Pocket Monsters: Film Score Arrangements

Shinji Miyazaki, Akifumi Tada, Kazuhiko Sawaguchi, Rei Ishizuka and Kenta Higashiohji
Victini and the Hero of Light and Darkness / Everyone’s Story

Arranged and remastered by Vinphonic

Download (https://mega.nz/#!rvAghSKC!bLsLOqRCuQRQc_UUKmshqZqCuzcxxCUVo92mGn0XJ3k)

Sample (Victini) (http://picosong.com/w4qUB/) / Sample (Everyone’s Story) (http://picosong.com/w4qdR/)

Since I’m really having fun with the recent Pokemon score and mentioned Victini I actually discovered they complement each other perfectly. And since I figured its high time someone makes a satisfying film score album out of the numerous short cues… here we are.

Among plenty of lackluster film scores for the franchise compared to their TV counterpart, these two shine brightly as the occasional symphonic ride the various longrunning Japanese series (which will probably be around forever) can sometimes conjure up. Of course the pinnacle for such a case is NAOTORA but thats Yoko Kanno for you.

Victini stands tall and proud and is (yet) not beaten in the Pokemon series but that’s because it was two movie scores in one, with the theme of ancient legend, thus double the length of Everyone’s Story and the theme of Epic adventure. Oh, and it had Akifumi Tada composing and orchestrating so that automatically elevates it to greatness.

Taking Shinji Miyazaki’s work standalone, Everyone’s Story is his best effort in the Pokemon film franchise. Its full of long-gone Hollywood romanticism.

Both scores are energetic and exhubertant orchestral music that makes me reminiscent of a Fallen Empire… anyway, it’s all so full of energy, so full of the good qualities of film music that should be embraced. It’s melodic, tuneful, orchestrated to the hilt yet every part is hummable, every part of the orchestra is used to their utmost and clear as day, all performed with passion and professionalism, incredible amount of skill and expertise, from TV score arrangement to concert piece.

Originally Posted by tangotreats

As if from nowhere, we end up with a truly wonderful adventure score(s) with all those things we miss so much from Hollywood; themes, grandeur, heroism, romanticism, tension, and glory. Actually, we get two. You see, Pokemon’s 14th movie did something a little bit weird; it got split into two different films – they both start off roughly the same but branch off in different directions to follow a different protagonist. Each film has received its own individual and self-contained score. The happy side effect is that there is bucketloads of music to be had; no less than ninety minutes of score in total, of which the vast majority is just the sort of thing that makes us old farts weak at the knees. You won’t be disappointed.

I’ve taken great care in arranging the numerous short cues to a satisfying film score album. It works now much better than the initial release I think. Soundwise Victini has my favorite Japanese studio sound which works quite nicely for the moderate orchestral ensemble and man do they jam. Everyone’s Story was recorded at Victor I believe so its more wet and spacey but loosing a bit of the power of Victini’s orchestral sound I had to manually inject into it.

I await with anticipation the TV scores for XY&Z as well as Sun&Moon, so much energy, romanticism, excellent arrangements and orchestral goodness yet to be released. I hope its within the next couple of years.

But man, this series will probably be around forever.

Then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0xwyFQqQd0&list=PL25E387C266BEFA18&index=4

And now:

http://picosong.com/wf7sB

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