Question about the pronunciation of Dragon ball

[violadude]

I was looking at the lyrics to "Makafushigi Adobencha" on the website trying to sing along with the song. According the Romanization on daizenshuu EX it says the first phrase is "Tsukamô ze!　DRAGON BALL." But when I'm listening to it, it doesn't sound like they are saying Dragon ball at the end, there are too many syllables or something. I can't find a way to stretch out the word dragon ball to make it fit the song. So can someone who knows Japanese or knows the song very well tell me how they are pronouncing Dragon ball in the context of this song?

[jpdbzrulz4sure]

"Doragon Bōru".

This is the Japanese approximation of the pronounciation of "Dragon Ball". Japanese phonology is much more limited than English, as all of its sounds are either single vowels, a consanant (or two) plus a vowel, or the syllabic "n".

[VegettoEX]

And just to add in a little extra tidbit, Julian and I like to keep whatever quirks are present in the written lyrics for the songs. Therefore, if it's literally written out in our alphabet as "DRAGON BALL" in the Japanese lyrics, we'll keep it that way in our display of the Japanese lyrics and its romanization (usually putting the "English" words in italics in the romanization to show that they're intended to be that way).

[Hujio]

And just to add in a little extra tidbit, Julian and I like to keep whatever quirks are present in the written lyrics for the songs. Therefore, if it's literally written out in our alphabet as "DRAGON BALL" in the Japanese lyrics, we'll keep it that way in our display of the Japanese lyrics and its romanization (usually putting the "English" words in italics in the romanization to show that they're intended to be that way).

You'll find that on Kanzentai we'll leave the English as-is in the Japanese lyrics, write the Japanese phonetic pronunciation in the romanization, and then the original English again in the translation. That way I can sing along with my favorite songs, phonetically of course.

[Ashy-kun]

Since we're all talking about how we personally do things, I tend to use bold and italics to highlight words of a different language in my translations, when they're in the Japanese lyrics, and right them out in their standard spelling, as opposed to the phonetic Japanese. Though I do also sing it phonetically. If anything, it helps me better remember what the word is, to write it out in whatever language it comes from, instead of phonetically, in case I forget and go "Wait, wha? I swear I knew what Tsuu Puraton meant".