Kanzenshuu

Oddly enough, the older I've gotten the less enamored I am with supposed geniuses like John Williams. The thing about Williams is that outside of his big themes his background music scores are forgettable or annoying while set to the films they are composed for. There are maybe, what, four or five ...

I wouldn't want to see one from Blue Sky Studios as I find their films to be just average more often than not, and I don't care for their sense of humor. However, I would be interested in seeing Disney or DreamWorks tackle such a project. Even though it's unlikely to happen in this day and age, I'd ...

jjgp1112 wrote: or Goku always having some Mystical Adventure or Cha-La Head Cha-La instrumental

He also has another leitmotif that pops up here and there during the later films in a number of renditions. Vegeta also got his own reoccurring film motif.

The beginning part with Gohan failing to go SSJ in Japanese doesn't fit right at all to me. If I remember right that song was used constantly in Dragon Ball over shots of the world with the narrator explaining current events so not sure why it's being used in such a 'hardcore' scene where Gohan is ...

I don't want Cell to have a theme that's not Kikuchi. Kikuchi was able to compose great themes for everything Dragon Ball including Cell and I personally don't think there needs to be a different theme. Technically, that material was composed for movie villains (Meta Cooler and the movie Androids s...

And yes, Raging Blast utterly decimated the gameplay on a curiously very basic-most level, almost like it was trying to "fix" everything about the Sparking games that was never actually broken to begin with. It's because the game was made from the ground up instead of being built up off o...

No love for Gohan's Super Saiyan transformation? I was honestly not expecting the return of the 'Dodge' joke, and while that could have been forced in, it was actually really subtle. And I've got to give props to MasakoX for his scream as Gohan at the end. It was really intense. I liked it. As well...

Geez. He looks like the illegitimate child of The Jester from Devil May Cry 3 and the..... Jester from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's multiplayer. What's neat is that the white hair and skin is a result of him being possessed by an evil being inhabiting that sceptre. In the original version of the...

I think this is actually (subjective! subjective! (kinda)) what gets me about other anime, particularly in the shonen demographic. They gesture at thematic and emotional weight, but in a way that tends to be heavy-handed and secondary enough that there's still an enormous gulf between them and more...

The first page is certainly more detailed than the second, but I don't think it's a very fair comparison. The first page is just Shenlong and the Pilaf trio. The second page is Shenlong, the Capsule Corp building, the characters in front of said building, various trees, and the surrounding cityscap...

When it comes to Dragon Ball Super, about 80% of it has looked like crap, and that is because its done digitally, no doubt about it. It has such lazy work done on it and it really shows. Absolutely none of it has anything to do with it being digital. It has to do with their artists being poor at wh...

Three guesses for what Cell's reaction towards Final Flash is gonna be:
If any of those are right, I get 'bout tree fiddy.

I like how the episode is bookended by songs about achieving transformations. Was that parallel intentional or just a happy accident?

For Kikuchi, I guess his scores for Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle and The World's Strongest would be the "darkest," but even they have their share of lighthearted material. It's really hard to pinpoint an overall dark score from him, since most of his material we hear throughout the ...

I'm a bit more forgiving on some of the issues fans have had with RoF, but one genuine problem with the storyline itself that just bugs me is how everything culminates with Goku and Vegeta deciding to not go through with learning how to be more in sync with each other and working as a duo. It's a re...

Glad to see Son Goku and His Friends Return. I really like the humor in it and the animation was nicely done. Too bad Super does not look as good as Son Goku and His Friends Return did in my opinion. I know, this OVA was just 7 years ago, all characters design were fine, they shouldn't have changed...

Which is a valid criticism to note. It's just that it goes back to what I said about it being more of an issue of not really developing a musical idea all that well, causing the repetition to be more glaring. It's not so much about using a motif a lot, but how it's not really rearranged and and play...

Not to defend the dub score itself, but I wouldn't say it's cheap composing to capitalize on particular motifs and musical ideas by making a good deal of renditions of them. Part of what makes a fantastic score is taking advantage of all those moments where one can arrange a particular theme and uti...

It was Toei's idea to have Kikuchi record new music for mostly only the movies, because it saved recording session costs. This applies to other Toei Animes with different composers. I know, I am familiar with the approach and the reason why it is done. I was just lamenting a little on how the speci...

I'm usually nitpicky when it comes to leitmotifs being reused for other material, but considering the series already takes thematic ideas from completely different things in the movies (which is to be expected, given Kikuchi can't just come in and compose a gigantic library of unique music for vario...