Although to be fair, 2001-2003 films such as The One, The Matrix Reloaded, Daredevil, and Queen of the Damned had likewise included the above bands along with P.O.D, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, Evanescence...etc.VegettoEX wrote:FUNimation was simply the last one to drunkenly stumble on the bandwagon, by which point everyone else had already jumped ship.Rukawa11 wrote:I agree that it comes down to what era the series was produced in. Alternative Rock/ Nu Metal didn't pervade Anime soundtracks until early 2000, so technically anything produced before then would sound awkward.
The quintessential example of this is probably the Street Fighter II movie with Korn and Alice in Chains and KMFDM when it came out here in 1995. My recollection of the last-gasp was the Tekken movie with Stabbing Westward and the Offspring in 1998.
FUNimation with Deftones and Drowning Pool and Pantera and stuff? 2001 through 2003.
American bands aside, an all-rock Anime instrumental soundtrack was incredibly rare until the late 90's, and despite of the fact that:
I believe the dated DBZ animation itself would make a rock soundtrack sound awkward. I still remember Movie 5 having a post-grunge ending song that sounds like late 90's Creed playing while Cooler's men attacked Goku: the combination was dreadful imo.90sDBZ wrote:there's not really anything in-universe that would suggest that Dragonball/Z is supposed to represent the real life 1980s or 1990s that it was produced in. It's a timeless story set in a bizarre fictional world that happens to be very diverse
Don't wanna bring the arguments from "Does DBZ's ost feel lackluster at times?" over here. But I just wanna point out that, even for those like myself whose first exposure to DBZ had been Japanese fansubbed video tapes (followed by taped episodes of the French dub from a channel called "Mangas," and then, the Funimation dub), I still don't think what Kikuchi had done (or rather, what he hadn't done) with 1992-1996 period DBZ is excusable.Kunzait_83 wrote:Mike/EX is the only person who's even kind of approached talking about what I think is the root core problem lurking behind a lot of these discussions: I think a LOT of people were very thoroughly sold on Dragon Ball Z being this totally contemporary "new hotness" entity that supposedly embodied the zeitgeist of the time (late 90s/early 2000s) and finding out that it wasn't originally actually that at all just... fucks with some people's minds on some deep seated gut reactionary level that maybe even they're not fully aware of.
The biggest Anime series of that era being the only one with 70's sounding music that would turn off anyone who isn't deeply invested in the series is criminal. I honestly need reminding sometimes that Mystic Gohan or Vegetto's fights with Super Boo had aired during the same time as Evangelion, Slam Dunk, Fushigi Yuugi, Slayers...etc.
Kikuchi's music had basically rendered each DBZ scene ten years older than it actually is. His score may far exceed all the English DB/Z/GT soundtracks, but it pales in comparison Super Butouden or Ultimate Battle 22 's music.