What is the general consensus of the Japanese GT score?

[90sDBZ]

What do you guys think of it? I actually think it puts Kikuchi's Z score to shame and is also better than the Menza score. Unlike Kikuchi in Z it actually doesn't feel dated and is lively and enjoyable. At first I didn't like it and while there are still some tracks that I feel don't fit, it has grown on me a great deal and I do very much enjoy the overall score.

[InfernalVegito]

It's my most favorite score of all. It captures every scene perfectly and is so diverse and vivid. Fast paced for the chase and action scenes, tranquil and melodramatic for the sad scenes, eerie and gloomy for the mysterious scenes and overall just grand in conveying the atmosphere.

I love how rich the sound is in terms of different instruments. It has drums, synths and strings all amalgamated into a dense and layered sound.

A few of my favorite examples:

This for instance is just overhwelmingly terrific.
This on the other hand just brings a tear to my eye.
This is just so pumping, perfect for a chase kind of scene.
This one is just so mysteriously eerie and a good match for Baby's parasitic and devious character. Especially the violin is so catchy.
This one is similar to the above. The piano and the synth convey a really ominous theme.
The theme that plays at the end of many episodes when all hope is basically lost. Truly cathartic.
And this one is absolutely victorious and cathartic. Pefect when SSJ4 Gogeta is born.

I am very enthusiastic when it comes down to the score of GT because it's exceptional in my view.

[Black_Liger]

I think infernal just spoke about why the GT score rocks, it's awesome, shame it never got an official release, the GT has some of the most emotional pieces of music ever written for dbz.


This is from path to power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoTr12RuD6o

Best, DBZ. MUSIC PIECE. EVER. Damn this is so emotional, Not Kikuchi, Yamamoto or Sumitomo, even Takaki have been able to make such a powerful emotional piece like this.

[Fionordequester]

I really liked it, at least, from what I've heard of it. My favorite score after Bruce Faulconer.

[Ajay]

I absolutely love it.

Even at GT's weakest points, its music kept me watching.

Also, DAN DAN is the best theme song ever.

This is from path to power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoTr12RuD6o

Reminds me so much of Ghost in the Shell's fantastic soundtrack. So good.

[Fizzer]

It's absolutely beautiful. It's the best score of any DB-related product that I'm familiar with, and I wish I could have the OST, even just as a dodgy download since there's no CD available.

[Gonstead]

Hate it.

Completely bland and generic with inappropriately placed pieces.

[Big Momma]

I love it,and, like most of the others, think it could possibly be the best score of the franchise. I don't have links atm, but some of my favorites are the instrumentals of Dan Dan and Hitori Janai, along with the theme played when Goku formed that final Spirit Bomb. The soundtrack also holds a lot of nostalgia for me, as GT was the first DB-media I saw in Japanese. "Dan Dan" is, to this day, one of my favorite songs, anime or otherwise.

[TheGmGoken]

DAN DAN is by far my favorite Anime BGM EVER. GT score was fucking awesome.

[kei17]

It was a little generic compared to the characteristic Kikuchi score, but it mostly fit the sci-fi feelings that GT has. It's okay at least.

[dbboxkaifan]

It's one of the reasons why I like DBGT so much, but sadly it never got its own "Dragon Ball GT: Complete BGM Collection" or whatever Amazon calls DBZ's CD. Thankfully a ripper by the name of "Super17" made it possible for us, better than nothing. ^_^

[linkdude20002001]

I really dislike it. It just feels cheap and generic. I loved the renditions of the theme songs, but those don't really count 'cause he didn't write those pieces. It's really a shame we didn't get better music for DBGT... Maybe a better score could've at least helped a little in keeping me watching it.

[Shiyonasan]

It's good for what it is. I've always liked how it sounds like it could come out of a PS1 era Final Fantasy game or an RPG game similar to that. Like kei17 said, it fits the sci-fi elements of GT as well.

My only complaint with the score is that I feel like Tokunaga could've done a little more with some of the pieces. Some of the pieces end too abruptly for my liking.

I love these two pieces in particular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSa8maCbCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fwd3wBLs0

[Ringworm128]

There were a couple of stand out pieces but apart from that every track seems like a rendition of Dan Dan.

[Black_Liger]

In my opinion, the track I posted is nothing near generic lol. To this day, I haven't listened to anything that comes close to that piece, and some tracks of his score seem generic, but don't all scores have their generic bits?

[Sshadow5001]

The best part of GT (apart from the ending) is the score in my opinion.

[Ringworm128]

In my opinion, the track I posted is nothing near generic lol. To this day, I haven't listened to anything that comes close to that piece, and some tracks of his score seem generic, but don't all scores have their generic bits?

Sounds like something that would fit in End of Evangelion (that's not a bad thing).

[Insertclevername]

Certainly not as great as Kikuchi's DB and DBZ score but it's well made and has quite a few memorable tracks. Sometimes it sounds bland and little cheesy, but it's certainly a mixed bag that, thankfully, is more good than bad. In my humble opinion, of course.

[DBZAOTA482]

It's GT's only redeeming quality aside from the final episodes.