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Kenji wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 9:37 am Freeza, Cell and Boo remain three of the biggest low points of the franchise IMHO (before the revival era).

Plus they just so happen to be within the drag-on portion of the anime.

Not being from the US (or Europe), all it took to get me hooked before seeing even a single clip was a copy of a Super Butoden game that people downloaded on their Windows XP systems in school back in 2007 or so, then a copy of the manga that corresponded to where "Z" began in the anime with Raditz ...

There was also a video of him from a few years ago performing with his daughter Kanon and Kageyama at some kind of annual family performance, suggesting that he and Kageyama are still really really close.


Additionally, he tends to be mentioned on Nana Kageyama's channel as "special thanks", and ...

Doctor Seaweed Roll wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 5:52 pmI thought the uncle was a worker on tokusatsu division not anime

He was, name being Nagafumi Hori [堀 長文] (presently deceased).
Kamen Rider (like the J movie of 1994) in particular.

We go into it a little bit during this live stream, but right now we're looking for less in terms of "I want to help do general stuff" and more "I am a complete sicko and documented expert in (blank) and I've already produced a bunch of (blank) that I am personally capable of contributing and ...

That's pretty interesting. I'm still suspicious of it though, given that BPU was in the show, unless somehow every single person responsible for making a DBZ song compilation just totally missed it.


It's a track that was used in-series 9 months after its CD release rather than being made with ...

Battle Point Unlimited was kept off compilations despite being in the fucking show unlike a lot of the lame image songs.


I explained why this is in a thread no one paid attention to.

all of these MONOLITH-performed instrumentals, even the ones that didn't share that structure, never appeared ...

This was actually on point, although I understand why the beginning portion is all that could really make it in (for now).


That part actually wasn't even intentional haha; with the Kikuchi score, damn near everything is in F-minor so when I lowered the faulconer song to that pitch it just wound ...

That made me think that, in retrospect, Kenji Yamamoto took that Hollywood approach to the point of plagiarizing soundtracks from Hollywood films such as Avatar and Terminator: Salvation.


The guy actually told on himself on that one too:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2nU9E3WkAA2GwB?format=jpg ...

The composers post-Kikuchi keep going for this sort of Hollywood-esque sound, so I'd say there's definitely a desire to make Dragon Ball appeal to some weird take on 'leigitimate music scoring' or whatever the fuck. Either way, I've largely thought that the scores from Sumitomo and all of the ...

But yeah, the decision to hire Zimmer just feels really "Trying to look legitimate" which just comes across as a major turn-off. Japanese film and television have gained their popularity around the world without trying silly nonsense like that. This is a big reason why I've also been turned off by ...

Well I'll be... they actually got the guy himself into this franchise. Guess they were really desperate to break the curse.
(And the arranger is Tom Lucas, haven't heard of that one.)

It's utterly ridiculous that one of the most important and influential anime EVER exists, cannot warrant a proper higher quality release.
If the original source (FILM) exists, use that master for Blu-ray.
This picture is from Toei vault with Dragon Ball GT films; seriously, IT'S RIGHT THERE ...

It's really bad synth shit that sounds right out of an 80s cyberpunk movie or something & it plays WAY too much to the point where it's distracting from the scenes.


Or alternatively, some 90's shovelware video game soundtrack derivative of those 80's cyberpunk movie scores (which themselves are ...

You’re probably never gonna hear a fan of that score praises the fax machine breaking down noises that makes up 20-60 percent of the American soundtrack in a given episode or the “Hey you stupid child! The characters said a joke! Here’s some silly music because you’re stupid and we need you to know ...

I've said this many times in the past, but that right there has always been one of my main problems with Funi's Z dub.

In additional to replacing Kikuchi's score, that replacement score rarely ever shuts up (the only times I can think of is when Vegeta dies in the Namek arc and a brief moment ...

So basically, I'm sure we're all familiar with how, for different reasons, a few notable protagonist characters (or deuteragonist depending on the point in time) go out of their way to reject the easiest paths to victory when they're on top, whether that's pride, carelessness, or w/e else.
It's ...

It sort of tends to happen when you have what's effectively an empire of a series on your hands.
And of course, most of its fans aren't anywhere near close to graduating from this low level of discourse, as there are blind spots aplenty.

It also happens that when you want to find a new angle to ...

TechExpert2021 wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 11:46 am Although not a Japanese company, Viacom/Paramount is also overprotective of its IPs and copyrights (see: Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube in 2007). Same goes for Disney.

US corporations are on a whole other level of low so I don't even bother looking in their direction.

Which kind of sucks and frustrating, since those are the most important and influential era for anime; at least for my generation.
Modern anime like One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, etc. owes a lot to those series.
Respect the past, embrace the future.
An anime that is important Dragon Ball should ...