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Zin5ki
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As a hobbyist slide-whistler, learning that such an instrument played a constitutive role in anime's most famous audio sample feels almost ennobling. |
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Top Gun
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I always liked Toei's patented jet-engine sound whenever a character is flying through the air. Or the super-heavy PWEEEEEN! punch sound that shows up everywhere from DBZ to Super Smash Bros. On the non-anime side of things, it always cracks me up when I hear a generic door-opening or machinery-grinding effect in a commercial and think, "Okay I totally heard that in Myst over 20 years ago."
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Superfield
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I remember watching an episode of Sailor Moon where I heard, no joke, the Dropship sound effect from StarCraft. Probably didn't originate in the most influential RTS game ever made, but it's probably where most people know it from.
EDIT: I remembered wrong, it wasn't Sailor Moon, it was actually Yes! Pretty Cure 5. Episode 47 around 10:11, to be exact. |
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0nsen
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Yeah, it's weird to hear the same sound effects all over anime. But not as weird as hearing the metal on metal sound effect when a sword is only making contact with air. And this happens A LOT in anime.
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PurpleWarrior13
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Dragon Ball Z had very memorable and distinctive sound effects. For a project for my editing class, I created a fandub of one scene from the show, remixing everything from the ground up, and I had to find a DBZ-specific sound effects library. I wanted it to sound as authentic as possible. It was a huge challenge.
I think the only other show I’ve heard them in is Slayers, and only for a few scenes. |
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Niello
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That newtype flash sound really is familiar and sounds quite nostalgic too. I'm quite sure I heard it before in Doraemon and a number of other anime. I mostly associate it with moment-of-realisation scenes.
Edit: It just occurred to me that it was also in Chuuka Ichiban when I rewatched it a while back. It came up in food tasting scenes like mapo tofu. 
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MarshalBanana
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My university had this foley room fitted while I was there, it cost them ten grand(Pound Sterling). And it was only a tiny room with special walls, different surfaces and this thing mounted on the wall.
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Lord Geo
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Sunrise definitely has a back catalog of sound effects, with some not becoming "iconic" until years after their first uses. For example, anyone who's seen GaoGaiGar likely knows the respective sounds that the G & J Stones have when they're both activated, so imagine my surprise when I watch Raijin-Oh, and both of those sound are used, literally one after another, during the Jaku Satan summoning sequence. So GaoGaiGar made sound effects that were already nearly a decade old (if not older) iconic well after they were first used.
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Top Gun
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Speaking of the Newtype Flash effect, that's another one that Toei uses all over the place in One Piece whenever there's some sort of dramatic stinger.
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Zin5ki
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On a similar note, I discovered an arcade racing game from the early 1990s which, quite inexplicably, used part of the soundtrack from Dominion Tank Police. A factoid as rarely mentioned as it is trivial. |
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Codeanime93
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That and the same computer warning beep is in a lot of the Gundam shows, mainly I hear it in Gundam Wing a lot. Though it was originated from the original show also. Though I find it funny the Newtype Flash is even featured also in Wing despite the show never going there about Newtypes at all so I guess it's a subtle hint at them existing also in Wing? Probably just a reference for fans though. Similarly, Seed also features it despite again not having Newtypes but instead Coordinators.
Also even DBZ apparently used the Newtype flash as well during a fight with Krillin and Vegeta causing one Youtuber to post a video jokingly entitled "Vegeta, the Newtype". |
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Dolza
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I always thought that Gundam sound was just a Flexatone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexatone |
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Lemonchest
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I do a double take when Star Wars sound effects show up. Seen a couple shows that liked to use the tie-fighter blaster for power ups - Claymore springs to mind.
Favourite sound would probably be that old laser/gun effect that sounds like the a-10 Warthog's rotary cannon. Used it all the time in the 80s, but they don't seem to anymore 
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relyat08
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My favorite is when they just use a human to make extremely lame cat sounds.
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KAIZOKU MUGIWARA NO LUFFY
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THE ONE I LIKED IS FROM TOEI ANIMATIONS IN THE DBZ AND SUPER SERIES ALSO THE SAME IN ONE PIECE LIKE FLYING
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