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Line 4: * The ending theme is sung by a different voice actress in different episodes. In one episode {{spoiler\|when Kaworu gets killed}}, the instrumental arrangement is exactly the same as all the others, but there's nobody singing. The silence is deafening. * Moreover, this particular rendition eschews the lush arrangement of the previous versions in favour of a jauntier, jazzy cover. An acoustic guitar takes the place of the singer, making it sound... happy, insofar as a song could be. Special mention goes to the scene where {{spoiler\|Asuka gets [[Mind Rape~~\|Mind Raped~~]]d by an Angel}} with the Hallelujah chorus playing in the background. Whether they did it intentionally or just because it's [[Ominous Latin Chanting\|Ominous English Chanting]], is unknown. The fourth movement to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony plays while Kaworu {{spoiler\|invades Terminal Dogma and begs Shinji to kill him}}. Whatever relevance the lyrics may have to Shinji's fighting on behalf of all mankind, they are anything but applicable to Shinji himself. * Actually, I think more thought went into this than most people give it credit for. The lyrics serve as something of a de facto motto for SEELE (as demonstrated by Rebuild, in which an excerpt from the poem is NOW PART OF THEIR LOGO), and the themes of fate and divine deliverance also help to frame Kaworu's mentality. Interestingly, voice actor and Eva enthusiast Taliesin Jaffe, in the commentary for the first movie, reports watching this scene with a room full of people well-versed in mysticism and the occult, and apparently as soon as the music started they all knew immediately how that sequence was going to end. Just something to think about. Line 10: Completely the wrong translation of Shito there. Kaworu is not that kind of Angel at all. * Also, the anime itself could be seen as Shinji's own quest for happiness (like the director AND composer themselves!), so the Ode to Joy is surprisingly fitting if you think about it from that way. Then there's ''Komm, Süßer Tod'''s use in [[The Movie]], (referenced in the main page) another example of Soundtrack Dissonance using a song with [[Lyrical Dissonance]] for a devastating combo. * Not to mention the fact that it is, to some extent, a sound alike of "Hey Jude", which is not exactly known for being a depressing song. * The first verse: {{quote\| [[spoiler: I know, I know I've let you down~~<br />~~ I've been a fool to myself~~<br />~~ I thought that I could live for no one else~~<br />~~ And now~~<br />~~ Through all the hurt and pain~~<br />~~ It's time for me to respect~~<br />~~ The ones who love me more than anything~~<br />~~ So with sadness in my heart~~<br />~~ I feel the best thing I could do~~<br />~~ Is end it all and leave forever~~<br />~~ What's done is done, I feel so bad~~<br />~~ What once was happy, now is sad~~<br />~~ I'll never love again~~<br />~~ My world is ending]] }} :::Imagine that set to a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "Hey Jude". Seriously, it's almost impossible to describe in typed form, so [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLoNOYcVQU# here you go.] Now imagine that...but why imagine it when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNelByTqFnA you can see it?] Worse, it's unclear as to whether {{spoiler\|the entire human race}} is {{spoiler\|being killed off in a ritualistic mass suicide}} and screaming in terror or the {{spoiler\|ecstasy of being released from their separate forms and finally merging back into one complete being}}. Or maybe even both. Line 39: In ''Rebuild 2.0'', as the Dummy Plug controlled Eva 01 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3lAoTFpgnE&feature=related mutilates and disembowels] the Angel possessed Eva 03, {{spoiler\|piloted by Asuka in this version,}} a delightfully cheery [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-i-1EzKYAI song] starts playing. It made this scene even more of a [[Tear Jerker]]. * Then again, the song's title (Today Is the Time To Say Goodbye) is pretty explicit on exactly what is going to happen. Same goes for the lyrics - "Sayonara". * There's a second instance of [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] in 2.0 as well; Shinji {{spoiler\|setting off [[~~Endofthe~~The End of the World Asas We Know It\|Third Impact]]}}, set to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvxIEQ6lrNs Tsubasa wo Kudasai]. Another example is Shinji's first fight: The Angel beats his Eva to a scary music, but that's to be expected. But then Eva starts to fight back! Time for a happy winning music (like in Digimon when a new mode is activated)...except what we get is "The Beast", which is ten times more terrifying than the music before. The meaning of the scene also changes from a regular "good wins" to "[[Oh Crap]], what is happening?", making the dissonance hard to notice. Overall, a large part of Evangelion's soundtrack is often described as something that shouldn't fit, but somehow it does. Line 50: Any time Shinn attacks in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] K''. His BGM is ''Zips'', a light, energetic mecha opening that plays away while he goes all angsty-berserker on whatever poor sap you've sicced him on. Another ''Destiny'' example is during episode 7, where the soothing "Fields of Hope" is played against footage of horrifying destruction, as [[Colony Drop\|Junius Seven's fragments crash to Earth]], annihilating cities around the world. In an example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], this actually proves to be one of the most powerful scenes in the series. It was purposefully done, Lacus Clyne singing it, a popular diva on the show, sings it to calm down the kids in her bombshelter. * ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' loves to abuse its [[Memetic Mutation\|ending song]], always [[Played for Laughs]]. Someone gets pummeled by a giant hammer? Play the ED song. [[Explosion Propulsion\|Slammed into the ceiling]], [[Rule of Three\|three times]]? Play the ED song. * ''[[~~Sora~~Heaven's noLost ~~Otoshimono~~Property]]'' uses this heavily, always [[Played for Laughs]], by playing extremely serious music over scenes that are completely impossible to take seriously in the first place to make them even more ridiculous. For example, the scene commonly referred to as "Tomoki vs Panties", which essentially consists of Tomoki attempting to save Sohara from panties that explode when he (and only he) looks at them (nope, [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context\|it doesn't make sense in context either]]) accompanied by a techno-remix of "The Final Coundown". * The Remastered DVDs of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' manages to pull this off with the menus for discs 6, 7 and 8. The animation leading up to the menu itself features various episode clips of characters getting shot at, from Heero to Lady Une, whilst the rather upbeat ending theme, "It's Just Love", plays in the background! ** Speaking of ''Gundam Wing'', in episode 41, [[Theme Tune Cameo\|"Rhythm Emotion", the show's second opening theme]], is playing during the Gundam Team and White Fang's assault on Barge, ending with {{spoiler\|Zechs singlehandedly destroying the space station with Epyon}}. It also happened at the end of episode 36, after Relena surrendered to Romefeller and dissolved the Sanc Kingdom, and during Heero's ZERO System-induced rampage as he destroys several mobile dolls with Epyon. Line 73: * Variation: The non-canonical and deliberately poorly animated [[Omake]] of the ''[[.hack]]'' series, ''.hack//GIFT'', plays the anime's dramatic and haunting music during scenes of slap-stick comedy. * Done on purpose and to very great effect in the finale of the seceand season of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]:[[Stand Alone Complex]]'' when, after everything seems lost, {{spoiler\|1=The Tachikoma hijack the satelite that holds their AIs and crash it into a nuclear missile that is about to hit a major populated area. True to their nature they are unable to feel fear and are exited to experience the mystery of death, so they go down [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELeeRer4Hg happily singing a childrens song that pretty much summs up that life is great].}} The show is well known for having an incredibly awsome soundtrack, but in this one scene, it's just very simple singing without any music. * As ''[[~~Mai~~My-HiME]]'' has an [[Bait and Switch Credits\|overly optimistic and light-hearted opening]], as well as the practice of ending nearly every episode either with a [[Cliff Hanger]] or at least on the most dramatic note, it just ''begs'' for Soundtrack Dissonance. Add the show's fondness for [[The Teaser]], and you know the drill. A character is shown to have been quite unambiguously stomped into the dirt and rolled over with a road-roller; there are multiple battles between former friends going all over the place, and there has just been an explosion somewhere. Cut to the opening credits, with its shots of the blue sky with seagulls, characters [[The Glomp\|glomping]] each other and smiling, and most unbearably, the upbeat "Shining Days". Aaah! * When Kafuka Fuura of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' offers her ridiculously positive point of view on a decidedly dismal situation, the negative imagery is accompanied by her serene theme or other cheerful music. For example, her memories of her mother's demonic possession are paired with an upbeat accordion waltz. And then in the second season, the time when Itoshiki-sensei tries to hang himself (again, surprise surprise...) while [[Happy Birthday to You]] plays in the background. Line 79: [http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/elfenlied/elbeyourgirl.htm Add the lyrics however] and it [[Makes Sense in Context]]. * While the openings and endings in ''[[Death Note]]'' fit the mood of the series, a clear example of Soundtrack Dissonance appears in one episode, where Misa walks through Tokyo singing gently, with the lyrics in sharp contrast to the continuous shots of people dying from her writing their names down. ** actually, while the tone of the song is a little jarring, the lyrics fit quite well "god (referring in this context to to Light passing judgement through Misa) is watching you." * [[Downer Ending~~\|Downer Endings~~]]s sometimes get a separate [[Ending Theme]] just to avoid this, but when they don't... well, if knowing about the upcoming sequel series didn't spoil the effect of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'''s [[Downer Ending]] for you, the sudden cut to "LET'S GO! GET YOU! L! O! V! E! LOVE! LOVE! GET YOU!" probably did. ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'''s [[Bittersweet Ending]] suffered in exactly the same way. In ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'', during episode 20 {{spoiler\|after winning the second battle against Eas's Nakisakebe, the girls faint from the exhertion of the battle and dance training finally taking a toll on them. The episode ends with them being taken to the hospital}}. Cue the fluffy, upbeat ending theme "You Make me Happy". ** In fact, ''every single [[Pretty Cure]] [[Ending Theme]] ever'', not counting the movie ones, is light-hearted, cheerful and happy-go-lucky, thus ruining the mood whenever a season reaches its climax or an episode ends on a depressing tone. The fact that nowadays all the endings are [[Dancing Theme~~\|Dancing Themes~~]]s does not help matters. * The light, happy bubblegum J-pop tune "Ai No Tenshi" underscores the gruesome carnage in ''[[Perfect Blue]]''. * Despite its gradual progression into more depressing territory, ''[[Code Geass]]'' managed to avert this trope for most of its run. By the time most of the sadder episodes hit, the [[Ending Theme]] is a slow song with sad but hopeful lyrics. Line 93: *** You think the original ending song was peppy and upbeat? Music-wise, sure, but with lyrics like, "Even if my body is sullied, my chastity muddied/Please believe in the brocade of my spirit"... In the [[Grand Finale]] for R2, {{spoiler\|when Lelouch dies, possibly some of the happiest, prettiest music in the series plays as his little sister begs for him to open his eyes, then cries over his dead body.}} * But then, it's supposed to be a ''happy'' ending. Go figure that out. {{spoiler\|The soundtrack shows how the rest of the world reacts, given that he was ''seen'' as a bad guy by most of the world at the time.}} ** {{spoiler\|Even easier than that inference, though, is that the ending is happy because he won.}} Line 102: * In ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'', the main character goes on a wild, disturbing hallucinatory fantasy with his neighbor blasting a sickeningly cute anime theme song in the background. Eventually the vocals alone accompany his visions, with an effect similar to an [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]]. * Neither of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'''s opening songs go well with the seasons' final episodes, which are always dark. Especially disturbing in episodes that have a recap of some dramatic event [[The Teaser\|before the opening sequence]]. Eyecatchers also provide a similar effect, particularly in ''Sailor Stars''. In fact, many [[Magical Girl]] anime series with typical love-themed soundtracks suffer from this when it comes to the multi-episode final fights. ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', with its two extremely cheerful theme songs, is a good example. ''[[Prétear]]'', while cutting the opening theme in the final two episodes, keeps the ~~ending -- in~~ending—in episode 12, it comes up right after {{spoiler\|Sasame sacrifices himself to save Takako}}, and even though it is slower than the opening, it still doesn't fit the mood. I'd disagree with "Sailor Star Song" not matching the final episodes of ''Sailor Stars''. If Sailor Moon didn't remain optimistic in the face of chaos, she'd cease to be Sailor Moon. * ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' puts "The World of Midnight", a beautifully sung ballade, right on top of the fade-out of a scene where {{spoiler\|a young boy has just bled to death on the ground after having had his hand shot off}}. The song is reused during the ending credits just after {{spoiler\|his sister is shot in the head on-screen, killing her in an an almost as gruesome a manner}}. The fact doesn't get better by the fact that, considering just how [[Freudian Excuse\|badly they had been messed]] up by what [[Harmful to Minors\|they had lived through]], this was probably the best thing that could happen to them. Line 113: * ''[[Narutaru]]'' has one of the more unsettling instances of this trope in the opening. The song is an upbeat tune, played to a variety of images that looked drawn by little kids. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIF5BLyh3Mk It seems cute enough]. Then watch the first few episodes. The cute opening suddenly becomes a major point of [[Mood Whiplash]]... You think comparing the OP to the ''first'' few episodes is bad? Try comparing it to the ''last'' few, which place such events as Hiroko's kidnapping into frightening context. Or even worse, compare the OP to later volumes of the original manga... That only goes for the tune and images, though. The lyrics to the song seem to be about someone waiting for a person who will never ~~come -- how~~come—how that relates to the series' story is up to the audience, but it's a far cry from cheery. * ''Steam Detectives'' has ''Amazing Grace'' play during particularly poignant scenes where somebody [[Disney Villain Death\|falls from a high place]], [[Famous Last Words\|speaks their last]], or [[Climbing Climax\|an epic fight at the top of someplace high]]. * So far down the list, without mention of ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''? In [[The Movie]], ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]: Do You Remember Love'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzn5VWKg7lY the entire final battle] is set to the titular song, a soft and melodic love ballad supposedly taken from the ruins of a Protoculture outpost discovered by the Macross. It is one of the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|most iconic scenes in anime history]], contrasting the message of the song with images of space warfare, [[Macross Missile Massacre\|swarms of beams and missiles]] flying everywhere, and, more particularly, Hikaru's final assault into Boddol Zer's inner sanctum. On the one hand, all of this drives home how the allied forces are fighting for the survival of "culture" ~~--that~~—that is, the unique feelings and emotions that can create such a song in the first ~~place-- but~~place—but then the audience is treated to a man being beheaded messily and graphically by falling debris, and the dissonance sets in. ** ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' also uses the titular song from the movie in slow ballad form -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKiu30uKR7s for an inverted purpose]. {{spoiler\|Later in the battle after Ranka is freed}}, the song comes up again in quick form as one of the many mixed with Lion... not to mention how nearly every song in every Macross series has to do with love somehow, and are often used as backdrops and/or weapons in combat. * The 12th opening of ''[[One Piece]]'' sounds more like something one would hear from a bubbly high school romance/comedy than an epic adventure show. Even more jarring is the fact that the arc it's played for is about {{spoiler\|Luffy infiltrating a prison to save his brother from execution. This is the beginning of an arc that ''brutally'' subverts the long-standing principle that [[Death Is Cheap\|nobody will be killed off outside of flashbacks]].}} Line 137: * The ''[[Starship Troopers (anime)\|Starship Troopers]]'' OVA mixes peppy, cheesy 80's music with two separate bar brawls, amongst other things. * The opening song of ''[[Xam'd: Lost Memories]]'' involves a heavy rock song descriptively titled "Shut up and Explode" accompanying many explosions, while implying that the series is all about fighting monsters with the power of xam'd. The series itself is pretty melancholy, and focuses much more on setting and characters than combat. * In ''[[Darker ~~Than~~than Black]]'', the "Now I've lost it I know I can kill" intro generally fits the show, despite the intentional irony in the lyrics.. But after sitting through an episode of the usual DtB action, the calm, relaxing, romantic closing song that plays as the credits scroll over a picture of Yin sitting in a field of flowers make it seem more like a minefield. * ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' keeps the same upbeat sound for the commercial break bumpers as the series itself becomes more and more serious/dramatic. For that matter, its opening theme is a cheery little song about hope. It plays over a montage of the main characters fleeing their home as it is [[Doomed Hometown\|burned by the army trying to kill Pacifica]]. * In its original version, the first ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' movie set a fight scene between [[Kaiju]] to the tune of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ryiqHfwu8 Bolero], a ballet piece. Line 146: ** The dub adds an energetic song. Dawn appears on-screen in a pretty dress, releasing her Piplup and Buneary. All as we hear "-AS YOU FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL! NOTHING CAN STOP YOU! DIAMOND AND PEARL!" * ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' features this with its first ending, a hopeful ballad with a gentle piano introduction based on Pachelbel's Canon. This part is played over traumatic final scenes several times. Special points go to episode nine, which plays it over an alternate end credits sequence just to rub it in further. * Even the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series is victim to this, something tense or actiony happens, and in some cases some dies right before the end credits, and even when the episode ends on a sad note, the lighthearted endings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMp4PxcwbA&feature=related of the] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF0zWmWjvo0 three] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IobtVL8rv5o respective series] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_V9gJFrSek play] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJaf3XCmWog after] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSpjNDZjR6o the] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQULDb0EIU episode ends] * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqBEeEmhzKM And this happens] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-mJb41-opw&feature=related numerous times] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSX6Qqawi0&feature=related in] ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' * In the "Stinkbomb" segment of Otomo Katsuhiro's ''Memories'', peppy jazz music accompanies the darkly humorous tale of a young man who unwittingly becomes a living bioweapon as the Japanese SDF ineptly tries to stop him. Line 157: * The opening song to ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan\|Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro Chan]]'' fits this to a T. A little girl singing gleefully with images of her torturing a young boy various ways playing throughout. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4exBns5Lzc&fmt=18 The theme song for] ''[[Hell Girl]]''. Ignoring the dark introduction, would you believe this is a show about condemning people to hell? * All of the ''[[Hellsing]]'' [[OVA~~\|OVAs~~]]s have different ending themes. After OVA 4, right after the viewer is treated to the... ahem, ''pleasant'' sight of Alucard devouring Rip Van Winkle '''alive''', we are treated to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvK6CN-le_o this] ending theme. To be fair, that ending theme was actually, Dad Englandied, which was that infamous Nazi propaganda song back in WWII. On the subject of Rip van Winkle, there's also a bit where she [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8A6f4r2do merrily sings opera while the crew of the ''Invincible'' are being slaughtered and turned into ghouls.] Line 163: ** If you wanna talk about [[Hellsing]], let us gleefully recall the [[Anime]] series: Its groovy, English opening that no one can understand, and its English ending...played by ''Mr. Big''. This is a show about vampires, twisted relationships, gore, and a [[Combat Sadomasochist]] who likes the [[Lolicon\|lolis]]; I ''highly'' doubt a romantic, upbeat ending them about how much you 'shine on me' is appropriate. * I was watching ''[[Sword of the Stranger]]'' recently and I noticed that the scenes where things seemed the most hopeless were the ones accompanied by the most triumphant music, which had the interesting effect of preluding whatever [[Badass]] thing the hero was about to pull to make things right again. * ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' makes use of these fairly often, sometimes dramatic, sometimes...um, surreal. For instance, the soundtrack becomes beautiful ~~opera--while~~opera—while in the foreground [[Baleful Polymorph\|cow-Nanami]] charges at a red sweater held by Utena. Yeah, it's [[~~BLAM~~Non Sequitur Episode\|that kind of episode]]. ** The duel songs are especially offensive about this. Upbeat music about death and deceptive things. The crown could probably be held by Mikage's I Am an Imaginary Living Body and Touga's Allegory Allegorier Allegoriest. * ''[[Alien Nine]]'', most prominently with the [[Bait and Switch Credits\|bright, upbeat opening theme]]. * ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has some of the absolute most ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome\|beautiful]]'' music in all of anime. However, that means that you have songs like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5LF2Udf20 this] playing during scenes with so much horror and [[Gorn]] that the Japanese TV networks had to ''censor'' them. Other examples go from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRRe1moVhY epic] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raxEmANPTVc scary], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICKoZ18zHk epic] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxcPtTlYQQ ominous], and both [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWV8pNKo86Q emotional, desperate action] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHA7Aw2GiE tearjerking] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ9D05ll2Rw dark, haunting action]. The scenes tend to completely lose their effect accordingly. * Episode 24 of ''[[Planetes]]'' take the "episode's ending clashes with sudden shift to closing song": {{spoiler\|Tanabe is on the surface of the moon trying to carry Claire with her to safety, even after her knees start to experience immense pain, [[Love Freak\|sure that something she's for someone else has to end well]]. However, her air starts running out when she's still 10km from a nearby city, but she refuses to take Claire's oxygen, even though Claire says she wants to die to redeem herself. [[Break the Cutie\|But as she begins suffocating to death, every painful memory of people's lives cut short in spite of her beliefs flash before her eyes, and she really seems ready to take the life for her own]]. She desperately starts taking out Claire's oxygen tank}}--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1sCIFj_1w WONDERFUL LIFE] [[Super Robot Wars\|HIJACK!]] * ''[[Full Metal Panic!]] : The Second Raid''. While Yui-Lan is going berserk on some rebels, Gates is singing Ave Maria. Mind you, Ave Maria with screams and machine gun fire in the background. * ''[[Tokyo Magnitude 8.0]]'' dumps the overly cheery J-pop number "M/elody" into the end of each of its episodes. While about 50% end on cliffhangers, and it's a [[Disaster Movie\|Disaster Series]], causing a major case of this in several places. ** This Tropper would also like to include the opening theme for ''8.0'' which gives the feeling of a shounen adventure series more so than a serious and dramatic survival story. * In [[Clannad (visual novel)\|Clannad]], think of just about about any episode that ends even somewhat dramatically or sad. Cue the [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] Dango Daikazoku. "Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango..." ** Even worse in ''After Story'', where some [[Tear Jerker\|unbelievably sad moments]] cut directly to a really bouncy and upbeat song with footage of a young girl skipping happily. * Oh, The ''[[Naruto]]'' Pain arc. [[Wham! Episode\|Bam]]! {{spoiler\|Konoha is now a smoking crater}}. Cut to cheery happy super fun song and Hinata riding a bicycle! Line 186: * ''[[Berserk]]'s'' ending theme, "Waiting So Long" by SILVERFINS, is an [[Ear Worm\|ear wormy song]] composed of [[Gratuitous English]], but it's still [[Solemn Ending Theme\|calm and mellow and peaceful.]] ... Apparently, it's the perfect thing to listen to right after seeing {{spoiler\|the lead man screaming and crying in agony in a pool of his blood at the sight of his lover getting raped to insanity by his best friend-turned demon}} and [[Left Hanging\|having no closure as to what happened immediately afterward.]] That ending is a [[Downer Ending\|downer]] in ''every'' way, shape, and form. * ''[[Prétear]]'' has this effect when the happy upbeat ending theme is playing after a really dark episode. Thankfully, near the end of the show they drop the opening theme altogether though the ending theme is still there. It's really apparent when watched on DVD which jumps right to the next episode: 'here have an uplifting happy song, and oh yeah, people are dead.' * ''[[Kantai Collection]]: Let's Meet at Sea'' has an opening over action scenes that is paired with a soulful ballad that would sound more at home in a slow-paced ''dorama''. ---- :<small>Back to [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]</small> {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Soundtrack Dissonance~~{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]] [[Category:{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]