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**LegendarySSJ7** · 05-06-2008

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Originally Posted by Madness

The Funi, Ocean and original dub are all like different shows to me. I watched the Ocean Dub of the Vegeta Saga the other day and I loved it. The music was actually reallygood. It's much more like the original japanese music than the Funi dub is.

If I have any qualm with Dragonball's anime score, it's that in every single version the score has been rather trite and repetitive (a qualm that might not escape the collective throats of the community at large either, if I'm not mistaken). Threading the track three times over in the final battle of the series in the Japanese version didn't help, even if the score is classic. As for the OCEAN dub score, it's not bad as it's a good, apposite background that doesn't clash with the footage, but it's nothing even remotely similar to the original Japanese score to me. Nor is the FUNimation dub's score - the only time the Japanese score was used in the FUNimation dub was in Dragonball (pre-Z Era), which makes it somewhat remote in usage.

The Japanese version was rather reliant on silence as a backdrop and using sparse tracks (but then common here and there) as a bold way to convey the tone (making one feel a warring notion through sheer music and the range of emotion conveyed). I felt this was a good approach, but somewhat unfulfilling considering how redundant said music became (but not vapid by full intents and means). The FUNimation dub relied on beefing up the footage through electronic music that changed whenever the scene changed, to convey a change in tone, which became a bit unnecessary (though I felt the music had a good tone for each episode). The OCEAN dub has a much more quiet score, but it was a bit lacking in variety to me.

That aside, as for the thread's subject of discussion... I started watching it back when the OCEAN dub first aired in September of 1996, so I was 7 at the timeframe.