Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

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Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by DragonBalllKaiHD » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:28 pm

I believe there was never a thread made regarding to the Japanese lyrics from an intro you love (or enjoy) singing, so I thought I'd make a topic about it. Which intro do you like to sing? Be it DB, Z, GT, or Kai.

For me personally, I like to sing Dan Dan because it was one of the easiest to sing in Japanese. I have been praticing many, many times so it's getting smoother every time. Today I started doing the original DB opening song. It was pretty neat to sing a very high shounen spirit song. It was pretty simple. I believe that one was made for the kids to comprehend the lyrics.,
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by CaBrPi » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:36 pm

I find myself singing "CHA LA HEAD CHA LA" constantly, although only that part because it's the only part I know.

I sing the English versions of Dragon Soul and Makafushigi Adventure all the time, though.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by Puto » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:41 pm

I suppose it is kinda embarrassing that I know a whole bunch of Japanese opening songs by heart, but yeah. From Dragon Ball, the only one I know the full lyrics to by heart is Head Cha-La though.

From memory, not looking anything up:
hikaru kumo o tsukinuke fly away (fly away)
karadajū ni hirogaru panorama
kao o kerareta chikyū ga okotte (okotte)
kazan o bakuhatsu saseru
toketa ko'ori no naka ni
kyōryū ga itara tamanori shikomitai ne
cha-la head-cha-la
nani ga okite mo kibun wa heno-heno kappa
cha-la head-cha-la
mune ga pachi-pachi suru hodo sawagu genki-dama
cha-la head-cha-la
atama karappo no hō ga yume tsumekome'ru
cha-la head-cha-la
egao ultra-zetto de kyō mo ai-yai-yai-yai-yai... sparking!
Might have gotten one word wrong here or there, but most of it should be right.

EDIT: Oh, right, Dragon Soul too. Forgot about Kai.
dokkan dokkan tsuite'ru
dokkan dokkan paradise
genki-dama ga hajiketobuze go go let's do it
ugomeku ayashii energy (energy)
yōsha wa shinai ze mite'ro yo
inochi ni kaete mo mamoru yo (mamoru yo)
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dokkan dokkan tsuite'ru
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kotae o mō tamashii wa shitte'ru no sa
Dragon Soul!
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by PuppetDoctor » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:42 pm

I love to sing along with the Dragon Ball Kai opening and rolling the "Dr" when it goes "Dragon Soul."

I tend to sing most of the openings of Dragon Ball but I find the Kai opening very easy.

As for English dubs I sing to the Kai opening as well and I love to sing to the English Dragon Ball opening.

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Post by jpdbzrulz4sure » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:46 pm

I like to sing all of the Japanese Dragon Ball themes, especially when I'm in the shower. :mrgreen:
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by penguintruth » Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:00 am

"Cha-La Head Cha-La", of course. It's good at SPARKING my enthusiasm for the show I'm watching.
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by Gonstead » Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:10 am

I only know the english version of Dragon Soul off by heart. Anything else and you might as well pay me to not sing.

If I ever do try and sing to one of the Japanese themes, I just make sound-alike jibberish to compensate.
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by kaialone » Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:41 am

Cha-La-Head-Cha-La ! But I dont know the lyrics by heart,so I tend to sing it in german instead :P
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by SylentEcho » Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:42 am

CHA LA HEAD CHA LA and Dokkan Dokkan :D

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by Strongbad456 » Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:57 am

We Gotta Power and sometimes Dragon Soul.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by DanielGClapp » Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:49 pm

Me singing Dan Dan: "Dan Dan hamafamahba.........." Well you get the picture. I really like Yeah! Break! Care! Break! but I honestly find it very hard to sing along with Japanese music, even if I have heard it over 100 times.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by Ringworm128 » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:00 pm

The only song I have learned the lyrics to is Cha La, so yeah.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by funrush » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:32 pm

Head Cha la, Kai, and some of We Gotta Power and Dan Dan. A little of Makafushigi, too.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by Krycek7o2 » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:43 am

A couple of months ago, my cousin and I sang Head-Cha-La and We Gotta Power at this Korean Karaoke joint. It was fun, specially since we were both a bit drunk. So(ju)-Beer = good times!

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by Scarz » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:07 am

Rock the Dragon and sometimes the english intro to Dragon Soul. But since the question is what Japanese intro I like to sing, it would be Head-Cha-La, even if I don't know a damn word in Japanese.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by jda95 » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:06 am

Most of them. I've got Dragon Soul in my head a lot recently, so I'm constantly singing "DOKKAN DOKKAN".

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by The Time Traveller » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:03 am

WE GOTTA POWER! And Dragon Soul in English since that's pretty easy.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by atm5508 » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:53 am

I sing all of them! My current favorite is probably Bit by Bit, Funimation's English dub of Dan Dan. All time favorites: Makafushigi Adobencha and Cha-La Head-Cha-La.

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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by goku the krump dancer » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:23 pm

For me its "The Biggest Fight" and "We were Angels" even though thats an ending theme.
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Re: Which Japanese intro do you like to sing?

Post by El Diabeetus » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:32 pm

- Cha-La-Head-Cha-La
- Zenkai Power
- All GT Themes (A few in English as well.)
- Dragon Soul (In English as well, sometimes the Brazilian Portguese, haha. Give it a while and I'll know it in a few more languages), and Yeah! Break! Care! Break! (Mainly Japanese)
- There's others, but, I can't exactly remember them.

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