Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

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Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

Post by alakazam^ » Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:21 pm

I was listening to some instrumentals of those themes and I always thought they sounded like a farewell. Is it just me? WE GOTTA POWER with vocals not that much but We Were Angels, both with vocals or just instrumental, always felt like that.

There's a great chance it's just a nostalgia-charged opinion because they remind me of my high school days where I'd go to a classmate's house to play the hell out of Legends, which was awesome, and the game was one of the first times I'd get Dragon Ball characters in Japanese, and it had a WE GOTTA POWER instrumental at the enf.

On the other hand, it might also be because, in hindsight, the Boo arc feels disconnected from the previous arcs with most of the cast changing and the enemies not having previous ties to anything, likely meaning it would be the last story of Dragon Ball.
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Re: Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

Post by Black_Liger » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:45 pm

We were angels DOES sound like a farewell, it has a "Life after death" kinda theme to it too, all endings until now had been pretty happy, so this one did feel like the ending for the last arc of the series.
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Re: Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

Post by Kuririn Fan » Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:24 am

Nope, they are just awesome and i like them more that first op and end.
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Re: Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

Post by Lord Beerus » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:40 pm

We Gotta Power feels incredibly bombastic and not sad in anyway. We Are Angels certainly does have more of a melancholic feel about it.
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Re: Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

Post by Hot Rod » Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:23 pm

Many sounds become "sad" in their instrumental versions, let alone when this instrumental version is slower than the normal. But I do not think those you mentioned are sad. To me, even in its normal version, the saddest opening/ending theme comes from Dragon Ball GT, the first ending.
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Re: Are WE GOTTA POWER and We Were Angels sad tunes?

Post by alakazam^ » Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:22 pm

Hot Rod wrote:Many sounds become "sad" in their instrumental versions, let alone when this instrumental version is slower than the normal. But I do not think those you mentioned are sad. To me, even in its normal version, the saddest opening/ending theme comes from Dragon Ball GT, the first ending.
Most of it is nostalgia but you're right because I notice differences between vocal and instrumental WE GOTTA POWER.

Oh, "Hitori janai", great example. It's kind of ironic that the title means "You're not alone".
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