is a Japanese music composer and arranger who has been responsible for producing and composing soundtracks, including opening and ending sequence themes for various

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and video game projects in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, mostly related to the ''

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'' franchise. He has worked on soundtracks of various ''

'' video games. Yamamoto has also composed

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for ''

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'', a revamped version of the anime series ''

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''. On March 9, 2011,

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publicly acknowledged that many of Yamamoto's musical works for the series infringed upon unidentified third-party copyrights. As a result, Toei removed Yamamoto and replaced his compositions with those from the original ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Dragon Ball Z'' series written by

Shunsuke Kikuchi was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Kikuchi was regarded as one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working princi ...

. The plagiarism of these works have been known to fans since May 2010. Due to the discovery of plagiarism in his compositions by Toei, they were replaced in '' Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection'' and later copies of '' Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2''. Since then, a limited pre-order bonus releases, based on the

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games of '' Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden'' (

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version) and '' Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2'' (

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version) would replace the music in 16bit era.

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