So I Re-scored a Sailor Moon episode with US DBZ Music... Surprisingly Effective!

[Vigilante2470]

[video=dailymotion;x4d32jy]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4d32jy_sai-lor-mo-on-day-of-destiny-musical-redub-bruce-faulconer-style_fun[/video]
So yeah, after a discussion with a friend, I let on how I owned and basically memorized Bruce Faulconer's American score for Dragonball Z. Said I could probably score damn near anything with that soundtrack, I had such an encyclopedic memory for the tracks, so I got challenged to do so against the most opposite anime possible: Sailor Moon.

Not content to just grab any formulaic monster-of-the-day episode for the base, I opted for the finale to season 1, an episode called "Day of Destiny." You know, because then shit would actually HAPPEN.

Turned out, as I got working... this actually worked out a LOT better than expected. I'm actually stunned how well it goes together, or how perfectly the timing on some of the tracks plays to the action. Ended up going all out with the full episode, even doing my best to cut the blank spots in the audio where some awful bubbly 80's song is playing over the final action scene. Ended up even replacing sound effects as a result. Uploaded to Dailymotion because Youtube apparently slams the door on anything Sailor Moon related. Hopefully doesn't get taken down...

I think my favorite bit is the transformation sequence, which is admittedly a bit loud to drown out the original music. Tried to filter out the original's score as much as I could, but I'm better with editing than sound engineering...

Also, you might notice this episode is bullshit. Found out later, it's actually a horrific splicing of THREE episodes in the Japanese into one, and in the original just about everybody fucking DIES :dead:
In the ENGLISH version, it cuts the footage to ribbons editing it together, pretends for the kiddies that characters were kidnapped and not murdered, and it all results in everyone doing and saying ridiculous shit or splitting from the party for no reason alone and then getting ambushed alone when everyone else was with them not thirty seconds previouslykashflkajhsfkjhaslkdhf
:mindblown:

So yeah, laugh at the inept dubbers, enjoy the music, shit on my couch... here's some free content, take it or leave it :pudge:

[Lord Krit]

Good job. You should take a look at my DBZ rescore with Fury Road

[video=youtube;tB8YaHOZJ04]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8YaHOZJ04[/video]

[Vigilante2470]

[QUOTE=TheKritter71;50405117]Good job. You should take a look at my DBZ rescore with Fury Road

[video=youtube;tB8YaHOZJ04]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8YaHOZJ04[/video][/QUOTE]
Thanks!

Huh, admittedly never seen Fury Road... largely because I've never seen Mad Max the original, and I'm a stickler for that sort of thing... but hey, if it works it works! Did you edit out the music, or is Kai just generally that quiet on the symphonic front?

Oh, and as an addendum to my mention of the original dub's failings, note the instances of pulled-out-of-ass telepathy between characters towards the end, as well as the cringeworthy "flashback of friends gives hero strength to win" scene actually dubbing the dead characters and playing it as though they all actually showed up for real to deal the final blow... Christ, what a shitshow... the moment the series steps up and offers a shade of grit, and 4Kids before 4Kids scrambles to the editing chair, lest children glimpse beyond mortality's veil...

[Vornmusion]

That was very entertaining. Further reminding why I preferred Falcon's music over any of the others, he really knew how to channel the atmosphere—baring his weird audio quirks mid-track he fancied too much.