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While we're on the subject, does anyone know if Brave Warriors Challenging the Mighty (from Kai) was lifted off of an existing song? The General Yamamoto Rip-off Thread might be of use, give or take a few broken links here & there :p Truthfully, it's not like he was really hiding the fact that ...

As far as I'm aware shows like Dragon Ball, which target kids were not considered worth preserving at the time. In the late 80s and early 90s Dragon Ball was not yet a worldwide pop culture phenomenon... Meanwhile, what I've seen across the wider anime landscape tells a massively different story, a...

For better or for worse TOEI gave us the original three anime series with all the iconic SFX, voices of Nozawa, Kikuchi and Tokunaga scores, so it wouldn't feel right for any other studio to produce a Dragon Ball anime. They will forever be associated with bringing Toriyama's manga to life, because...

And probably the ONLY reason he actually got away with it with as ridiculously long as he actually did was because, for the majority of that time, he stole mostly from lesser known foreign bands (mostly European)... but as soon as he started copying music from MAJOR American films like Avatar and T...

yammamoto is a very talented composer and his music was amazing All of his credits are arranger credits. No, seriously, where there's smoke, there's fire, and 20 years right from the original Z series is a long time to be getting away with that sort of activity. His position was high enough to the ...

And these days, when people criticize original scores, they just leave it at said score not being their cup of tea, either due to the composer, their preferences, what kind of music the score is, and all that, they're not calling for "dub replacements" or whatever else if they don't exist ...

The things is I don't think you can really avoid division and confusion when it comes to a franchise of this size. Even if it was just the manga and the subbed anime there would still be division and confusion over canon and certain events for instance, not to mention pacing and specific dialogue v...

Wasn't sure about that as I never did see the show (SM) for any considerable length of time, but from the few clips I saw the OST never gave that feeling in the same way as DBZ's did. Definitely wasn't aware of what it may have been channeling either. Although it still doesn't mean much in the end c...

I will say this, however... there ARE several examples, very recent in fact, of other companies putting out Tōei-owned series on Blu-ray in America. Just within the past few months, Discotek FINALLY put out the entire Japanese first season of Digimon Adventure (something I've been waiting for for Y...

I brought up Yu Yu Hakusho, if I remember correctly. I certainly brought up Kaguya-Sama, a recent show that has a dub that changes the entire style of humor, and is beloved by a lot of people due to that. I never WAS talking about DB specifically, only about the general idea of dub changes = automa...

Looking at what AB is doing in France... Funny thing is that this is even more than what Toei themselves have done or would do. Imagine that. Seems like they themselves deserved the masters for Z far more than FUNimation ever did. At least they learned from their own mistakes (regarding the French ...

With Naruto Shippuden, no one is ever like "Skip Naruto and go straight to Shippuden". Meanwhile, people are like "You can skip DB and got straight to DBZ". Wasn't going to say anything else in this thread, but this is exactly one of the things I was thinking about recently, and...

DBZ can be watched without watching OG DB and it time skips up enough that it starts a new plot. No. Not when you still have carry-overs from the old series. It's no "new plot" without all the previous elements that were crucial in the first series onward. In other words, the new developm...

DB1984 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 4:31 pmAll these soundtracks of other franchises resurfacing, yet DB/DBZ by Kikuchi gets shunned.

And this is all on the JP side, the one that should be respecting it the most. The incompetence surrounding the franchise handling is truly everywhere.

I got overconfident. I really cant get rid of this but I am trying. In which case, try to think of it this way: Like all other users, your momentary thoughts or ideas aren't inherently more worth paying attention to than anyone else's, so if you're going to make them into some center of attention f...

Because I think liking media goes a bit deeper then that, honestly especially manga, because that only stuff still shows a lot that would make Dragon Ball good to someone. The artwork, character writing, sense of humor, paneling, how it handles drama, etc... Absolutely, and this is what I was allud...

I think that in the vast majority of cases, you can tell whether a series is for you from very early on. It lines up with what I said in the thread that this one is a spin-off from: It probably shouldn't even be a matter of "when it gets good" in the first place; If it isn't for you, then...

It probably shouldn't even be a matter of "when it gets good" in the first place; If it isn't for you, then it isn't, regardless of what the series may or may not become later on.

Yuji wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:17 pm You'll have to be more specific. That basically describes all post-DB battle Shounen.

In particular, the series by one Masashi Kishimoto that I knew for a long time more than DBZ.

Dragon Ball is rarely consistently good, and always inevitably devolves into a boring battle with few if any emotional stakes because Toriyama neither plans nor ever wants to commit to anything weighty. In a sense, I think that can be less of an issue than trying to do just that sort of thing in a ...