DragonBall Kai Music News
VegettoEX @ 8:40 am EST -- kei17 (who else?!) dropped in with a new Jump scan that gives a little more information on the music for the upcoming DragonBall Kai.
Both the (new) opening and ending themes will be performed by Takayoshi Tanimoto, known for theme song performances in shows like Konjiki no Gash Bell!!. The new opening is called "Dragon Soul" and the new closing is called "Yeah! Break! Care Break!" (both of which are written out in English). There is no word on whether these two songs will last the entire length of the series, or if there will be a theme song shift for the Buu portion of the series as it was originally done.
Also provided on the page is a list of all of the original seiyû for the series. Interestingly, Tenshinhan is not included on this list at all, providing no further information on a possible (more formal) replacement for the late Hirotaka Suzuoki. While Tenshinhan was played by Eiji Takamoto in Sparking! METEOR, Tenshinhan did not appear in the recent Jump Anime Tour Special, and there have been no further appearances of the character to be voiced. Neither "Kame-Sen'nin" or "Muten-Roshi" are listed on the page, either, so it will be interesting to see which of the many voices ends up taking over the role (though it will most likely be Hiroshi Masuoka).
The characters listed are:
Son Goku & Son Gohan (Masako Nozawa)
Bulma (Hiromi Tsuru)
Kuririn (Mayumi Tanaka)
Yamcha (Tôru Furuya)
Oolong (Naoki Tatsuta)
Chiaotzu (Hiroko Emori)
Gyû-Maô (Daisuke Gôri)
Chi-Chi (Naoko Watanabe)
Kami-sama (Takeshi Aono)
Piccolo (Toshio Furukawa)
Raditz (Shigeru Chiba)
Vegeta (Ryô Horikawa)
Freeza (Ryûsei Nakao)
Narration (Jôji Yanami)
All have their expected performers (with the exception of Chi-Chi's second voice doing the earlier parts of the series where it was originally Mayumi Shô), so this (again) leaves us with more questions than answers.
There is no confirmation on whether or not the full background music score will be a replacement of Shunsuke Kikuchi's original work or if it will be an enhnacement of that work.