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[MasenkoHA]

The Funimation home video releases starting with (I'm assuming) the orange bricks - present all use the Japanese end credits theme even when playing the English dub. However when playing the dub the opening theme songs instead use this generic track: https://youtu.be/6Cq80QOC7v4

Does anyone know where this track comes from? Why didn't they just create an English dubbed cover of "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and "WE GOTTA POWER"? Was it a creative decision, or a licensing issue? I don't feel like this would be a licensing issue since they still use the original songs for the Japanese track, and since both the Dragon Ball and GT box sets made reworked English covers of their respective opening songs.

The opening theme came from their dub of Z movie 6 back when they were still using replacement music.


The reason they didn’t create covers for Head Cha La and We Gotta Power? Laziness, pure and simple. They saw that Mark Menza’s DBZ Movie Theme was the same length as those two songs and decided it was “good enough”

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

The Funimation home video releases starting with (I'm assuming) the orange bricks - present all use the Japanese end credits theme even when playing the English dub. However when playing the dub the opening theme songs instead use this generic track: https://youtu.be/6Cq80QOC7v4

Does anyone know where this track comes from? Why didn't they just create an English dubbed cover of "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and "WE GOTTA POWER"? Was it a creative decision, or a licensing issue? I don't feel like this would be a licensing issue since they still use the original songs for the Japanese track, and since both the Dragon Ball and GT box sets made reworked English covers of their respective opening songs.

The opening theme came from their dub of Z movie 6 back when they were still using replacement music.


The reason they didn’t create covers for Head Cha La and We Gotta Power? Laziness, pure and simple. They saw that Mark Menza’s DBZ Movie Theme was the same length as those two songs and decided it was “good enough”

Equally it is also possible Funimation couldn't dub them even if they wanted to. Remember TOEI were once notorious for sending dubbing companies crappy ME ("Music and Effects") tapes, including, in some cases not having everything that was on the original audio, so there may have been no instrumental versions of Head Cha-La or We Gotta Power on the tapes Funimation got.

[MasenkoHA]

The Funimation home video releases starting with (I'm assuming) the orange bricks - present all use the Japanese end credits theme even when playing the English dub. However when playing the dub the opening theme songs instead use this generic track: https://youtu.be/6Cq80QOC7v4

Does anyone know where this track comes from? Why didn't they just create an English dubbed cover of "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and "WE GOTTA POWER"? Was it a creative decision, or a licensing issue? I don't feel like this would be a licensing issue since they still use the original songs for the Japanese track, and since both the Dragon Ball and GT box sets made reworked English covers of their respective opening songs.

The opening theme came from their dub of Z movie 6 back when they were still using replacement music.


The reason they didn’t create covers for Head Cha La and We Gotta Power? Laziness, pure and simple. They saw that Mark Menza’s DBZ Movie Theme was the same length as those two songs and decided it was “good enough”

Equally it is also possible Funimation couldn't dub them even if they wanted to. Remember TOEI were once notorious for sending dubbing companies crappy ME ("Music and Effects") tapes, including, in some cases not having everything that was on the original audio, so there may have been no instrumental versions of Head Cha-La or We Gotta Power on the tapes Funimation got.

Irrelevant. They didn’t dub over the instrumentals Makafushigi Adventure and Dan Dan Kokoro they recreated the instrumentals themselves for their covers of Mystical Adventure and Bit by Bit.


They absolutely could have recreated the instrumentals for Head Cha La and We Gotta Power and created English covers, they just didn’t want to because it’s cheaper and easier to just grab the theme they composed back in 2002 and deem it good enough because it was already scored to the Head Cha La animation.