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** It also has "Black Star (never lose myself)" and "Black Star (lost myself)". The first is a stirring hip-hop song that serves as Black Star's leitmotiv, the second one is a complete jumbled mess with the voice turned incomprehensible and the entire musical arrangement sounding like a carnival on acid.
** It also has "Black Star (never lose myself)" and "Black Star (lost myself)". The first is a stirring hip-hop song that serves as Black Star's leitmotiv, the second one is a complete jumbled mess with the voice turned incomprehensible and the entire musical arrangement sounding like a carnival on acid.
* [[Macross Frontier]] has the song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpt2qikj1I Aimo]'', a love song/lullaby taught to Ranka Lee by her mother. Later in the series, Ranka sings a version created by her manager, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzO2BT8l-A Aimo O.C.]'', which changes the song into a battle hymmn.
* [[Macross Frontier]] has the song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpt2qikj1I Aimo]'', a love song/lullaby taught to Ranka Lee by her mother. Later in the series, Ranka sings a version created by her manager, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzO2BT8l-A Aimo O.C.]'', which changes the song into a battle hymmn.
** To say nothing of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKiu30uKR7s&feature=related [[bless the little queen]] version] of ''Do You Remember Love''... It's not just a dark reprise of an earlier scene in the series—it's a dark reprise of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24&feature=related the most iconic song of the franchise]''.
** To say nothing of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKiu30uKR7s bless the little queen version] of ''Do You Remember Love''... It's not just a dark reprise of an earlier scene in the series, it's a dark reprise of ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24 the most iconic song of the franchise]''.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has a weird version where the darker version shows up first... in the ''very first scene''. It's a creepy song and fits the dark atmosphere of the scene. It turns out to be a slowed down, distorted version of the ending theme, "Magia", which the show deliberately avoided using until [[Wham! Episode|Episode 3]]. The ending version is... only slightly less creepy than the one used in the opening scene.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has a weird version where the darker version shows up first... in the ''very first scene''. It's a creepy song and fits the dark atmosphere of the scene. It turns out to be a slowed down, distorted version of the ending theme, "Magia", which the show deliberately avoided using until [[Wham! Episode|Episode 3]]. The ending version is... only slightly less creepy than the one used in the opening scene.
** Another weird variation comes up late in the series. Homura's theme, "Puella in somnio" (Girl in the Dream) tends to follow her arrival onto a scene without fail, and is a mysterious and airy. A reprise comes in the form of "Inevitabilis" (Inevitable), a heavy and melancholic piano reprise that plays {{spoiler|during Episode 11 when she breaks down in front of Madoka and explains everything before resolving to fight Walpurgis Night by herself}}. While the reprise came up much earlier in the series, it's particularly more poignant in the context of this scene and sets a much bleaker tone from thereon in (which, for ''Madoka Magica'', is saying something).
** Another weird variation comes up late in the series. Homura's theme, "Puella in somnio" (Girl in the Dream) tends to follow her arrival onto a scene without fail, and is a mysterious and airy. A reprise comes in the form of "Inevitabilis" (Inevitable), a heavy and melancholic piano reprise that plays {{spoiler|during Episode 11 when she breaks down in front of Madoka and explains everything before resolving to fight Walpurgis Night by herself}}. While the reprise came up much earlier in the series, it's particularly more poignant in the context of this scene and sets a much bleaker tone from thereon in (which, for ''Madoka Magica'', is saying something).