[News] "Rule", Dragon Ball movie theme song.

[Melrose]

Originally Posted by emiko

omg what's wrong with people.

Do you guys know that just about everyone is going to see this movie? I mean come on, even the people who hate the fact that they're doing it are going to see it just to say they did, even if theyre going to bash it later.

I don't care if the movie is horse ****. People all over the world are going to hear this song and think about Ayu, even if they don't know who she is.

I'm waiting to see how good the song is first, before I start feeling bad that she has a tie-in.

And I mean, Ayu is a total nobody in the states. Hollywood would never ever give her a better tie in, I'm sorry.

Exactly.

It's so thrilling that people in my country will get to hear Ayu. I am SO going to watch this movie in the cinemas. XD

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by ayumi_cute

OMG this is cool...
Song for the america dragon ball movie???
Just wondering would that be english song or japanese song?
This is great...

Japanese

[ayumisrael]

^Perhaps japanese with some english words in it/full japanese.

[elepop]

Is Ayu's song going to be just for the Japanese release of the movie or it's actually going to be featured in the American release also?

[Andali]

oh my gosh, what if it's in English??!!??!!

[Zeke.]

Well SAW 4 had X Japan singing a song in it, so why not this? I just googled the movie and I am really excited. Lol.

[the3ye]

The End has come, let's hide

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Melrose

@Sundae: Eh. that might be true and all but there really isn't any better or other movie for a song from her?

And yea, I'm quite irked by that Bulmia doesn't have blue hair in the movie.

-_-

If the point is to increase her fanbase or spread her name than yeah Dragonball Evolution is her best bet. Other movies would just tell her to sing in english or they would just get someone else to do it. It's not like since the movie is gonna be bad, the song is gonna suck either. I will probably like the song but I would how many people in the US are gonna watch this movie. Sometimes if a lot of people say a movie is gonna suck before the movie has even been released it usually means lower ticket sales. Which means not that many people are gonna listen to this song. If it was regular times I would think that people would go see it just to check it out, but now people are saving money and are checking what they are spending their money on. Would people spend money on a movie that others say is bad? Not likely.

It also makes me wonder if they are aware of how many people across the world like Ayumi and are trying to cash in on that. Before this I was not gonna watch it, but now it's like because there's an Ayumi song in it, I have to support it and go watch. I'm a fan of Ayumi and I want her to do well across the world so I should go watch it. I'm actually considering spending 7 bucks just to hear a 2 minute clip of her song.

[polka-dot-jewel]

Originally Posted by asongforXX

Is Ayu's song going to be just for the Japanese release of the movie or it's actually going to be featured in the American release also?

The song will be released with the film in 60 countries.

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by Andali

oh my gosh, what if it's in English??!!??!!

read the thread:

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

From what I get from the article, the director specifically wanted a Japanese song to be used for the film. Doesn't seem like there's gonna be an English version, etc.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by asongforXX

Is Ayu's song going to be just for the Japanese release of the movie or it's actually going to be featured in the American release also?

Since the movie is hollywood, the director asked for a japanese song and ayu wrote in her blog she sent the new rock song to america, it means that it will be hers in all of the countries it will be out (the article also says it).

[Coelacanth]

I'm gonna post an auto-translation of the Sanspo article to clear some things up:

Sweetfish "DragonBall" whole world theme song On the 9th, I found out that a singer and Ayumi Hamazaki (30) sing the whole world theme song of the movie which taking a picture-ized a popular cartoon "DragonBall" at Hollywood "DRAGONBA LL EVOLUTION". Opening to the public in more than 60 worlds decides about a movie, and sweetfish goes out on the world advance in earnest.

"DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION" the masterpiece (James and a won director) are a taking a picture edition of a masterpiece of the cartoonist who made sales of 350,000,000 copies in the world and Mr. Akira Toriyama "DragonBall", and which are the general production costs of more than 10,000,000,000 yen.

Opening to the public in more than 60 worlds decides on the beginning as Japanese opening to the public on March 13th of next year already, and music of sweetfish will color a screen in all countries.

A trigger is won supervision and a hot message of love from a fox in the 20th century of distribution origin. On the making side, "I want Japanese to sing a theme song of the big-grossing cartoon born in Japan.", when it's narrowed down to a Japanese singer, and he's searching will for it, the won director who listened to music of sweetfish is moved and requests with "strong work of the message remembered for a long time deeply (music)". Sweetfish consented to this.

A theme song "Rule" (It'll be sold next year.) is the rock number of the Japanese word. A won director "prefers cool Japanese" though he's the whole world linkup, sweetfish writes the words in Japanese by request. I read a script, imagined a positive main character and finished writing.

The sweetfish which turns the view to foreign countries and has expanded a place by the achievement steadily such as making the first Asia tour succeed last year. 1 of the cartoons which liked singing a theme song of hollywood movie from the past by the first time ", honor. It's expected that the DragonBall world is loved by all the countries,", and, I'm speaking.

[Beauty4123]

YESSSS! i love ayu's rock songs, so i'm so excited!

[panda♥]

I guess Ayu just gave me a reason to see that God awful movie.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

I'm gonna post an auto-translation of the Sanspo article to clear some things up:

Are they referring to Ayu as sweetfish!? Lmfao.

[Coelacanth]

Originally Posted by all.night.raver

Are they referring to Ayu as sweetfish!? Lmfao.

Pretty much lmao.

[apple-pi]

EWWWW I hate dragon ball!

...buuuut whatever, I am excited about this! yay for international tie-in! =D

and major YAY for a new song! "Rule" is such a great title! I was kinda wishing ayu would take a little break from rock but the title totally upped my interest in the song! whee!

BTW, @ Coelacanth, I love the way that auto-translator calls ayu "sweetfish" XD

anyway. yaaaaaaaaay!

[MissElin_]

SWEEEEET! Another rock song!!! Cant waaaaaiiiit!

[thangkhung91]

Haha I can't stop laughing at the fact that they chose an american actor for the role as Goku! XD It looks ridiculous!

Anyhow, I glad that she finally has a big tie-in. But I have a bit mixed feeling about this too. When/if poeple in other countries hear the song they're either gonna think wow/good song or who is this?!/this sounds wierd. Am I over analyzing?

Anyway, I dying to hear the song!

[Delirium-Zer0]

I hurried this, but here's a complete translation of the article by me. I think I got all the main points down, so if Coelacanth's auto-translation is too hard to read, here's mine:

Ayu's "Dragonball" Worldwide Theme Song


It has been revealed on the 9th that singer Hamasaki Ayumi (30) is singing the worldwide theme song for "Dragonball Evolution", the Hollywood film based on the popular "Dragonball" manga. The film is set to be released in not less than 60 countries worldwide, making this a full-blown global venture for Ayu.

"Dragonball Evolution" (Directed by James Wong) is the live-action version of multi-million selling manga-ka Akira Toriyama's magnum opus, "Dragonball", a spectacle with production costs of over US$100,000,000.

It has been decided that Ayu's music will paint the screen in every country, for both the release in Japan on March 13th of next year and the later release in 60 countries worldwide.

The start of it was a call from director James Wong, expressing his and distribution company 20th Century Fox's wishes that "The theme song for a hit manga born in Japan should be sung by a Japanese person."

The theme song, "Rule" (to be released next year) is a rock number sung in Japanese despite being a world-wide tie-up. At director Wong's request for "Cool Japanese", Ayu wrote the Japanese lyrics, about her impression of the film's protagonist, after reading the screenplay.

Last year, after her first Asia Tour was a success overseas, Ayu expanded her steady activity to accomodate an overseas outlook. On singing a Hollywood movie theme song for the first time, she says, "This is a manga I used to love, so I'm very honored. I hope for countries all over the world to love the world of Dragonball."