Anime and medical horrors

[nenena]

Today I totally heard background music from Tsubasa Chronicle being used on a television news program.

To put this in context: The news program was one of those human interest stories about a woman who got a blood infection from her dead toenail and ended up having to get her leg amputated at the knee.

As I actually have a dead toenail on my foot right now, I found this program slightly disconcerting, use of recognizable anime music or not.

Oh Japanese television, please never change.

PS, for those of you watching Code Geass: Most hilariously awful love confession since Star Wars Episode II? I think a solid case could be made.

Comments

[orthoflame.livejournal.com]

Dude, that reminds me of the time Lion King music was playing on the Hindi news for some crazy lover's murder thing (I don't remember the channel, sadly). I couldn't help but laugh and then cringe at how I wouldn't look at TLK the same way again. Then again, Indian news channels are infamous for using movie songs and whatnot.

Still, using Tsubasa music on a televion news program for a women with a blood infection is still interesting in its own right.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Japanese TV does that all the time. I remember watching a news program once wherein a whole string of Disney movie songs were used as background music. And I can't help but wonder if the network actually got permission to use any of those songs (seeing as how Disney is famously stingy about use of their copyrighted materials), or if there are lax copyright laws in Japan that would let the networks get away with it.