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Brakus
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As someone else mentioned, VIZ has the rights to Part 3 (Stardust Crusaders). I hope someday I get to hear more of Richard Epcar's take on elder Joseph Joestar's "OH MY GOD" and "OH NO" and so forth. I'd also love for VIZ to re-release Parts 1 and 2 ("The Complete 1st Season") on Blu-ray and proper English subtitles. The English dub for Parts 1 and 2 weren't bad, really, but it is odd to hear Johnny Yong Bosch pull off an English/British accent for Jonathan Joestar. Patrick Seitz is just his wonderful, hammy self as Dio Brando, though - loved his performance. (He says "... but it was I, Dio!" in the dub of Episode 1, but Patrick is very aware that it's supposed to be "... but it was *me*, Dio!" from the meme.) Last edited by Brakus on Mon Apr 25, 2016 3:31 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Brakus
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WKRP and Wonder Years both have R1 DVD releases with about 90% of the licensed music restored. Shout Factory has WKRP while Time-Life has Wonder Years. Looks like they were able to obtain home video rights for those songs, much like Warner Bros. did with "Roundabout". It does help that Warner Bros. Japan had a hand in the production side of things, at the very least with music clearances. |
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Dop.L
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There was the single episode of the Maison Ikkoku anime (which Viz released many years ago and I spent stupid money importing from the US) where both the opening and closing titles were by British singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Alone Again, Naturally" for the OP, and "Get Down", for the ED.
Apparently this was some record company deal which didn't work out. Wikipedia seems to claim this wasn't on the US release, but I've got a DVD which disagrees with them. The thing with Funimation's release of "Eden of the East" is that the whole dynamic text thing of the opening titles was cut to the beat of "Falling Down", but the replacement song didn't fit, and that really kind of irritated me. I'm no Oasis fan, but the combination of music and title sequence really worked. The other ones I can think of are the first series of "Mushishi", which used "The Sore Feet Song" by Scottish singer Ally Kerr, who admittedly I've heard nothing else by, but apparently he did get some tours of Japan out of it. Second series of "Mushishi" used "Shiver" by English singer Lucy Rose, and after seeing the first episode I bought her album purely based on listening to that song. Neither of them are household names, so I can see how licensing that would cause less of a problem. Also, the first series of "Gunslinger Girl" had "The Light Before We Land" by Scottish band The Delgados. I do have to wonder if the members of Yes wondered why they were suddenly getting more royalty payments from Japan... |
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ChrissyC
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There was a Tumblr post wandering around and it had to do with the names actually strictly referring to those songs and etc they were based off. Araki the owner of Jojo has permission to use them while down here the legal streamers would rather not risk getting lawsuits. |
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WingKing
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"Thank you!" to the person who answered my JoJo's question.
And their song "Woke from Dreaming" was also used as in insert song in that series, but those were both cleared to use on the American DVDs. There was also another series, I forget the name right now, that used a couple of Backstreet Boys songs. I think that's a series that was never released outside Japan, though. |
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Top Gun
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Someone brought up Monster's ending theme a bit earlier; from what I remember the vocal track was missing from the SyFy broadcast too. (Still hate you forever Viz.) The same show had a few in-episode music issues too: the famous "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was replaced with a vague sound-alike during one scene that made explicit reference to it, and another character's favorite song was meant to be "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes but received the same treatment. I think that instance was even worse, because the character was nicknamed "The Baby" as an explicit reference to that song, so removing it made the whole thing lose its import.
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NJ_
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The missing songs in Monster is all on Japan because they actually had two different masters made for the show and the one that was released outside of Japan is the international version which, in addition to the songs being cut, actually had it's music score rearranged, in both English & Japanese versions. This was revealed after Viz's one & only set officially came out because there was a huge stink over the changed score at the old AoD/Mania forums and it later came out that one of the European releases (I believe it was the French DVDs) had the same problems so it wasn't completely Viz's fault like everyone originally thought (though they didn't help at all being silent about it and that set was released around the same time they were getting heat over missing songs from Nana & Hunter x Hunter 99's releases). |
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GATSU
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Errin: It's more gratuitous now, but society was a little less reactive to it then. You wouldn't get the backlash to 'Girls on Film' that you got against, say, 'Blurred Lines'.
Brakus: But they couldn't get all the songs, because those record companies aren't thinking about the higher value of their catalog being placed alongside other notable works of pop culture, such as those shows. It's also what's held up this thing here. Like I said. Pure greed. Last edited by GATSU on Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:42 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Sylontack
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I actually loved Speed Grapher's use of Girls on Film and was super bummed when I found out it wasn't on the English release. If I recall correctly it wasn't a case of it being expensive but they found out there was a bit of a mess involved with the licence and it wasn't actually attainable at the time (I think they approached the band directly but as a result the band found out the rights had been taken from them or something like that. I'm a little foggy on it). Re: Ergo Proxy, I own the Australian DVDs but so far I've only watched it when it aired on TV in Australia ages ago, but every episode to memory had Paranoid Android (I specifically remember because I was pretty much a primary school kid at the time and the song bugged me but a couple of years later I became a snotty-yet-basic alternative listener and Radiohead was my gateway band so I was pretty chuffed about it later on) |
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Zalis116
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KutovoiAnton
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Well, there's also One Piece Film Z, which had two Avril Lavigne's songs.
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UkiyaSeed
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(Reads part about Savage Garden)
Guess that means there's no need for Crunchyroll to rename Savage Garden in Part VI once David animates Part VI then. |
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Mikurotoro
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OK if anime distributors in the US can't get the rights to certain songs in anime then how is it that the singers/bands,record labels,& songwriters have absolutely NO problems with US animation studios using some of the very same music in there own cartoons? Can someone please explain that? Thanks in advance!
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AnimeLordLuis
Posts: 1626 Location: The Borderlands of Pandora |
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I remember hearing "You Raise Me Up" in Japanese for the opening of Romeo x Juliet it was also in English for one episode I guess when the song is sung by someone else the rules are different since all of it was intact for the DVD releases.
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kevinx59
Posts: 959 Location: In sunny California |
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Does anybody know what is up with Kamisama no Memochou?The first episode uses Mr. Big's "Colorado Bulldog" as its ending theme, but the Sentai release uses the regular ending theme for that episode instead. The series isn't that popular but seeing as how Hellsing doesn't seem to have any trouble using "Shine" I've wondered why it was changed/removed (unless the JP home videos also do this).
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