One reason I love anime so much is the intro and ending songs; it’s exposed me to music I never would’ve had to chance to listen to. And when I was getting into anime, a lot of the anime that got brought over also did their own version of the Japanese songs. Mostly they’d just translate the lyrics and get an English singer but not always, and I’ve always enjoyed hearing the adaptation. Because nowadays when anime gets localized they keep the original song, the adapted theme song is sort of a lost art from a bygone era. So this panel is all about celebrating adapted anime theme songs and sharing our passion for them with others. The panel can be outlined as follows: first we’ll tell who we are and what we are doing, then we’ll go over some basic terminology and categorize the three types of adapted anime theme songs we have encountered in our research, then we’ll provide examples from each category, listening to both the original and adapted song, next we will discuss culturally significant adapted theme songs and how they added to the value and influence of their series, and finally we will give an overview of the state of adapted theme songs today. To keep the audience engaged, we play the Japanese version first and see if they can guess what it is, and given time constraints, we will take audience questions about the songs in the panel or allow them to talk about songs they enjoyed that we did not cover. The panel is meant to be informative, fun, interactive.