#though if you don't watch dbz i'd suggest watching it

[kaiowut99]

So I said before I’ll be going ahead on this side-project, replacing Yamamoto’s music with Yutaka Minobe/Wall 5 Project’s work from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s’ awesome soundtrack–just so there’s a consistent soundtrack I can watch the show with, and also just messing around for some fun–and I’ll be sharing it for whoever’s interested in seeing how it pans out.  I downloaded some 320kbps rips of the first two Sound Duels to get some good quality in here, too.  The goal’s to make it to The Final Chapters to give the show a full consistent soundtrack, ideally without any placements rivaling that disco theme (you know the one) in terms of awkwardness.

After months of delaying it, here’s episode 4! I did a new sort of tweak with the scene where I had Godwin’s Theme play for the scene with Yemma, having it cut out as Goku’s all “Yo!” at him (as opposed to my earlier idea of a disc-scratch).  Personal favorite scenes include “The City” over Goku being ridden towards Snake Way, “Showdown” over the Raditz flashback, and one of the twins’ themes over Goku worrying about eating/asking about Baba, since the Yamamoto track had a cutesy track there.  Let me know what you think! 

I might include song lists too, as I get these done; I plan to work on these a little quicker, so hopefully episode 5′ll be done sooner.

[radish-club]

So I'm in a unique position animewise compared to other folks (or rather weebs) my age. I never watched any until a couple years ago and was introduced via suggestions by my wife (who is a self described anime snob) and my friends and stuck mostly to stuff under 30 episodes, so most of what I've seen are the Good Shows, stuff that's fun and quick, and some trash thrown in there for good measure.

But I don't really have experience with those "foundational" anime other people my age do (dbz, naruto, sailor moon, etc), which is mostly (not all, mostly) shonen mediocrity or worse, but also means I'm not pulling from the same pool of reference

Like the other day at dnd a friend made reference to some dbz character and I was like who? and was surprised and caught off guard that I hadn't heard of whoever. Not like in a rude way. But like if you had to explain to someone who Donald Duck was or something.

I never even watched Pokemon. I was huge into pokemon as a kid in the era of the first and second gen. I had the games and the cards and really WANTED to watch the show but didn't know how to find it. We had satellite so the cable channel numbers my friends told me it was on didn't match up. I knew how to find Nickelodeon and Disney Channel but that was about it until I was older. Plus my folks limited the amount of time the TV was on during the day.

Now I'm not saying I'm gonna go and watch all of Naruto or One Peice or something just so I can understand memes or some bullshit like that. And I have watched plenty of ubiquitous stuff in the past few years like Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop (stuff considered essential and also self contained), so I do have a decent enough frame of reference to navigate whole western anime fan mileau.

When I mentioned to the aforementioned friend that I have considered watching DBZ despite its length just to say I have, he suggested I watch the original Dragon Ball first or instead. I forget his reasoning but I'm tempted even though it is also very long bc I like the idea of continuing my approach to the medium in a nontraditional path.

Also whenever I bring up that I haven't seen DBZ folks always tell me to just watch Abridged and, like, I get its supposed to be very good and condensed but from what I've seen of it the jokes and humor seem predicated on having prior knowledge of the story and characters. I probably could grock it eventually and appreciate it for what it is, but I feel I'd appreciate it more with more a frame of reference.

"But you'd have to sit though so many episodes of power up scenes." Yeah. I know. It's one of thefew things I know about DBZ bc people always talk about that. If I'm watching a show to be able to relate to my fellow weeb, why would I deny myself something that appears to be a notable facet of said show. Will I suffer? Yes. But there is comradiere to be found in suffering.