then uses the original version in the finale. Romeo X Juliet uses a Japanese translation of 'You Raise Me Up' as an OP.The US release did not get the rights and doesn't use either. This was apparently a bit of cross-promotion that didn't pan out. Maison Ikkoku used Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Alone Again (Naturally)' as an OP, and 'Get Down' by the same singer as the closing theme for episode 24.Mushishi uses 'The Sore Feet Song' by Ally Kerr as its opening theme, and the second season does it again by using 'Shiver' by Lucy Rose as its opening theme.Ergo Proxy's ending theme is 'Paranoid Android' by Radiohead.Due to copyright reasons, The Dub uses Falling Down for the first episode and generic J-pop for the rest. Eden of the East uses 'Falling Down' by Oasis for its opening theme.MariaHolic uses a cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra's 'Kimi ni Mune Kyun' for its ending theme.Gunslinger Girl used 'The Light Before We Land' by The Delgados for its opening theme.Serial Experiments Lain used 'Duvet', by British rock band Boa, for its opening theme.The song doesn't appear in the English language version due to licensing issues. Speed Grapher uses Duran Duran's 'Girls on Film' in the original Japanese version.Big, a band who was actually quite popular over in Japan. Speaking of Hellsing, the ending used the song Shine by Mr.They also changed one of the smoothest opening songs (Hellsing's Logos Naki World ) to some random heavy metal song by Keith Flint of the British techno group The Prodigy.This had some, ah, 'interesting' results, like the song 'Star' from Nova International (which has the line 'I wanna drive a big fat Cadillac' as part of its lyrics), set to the opening - of all things - of Inuyasha. In the older times, frequently used by MTV and VIVA for the various anime they showed in Germany.Somehow, the American release managed to keep the rights for it. Paradise Kiss used Franz Ferdinand's 'Do You Want To' for its ending theme.In the West, it's known only through its use in this show.

Speaking of Gainax, the ending theme of His and Her Circumstances is a cover of ' Yume no naka e', a 1973 song by Yousui Inoue.The Rebuild films have another cover of 'Fly Me to the Moon', this time by Utada Hikaru, as well as a cover (once again by Hayashibara) of the Japanese standard ' Tsubasa o kudasai', originally released by the group Akai Tori in 1971.Neon Genesis Evangelion: Every episode ends with a different cover of the standard 'Fly Me To The Moon' several were performed by Megumi Hayashibara, both in and out of character as Rei Ayanami.Knights of the Zodiac, the DiC dub of Saint Seiya, used the Bowling for Soup cover of A Flock of Seagulls' song 'I Ran (So Far Away)'.

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