In frozen Japanese dub, Anna, voiced by [the late Sayaka
Kanda](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/24690/idina-menzel-
pronounces-sayaka-%E6%B2%99%E4%B9%9F%E5%8A%A0), says unmei (運命 , うんめい) instead
of 'true love' as it was originally said in Kristen Bell's portrayal.

Is 運命 just treated synonymously as, say, [本物の愛 (I think honmono no ai and
ほんもののあい) or 真実の恋 (I think shinjitsu no koi
しんじつのこい)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66584/difference-between-
the-2-true-love-that-kaguya-says) from [Kaguya-
sama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaguya-sama:_Love_Is_War)?

Well 1 big difference is that Anna was engaged to Hans on the same day as
their meeting while in Kaguya-sama they (Kaguya and Miyuki) are nowhere near
marriage at the time, so maybe it's not that synonymous.

**Huge edit:**

Okay so I dug up my old copy of the Japanese Frozen and well I was wrong.
Apparently not every 'true love' of Kristen Bell is translated the same way.
You can even see in the [Japanese For The First Time In Forever (Umarete
Haijmete)](https://youtu.be/NhqxuXlgT9g?t=192) where while Kristen's Anna says
'A chance to find true love', Sayaka's Anna says 'Koi wo mitsukete.'

However some parts with unmei are when Sayaka's Anna says 'unmei no hito',
which I guess translates to like 'person of destiny', 'fated person' or
'person (I am) destined to be with (in marriage)'. Below are 3 such scenes,
where for some reason the 1st scene's subtitles say 真実の愛 (but I believe my
Japanese is good enough to say that the Sayaka's Anna really says 'unmei no
hito dakara'...and I'm pretty sure it's dakara because I think dakara would be
used the same way a certain Philippine word might be used).

Scene 1 - Kristen's Anna: Ew! Look, it doesn't matter, it's true love!

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zvA3E.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zvA3E.png)

Scene 2 - Kristen's Anna: It's true love!

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qebfn.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qebfn.png)

Scene 3 - Kristen's Anna: I was wrong about him. It wasn't true love.

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0QzS.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0QzS.jpg)

But this 1st scene's wrong subtitles are I guess serendipitous to my question.
Okay so my question initially was something like

> 'When Anna says "It's destiny" instead of "it's true love", are 'destiny'
> and 'true love' synonymous here?',

which has a wrong assumption.

1 - My question is now:

> When Sayaka's Anna says that (Hans is) a person of destiny, how synonymous
> is that to saying Kristen's Anna's original 'It's true love' (where 'it' is
> presumably 'what I have with this person' ?

2 - And actually if Sayaka's Anna were to have said (as I misremembered) 'It's
unmei', then it would've been, what, synonymous to 1 of those true love
variants above? Or not really? Or in the 1st place is 'unmei da'/'unmei
dakara' perhaps an odd word choice or something?
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In the Japanese dub of Frozen, Anna says 'unmei' (fate/destiny; the late Sayaka Kanda) instead of 'true love' (Kristen Bell)?
In general, you cannot expect lines from a movie to be translated literally
and consistently like an scientific article. In particular, subtitles tend to
be simplified aggressively. Even if the translation of some word seems
inconsistent, it is quite possible that there is no deep reason for that.

If there _is_ a reason, it may be because the meaning of 愛 is narrower in
Japanese. 愛 is a purely intangible concept, and it does not refer directly to
a person. "He's my true love" may be a valid expression in English, but
彼は私の真実の愛だ sounds funny in Japanese. 恋 and 愛 are [different
concepts](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/58351/5010) in Japanese, and
the latter is an uncommon word in a story like _Kaguya-sama_. I know almost
nothing about this movie, but uttering a grandiose word like 真実の愛 many times
while thinking of a specific person may sound a bit like a daydreamer or
chūnibyō. I won't be surprised if the translator decided to replace some
instances of "true love" to 運命の人 to make them sound more natural in Japanese.
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