History Main / UntranslatedTitle

* ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'' ("Shrine Maiden of the Godless Month [October]"; the original Geneon release sometimes added the very loosely equivalent subtitle "Destiny of the Shrine Maiden", though the Sentai re-release used the English title.)

* ''Anime/MaiHime'' & ''Anime/MaiOtome'' are partial cases of this. While the "Mai" parts of the title are changed to the English "My" (which may have been intended puns, to begin with), the words Hime (princess) and Otome (maiden) are left alone.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', though this probably due to confusion on [[PunBasedTitle how to translate it]]. One short-lived attempt at an English dub called it ''Those Obnoxious Aliens'', and another called it ''Lum the Invader Girl''.

* ''[[Manga/KodomoNoOmocha Kodocha]]'' (left as the shortened form of the Japanese title "Kodomo no Omocha," rather than using a translation like "Child's Toy").

* Nearly every film made in a language other than German is left with an untranslated title in Germany.

# The title was a ForeignLanguageTitle in the first place, such as "[[Literature/LaBelleDameSansMerci La belle dame sans merci]]" (written in English and given a French title).

# The title was a ForeignLanguageTitle in the first place, such as "Literature/LaBelleDameSansMerci" (written in English and given a French title).

* ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'''s creators already has an directly translated English title for the series, ''GA: Art Department Art Design Class''. Creator/YenPress, however, prefers the untranslated title, and the translated title can only be seen in some pages in the manga.

** "Bésame Mucho".
** "La Vie en rose".

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 on this rule when any Netflix series is broadcasted in TV networks, but in those cases, this is justified due to legal reasons.

* ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku''. What makes this particular example stand out is that the company (Cybird) that made it actually ''did'' give their previous games English-translated titles (''Midnight Cinderella'' and ''Destined to Love''), but only gave this one an English subtitle (''Romances Across Time'') even though that subtitle could have easily worked as the main title itself. The reason behind this might have been ''Ikemen Sengoku'' being the most well-known of their games and getting an anime adaptation with the same title as it.

* ''Anime/MaiHime'' & ''Anime/MaiOtome'' are partial cases of this. While the "Mai" parts of the title are changed to the English "My" (which may have been intended puns to begin with), the words Hime (princess) and Otome (maiden) are left alone.

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

* ''Literature/IWantToEatYourPancreas'': While the title was indeed translated in the English release, on the other hand some foreign dubs, like the Latin American ones, used the English name instead due to the already narmy title would sound even more narmier in either Spanish or Portuguese.

* The ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' season ''Man Jing Tou'' appears to be the only season that doesn't even have an English title. This is because it's a PunBasedTitle that's hard to translate. "Manjingtou" means "slow motion", but the first word "màn" (slow) is changed into the word "màn" as in "manhua".

* ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' was not translated in most foreign releases (not even in Spanish, where song titles were commonly translated until the early 1990's). Averted in Hungary, Israel and most Slavic countries, where they get a literal translation.

* Nearly every film made in the USA is left with an untranslated title in Germany.

* ''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'').

** This frequently occurs to works above a certain age, though it may be difficult to draw the line between 'untranslated title' and 'naturalised 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'.

** Bonus points for the fact that the novel opens with the sentence, "I always called him ''Sensei''." Considering the amount of times the word appears in the novel, it's a damn good thing ''sensei'' is one of the few Japanese words the average English-speaker can recognize.

* The ''Muqaddimah'' by Ibn Khaldun is almost always given that title when translated into a European language, as the original Arabic title means "The Introduction". The book is actually a sophisticated early (14th century) work on sociology, political science, and the theory of history; it gets its title because it is supposed to be an introduction to a [[DoorStopper very long]] history of North Africa (or rather history of the world, with a special focus on North Africa). Since this history, while very good, is only of interest to Arab historians and Arabists, the use of the foreign title is presumably because people would get very confused by a book simply called ''The Introduction'' ("If this is the introduction, where's the rest of it?").

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's some exceptions on this rule when any Netflix series is broadcasted in TV networks, but in those cases this is justified due to legal reasons.

** ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2013'' and its sequel ''The Enchanted Parade''. This is especially egregious in the Latin American Spanish version, since the name can be easily translated.

** ''Anime/JuushinkiPandora'' is a really bizarre case: In the English feed, The MarketBasedTitle ''Last Hope'' is used, but in the Latin American one, the original Japanese name is used instead. Oddly enough, ''both names'' are used in the Netflix page: The English one in the main page and the Japanese one in both the episode menu and the series itself.

** ''Series/FullerHouse'' is a more elaborate case here: The original English name is kept in the Latin American and Japanese feeds, but not in the European Spanish feed. In the Latin American case this is also justified due to the fact the series was dubbed in Argentina, unlike its [[Series/FullHouse predecessor]] which was dubbed in Mexico, and the Argentinian dub used their own translation, while ignoring whatever translations used in the Mexican one.

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

** ''WesternAnimation/SuperDrags'': In this case this is justified because the title was already in English in the original Brazilian Portuguese version, not to mention the whole thing is about [[DragQueen drag queens]].

* Creator/{{Nintendo}} game titles tend not to be translated in Korea. Instead, they are only phonetically transliterated into Hangul. Some games don't even bother with transliteration, instead keeping the English title outright.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The French translation stuck with the original title. Th reason can be seen in the translation of the TitleDrop, which was translated to the equivalent of "stay immobile and silent" due to French having no direct equivalent of "stand still". The AlliterativeTitle would have also been lost if it had been translated.

* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'' ("Another World"), possibly to avoid confusion with [[VideoGame/AnotherWorld another game]] called "Another World".

* ''[[Franchise/DragonBall Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Goku Densetsu]]'' ("The Distant Legend of Goku"}, though the subtitle was shortened to ''Harukanaru Densetsu'' in America and ''Goku Densetsu'' in Europe.
* Creator/{{Nintendo}} game titles tend not to be translated in Korea. Instead, they are only phonetically transliterated into Hangul. Some games don't even bother with transliteration, instead keeping the English title outright.

* ''[[Literature/KimiNoSuizouWoTabetai I Want to Eat Your Pancreas]]'': While the title was indeed translated in the English release, on the other hand some foreign dubs, like the Latin American ones, used the English name instead due to the already narmy title would sound even more narmier in either Spanish or Portuguese.

** ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' and its sequel ''The Enchanted Parade''. This is especially egregious in the Latin American Spanish version, since the name can be easily translated.

* ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'' ("Bullet Refutation")

* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' (and by extention ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}''), to keep the DoubleMeaningTitle ("Ōkami" can mean either "wolf" or "great god").

* ''[[Franchise/DragonBall Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu]]''
* Nintendo game titles tend not to be translated in Korea. Instead, they are only phonetically transliterated into Hangul. Some games don't even bother with transliteration, instead keeping the English title outright.

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* ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'', which means “Volleyball!!” in Japanese.

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

* [[Film/AccionMutante Acción Mutante]].

* ''Film/BaiseMoi'' (the English release added "Rape Me" as a subtitle, which is a {{Bowdlerise}}d translation).

* ''Film/LesDamesDuBoisDeBoulogne''.

* ''Film/{{Desparus}}''.

* ''Film/{{Nostalghia}}''.

* Almost all Indian films are untranslated. Occasionally both names are used in different sources, as with ''Film/ApurSansar'' / ''The World Of Apu'' or ''Film/MegheDhakaTara'' / ''The Cloud-Capped Star''. Note that this is only applied to English exclusively, as other countries did translate the titles, mostly for legal reasons.

* ''Literature/DasKapital'', though it is known as ''Le Capital'' in French editions.

* Creator/JorgeLuisBorges' ''Literature/{{Ficciones}}''.

** This frequently occurs to works above a certain age, though it may be difficult to draw the line between 'untranslated title' and 'naturalised title.' Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/{{Heroides}}'', ''Literature/{{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'.

* Creator/NatsumeSoseki's ''Literature/{{Kokoro}}'' usually has the title left as-is in modern English printings, though it has occasionally been given the (somewhat clunky) translation of "''The Heart of Things''".

* ''[[Literature/InSearchOfLostTime A la recherche du temps perdu]]'' is often given untranslated. Partly because it was translated as ''Remembrance Of Things Past'' instead of ''In Search Of Lost Time'' for a while, and partly because if you're going to read Creator/MarcelProust, you might as well be pretentious about it.
* Creator/EmileZola's novel of poverty and alcoholism ''Literature/LAssommoir'' 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."
* Works by certain ancient Greek philosophers are frequently translated to Latin but no further. For example, Creator/Aristotle's ''Peri Psyches'' is usually referred to by English speakers as ''Literature/DeAnima'' (the English would be something like "About the Soul").

* The ''Literature/{{Muqaddimah}}'' by Creator/IbnKhaldun is almost always given that title when translated into a European language, as the original Arabic title means "The Introduction". The book is actually a sophisticated early (14th century) work on sociology, political science, and the theory of history; it gets its title because it is supposed to be an introduction to a [[DoorStopper very long]] history of North Africa (or rather history of the world, with a special focus on North Africa). Since this history, while very good, is only of interest to Arab historians and Arabists, the use of the foreign title is presumably because people would get very confused by a book simply called ''The Introduction'' ("If this is the introduction, where's the rest of it?").

* ''Series/{{Seacht}}'' — The title is Irish for ''seven'', but when it was shown on Creator/TheBBC, they kept the original title (and pronounced it horribly).

* ''VideoGame/HeiankyoAlien'' ("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)

** ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' and it sequel ''The Enchanted Parade''. This is especially egregious in the Latin American Spanish version, since the name can be easily translated.

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

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

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' (Literally, "King of Games").

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' ("Bullet Refutation")

Many streaming services, such like Creator/{{Netflix}}, Amazon Creator/PrimeVideo, Website/{{Crunchyroll}}, etc., has a policy of keep 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's some exceptions on this rule when any Netflix series is broadcasted in TV networks, but in those cases this is justified due to legal reasons.

** ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' and it sequel ''The Enchanted Parade''. This is especially egregious in the Latin America Spanish version, since the name can be easily translated.

* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': The show's name is untranslated for the Spanish (Latin American), German, and Norweigan dubs.
** For the Spanish dub, this is because the show's name is a pun on the word "vegetales".

* The Icelandic, Latvian, Croatian, Greek and Turkish dubs of the ''{{DarthWiki/TheGingerverse}}'' movie "Going Seoulo" are left in English. However, the word "going" gets taken out, to just leave in the word "Seoulo".