The Final Bout soundtrack was re-dirrected to the game's article. The only thing deserving is the Hit Song Collection series, the American Soundtrack series, and the Game Music series, with the later two already made into list by me.
FULL DBZ SOUNDTRACK SERIES
As such, merging to a central location, similar to what has been done with other series would be the best option, similar to List of Final Fantasy compilation albums or List of Haruhi Suzumiya albums. Most are nothing more than stubs with the release date, badly formatted track lists, and a non-free image. The large majority of the Dragon Ball soundtrack albums fail WP:MUSIC and are not notable enough to have their own articles. If an editor wishes to merge them, please be WP:BOLD and do so. Not being familiar with this topic, I am removing the tag but not merging the articles. However, discussion has fizzled out over three years ago with no merge action taking place. There appears to be clear consensus for merging these articles. A summary of the conclusions reached follows. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. Kenji Yamamoto has never made a public statement regarding the plagiarism.The following discussion is closed. It is very clear that Kenji Yamamoto was extremely talented and that had he not plagiarized he would likely be fondly remembered by DBZ fans. Perhaps the biggest tragedy in all this, is that while Yamamoto did indeed plagiarize other people's work, the vast majority of his music was created by him. Rather than hire a new composer and create a new OST for Kai, which would have drastically delayed the release of DBZ Kai content, Toei decided to replace Yamamoto's score with Shunsuke Kikuchi's soundtrack from the original airing of DBZ in Japan. Since then any release of Dragon Ball Z Kai and its related media, (games, commercials.etc) after March of 2011, has had Yamamoto's score removed. Yamamoto was fired from Toei animation Mawhen the allegations of plagiarism turned out to be true. The evidence was damning for Toei Animation and for Yamamoto's reputation in the music industry. Yamamoto practically copied their entire scores. These videos show that Yamamoto did not just take inspiration from the other composers. But some very sharp ears heard something entirely different.
In fact, many of the tracks are wonderful and a joy to listen too. Many people assumed this was Yamamoto way of acknowledging Kikuchi's style and yet take the music in his own direction. You would be easily forgiven if you assumed no-foul play upon first hearing it. In stark contrast to Faulconer, Kikuchi's music is far more traditional by anime standards. Many fans who did not enjoy Faulconer's music and wanted a soundtrack more like Kikuchi's, where quick to praise Yamamoto's score.Ī perfect example of Faulconer's soundtrack, including his iconic guitar riff.
Needless to say, initially the reception of Yamamoto's score was quite positive. Likewise, Japanese audiences may find it equally startling that the English dub of the original Dragon Ball Z did not air with the classical music composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi. Popular opinion of Faulconer's music is extremely polarizing many fans either absolutely love the soundtrack or hate it. Many of them are used to watching Dragon Ball Z while listening to the electronic Bruce Faulconer score. Western audiences may find Kenji Yamamoto's music in Dragon Ball Z Kai a little surprising at first.