is a Japanese 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 '' Dragon Ball Z Kai'', 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 fired Yamamoto and replaced his compositions with those from the original ''Dragon Ball Z'' series written by

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. The plagiarism of these works has 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'' ( 3DS version) would replace the music in 16bit era.

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* 1958 births Anime composers Japanese composers Japanese film score composers Japanese male film score composers Japanese music arrangers Living people Japanese video game composers {{japan-composer-stub