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* Strictly speaking, ''Literature/TheIliad'' means 'A Tale of Ilium (Troy)' and is only one of many stories woven around UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar.
** This frequently occurs to works above a certain age, though it may be difficult to draw the line between 'untranslated title' and 'naturalized title.' Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/{{Heroides}}'', ''Amores,'' and ''Literature/{{Metamorphoses}}'' stand as a case in point. Others, such as Creator/{{Xenophon}}'s ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'', are known by multiple titles, including 'The Persian Expedition', 'The March of the Ten Thousand', and 'The March Upcountry'.

* ''Burai Fighter'' (except for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor version, which was retitled ''Space Marauder'')

* ''Heiankyo Alien'' ("Heiankyo," though technically a proper noun, is an unusual and archaic name for Kyoto; the UsefulNotes/GameBoy version was the only international release to keep the title and not disguise the JidaiGeki setting)

# The title is a proper noun, such as ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' ([[ProtagonistTitle the main character's name]]) or ''Series/RosNaRun'' ([[ThePlace the name of the village]] in which the show is set).

# The title is a proper noun, such as ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' ([[ProtagonistTitle the main character's name]]) or ''Ros Na Rún'' ([[ThePlace the name of the village]] in which the show is set).

Many streaming services, such like Creator/{{Netflix}}, Amazon Creator/PrimeVideo, Website/{{Crunchyroll}}, etc., has a policy of keeping the original name in their original language of any of their original or exclusive productions (and in the case of anime, their Japanese names as well) in other countries outside the U.S. This is especially egregious in some regions like Latin America when even the [[ReadingForeignSignsOutLoud voice-overs simply read the original name in their original language rather than translate it]]. There are some exceptions to this rule when any Netflix series is broadcasted in TV networks, but in those cases, this is justified due to legal reasons.

** Basically everything dubbed in Latin American Spanish for Website/{{Crunchyroll}}, with the sole exception of ''Literature/RokkaBravesOfTheSixFlowers''. Also, subtitles are used for translating foreign text and no voice-overs of any kind are used, other than the dubs. The same goes for Netflix as well for either anime and other genres.

* The ''Literature/VitaNuova'' is rarely ever translated under the title ''New Life'', with most translators preferring to keep [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s title.

** This frequently occurs to works above a certain age, though it may be difficult to draw the line between 'untranslated title' and 'naturalized title.' Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Heroides'', ''Amores,'' and ''Literature/{{Metamorphoses}}'' stand as a case in point. Others, such as Creator/{{Xenophon}}'s ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'', are known by multiple titles, including 'The Persian Expedition', 'The March of the Ten Thousand', and 'The March Upcountry'.

* Emile Zola's novel of poverty and alcoholism ''L'Assommoir'' is most often known by its original title, which is an untranslatable French play on words. ''Assommoir'' was an old slang term for a low-class bar, derived from ''assommer'', to knock out or stun; the nearest rendition in English might be "place to get hammered."

* ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' ("Leader Bee") and its sequel ''[=DoDonPachi=]'' ("Angry Leader Bee"). Both titles are also onomotopiae for gunfire.

* ''VideoGame/MushihimeSama'' ("Bug Princess")

** ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'': In this case, this is justified because the name is an elaborate pun who only had a sense in English. Oddly averted in the Japanese feed, when it was renamed as "F wa Family no F" (F is Family's F).

* ''TabletopGame/MilleBornes''

* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' ("Sky and Robot"), though the subtitle was changed from ''Sora kara CODA e'' to ''Red the Hunter''.

* ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' roughly translates as "Lesbian Bear Storm"...[[WidgetSeries you can probably see why]] this was unchanged in the English localization.

* ''Literature/Ugetsu Monogatari'' ("Rain-Moon Story"), sometimes just shortened to ''Film/{{Ugetsu}}''. Interestingly, despite the fact that the [[AdaptationDisplacement film is much better known in the English-speaking world]] than the 18th-century Japanese book on which it's based, English translations of the book tend to use a translated title (like ''Tales of Moonlight and Rain'').

* ''Ugetsu Monogatari'' ("Rain-Moon Story"), sometimes just shortened to ''Film/{{Ugetsu}}''. Interestingly, despite the fact that the [[AdaptationDisplacement film is much better known in the English-speaking world]] than the 18th-century Japanese book on which it's based, English translations of the book tend to use a translated title (like ''Tales of Moonlight and Rain'').