How a Chinese Pop Song Ended up in Mega Zone

[@wayneho6458]

I am a Cantonese decendant. In the 80s. HK pop. was the golden era. They license alot of Japanese pop songs to sing. Late 70s, Teresa Teng of Taiwan was doing something similar. Coming back to HK pop. At their peak. They are basically locally written songs. Licensed Japanese songs. Even American songs (Leslie Chueng licensed Paula Abdul's Cold Hearted. Jaanet Jackson's Miss you much. And alot of Anzen Chitai's song) Alot of the songs were pulled of beautifully. Although there are some that are not pulled off nicely. There's no borders in music. Only beautiful musics.

[@HappyConsoleGamer]

Always a great watch!

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Love your work, btw, top tier!

[@mr.smith45]

Love your channel your the reason I got into megazone I was wondering did you ever find the english dub of part 2 on laserdisc like you said

[@HappyConsoleGamer]

@@mr.smith45 No but I got a Bluray of it! Good ol Ebay! also AnimEigo is doing a kickstarter right now on an offical NA version.

[@em23]

what a small world we're in :)

[@MercuryFalcon]

Video quality is off in this video because I just got a new computer. I'll make sure its 100% by the next upload.

[@AlifAmzariAzamee]

Didnt expect Mazuin Hamzah was mentioned too. Malaysian 80s singer.

[@WanArk86]

Been looking for that title for months after I heard in Radio Klassik. Now, I can add it to my digital mix tape along side Alan Tams' Love Trap.

[@LatitudeSky]

The odd thing about Silent Voice is that the melody line without the vocals appeared first in L-Gaim. It seems highly likely the demand for hit songs meant everybody was shopping around anything they had looking for a good fit. And sometimes songs ended up as a theme one place and random bit of incidental music somewhere else. Then there were also many cases of music being used for one show and sold again for another show. Or two. Or three. Or four. Which is great if you are a completeness-freak and want every version of a particular song. Back to MegaZone, the BGM itself was by Shiro Sagisu but he borrowed heavily from his own works to do it, something he did all the time anyway. As for the Victor JVC thing, I'm not sure how much connection there was between Victor the music side and JVC the video side. Victor had the music side of MegaZone first before the animation, as a remnant of their music sponsorship on Macross. The animation could have been customized if they'd been willing to pay for it, I'm sure. The sad thing is how Limit Miyasato quit singing and hid after MegaZone. She must have had a horrible time and I feel awful for her. She was very talented especially in her non-anime works. Her album "Unfinished" is haunting.

[@MercuryFalcon]

The theory I heard was that she had a kid and therefore couldn't portray the image expected of an Idol but that's just a theory, a game theory thanks for watching

[@hellkaiser7018]

>The writer of Silent Voice also wrote Sentimental behind your back. Based.

[@reviathan3524]

I did not expect an artist from my country to appear at the last part :)

[@THEAnimeHERO]

I've bumped into a good chunk of "sampled music". Yakitate Japan had their version of Queen's We Will Rock You. Kyou Kare Or Wa begins with a song which I swear is based on The Muppet Movie's Movin' Right Along. And some tracks of Ken's Rage is from Killswitch Engage.

[@bucketofslime]

Being a big Megazone 23 fan and a Hong Kong immigrant, I always assumed that the Chinese song was "borrowed" from the anime. Glad that I found your video explanation of what happened behind the scenes! Thank you!

[@hitachicordoba]

This channel should have way more subs- great research and presentation!

[@strawberrybankai12]

Oh my god I didn’t know there was Japanese version of that song

[@Air-Striegler]

OMG I didn't know there was a Cantonese version of that song! 🤣

[@Mahlercougar]

@@Air-Striegler Exactly!

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Didm't you watch the video? This song was originally Japanese

[@strawberrybankai12]

@@hoppinggnomethe4154 considering I heard the love trap before ever watching megazone23 or this video to me love trap is the original

[@yeewengchiang3295]

這陷阱，這陷阱，偏我遇上～～

[@galacticfederationambassad4063]

wowzers i just learned something....

[@jenniferstudent5258]

Cantopop and Mandopop form the 80s to 2000s hit different ngl

[@milkshake519]

In the eighties ... lots of other pop tram import japnese songs and rewrite lyrics to chines cantonese and god knows what else.

[@ultrakoichi]

Huh! I didn’t know that interesting though. I like the first MegaZone 23 a lot.

[@jlo1195]

melody madness!!!

[@Meowmeowsweet2]

I am from Hong Kong, I know Alan Tam's this song for years ...... but I don't think it's any similar to mega zone, men. Though, I understand lot's of old Hong Kong song are copy from Japan

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Had no idea that was a Chinese pop song too.

[@hellkaiser7018]

Back to Screwattack with you.

[@evontill2294]

Goddammit! I watch a Jackie Chan movie and now I can’t escape Alan tam! I even have his album thunder arm on iTunes!

[@jamesmoss3424]

I got to check out mega zone 23.😀👍

[@SilverwimG]

Incredible!

[@sportshero3092]

best anime

[@jmssun]

The animators were being sentimental with BetaMax behind JVC’s back get it? 😂

[@bettyconfettii]

This video was awesome it covered my favorite song on the anime and it’s origin. Can you do a video about how The Matrix copied Mega Zone?

[@nemoatlantis7148]

more similar to Andromeda Stories 1982 for concept in my opinion

[@jcdejesus2296]

U need more views

[@CannibaLouiST]

Strictly speaking, that's a Hongkong pop song. Chinese pop was a different thing in the 80s - largely in Mandarin.

[@Strawberryknight]

Wrong! It was the other way around. An anime song ended up becoming a pop chinese song in Hong Kong. There were also other anime songs which ended up pop chinese songs in Hong Kong, such as Captain Tsubasa, Creamy Mamy, and Dr Slump.

[@MercuryFalcon]

drop some titles

[@THEAnimeHERO]

Didn't an anime ova had Holding Out For A Hero? If there was I don't remember what ova it was. Or am I misremembering?

[@MercuryFalcon]

THE AnimeHERO there was a japanese cover by Miki Asakura but I don’t think it was in an anime

[@THEAnimeHERO]

@@MercuryFalcon Thanks. I'm gonna have to look into that.

[@AutovoltGTS]

@@MercuryFalcon fun fact: that japanese cover's lyrics was reused for Shrek 2's Japanese dub.

[@hectorperez2896]

Kumi miyasato sang it better

[@SlapstickGenius23]

There’s also a Malaysian version of the song in Malay! It’s called Dikau by Mazuin Hamzah.

[@MercuryFalcon]

did you miss the end of the video?

[@MDonuT-of7px]

This feels really weird.

[@LikaLaruku]

Megazone cover did it better.

[@Recensor]

Well done! One tune has been sold three times. Profit.