Two of the songs I happened to find this year were I-Ke-Na-I URARA MAJIKKU and Kokoro Kara Nureta Futari, both duets sung by Nozawa Masako (Chibi Gohan) and Shou Mayumi (Chi-Chi; original VA). I uh...
Well I didn't find any official translations or even romanized lyrics to either, which is common of rarer tracks, but when I first listened to the first minute or so of Kokoro Kara Nureta Futari I could already kinda get the premise - Chi-Chi is wasted off her ass and drags poor little Gohan up on stage with her to sing karaoke. Uh...wow. And Gohan sure doesn't sound very happy about it, either (though Chibi Gohan freak I am I find this absolutely adorable), considering all his initial protesting and just...the lackluster and totally embarassed voice in which he's singing along with Mommy Drunkenstein.
Thing is...this isn't the only song along the same lines.
I-Ke-Na-I URARA MAJIKKU doesn't seem to be taking place in public like the former, because from what I gather it's probably after dinner or something, and Gohan is talking about studying...but there's Chi-Chi again, and it's obvious by her voice that she's once again drunk off her ass - and at HOME no less. For shame. And so she makes Gohan get...I think she's talking about a cassette tape or something, whatever, that has the song she's going to sing, and then they sing. Gohan doesn't sound nearly as 'guhhh...' as he does in Kokoro Kara Nureta Futari, but still...what the Hell is with this?!
I always thought Gokou was the bad parental influence with his never-being-around-ness and his always-dragging-his-son-into-life-risking-battles-ness and whatnot, but apparently when he's not around...Chi-Chi is drinking. And when you consider that Shou Mayumi does the voice of Chi-Chi in both of these songs, and she stopped voicing Chi-Chi in like, mid-Freeza Saga or something (don't count on me for an exact statement on that though), Gohan's in his younger years for both of these songs. I mean...apparently Chi-Chi has a serious drinking problem that's never addressed in the series. It certainly explains her violent tendancies, though, if you ask me, moreso than the fact that she's a former martial artist.
So I was randomly thinking about the sides of the characters we see in these songs that we don't see in the series. Like, Vegeta-Sama no Oryouri no Jigoku? To me this song brings to mind the Vegeta we'd see if Movie #9 were to be considered canon; the way Vegeta behaves after Gokou dies, and whatnot...maybe this becomes one of his hobbies to pass the time? Maybe he even goes on to...b-become a master chef...? It's just...so...uh...
Well there are quite a few character songs that display sides of characters the beat-em-up style of DBZ just never gets around to showing. So I thought it may be an...interesting...discussion topic. If this isn't the typical type of post for the Music forum, forgive me; I figured since the basis for my topic is the music, even if it's more of a 'general discussion' type of topic, this was the most appropriate place.
So, discuss!!
And the one at home, certainly not drunk there in my opinion. As to the comment about Chi-Chi having to be drunk to be that silly, I also disagree with. She did the vocal parts in the song "Mama wa Shiawase Inotte 'ru", quite a silly song and she definitely wasn't drunk there. Let's also not forget that episode towards the end of the Buu saga where they had the party and she got up and danced. She was much older there and still knew how to let loose.
