5 copied/stolen Dbz songs from Kenji yamamoto (plagiarized Songs)
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- Kenji yamamoto was the longtime composer of Dragonball Z,Kai
he Plagiarized Dbz songs since the 90's
the whole Kai series was from him
when he got caught stealing Songs mostly from the United States
he finnaly got fired in march 2011 by Toei Animation
One funny thing is that he also plagiarized himself LOL (Well recreating his own songs over and over)
can u send me an expample lmao thanks for your funny comment i already knew it,
@@OriginalMasterNAI not available now 🥲
I mean, i write music and I do this too, but I try to be more subtle with it and just include "reused" bits as more of a motif than anything else
Yep😂
Pour ma part je suis bien content qu'il ait copier les deux premiers son car Trunks contre Freezer n'aurait pas été pareil sans ce morceau et pareil pour Budokai stratovarius how and low c'était magnifique comme reprise le nom de frisson que j'ai pris avec ces deux morceaux ça valait vraiment le coup de faire un plagiat
Yamcha: "I know it was stolen, but it was still good music."
Bulma: "yeah, because it was written by more talented artists."
@teamfourstar
Krillin: “What about the dub score?”
"stolen from better artists"
@@cottony4drOh yeah, let's get into THAT flame war.
@@HeWhoSlayethCain FREEZA'S HERE!
“Well it was still good music”
“Ya because it was stolen by better artists”
"What about the dub score?"
@@joelcastro-reyes1667
“Oh ya let’s start that flame war”
@@Darksaviour “Ok, maybe it wasn’t the best music, but a lot of people grew up with it.”
That doesn’t make it good, it just makes it nostalgic
@@austinames9340 yep
For a second I thought he was the same Kenji Yamamoto who does Metroid music. I'm glad he's not.
thanks!
holy shit.
i was looking exactly this
Same
Thanks for clearing that up. I was confused legit
Damn that trunks one is one of my favourite themes, and the second one always felt familiar, now I know why lol
I think he made the tune more interesting actually lol although it is stolen
@@mathewg1747He just cut off one beat to make it 7/8 instead of 4/4 and then brought everything onto F minor (one of the plagiarized portions is on C minor).
@@mathewg1747undoubtedly.
I find it hilarious how obvious it was when he plagiarized September
and he did it with such a goofy ass sound 🤣
well he had good taste in music 🤷♂️
He really does tbh lol
Lol
He has good taste in STEALING indeed 🤷♂️
@@stefanosbrilakis4555 you say that like he stole it directly from you lol, he didn't hurt anyone, I would say that he is even culturizing the children who played the game
@@ToCarlosWebos I'm pretty sure if the plagiarism was towards DBZ, you wouldn't say the same.
Such a shame, DBZ Budokai Challengers was one of my favorite DBZ songs.. I'm glad he got caught though, despite how awesome the music was it doesn't make it right to steal someone else's work.
Couldn't have he just sampled?
@@CraftTest943 That is another option he could've done. A shame he didn't.
You could still check out the original itself if you like the song
Yeah the music is awesome, because it was stolen from better artists.
Gave them more exposure when people found out, but also what killed him mostly is not giving credit. Had he simply give credit and get permission he'd be fine. Humble himself and work with other music talents to make some new material.
God it's not even subtle!! Not sure how he got away with it for so long.
One was because it’s Japan and two because the internet pointed it out around the 2010 I believe. Still he has a good ear not gonna lie
It is because the audiences don't really mix so they aren't competing
Because normies aren't ear trained.
Well, Americans copy the Japanese too, for me it's fair
I think the last song was actually just using the same Sound Sample pack for both, but the rest do seem pretty legit
His arrangements were fire, shame he had to steal
Hell I thought it was Sonic Heroes at first
@@mooganifyZero G - Chemical Beats
It’s sampled in MANY games’ soundtracks, it’s actually crazy
Fun fact those drums in the last 2 tracks are actually a sample which you can hear in other games as well like sonic heroes's egg emperor theme though i will admit in this they are chopped strikingly similar and with how many other tracks have been plagiarized by Kenji it wouldnt be too surprising if its copied.
The issue is that he didn't credit the original artists of the samples he used. He passed everything off as his own work
The drums are from a sample pack called Chemical Beats by Zero G. It even has electronic synths used both in sonic heroes and Budokai. There's a song in Budokai that has the same synths as chemical plant from sonic heroes.
I can't believe that this guy had to steel from Disturbed,Earth Wind and Fire,Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Black Sabbath,and Stradovarius
James Horner and Danny Elfman were one of the victims of his robbery.
I'M HUNTING HIGH AND LOW!!! Such a cracking song. Such a shame it got ripped off.
check out my new video bro
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If he copy a masterpiece like that is not a crime. uwu
@@solowingpixy9525 that uwu ruined even more your already flawed argument
@@solowingpixy9525 Based (lmao)
@@solowingpixy9525Why tf did you add an uwu at the end
Trunks Ssj theme is my favorite Dbz soundtrack. That’s probably the reason why I love that song “Propaganda murder of love”.
Yamamoto was practically DBZ Kai itself. Dude made so much bangers for that series and it fit Kai so well. I was only in 6th grade at the time, but I knew something strange happened when Nicktoons changed up the music in a re-run of episode 56..
Kai is unwatchable without Yamamoto
@@hypebeastuchiha9229 for real. the replacement OST is ass. I understand why they had to do it but damn
@@hypebeastuchiha9229 lmao. Shunsuke Kikuchi is way better than this clown.
@@wiggx018 ay bro dont diss kikuchis score like that
Yeah I won't watch kai at all without
Man toei was lucky that no one copyrighted even afrer all this plagrism
Toei wiped their eyes out when creating the fifth Kai album and turned out that most of Yamamoto's Kai album were plagiarized like a bootleg compilation album you sold in a black market.
Kenji yamamoto was the longtime composer of Dragonball Z,Kai
he Plagiarized Dbz songs since the 90's
the whole Kai series was from him
when he got caught stealing Songs mostly from the United States
he finnaly got fired in march 2011 by Toei Animation
they later replaced it whit the original music,
The superior tracks
He stole stuff from actual Japanese composers as well.
The overrated actually inferior Japanese tracks*
@@spectraphantom6597Well, Yoko Kanno was one of them. Yamamoto stole one of the track from Cowboy Bebop.
Dude got good taste and was quite competent at arranging music, shame that he didn't ask for permission (I think many of these bands would've been okay with being in a DBZ game, considering it was as popular as Pokemon back then).
I think that's the biggest problem. Didn't ask for permission.
Damn. At first I thought it was just the bass and then the synths came in. And there's still 4 more examples!
Stratovarius is pretty sick tho not a bad band to steal from lol
To be fair I learned of Stratovarius because of Yamamoto stealing from them
@@lssjgaming1599 I'm pretty sure most of us did.
@@Oldschoolgamer13 Yamamoto made them more popular because I would have never known about them if he never plagirized their work 😂
I saw this comment before the video started then heard the Yamamoto track and could immediately hear that it was Stratovarius
@@lssjgaming1599 Same
I always recognized most of the stolen Riffs from stuff like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, but I always just thought they were intentional homages or references to classic rock - kinda like how JJBA references American music all the time. I never realized some of the songs were literally just like… the same baseline or melody note-for-note copied from other obscure songs, that’s far less excusable lol
Also - holy shit fuck stratovarius slaps so hard lol
You know challengers kinda sounds somewhat similar to hunting high and low but having it mixed together it actually sounds even better
*see's spiderman ripoff* EXCUSE ME WTF... I'm trying to figure out how I missed that because I owned a copy of that exact spiderman game. And also as a metal fan I can't believe such a thing went over my head as a kid.
I would’ve noticed it too had I played Budokai
Play X-Men Legends, one of the level has the song with the same piano synth as Inside Buu from Budokai 3.
His OG DB soundtracks, his DB video game sound tracks and Kai soundtrack were all elite.
Such a shame he was a thief.
He didn’t even try to change them 😂
Lmao at all the people trying to defend his plagiarism by saying “oH bUt iT sOuNdS bEtTeR tHaN tHe oRiGiNal.” Plagiarism is plagiarism period. If he had paid to sample the music instead, that’d be a different story.
Thing is why do you as the end consumer give a crap? It either sounds good and fits the animation or it doesn't
@@liquidsnake6879Well they have reason to care when it doesn’t get used anymore.
Argument invalid.
Yes while there are like one million producers in America stealing shit everyday from other music and claiming it as their own, that is not plagiarized.. yeah yeah, very smart reasoning.
@theragingninja9858 wtf are you talking about? They *pay* to sample songs.
Sampling is no new concept, even the most famous of songs you'll find have been sampled multiple times like "im a believer" by the Monkees, new artist are sampling "im blue" by Eiffel 65.
You have to be an idiot to think otherwise, sure there have been occurrences of stolen songs, but they get outed, in this day and age people will know when an old song is used, use your head.
@@KikonSketchesDrake stole from multiple songs and saw zero repercussions for it. Remember the player's club?
Ah Kenji....it’s such a shame. Battle Point Unlimited will probably be the one I’ll always be depressed about. We can’t even get in in horrible DLC packages for games.....it’s a better rendition than the original
"what about the dubscore?"
"yeah let's start that flamewar"
YO I REMEMBER THAT SPIDER MAN GAME thanks for reminding me of that gem
@KurdischerHengst7 dont give a fuck, stop advertising
@KurdischerHengst7 i said "stop advertising", not that your content is garbage.
go to school and learn how to fucking read.
I Grew up watching Z kai and loved the music and still do to this day but im glad the guy who plagiarized got caught nobody wants someone else to get praised for your own hard produced work
Why is the video so scuffed, all the titles are misspelled and the... "fading out"/transition is just flat lowering the volume 2-3 times
Wtf
Challengers is so good, I wish he didn't plagiarize ;_;
American Budokai players got into Stratovarius when they searched the song on UA-cam and got into the band after reading the comments lol
Even despite this... his songs were absolute fire
That's true but the songs which he used were more fireee
@@animefightsakainu2924 TBF I loved the other songs a lot more than these
Of course they're fire. They're copies of awesome songs after all.
They aren’t his songs though
The Kai stuff is garbage, which is a shame because his Budokai music is godlike. He could've been like a Japanese Bruce Faulconer if his Kai music was like the Budokai stuff (which is a good thing, for any weebs reading).
Man, these comments are bending themselves into pretzel shapes to defend this.
Sure they sound awesome and was part of our childhoods, but *so did the songs he copied.*
You don't have to stop listening to them, but he *stole* them, *which is wrong.*
And I can’t believe you are typing this comment to attack someone who just made other songs better. Then why don’t you speak of other artists who steal *daily* content from other music too? Tell me, why constantly attacks somebody who only wanted to make something better? Why not juridically attack rappers or UA-cam remixes? I can’t believe people are THIS dumb. Mate, think twice before stating this absurdities.
Not sure if it was Kenji Yamamoto but don't forget 'Too Much Oil in the Ground'
Tbh, there's literally famous games like clash of clans or brawl stars or something that rip offs a game completely, but no one seems to notice
it's not about noticing, its about taking legal action
@@alexander1055 noticing is the first step
@@Percyco no shit
@@alexander1055 I would need to say no shit to your dumbass "It's about taking legal action"
What game did they ripped off, if you think making a game for the sake of a genre I don't know what to tell you.
it's sad because BPU was actually hella dope.
And Challengers? Anthem of my childhood, I'll just say it.
This is why schools take points off and give penalties for plagarism in essays.
Stratovarius sounds like an awesome band.
Honestly, the tracks Kenji actually used were so good that I don't even think people are mad that he plagiarized, they mad cause he got caught doing it XD
Im only annoyed he did it without permission lol. ANd got caught ofc.
@OMP - I think he only got caught because he copied Avatar's theme for Kai
@OMP - Heard it was because the songs weren't popular in japan, not sure how accurate that is though.
@@JohnSmith-co1zvavatars theme was the main thing actually
Y’all just a bunch of fucking sheeps. Because this isn’t plagiarism, RIGHT? Tsk. m.ua-cam.com/video/90RLzVUuXe4/v-deo.html&pp=ygUMZGF2aWQgZ3VldHRh
I don’t even care how much the games made my childhood. Someone else’s work was blatantly copied.
It's DBZ I just wish I could just tell them personally thank you. Now I'm about to check out one band I've never heard before. Thank you so much! A BAND I would have never heard before until this. Sweet! At one point I felt the soul of Avenged Sevenfold. Fucking thank you DBZ!
@KurdischerHengst7 stop advertising you dumb Fuck
This actually lends itself to another point about wtf Yamamoto was thinking. Why couldn't he just....get permission from the original artists and do his remixing legitimately? Surely at least some of these guys would've been happy to have a new generation introduced to their work?
Reminds me of all those rip-off entrance themes WCW had for their wrestlers.
Ok, @ min 07:00, who copied who, because apart from Spiderman, I believe Dan Wentz also made a version of it in Red Faction 1, just type Self Destruct Sequence, it's the 12th track.
I remember some theme in Guilty Gear game that sound so similar to stratovarius - hunting high and low
Right in the childhood...
Those aren't plagiarisms.
These are clearly karaoke instrumental editions :D.
Dayum, Kenji was onto Strato fucking varius, hell yeah!
Battle Point Unlimited sounds like a Doom midi with those strings.
Gotta think Kenji for putting me to some Strato though, their music is godly so far
Im amazed how you did not know how to make a simple sound fade.
Trunks killing Frieza to something that sounds like its from Seinfeld. That last one reminded me of Sonic Heroes lol.
Dbkai songs* la única canción de Z aquí es el Tema de trunks
After I listened to X-Men Legends' "Sentinel Labs (Action)" song, many of the comments were related to Kenji Yamamoto and when I get to Budokai 3's "Inside Buu", I really lost it when he stole the piano part from "Sentinel Labs (Action)" song.
The very beginning of battle point unlimited sounds like guile’s stage from street fighter 2
This is what's bound to happen when you force out dragon ball games every year.
Dont care these songs are banging and a part of my childhood
I think the same
@KurdischerHengst7 OK again my opinion doesn't change these songs are part of my childhood and they rock so fuck off
@KurdischerHengst7 we legit do not care about your opinion whatsoever. the so called "rip offs" sound good. please go eat shit and respect other people's opinions
They are awesome music. I only feel bad for the real artists who were never credited or paid for their music, but I liked these songs in dragon ball
@KurdischerHengst7 just because you call it a fact, doesnt make it one.
learn what shit means.
Kenji Yamamoto: “When write a song that already exists” XD
Man I had no idea they were this different
Jesus these are blatant when you hear them side by side like this 😂
Number one is straight up plagiarized. And I loved neversoft spiderman and bodokai 3 when I was little, however....neversoft Spider-Man I won't be surprised they got someone who worked with Pantera or some other rock band to produce it or used some sound pack on its ost.
Soul with a capital s at a 0:47 minute mark sounds like bring the noise - anthrax ft public enemy
I wonder why they didnt revert to Faulconer OST when Yamamoto was fired during Kai. Also why is Faulconer's score dub so hard to find nowadays, was there copyright issues with him as well?
Definitely not lol I'm glad we got the Japanese scores this time around. And apparently something happened ages ago they don't use that music anymore
Some of these are just genre tropes and common motifs. There are way more obvious examples of his plagiarism out there. I saw another compilation a few years back that shows how much of the Androids Saga was stolen from James Cameron franchises. I'm gonna look for that video because your video isn't very good.
Plagiarizing Avatar music for Kai was pretty crazy considering they both came out the same year
5:37 noooo my favorite music from the ps2 games lol!
I had always heard he plagiarized stuff but never realized how obvious it was.
To be fair, the Battle Point Unlimited song is the whole plagerism of Progapanda album songs.
It is a mix of 3 songs.
7:24 I would argue it's actually plagiarized from Red Faction's Self Destruct Sequence.
So that’s what they really do . Reuse sounds . Now I think about it … Naruto’s nine tailed fox theme from the first episode was played in dbs (the base sound) and I recently recopped MK deception and ok the intro it has that same sound from the black cat anime where train is being trained by the guy that killed his parents
he actually made murder of love propaganda way better
Fax
By cutting off a beat to make it 7/8 rather than 4/4.
Being honest I dont feel like the second one was close enough to call it plagiarism. It was clearly inspired by, and thats fine. Theyre definitely different enough though. Second one as in 1:42
agreed, it doesnt even sound the same or similar.
avatar one is very obvious. that is very clear.
The synth melody is almost note for note a direct copy of the lead riff in Hunting High and Low. The guitar is trying to mask how it copies the vocals by adding a few superfluous notes. The overall chord progression is also identical
@@joelcastro-reyes1667 these normies aren’t ear trained don’t bother
Toei should hire the guy who did the Dragon Ball Z Sagas soundtrack, to re-score Dragon Ball Z Kai.
the ebb and flow is like a direct upgrade to the source material (doesnt excuse the plagiarism but still)
Not to be a stickler, but you have the wrong album cover for Hunting High and Low and Infinity. That album cover is the Visions album. Hunting High and Low and Infinity were from the album Infinite.
Ok dragon ball z kai came out before Avatar so basically avatar stole one song from Kenji Yamamoto because dragon ball z kai came out in march 2009 and avatar came out December 2009
It was in 2010 that the copy appeared.
Just like he didn’t take long to copy Terminator 2’s theme a year after it came out back in 1992.
NAHHH BRO SAID THE JAMES CAMERONS'S AVATAR
I never noticed the avatar one
yamamotom sounds like circus music
1:27 THE BEST SONG IN DBZ GAMES
Damn man the Avatar one is so close.
He could've at least tried to be subtle...how did it take so long for him to get caught?
Damn i remember #4 on the ps2 for budokai 3 😭
And defense of the last one; that's just a drum sample. Imagine saying that using a sample like the amen break is plagiarism.
Basically the anime john williams.
NOOOO NOT BATTLE POINT UNLIMITED.
Song ruined. :(
He changed it up more than pop artists who make way more money do, they literally copy and paste without a thought and no one cares because its pop and they're rich so they can afford lawyers.
This guy was legendary for many childhoods and shaped many good music tastes.
Difference is those pop artists get permission and split a portion of the revenue with the original creator. This guy did neither.
He should have been honest and license the music from the original authors, so he would have been able to make his own versions with no problem
Hip Hop artists had plagiarized and stolen content from other IP for their album cover aside from songs such as Soulja Boy.
Should have stole from Sonic. Then they can say "well you guys stole our super sayan and 7 dragon balls idea"
I know this video is old and sorry for the long winded post. *Ahem* Too bad World Championship Wrestling is no more and never to come back with a new owner since he would be hired as the entrance music maker since believe it or not WCW pushed the envelope when it came to copyright laws. Biggest examples are Raven's theme which was a remixed bersion of Nirvana's Come As You Are. DDP;s entrance theme was Smells Like Teen Spirit another Nirvana song. Chris Jericho's second entrance theme was a rip off of Evenflow by Pearl Jam. Heck ZUN from Touhou will also sadly be great as well since there are videos that featured the similarities of his songs to the actual songs and 2 of them sadly sticks out like a sore thumb even though one only used the intro of a song which comes from the 9th game. First off the beginning section Eiki Shinki's theme Fate of Sixty Years/Judgement of the Sixtieth Year uses the intro to Pig (Three Different Ones) by Pink Floyd and Sakuya Izayoi's theme which is called Flowering Night is sadly a rip off (though a good song) of The Trooper by Iron Maiden. I wouldn't have mentioned ZUN if he didn't have a policy for fan games where it had to be made using original assets. Again sorry for the long post.
The song Murder Of Love: Propaganda is from the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film..... By the way the plagiarize song is still in the Dragon Ball Kai Series or they have to redo it.
Wait what?
His best work was from far away in the DBZ series...sad that he went on plagiarizing other people's work for video games.
In my opinion, he was so talented that he really didn't have a need for it...makes you wonder why he did it 🤔
Laziness
If we’re being honest, John Williams did this shit all the time, and is considered the most celebrated film composer probably ever
doesn’t make it ok
@@blairblue6769 i’m not saying that makes it OK. I’m saying where are all the lawsuits against John Williams?
@@ZaddyGohan gonna need some sources for this claim.
@@RemixerUltimate you can literally search in UA-cam “John Williams thief” and there are countless comparison videos. But if you really need, I can link a few
@@RemixerUltimate
ua-cam.com/video/JtRU8cMp0Nk/v-deo.html
He was just doing fan covers guys
Are these all of the songs he plagarized?
Not even close.
I still have all my copies of dbz budokai 1-3 with the plagiarised soundtrack I wonder if they're worth something now given their uniqueness XD
Good thing most of them are just from games
Holy shit that last one brought back memories 🤣
Okay, the Budokai Challenge Ost and the Stratovarius song are different, the rhythm is similar, but the lead guitar in Yamamoto's song is radically different, it's pretty much a different song.... can't say the same for the other Stratovarius song. lmao
Where can you find the ebb and flow is on dragon ball z kai or did they took it out
KurdischerHengst7 oh ok thanks man
KurdischerHengst7 ok man I subscribe
KurdischerHengst7 one more thing I forgot I found ebb and flow it was episode 56 I was watching it in AnimeGlare
KurdischerHengst7 it was on dragon ball z kai
He stole from fucking SPIDER-MAN?