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Dragon Ball Z Kai Episode 1 (OST: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s) | cloudy.ec - Your next generation video portal

All right, so if anyone else out there is at all familiar with Dragon Ball Z Kai, and have been since the onset, you’ll know that the show went through a sort of soundtrack hell ever since Kenji Yamamoto, the guy who originally composed the OST, was found to have plagiarized a bunch of tunes from big-budget films like Avatar and Terminator.  In Japan, this was discovered just as the Gohan VS Cell finale was airing, which prompted a rushed last-minute replacement of his OST for 96-98 with some of Shunsuke Kikuchi’s old soundtrack for DBZ.  Which isn’t terrible, though if you followed DBZ:K early and got into Yamamoto’s music like I did, it was disappointing.  They were also apparently only working with a certain amount of tunes, since a lot of them played repeatedly (also Cell-arc stuff during the Saiyan arc wat).

As a result, the episodes released with Yamamoto’s score began to disappear as they were replaced with re-releases featuring Kikuchi’s, which happened here in the US, too; the original Nicktoons airing got as far as the early Android Arc before switching to Kikuchi, and we got up to near the end of Goku VS Freeza on DVD with Yamamoto before subsequent Parts and Season Sets were released with Kikuchi.  And now there’s a new composer for the Buu arc, Norihito Sumitomo.  A lot more info about this can be found here, if you’re interested.

But anywho (since I’m sure I’m digressing a bit haha), ever since, fans have manually reinserted the Yamamoto score into later episodes, but for a while there was a slight “meme” going on where people would use the OST from other shows on DBZ:K, with music-less clips thrown out onto the web.  So I got the idea (while working on YGO Bonds Beyond Time’s rescoring) to try DBZ:K with YGO tunes, and I thought 5D’s would fit well.  I’d also done a video a while back with Goku’s SS Transformation to JACK Battle and “Light and Dark” that came out awesomely lol. I finished this a while ago, but haven’t had a chance to work it into the video file haha.

So here you go! Feel free to give it a look and tell me what you think.  I might be tempted to try this some more lol.  The idea behind the music was to treat it the same way 5D’s/the Sound Duel CDs treated it, mirroring the tune selections 5D’s had going in the Fortune Cup arc, for the most part.  The title theme’s a WIP, though; did want to slow down the 5D’s title card theme to fit it but it sounded weird, and I think I tried using the end of “Yusei Fudo” for it but it didn’t work too well, so I just looped the TC theme a bit.  I tried haha.