Valerius has already pointed out the Anitunes tracks only existed in place of the insert songs that Funimation was able to retain. The scenes that lacked insert songs were music-less in both versions. Meaning AB Groupe and Funimation had the exact same masters that included just those 4 songs and Blue Water made the deliberate choice to replace the Japanese singing with the stock music they had. They only kept Mezase Tenkaichi in episose 19 because it was instrumental only and had no Japanese singing.Robo4900 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:49 am
I've never seen any info to suggest any reason why either dub kept Mezase in episode 19, nor any info to suggest Blue Water either had the masters, or had a license, to use most of the insert songs.
So, either you have info I don't, or you're wildly speculating and passing it off as facts.
I’m pretty vocal that I’m not a fan of how Funimation chose to handle Defeat the Red Ribbon Army and Blue Travelers (the first one in particular ) but no what Blue Water did was way worse here.
2 out the 4 right is better than what Blue Water did which was 0 (as far as songs go, good on Blue Water for other things like more accurate scripts in general).
. So, we're pretty lucky that Funi even got the four that they did... But honestly, I'm not sure getting 2 out of ~15 right is that good a record, particularly when Blue Water at least had something play in basically all of these sections, and let the characters fall somewhat silent, so it's actually a decent rendering of the original scene, even though the music is different.