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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 ...

Typical Toei. :roll:


Yes, so any time you see an anime TV series from the 20th Century (at least the 80's-90's period) getting a sensible, high quality release, chances are you won't see Toei on the list of studios these belong to.
The only exception to this I can think of is Slam Dunk or so ...

Scsigs wrote: Mon Oct 06, 2025 1:58 am I imagine AB Groupe will eventually do their AI upscaled & color corrected remaster, which we don't know when that'd be since they've been dragging their feet on just finishing the first series.

Apparently they decided to call it quits because Toei just wouldn't budge.

We are far more likely to see Crunchymation do another steelbook release or Collector’s Edition of Z than see Toei do a physical media release.


And the chances of even that are getting lower and lower, Sony's got its own new series to shill (completely unrelated to DB of course), and it's only a ...

You know, if I had a nickel for every time Yamamoto ripped off a Terminator score right around the time of the Cell arc and stopped working on a DB anime after the end of that same arc, I'd have two. Which isn't much, but...

And I'd continue that, but in parallel, one other composer in an alternate ...

Jord wrote: Sat Sep 27, 2025 4:34 pmIn short, if they haven't anything to announce, they should quit making these vague statements.

You do remember which country it is we're talking about, right?
It's sort of an everyday procedure for them whenever there's some kind of issue they don't want to draw more attention to.

It's created this weird situation where the versions of the show you can get on torrent sites are oftentimes more "definitive" than the actual legal releases.


The last people who tried to rectify this (AB) got stonewalled by Toei for some other reasons apparently. That's realistically all this ...

Whoever did that was terrible at cutting backgrounds, or they reused the animation cel and did a terrible job putting it together.


And the fact that they didn't even want to put their name(s) on it for design, unlike the image collections that were being churned out prior (and at the same time ...