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So my old 110mb GX/5D’s comparison site is being reincarnated! Slowly.

I signed up on Bluehost to pay $3.50-ish/month for it, and it’s being powered by Wordpress.  I’ll be spending some time getting the hang of it as I copy over the html from my old site’s pages and then reformat things, so hang tight.  As of now, I have 5D’s’ Season and OP/EN pages up and linked to each other (though I didn’t save the more recent copy of the OP/EN page so I’ll have to add to it), and 5D’s 1′s comparison is the only one actually up for now.  I’ll slowly add the rest this week.

But yeah, new site, so update your bookmarks! :D

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.

Yo guys, just wanted to repost this link in a newer post (thanks to everyone who reblogged my original post and follow-up for it) so more people would be aware of this petition.

As most GX and 5D’s fans know, a lot of music from the Japanese versions of those shows went unreleased, despite two (for GX; 3 for 5D’s, two of which were 2-CD releases) Sound Duel soundtracks, and they were a lot of the good ones.  In GX’s case, there was an incredibly huge delay with Sound Duel 2’s release, and in that time, we basically got two CDs’ worth of new music during the Seven Stars/Shadow Riders arc and Season 2 (notably A Powerful Threat, All-Out Duel, Reconciliation, Camula’s Theme, Saiou’s Theme, Standstill, Enjoying the Duel and a few here), as well as Season 3 (notably A Strong Force, Johan’s Theme and his Gem Beasts’ Theme); none of the new tracks during the former were released, and most of the Season 3 songs were released with tracks from Season 4 on Sound Duel 2 when it did come out. Also of note: Sound Duel 2’s only TV-Size OP/EN were Precious Time and Endless Dream (while 5D’s had all of its TV-size OP/ENs released).  I’d say that leaves 60% or so of GX’s soundtrack unreleased.

With 5D’s, while maybe 80% of the soundtrack was released, there were 10-15 tracks during the Fortune Cup/Dark Signers arcs that weren’t released yet they were used during memorable moments (among them JACK Battle 2, Yusei’s original battle theme, Hopeless Battle, and Lamentation), and the WRGP/Ark Cradle arc saw another 15 or so go unreleased (like this remixed Speed World, Sherry Battle, and Tactics).  A smaller pool of unreleased stuff compared to GX, but it still would be nice to have them in perfect quality.

Sure, ripping the tracks is a solution, but unfortunately, it can be hard to keep a lot of what defines the tracks intact, and it wouldn’t be the same as listening to it during an episode (example here).

Thing is, I started this petition back in October, and there are only 60-ish signatures! The goal’s set at the default 1000 on the site, but I suppose more realistically, getting 200 might be a good start (right?).  Now, this is the YGO fandom, and I know there are a bunch of GX/5D’s fans who liked/loved the series and a lot of the music that didn’t get released.  There were also a lot of ZeXal fans out there who were pleasantly surprised when an unexpected Sound Duel 5 was announced, made thanks to fan outcry:

放送終了後も未収録音源のCD化を望むお声を多数頂きましたことを受け、今回の発売が決定致しました。

*quick translation by me*

“Many of you voiced your wishes for CDs of the soundtracks that went unreleased even after [ZeXal]’s broadcast concluded, and that led us to this next release.”

It came out a few weeks back and put a huge dent in ZeXal’s “unreleased music” list.  Getting the same done for GX and 5D’s (but especially GX since it has a ton more) would be great, and is the general goal here.  I mean, YGO series in general have awesome soundtracks, and it’d be nice to appreciate GX’s and 5D’s in full.  GX especially has a great pitch going for it: this year was its 10th Anniversary!

If fans’ voices helped ZeXal, it can help GX and 5D’s.  If you’ve already signed, thanks so much! If not, well, help us out, fandom! It only takes a minute or two to sign. We can do it!