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While watching Sword Art Online, in the third episode when Kirito receives a
pre-recorded message from Sachi on Christmas she says that she'll sing but
instead hums "Rudolf the Red-Nose Reindeer".

This came from the dubbed version of Sword Art Online, it also made me
remember that some other anime i've seen dubbed, when a character says they'll
sing, alot of the time they hum instead.

I am wondering, when an anime is dubbed are songs changed to be hummed or even
changed entirely due to language difference or is it a translation error when
say "sing"?

Note: i am not referring to Insert Songs


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Are songs different between subbed and dubbed?


Sachi in particular hummed the story in the Japanese version as well. (Though,
in the book, she actually sang "Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer". For whatever
reason, they altered that scene in the Anime)

In general, what you're saying will vary from anime to anime, and it depends
on who is dubbing them. How much localization the studio wants, I'm sure is a
big thing when it comes to this. "How much of the origin language's references
do we want to keep?" Overall, it'd difficult to directly translate a song from
Japanese to English, while keeping the flow and meaning intact.


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