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Top 10 Shunsuke Kikuchi DB/Z Tracks

Few people talk about Shunsuke Kikuchi. While not the quality of say, Yoko Kanno's contributions, or the emotional power of Hiroshi Miyagawa's work, Kikuchi has been in the business of incidental music (that is to say, background music) for decades. Cutting his teeth on tokusatsu programs, Kikuchi got work scoring the anime adaption of the popular Akira Toriyama manga Dr. Slump. He is best known, however, for scoring the anime adaptation of Toriyama's most popular work, Dragon Ball. Taking cues from old films, Kikuchi is a little Wang Fu-ling and a little Bernard Hermann.

Dragon Ball Kai... with Kikuchi's Score!

This isn't an edit. Because of the plagiarism situation, this is the music being used for Kai now. That is, Shunsuke Kikuchi's Z score.

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Anime Music Spotlight: Dragon Ball Z - Monster Freeza vs The Legendary Super Saiyan

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Anime Music Spotlight: Dragon Ball Z - Ma ni ae!! Nanatsu no Dragon Ball

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My Thoughts On: Ballsy Streaming (UPDATED)

Starting tonight, Funimation will be streaming Dragon Ball Z episodes 1-15 on their website. This is just the first step in what they say will be streaming of all Dragon Ball shows, including Dragon Ball Kai, online, for free. This is an unprecedented feat for the company. The DBZ streaming uses the Funimation "Remastered Season Sets" footage. The "orange bricks" as they're often called have video that Funimation remastered on their own, causing the loss of detail. They also blew up the picture and cropped it for widescreen, so there's also missing bits of the picture. They also messed around with the colors so that it's much brighter than intended.