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penguintruth
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Hey, they reported what I sent. Awesome.
Exactly. As are the CD soundtracks. Get on it, collectors! And look at it this way, if they have to make new music, that means new OSTs. It's almost like they're trying to fund more DB Kai for later. Well, copied music or not, while it doesn't quite reach Kikuchi quality, it's still a lot better than that soulless crap Bruce Faulconer and Mark Menza came up with. |
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Banken
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Japanese TV shows steal songs literally every single day.
I think Japanese copyright law when it comes to using songs on TV shows is just really loose since they aren't directly making money off of it. You can hear everything from The Eagles songs to BGM from Eureka Seven (which you here a LOT). |
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penguintruth
Posts: 8461 Location: Penguinopolis |
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I hear stuff from the Cowboy Bebop OST sometimes when I watch Japanese TV, just as incidental music used in live-action variety shows/news programs. What am I doing watching Japanese television without knowing the language, you might ask? I... I like the commercials. |
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jr240483
 Posts: 4380 Location: New York City,New York,USA |
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Well this can't be good.
If their gonna do massive overhaul of the music cause of legal issuses , they might end up using really bad music as replacements , or they might have to use two type of music backgrounds . One for the uncut DVDs and the other for the crappy TV broadcasts for Toonzai and nicktoons. I just really really hope this does not prove those nay sayers that remaking the series was a waste of time cause at least the DVD versions aren't . and though i do not want to over react , it may force Funi to pull a 4kids with the music backgrounds ,and that's a really the worst case senario. |
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Sunday Silence
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Sometimes they own the rights to the songs via a production a/or broadcast rights. Witness FNN using the theme song from Odoru Daisousasen (Bayside Shakedown) in their own "Odoru Daisenkyosen" |
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braves
 Posts: 2309 Location: Puerto Rico (but living in Texas) |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4471 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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On the subject of unauthorized music use, Urusei Yatsura used a note-for-note instrumental version of The Beatles' "Fool on the Hill" as background music at least once (right at the beginning of episode 51, "There's a Cat On the Stairs", the first episode with Kotatsu Neko, the giant cat ghost). I kinda doubt Kitty Films licensed the astronomically-expensive Beatles music for the show (it's not mentioned in the credits).
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Tomibiki
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All I hear is, Ice Ice Baby, ding ding ding ding duhduh ding ding $$$$
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mrsatan
 Posts: 911 Location: Olympia, WA, USA |
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Well, I never liked the Kai soundtrack in the first place and that was the main thing stopping me from purchasing it. If they go back and replace everything with Kikuchi's score I may actually buy the revised version.
Shunsuke Kikuchi and Hironobu Kageyama were a big part of what made DBZ great IMHO. |
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vashthekaizoku
 Posts: 261 Location: The House of Rat |
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I'm surprised nobody's pointing out that it's ending next month! Are they not covering the Buu saga at all, or is it moving to another time slot? They're just finishing the Cell Games which, even though it's my favorite part of the series, is not the ending! That's like Rurouni Kenshin not animating the last several volumes of the manga! I mean, I know they were animated years ago, but I enjoy this version, without all the side stories. I'm actually a fan of DBZ from the manga, and I've actually never watched the original, having not gotten into it until it came out in the American Shonen Jump.
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penguintruth
Posts: 8461 Location: Penguinopolis |
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From what I understand, the home video and merchandise weren't selling to Toei's desires, so they decided to end it with the Cell arc. It was probably selling a lot more than other titles, but they likely had inflated expectations based on the past success of the franchise. I'd like to see them do the Buu arc at some point (since it needs Kai badly with all that filler in it), but it won't be soon. It's too bad, too, because the Funimation English dub for Kai is quite good, and with Kai ending before the Buu arc, a lot of people will resort to watching the old terrible English version. |
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GATSU
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Tenchi: I don't feel that bad for greedy record companies if they're too damned stingy to let people even use riffs or samples of songs in shows. It's why we can't get the uncut WKRP on DVD. And even though they admit they're having historically shitty sales, they continue to charge a damned fortune for their songs to the point that even a hit show like Glee can't afford it. Even Moby thinks they're worthless.
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Alexis.Anagram
 Posts: 278 Location: Mishopshno |
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All of those links are going straight to my audiophile anime-nerd friends to giggle over mercilessly. On the bright side, all of that plagiarism paid off in one hell of an awesome soundtrack. If you're going to steal music, might as well make it the good stuff. 
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mrsatan
Posts: 911 Location: Olympia, WA, USA |
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The Buu arc was a real mess and would take a LOT of work to salvage it, IMHO. Even in the manga it dragged on forever aimlessly.
As for this composer, even though I didn't like his work on DBK, I do feel a bit sorry for him. He would have never been "caught" if not for the internet. Pre-internet, this kind of thing happened all the time in anime. There's an image song in Dancougar that is a shameless ripoff of Dare from Transformers: The Movie. |
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NJ_
 Posts: 3014 Location: Wallington, NJ |
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Here's an update:
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