Would you like to hear again Kikuchi's score in an animated project?

[TheRed259]

Would you like to hear again Kikuchi's score in an animated project similar to Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! for example?

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Shunsuke Kikuchi's score is for Dragon Ball what John Williams is to Star Wars, its the classic soundtrack that made people fall in love with the series through its placement in all the major moments, so of course I would wholeheartedly welcome those tracks being used in a new Dragon Ball project whatever it may be.

[Rafa Fast]

Of course, but, it doesn't mean that I would care much about it, it just wouldn't give the same vibes as hearing it in DBZ or DB 86 imo
For me, the fun about hearing these scores in DB 86 and DBZ, aside from the "it really fits" stuff and blablabla, is that there was something new about it, every 30 or 40 episodes a new score used to debut in the TV Series, and we can hear it and say "hey, starting from this episode, they used the BGM from that movie!" "Oh no, this went unused in the series!"

It's fun specially because of how well the Movie scores released during the series production were used in the episodes, til this day people recognize the Cooler movies and Android 13 movie scores as the Androids/Cell arc scores, can you understand what I say? (I really don't know if what I'm saying makes any sense XD), and you could definitely tell that his skills evolved, from the very simple electric guitar in DB 86 or DB Movie 2, to the baddas true electric guitar in DBZ Movie 12.

Now, DBZ already ended, they already have all these scores in hand (well, at least partially), now imagine, they would use these tracks in a new animated project, and...? It would be cool to hear Kikuchi music again, but it definitely would lack novelty, in a single episode they could use tracks from DB 86, then tracks from DBZ Saiyans Saga then tracks from DBZ Movie 13, it's pretty much what happened with the Nippon Ijin Taisho special and the 2008 OVA, I loved the use of Kikuchi music in these, but it definitely doesn't feel new.

I honestly prefer New composers, making new stuff, people recognized the first part of DBS score Volume 2's as the score for the Black arc, and the second part as the score for the ToP, that sounds great for me, specially because these composers can now make what Kikuchi couldn't due to time limitations, and Sumitomo definitely improved with time too, his ToP work definitely sounds better and more natural than his Beerus saga score.

Kikuchi had his moment in DB 86 and DBZ, and it was definitely worth, now may new composers make a new work as good as his ^^
Or else.....I definitely would scream like a fangirl if a new composer in the franchise intended to compose whole new tracks using Kikuchi leitmotifs

[JulieYBM]

Eh, sure, fine. I think a modernized Sagisu Shirou take on some of the pieces would be really interesting. He's toyed with new instrumentations for older pieces of music from other composers over the years, so I could only imagine how he would handle a new take on the old Kikuchi Shunsuke pieces.

[Yuji]

Didn't Kikuchi work on Raging Blast? I know it's just a videogame OST but I'd love if some of those pieces were repurposed.

[Naruto6583]

Didn't Kikuchi work on Raging Blast? I know it's just a videogame OST but I'd love if some of those pieces were repurposed.

I believe that was done by takanori arima and his team. Kikuchi to my knowledge never worked on any dragon ball video games

[Rafa Fast]

I believe Kikuchi has no relation to his remixed tracks in the Raging Blast series or in Kakarot, I think he never touched DB again after DBZ Movie 13.
Or else....maybe he was responsible for the remixed cues in the french dub of Movie 13? Idk.

[GhostEmperorX]

Forgive my lateness to this topic, but...

Didn't Kikuchi work on Raging Blast? I know it's just a videogame OST but I'd love if some of those pieces were repurposed.

I believe that was done by takanori arima and his team. Kikuchi to my knowledge never worked on any dragon ball video games

That would be correct, in fact he had never done any projects in the video game field in general. Which is understandable given how he'd been active for a long time before those were even a thing.

Another thing to mention is that the re-arrangements of Kikuchi's BGM tracks (even the more recent ones in DBZ: Kakarot), like most other DB game soundtracks in general, stand little chance of being used outside of their game contexts. They have specific sound engines, conventions, etc that they were made for. Plus they wouldn't even get commercial releases (interestingly, no DB game soundtrack besides the ones that Kenji Yamamoto worked on ever got standalone commercial releases).

[funrush]

I think they should let new composers get a shot at this franchise instead. If they reused the Kikuchi score again I wouldn't exactly complain. I do love that old score.

[GhostEmperorX]

I think they should let new composers get a shot at this franchise instead. If they reused the Kikuchi score again I wouldn't exactly complain. I do love that old score.

Re-arrangements of it would certainly be welcome (I mean, imagine if that's what they got Yamamoto, someone with a solid grip on production and who had the best treatment bar none when it comes to official releases, to do in Kai instead).
But they only do that for games sadly.