Remember When The Composer of the DBZ Games Plagiarized The Entire Soundtrack Lmao?

[Illuminatos]

I loved the soundtrack for the OG Budokai games as a kid but I was barely 10 years old so of course I never noticed how obvious some of these songs were. How did this dude think he could copy some of the most popular songs from Earth, Wind and Fire and Black Sabbath and get away with it?

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Dude even stole the entire DBZ Kai soundtrack.



I could understand 1 or 2 songs but dude damn near plagiarized every song.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Lol damn never saw this before…reminds me of how robo’s theme bit rick Astley



Or x-men biting Whitney Houston

 

[SCJoe]

Yoko Kanno was another "genius" musician who basically plagiarized her whole catalog. Can't watch Cowboy Bebop or SAC the same after she she got exposed.

 

[Renkz]

Reading comments in the first dbz video, the investigation must have started off from that

 

[spacewraith]

That's actually pretty blatant.

 

[Killer Instinct]

There was a DBZ game on Cartoon Networks website that I played religiously. The music that played while you were fighting was literally the 'Thong Song' instrumental.

 

[Kingshango]

He got fired from Bandai/Namco for that and they had to replace the music in the remasters.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

What was even funnier is one of the songs he plagiarized was a Disturbed song that was literally used in the Funimation dub of Coolers Revenge

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Reading comments in the first dbz video, the investigation must have started off from that

It started from a Dragon Ball Kai song that plagiarized Avatar like a year after that movie came out. Fans already knew about the other shyt, but that's when it caught Toeis attention.

Just to clarify, this was Kenji Yamamoto, who composed for all of the 90s and 00s video games and Dragon Ball Kai, NOT Shunsuke Kikuchi, who did the original DB/Z anime. I've seen some of the falconer stans on here try to use this as some big joker against the Japanese score

One thing I'll add though is Yamamoto is FAR from the only one in the world of TV and video game music who's plagiarizing, he's just one of the few that got caught and got way too blatant with it later on. These dudes make a lot of music that's meant to be more for mood and background shyt, not casual listening. So they'll bite popular songs that evoke what they're going for. Mad shows and video games have great value versions of popular songs. But Yamamoto was wiling and flying too close to the sun

 

[FunkDoc1112]

There was a DBZ game on Cartoon Networks website that I played religiously. The music that played while you were fighting was literally the 'Thong Song' instrumental.

YOOOOOOOOOO

That's the funniest fukking thing I've seen in a minute. I remember I used to play that all the time too

 

[Kingshango]

Ninja Gaiden arcade still has one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism, down to the title of the song.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Ninja Gaiden arcade still has one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism, down to the title of the song.

Yup, exactly, stuff like this. Kenji Yamamoto started off as a video game composer in the late 80s and folks in Japan were especially brazen with it since some of those games weren't coming out in North America anyway, so they could just bite some popular Western songs and nobody would notice...and even if they came out in America, videog ames were still considered kiddy shyt back then so it was still under the radar

WHat fukked Yamamoto up is he still kept blatantly sharking stuff even on TV productions, finally going too far when he jacked a song from the biggest movie in the world at the time.

 

[Afro]

Yoko Kanno was another "genius" musician who basically plagiarized her whole catalog. Can't watch Cowboy Bebop or SAC the same after she she got exposed.

What!? Noooo not her too

 

[firemanBk]

Japanese composers ripped off Western music a ton back in the day
My boy Yuzo Koshiro was "inspired" by quite a few songs for those Streets of Rage OSTs filled with bangers
Usually it was just part of the song though and like not the whole thing so it wasn't as totally obvious as that Dragon Ball shyt which was flat stealing with Dragon Ball Z Kai with very little effort to make it sound different



Also different composer but the the beginning of Ken's theme from Street Fighter II is an extremely clear rip off of Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick from the Top Gun OST

 

[Don Homer]

this is news to me

oh they were STEALING stealing