Why were theme songs the one thing they were weirdly good at?
>>282362128https://youtu.be/kRwJvOm395EBIG BAD BOYS FROM OUTER SPACE
>>282362128What's the one thing the One Piece main cast shouldn't do?
Vh
>>282362128It was much simpler to do and they had near free reign. Just look at Yugioh's OP compared to the shit they had to edit for every single episode.
>>282362128They were the peak of english dubbing.
>>282362189"Ultimate Muscle" is wierd to me, because it's one the rare times they didn't tone things down, they turned it up adding dirty jokes and keeping the jokes the original had for the most part. They even have the characters say "Kinnikuman" at one point in the correct context.
>>282362128>>282363929>4Kids was originally going to be more faithful for the One Piece dub and even had decent cover of We Are fully recorded WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED!?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHO6DtFJ-Y
>>282364210They became soulful
>>282364328t. zoomer who never had to put up with this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVSqFRgs1Qw
>>282364385Put up with what?
I vaguely remember reading that they contracted an ad agency to make all the theme songs, which would explain why they were all so catchy.
>>282362189Dik Dik van Dick! XD
>>282364385You didn't like the pirate rap, anon?
>>282362128Megumi Hayashibara is a musical goddess, but I can't overstate how much this intro got me obsessed with Shaman King and made it the first anime I sought out online when I was old enough to understand dubbing and subbinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLl145FqQg
>>282363929The Yu Gi Oh theme is up there with the decision to replace Just Love with that face-melting Just Communication cover for Gundam Wing's ending. It actually fit the dark arcane occult-lite bullshit of the series, unlike most of the moon themes.
>>282365305I can say the same thing about CCS, even though it was DiC, which don't get me wrong Catch Me is a classic and deserves to be remember more, and CCS's english dub is generally dogshitBut damn if this song doesn't live in my head to this dayhttps://youtu.be/ERpK-7K70ws?si=J6atzmqq7ul45kla
>>282363929>>282365322The Yugioh openings were very catchy and good. Yugioh, GX, and 5ds had great openings.Here's the Yugioh 5ds music contest btw and hyper drive rightfully won.https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlHXJ_GOsRt4YNGfmSafXj8jC9A382biK
>>282364210I'm gonna say itDREAMIN' >>>>>>>>>>> We Are
>>282362128TMNT 2003 was fantastic
>>282362128Reminder the Sonic X gotta go fast catchphrase is still used by Sega today.https://x.com/SEGA_OFFICIAL/status/1671707119119405056
>>282365683Your irony poisoned meme opinion is wrong
>>282366327It's the only thing from 4Kids era SEGA wants to remember besides Mike as EggmanGetting the 4Kids actors for their edgy serious games they wanted to push for Sonic was such a misfire on every front, it's kinda funny how they didn't see it coming.
>>282365525DM, and 5Ds I can agree with. But GX's english op was dogshit and could never hold a candle to the JP OPsIt just the worst kind of pop ska music, and this is coming from someone who likes ska.
>>282366404Cope
>>282364210Were they actually going to be faithful...or was it just the opening?
>>282366456I'm surprised at how popular the 4kids Sonic cast seem to be with zoomers who grew up with them, at least online. I wasn't a fan of Jason Griffith's Sonic, it was OK at best, as were the rest of the voice actors. I even prefer the current guy they have voicing him, who a lot of zoomers seem to dislike.
>>282365683This. The pirate rap was catchier and more exciting than the generic corny anime opening
>>282368820Airing it uncensored was never going to fly back then, but they could easily have gone relatively easy on it like they did with Shaman King rather than making it the most censored and unfaithful dub of theirs by far.
Reminder
>>282362128Gotta Go Fast is a serious downgrade from Sonic Drive.
>>282371214Which reminds me, why did Shaman King and Ultimate Muscle get special treatment all things considered? Especially given everything the dipshit heads of the company thought about localizing and anime in general.
