What's with the lack of insert songs in Super?

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What's with the lack of insert songs in Super?

Post by PremiumSalt » Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:59 pm

Dragon Ball had 9, Z had 7, Kai had 8, Super has 1. What gives?
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Re: What's with the lack of insert songs in Super?

Post by shadd21 » Sun Oct 21, 2018 12:14 am

Toei being cheap?
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Re: What's with the lack of insert songs in Super?

Post by Chuquita » Sun Oct 21, 2018 12:38 am

Insert songs are usually plot related; Super didn't have much pre-planning. Maybe they didn't have enough lead in time to know where the plot was going in order to come up with some insert songs to add in. The ToP lasted a little over a year so the time to do this stuff was finally there? Or maybe it was a request of the current director? Or maybe it was to do a nice likely send off since they knew it'd be the last arc for a while.
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Re: What's with the lack of insert songs in Super?

Post by majinwarman » Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:36 pm

Chuquita wrote:Insert songs are usually plot related; Super didn't have much pre-planning. Maybe they didn't have enough lead in time to know where the plot was going in order to come up with some insert songs to add in. The ToP lasted a little over a year so the time to do this stuff was finally there? Or maybe it was a request of the current director? Or maybe it was to do a nice likely send off since they knew it'd be the last arc for a while.
I'm going to predict that they just didn't want a insert song before the TOP happened.
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Re: What's with the lack of insert songs in Super?

Post by FortuneSSJ » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:17 pm

I'm actually surprised they didn't reuse BOG and ROF insert songs in their respective arcs because that would be the logical thing to do, just like reuse movie scenes to help the schedule instead of bother to remake everything from scratch.

Oh well, in Toei and DBS defense Ultimate Battle is the best insert song this franchise ever had.
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