.T! from Beloved Live!! It is unknown if this was intentional or not.
• The tertiary opening to Owarimonogatari , Mein Schatz , sounds similar to Umineko: When They Cry 'southward chief theme .
• In My Love Story!! , during Takeo's Training Montage in episode seven an offbeat version of "The Final Countdown" by Europe plays.
• The ending theme of Macross Delta performed by Walkure, "Rune ga Pikatto Hikattara", sounds similar to "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire. Which leads to this mashup . The song "Giraffe Dejection" sounds similar to "United nations-break My Heart" by Toni Braxton. Which leads to this mashup .
• The Aikatsu! theme song "Practise Wa Do Wa DO IT! " sounds like ROCO's "Colorful Parade ".
• Parts of "Kataware Doki" from Your Name sound enough like Yiruma's "River Flows In Yous" that covers have seamlessly incorporated the latter.
• The first 40 or and so seconds of "Permit the Games Brainstorm!!" from Haikyuu!! sound somewhat similar to the opening of "The Launch" from Apollo 13 by James Horner.
• The opening of "Welcome to the World ", Joseph's theme from the Animated Adaptation of Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Boxing Tendency , sounds similar the iconic pickup from "Owner of a Solitary Heart " past Yep. Since JoJo is well known for referencing Western music and musicians (including of course Yes), this may well have been an intentional homage.
  • Likewise happens in JoJo'south Bizarre Adventure: Gilded Wind : a song that sounds a lot like Prince'due south "P. Control" plays during the infamous dance scene on the boat.
• In the Honey Live! movie, when the group first catches sight of New York City, the BGM takes cues from Gershwin'south "Rhapsody in Blue".
  • The song "Guilty Night, Guilty Kiss" from Love Alive! Sunshine!! sounds a lot like Katy Perry'due south "Teenage Dream". Taken to its logical by SiIvaGunner here .
    • The song "Awaken the ability", too from Love Live! Sunshine!!, sounds very similar to My Chemic Romance'south "Welcome to the Black Parade".
• In High School D×D , the runway "Ano Hullo no Omoi" is similar to the main theme from the Dear Story soundtrack by Francis Lai.
• The Recurring Riffs from Voices of a Distant Star call to mind Starman Leaves from Starman .
• When Digimon Adventure tri. was dubbed into English by Toei and Xi Arts rather than Saban, rights bug led to the lack of the original English theme song, "Digimon are the Champions". Therefore, a new song with a similar feel to the original called "Digimon are Back 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 first opening theme, "Sobakasu (Freckles)" , especially the first half, is suspiciously similar to Electric Light Orchestra's "Mr. Blueish Sky" .
• In episode seven of Massugu ni Ikou there is an Imagine Spot where Mametarou imagines Jack battle him for Hanako'southward centre. An off-beat out version of "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky can be heard in the background during this sequence.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica 's Decretum tin easily exist rendered every bit a Dark Reprise of Greensleeves. With this in mind, a version combining the two is made, requiring some cognition nearly both tune lines in order to distinguish the ii.
• The song "Ai wo Shitta Yajuu no You ni" from the Anime/Dancougar soundtrack has the same opening and centre 8 equally Stan Bush's "Dare" from "The Transformers: The Film
• 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 Red Businesswoman mecha anime sound similar to "Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes", a disco hit from 1979.
• "Nee ", the theme song for Chi's Sweet Risk , sounds very similar to "Koi wo Surutabini Tsuzutukiyasuku ", the theme vocal for the magical daughter anime Nurse Affections Ririka SOS .
• The song "Failure " in Kaguya-sama: Love Is State of war sounds a lot like "Yous Spin Me Circular (Like a Tape)" by Dead or Alive.
  • The runway "Positive ", ironically enough, sounds eerily similar to the infamous track "Sayonara" from Doki Doki Literature Guild! .
• The Song "Never Get Away " in Fushigi Yuugi shares similarities with the Song "Runaway" by Bon Jovi in the first poetry, especially the piano.
• The main theme from the anime accommodation of Instance Closed sounds remarkably shut 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's image song from episode 9, "Tokkou Trip the light fantastic", clearly draws a lot of inspiration from "I Night Carnival" by Kishidan, a J-stone group that got its offset in 1997, around the fourth dimension Saki died.
• The theme song of Legend of Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, "Binary Star" , sounds an awful lot similar Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Terminate United states Now" .
• Slam Dunk 's opening theme, Kimi ga suki da to sakebitai sounds similar to Van Halen'southward Panama .
• Minmay's titular song in Macross: Practise You Think Love? sounds similar to Air Supply's "Fifty-fifty the Nights Are Amend" .
• The intro to "All In Good Time" , the closing theme from the Shakugan no Shana South OVA serial, sounds very like to the chorus of "Listen To Your Heart" by Roxette.
• "Swordland " from Sword Art Online has similarities to "Invasion of Gracemeria " from Ace Combat half dozen: Fires of Liberation , equally noted for case here .
• In episode 3 of the anime Gratis! , the Background Music in the scene where Rei Ryugazaki is dragged to railroad train on the swimming block, more specifically the "bassline" ; sounds eerily similar to a vocal called "I'one thousand Free" by The Soup Dragons. A song that happens to accept a close title to the anime itself.
• "Where Does This Bounding main Go" from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Lonely Complex sounds very similar to the song, "Hyperballad," by Björk.

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English Songs That Sound Like Anime Songs

Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SuspiciouslySimilarSong/Anime