Throughout the last 28ish years there has been alot of various songs and music played during, before, and after episodes and movies. Dragon Ball has had some extremely memorable openings and some exciting theme songs, but I'd like to give some props to my Top 3 Dragon Ball Songs That Are Not Openings or Endings. Originally the list was a top 5, but I didn't want to have a post spammed with a bunch of YouTube videos. Let's do a quick countdown!
3. The Son Goku Song.
Anime lovers seem to enjoy their music, and anime creators enjoying making music for the fans. As the same with alot of anime series, there are soundtracks released with "Character Songs." These songs are usually about the character or at least voiced by the character's actor/actress. The first song on the list features everyone's favorite monkey - Son Goku! The song gives you a nice feel of a happy-go-lucky Son Goku years before the events of Dragon Ball Z.
2. Hikari No Will Power
Every Dragon Ball Z fan should know this song. Hikari No Will power started as an instrumental song for Future Trunks that played DBZ fighting games for the SNES to PlayStation generations. Future Trunks as a character was insanely popular when he was first introduced in Japan. Popular enough for him to not only get his own song in game, but also got it's own vocalized version of the song later. (It also got him into the 3rd SFAM/SNES fighting game that took place in the Buu Saga.) There have been many variations of the song and tons of people covering the song on YouTube. Past, present, or future: This song is rocks.
Now for my personal favorite and number 1:
Unmei no Hi ~Tamashii VS Tamashii~
It was roughly the year 1996. I was into anime but my sources were very limited. We had AOL Dial-Up and one computer in the entire house. It took a lot of time and effort but after a 14 hour download, I was able to download a small video file (I think it was a .mov or real player file) of a scene labeled "Gohan Turns SSJ2." It was worth every second - this scene alone established my love for Dragon Ball. You can watch this scene in any of the English dubs, sure - but all you're going to get is random gibberish and some bad guitar riffs. Yeah, you could go do that coulden't you? You could also walk out into traffic or stab your eye out with an eraseable pen. Just trust me on this and watch the video.
This song is nothing short of awesome.
Thanks for reading and watching the videos. Hopefully I'll have some time coming up to finish my AX'12 review and a couple of other surprises. Thanks again!
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