Having nothing else to do at the end of a week of midterms, I decided to lounge around and watch some favorite anime DVDs - an admittedly strange combination of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Outlaw Star, and Azumanga Daioh.
I noticed that when watching the opening credits, the subtitles don't always translate the lyrics to the opening song. Every other episode it seems, the subtitles give me the English translation. When it doesn't I get the romantized native Japanese lyrics (in the GiTS it gets even stranger, as the opening song 'Rise' is in Russian...).
I guess my question is, why? It just seems so random and odd - in GiTS, the