Your one favorite BGM for each of the five composers

[Cold Skin]

This only encompasses background music, not songs associated with their respective scores, and only for animation, not in-game music. Choose your little favorite Dragon Ball track for each of the five main composers for the franchise:

1) Kikuchi (Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z).
2) Tokunaga (Dragon Ball GT).
3) Yamamoto (Dragon Ball Kai).
4) Takaki (Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans / Episode of Bardack / Ultimate Tenkaichi reanimated scenes).
5) Sumitomo (Battle of Gods).

I guess I'll start.

1) Kikuchi: Believe in Tomorrow (part 1). That emotional, saddish rendition of We Were Angels gets to my heart, I find it most beautiful.
2) Tokunaga: (cannot answer as I haven't seen GT or the remake movie in a long time, not remembering tracks).
3) Yamamoto: One Hit to Victory. It's hard to choose between that one and the sad A Grim Fate and the epic Heroic Face-Off. But that one very much feels like a day of destiny, a final stance. Gives me chills, I'm sure it would have been used for the final "Kame Hame Ha VS Kame Hame Ha" between Gohan and Cell, given the feel of the song and the title.
4) Takaki: [Ultimate Tenkaichi: Gohan comes back on Earth to fight Boo]: epically and heroically perfect. The hero has come to save the day and he's fully powered and fully motivated to do so.
5) Sumitomo: They're all amazing but I'll give a special place to The Invincible Birus: even without knowing about the story, that track just beautifully screams "all heroes have been utterly and completely wiped out and all possible futures just turned very dark". Whatever story you think about when listening to the music, you can just picture the hero(es) powerless and laying on the floor under the rain, in a deep coma they might never come back from while the bad guy is absolutely free to win the game and get what he wants. Even from the first seconds, the track implies "the good guys irremediably failed and the future will be dark", but not in a panic kind of feel, just with a sense of resignation, like "ultimately, there was nothing to do against such an out-of-reach threat. Now we can only wait for the end of everything". This track has a terrible feeling of desperate failure, of a "definitive endgame without hope", of witnessing the first seconds of a nightmare we couldn't prevent, when the game is over for good.

[TheRed259]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_SL7CWoMRY

[Black_Liger]

Kikuchi: The track that plays when Goku charges the Genkidama against Super Android 13.

Tokunaga: The march rendition of Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku, but pretty much every variation of the main themes was amazing on tokunaga's part.

Yamamoto: The Victor's Dance, Destiny, Creature of Marvel (Slow Version), many more. but i'm more fond of Victor's dance :3

Takaki: Everything the freaking man has ever wrote for any franchise he ever composed for. BEST, COMPOSER, EVER.

Sumitomo: Super Saiyan god is born, Chosen Warriors, Cha la Head Chala (orchestra version), the parting universe. there's too much from his only released db material XD

[JulieYBM]

Man, this is too tough. I'm not sure I could narrow it down for Kikuchi Shunsuke. I love so much of his work. If I had to narrow it down, I guess I'd go with--at this moment--the piece used during the Foot Kamehame-Ha. The piece reminds me a lot of the music used during Stephen Chow's Gōngfū. Man, I wish Miyashita had used some of the Red Ribbon Army and Tenka'ichi Budoukai arc music during the later episodes of Dragon Ball Z.

For Yamamoto Kenji's score for Dragon Ball Kai, I gotta give it to Castor and mine's in-joke.

[dbzfan7]

This only encompasses background music, not songs associated with their respective scores, and only for animation, not in-game music. Choose your little favorite Dragon Ball track for each of the five main composers for the franchise:

1) Kikuchi (Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z).
2) Tokunaga (Dragon Ball GT).
3) Yamamoto (Dragon Ball Kai).
4) Takaki (Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans / Episode of Bardack / Ultimate Tenkaichi reanimated scenes).
5) Sumitomo (Battle of Gods).

I guess I'll start.

1) Kikuchi: Believe in Tomorrow (part 1). That emotional, saddish rendition of We Were Angels gets to my heart, I find it most beautiful.
2) Tokunaga: (cannot answer as I haven't seen GT or the remake movie in a long time, not remembering tracks).
3) Yamamoto: One Hit to Victory. It's hard to choose between that one and the sad A Grim Fate and the epic Heroic Face-Off. But that one very much feels like a day of destiny, a final stance. Gives me chills, I'm sure it would have been used for the final "Kame Hame Ha VS Kame Hame Ha" between Gohan and Cell, given the feel of the song and the title.
4) Takaki: [Ultimate Tenkaichi: Gohan comes back on Earth to fight Boo]: epically and heroically perfect. The hero has come to save the day and he's fully powered and fully motivated to do so.
5) Sumitomo: They're all amazing but I'll give a special place to The Invincible Birus: even without knowing about the story, that track just beautifully screams "all heroes have been utterly and completely wiped out and all possible futures just turned very dark". Whatever story you think about when listening to the music, you can just picture the hero(es) powerless and laying on the floor under the rain, in a deep coma they might never come back from while the bad guy is absolutely free to win the game and get what he wants. Even from the first seconds, the track implies "the good guys irremediably failed and the future will be dark", but not in a panic kind of feel, just with a sense of resignation, like "ultimately, there was nothing to do against such an out-of-reach threat. Now we can only wait for the end of everything". This track has a terrible feeling of desperate failure, of a "definitive endgame without hope", of witnessing the first seconds of a nightmare we couldn't prevent, when the game is over for good.

Kikuchi: Mezase Tenkaichi

Tokunga: Dan Dan

Yamamoto: SSJ2 Gohan theme, Formidable Warrior The Saiyan, or Super Dragon Soul

Takaki: Song that plays when Barock walks up to Chilled as SSJ

Sumitomo: Hero Song of Hope

[kei17]

Kikuchi: Mezase Tenkaichi

That's not Kikuchi's composition.

[dbzfan7]

Kikuchi: Mezase Tenkaichi

That's not Kikuchi's composition.

Oh, then IDK.

[dbboxkaifan]

1) Shunsuke Kikuchi: Gohan Insults Buu
2) Kenji Yamamoto: Budokai 3 Opening Theme
3) Akihito Tokunaga: Dragon Ball GT Opening Theme
4) Faulconer Productions: Super Buu Theme
5) Hiroshi Takaki: Dragon Ball Z For Kinect Advertise Theme

[penguintruth]

1) Kikuchi - "Kaibutsu Freeza VS Densetsu no Super Saiyajin"
2) Tokunaga - "Goku and Uub"
3) Yamamoto - "The Braveheart's Triumphant Return"
4) N/A (never really noticed any Takaki tracks)
5) Sumitomo - "Birth of the Super Saiyan God"

Bonus: English Dub Scores!

1) Levi - "Gohan's Metamorphosis"
2) Faulconer - "Gohan's Anger (Extended)"
3) Johnson - "Gogeta's Theme"
4) Menza - "Super Saiyan Theme" (Movie 6)

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Ugh, hard to choose one for each composer so I guess I'll go with my current favourites:

1) Kikuchi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQF6mLraX48
2) Tokunaga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFoERkLJR_M
3) Yamamoto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBZI8EgEEE
4) Takaki: Honestly, not that familiar with his work. I dunno, I was quite fond of some of his Plan to Eradicate stuff.
5) Sumitomo: The two Eternal Universe Tracks:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah4JI1hdmk8
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... r0#t=2220s

[dbboxkaifan]

3) Johnson - "Gogeta's Theme"

This specific track of N. Johnson just sounds like a bunch of noises to me, I don't mean to be rude by any chance, but Tapion's Theme does seem like one of his better works (basing off what he's done for DBZ it's not really that much).