So it’s kind of surprising that for its North American dubbed screenings, the handlers of hit anime film Your Name are flipping the pages of the playbook back and using new versions of the movie’s songs that have English vocals. But there’s a twist, in that the English versions are written and performed by the same person responsible for the Japanese originals: Japanese rock band Radwimps’ singer Yojiro Noda.
”Zenzenzense” isn’t the only song getting new English vocals from original Japanese singer Yojiro Noda.
And, of course, they’ll be present in the dubbed North American release of Your Name, which is coming in less than two months, on April 7.
While English-dubbed character dialogue has carved out what appears to be a permanent place for itself in the Western anime market, English re-recordings of anime songs have largely met with the opposite fate.