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by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs
Replies: 16
Views: 317

Re: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs

I don't know if they really gave it much thought. As far as I recall the music for those episodes is the same generic faux metal "something dangerous is gonna happen" music like the rest of the series dub. It might be that no actual new music was created for those and they opted to simply...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:16 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs
Replies: 16
Views: 317

Re: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs

All of GT's dub was scored by Mark Menza. Menza did the music for Z movies 1, 6 (which is where the movie theme used for the remastered dub came from) ,7 , 8 (mixed with recycled Faulconer tracks and licensed rock and metal bands) , 11 and all of Dragon Ball GT. I see, I guess that's the only DB se...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:15 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs
Replies: 16
Views: 317

Re: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs

Honestly, the only reason we probably even got covers for the GT opening and ending songs is because all they had was Step into the Grand Tour which was too short and didn't go with the unaltered animation forcing them to put in a minimum amount of effort for GT's Green Brick release If I may digre...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Did Any Japanese Voices Get Better?
Replies: 2
Views: 160

Re: Did Any Japanese Voices Get Better?

It's most common with (in-house) Funimation for one simple reason, that being their origins as a random selection of people from anywhere that initially auditioned to imitate the previous Ocean voice actors and for many of whom it was their first time working on an anime series. Of course, in stark ...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs
Replies: 16
Views: 317

Re: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs

It's the most prolific song alright, the number of times the original sound version has been released on separate CD's over the years since the original 1989 single is insane enough, without even going into the various references it's had in DB media since Z.
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Would a complete DBZ English redub be necessary?
Replies: 70
Views: 2265

Re: Would a complete DBZ English redub be necessary?

Looks like a source will have to be posted for every statement that gets thrown around on what GT's ultimate fate was.
(Far as I've seen it hasn't really made much of a comeback aside from a few inconsequential series & video games reusing some concepts from it.)
by GhostEmperorX
Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
Replies: 108
Views: 21719

Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray

It's really baffling that Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, hasn't got a Blu-ray release in Japan. Movies has been available on Blu-ray, despite some editing on certain movies, but not the TV series. Pretty much almost every major anime has gotten Blu-ray (HD remastered or SD-upscale)...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:49 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
Replies: 26
Views: 3540

Re: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired

if Yamamoto ever plagiarized a Japanese artist You bet he has, and what's more is it's composers in the same field. Kenji Kawai, Yoko Kanno (of all people), and Kotaro Nakagawa spring to mind. Also plagiarized the guy who composed a character song by Show Hayami (from Bronze Zetsuai) . And there wa...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball influences in Western products
Replies: 39
Views: 2356

Re: Dragon Ball influences in Western products

I dont play Dragon Ball games, and I am getting I understimated how iconic the scene is, but I do not appreciate getting dogpiled, I got it already. To be fair, it's still the same user that posted the Miles Morales comic photos in the first place (under the assumption that the reference would be c...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:23 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
Replies: 26
Views: 3540

Re: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired

But as soon as he started copying music from MAJOR American films like Avatar and Terminator... his goose was cooked. BTW, as it turns out, Kai wasn't even the first time he'd traced Terminator films. (1992) Hit Song Collection 10, Track 07 - SUITE: Virtual Triangle - (1991) Terminator 2 Theme And ...
by GhostEmperorX
Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs
Replies: 16
Views: 317

Re: Faithful English covers of DBZ openings, endings, and insert songs

Using the original instrumentals is dependent on Toei providing them with such. More precisely, it's a matter for record labels such as Nippon Columbia and ZAIN RECORDS to handle, since they're the ones with the phonographic copyrights to any such instrumentals. Like anything else related to the mu...
by GhostEmperorX
Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball influences in Western products
Replies: 39
Views: 2356

Re: Dragon Ball influences in Western products

Personally I'd say it's up there with the likes of Future Trunks splitting Freeza clean in half back in episode 120.
by GhostEmperorX
Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:36 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
Replies: 26
Views: 3540

Re: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired

The basic impression I’m getting is that that entertainment industries in Japan seem to have rather skewed priorities (from a Western perspective) when it comes to what is considered an unforgivable/fireable offense. If an artist has abhorrent views or commits a serious sex crime, it will often be ...
by GhostEmperorX
Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The reason Goku stayed dead that no one talks about
Replies: 22
Views: 666

Re: The reason Goku stayed dead that no one talks about

That's... a very low bar, to say the least.
Here we have the same player from the same topic from not too many moons ago.
by GhostEmperorX
Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:23 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
Replies: 26
Views: 3540

Re: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired

Well, having someone around who openly deny Japan2nd WW atrocities (And even send open letter to US press about it) and had done stuff like this https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043 should be enough to fire him, or at least have serious talk and tell...
by GhostEmperorX
Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
Replies: 26
Views: 3540

Re: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired

Like in Polish saying "Big can do more" Koichi Sugiyama was never fired as well https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/controversial-dragon-quest-composer-koichi-sugiyama-has-died/ Big & small controversies aside (from objectionable views on more than one critical subject to copyrig...
by GhostEmperorX
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Funimation Release Doesn't Include DB OP2 & END 2-4
Replies: 19
Views: 624

Re: Funimation Release Doesn't Include DB OP2 & END 2-4

As some posts above have said, in topics like this, people definitely need to consider what part that Toei themselves have to play in all this, since it's been established time and time again that they're nowhere near being satisfactory in the home release department either.
by GhostEmperorX
Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Losing interest in DB
Replies: 23
Views: 931

Re: Losing interest in Dragon Ball

That's been happening since 2019, after the Super Anime and Broly Movie ended. This isn't uniquely relevant to anything. Definitely not to the OP's reasons either. There's people out there who would still be interested without any new material, and people who wouldn't be interested anymore even wit...
by GhostEmperorX
Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:01 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Losing interest in DB
Replies: 23
Views: 931

Re: Losing interest in Dragon Ball

Ditto, the best thing to do if you want to disappear from a site is to just do it, no announcements or anything.
Of course, you can leave a note in the signature or something if you want anyone to know.
by GhostEmperorX
Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:08 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Yamamoto is Back
Replies: 13
Views: 8139

Re: Yamamoto is Back

Is this the same Kenji Yamamoto from Dragon Ball? I did a Google search for Kenji Yamamoto years ago and found another composer of the same name who's mainly famous for scoring Nintendo games. I also found a soccer player of the same name. So are you sure that you have the right guy? I mean, if you...