Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection Series

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Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection Series (ドラゴンボールZ ヒット曲集/Doragon Borru Zetto Hitto Kyoku shû) is a soundtrack series from the anime Dragon Ball Z. It was produced and released by Columbia Records of Japan from July 21, 1989 to March 20, 1996 the show's entire lifespand. The collection features a variety of theme songs, insert songs, image songs (songs inspired by the show.), character songs, instrumental suites, remixes, and medleys. The collection is sought after by many DBZ fans and is conceadered the holy grail of anime soundtracks by few. On September 20, 2006 Columbia re-released the Hit Song Collection on their Animex 1300 series.

Contents

[edit] List of Albums

[edit] List of Artist

The hit song collection has featured an empresive list of Japanese artist.

In alphabetical order:

  • Ammy
  • BROADWAY
  • CHIHO
  • DBZ Cast
  • Dragon Magic Orchestra
  • Gôji Tsuno
  • heavy duty
  • Hiroki Takahashi
  • Hironobu Kageyama
  • Ichirô’s Group
  • Jun'ichirô Oda
  • Junko Uchida
  • Kôji Kaya
  • KÛKO
  • MANNA
  • MONOLITH
  • Mariko Takase
  • Masako Iwanaga
  • Mikio Katsumata
  • Namek Troupe
  • Naoko Umino
  • Pink Dragon
  • POCHI featuring Apple Pie
  • Rei
  • Sachi Hanaoka
  • Satoko Yamano
  • SHINES
  • Shin'ichi Ishihara
  • Taneri
  • Team DBZ
  • TOKIO
  • TOM
  • Tricky Shirai
  • Ushio Hashimoto
  • Waffle
  • Yasumi
  • YUKA/Yūka Satō

[edit] CD Box Sets

With the debu of the Hit Song Collection there have been a few CD sets released featuring songs from the series. The sets range from theme songs to compilations of theme and image songs. The first was the five disc DRAGON BALL & DRAGON BALL Z: Daizenshû in 1994 to the more resent two disc Dragon Ball Z: Best Song Collection "LEGEND OF DRAGONWORLD" in 2006 are a few of these sets.

[edit] Dragon Ball Z Complete Song Collection

Dragon Ball Z Complete Song Collection is a CD soundtrack box set released by Columbia Records of Japan in 2003. The collection made up of four three discs volumes that spans the entire Hit Song Collection Series vocal track library. The collection also includes songs from some of the video game soundtracks mainly Ultimate Battle 22 and Legends and rare tracks that prior to this release were only available as bonus tracks on the 8mm singles of the closing themes to movies 10-13. This set is quite sought after by the Dragon Ball fans who missed out on owning the indivitual albums in the Hit Song Collection series. However many fans have bought this set despite already owning all of the Hit Song Collection albums. It should be noted that indivituals that don't own the Hit Song Collection or this set still got a little something out of this collection if they already own DRAGON BALL & DRAGON BALL Z: Daizenshû & Dragon Ball Z: Hit Song Collection BEST "Never Ending Story".

[edit] List of Volumes

[edit] Bootleg Copies

Due to the series' popularity copies have been reproduced by the bootleg company Ever Anime. Currently almost all of the albums on the series have been reproduced, of these are hits 2, 5, 6, 8, 9-14, and 16. Although they sound as good as the original some do not contain the extras the original have such as licened artwork, lyrics, and production credits. an example of this can found in hit 5, the insert only featured a crudly drawn cassete tape with a lit fuse sticking out with a paragraph in Japanese and at the bottom words in bold romaji SAVE OUR MUSIC are substuted.

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