Do you think the characters of Pokemon should have image songs?

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After watching an AMV with Digimon image songs I wondered, Should Pokemon have image songs? There are some like:

Satoshi/Ash- Challenger!!, Spurt
Haruka/May- Watashi Makenaii!(I won't lose!!)
Takeshi/Brock-Takeshi's Paradise
Hikari/Dawn- Kimi no Soba de(By Your Side)
Nyasu/Meowth- Nyasu's song, Nyasu's Party
Team Rocket- Team Rocket Forever, Face Forward Team Rocket!

Do you think Pokemon should have more image songs?
 
Do you mean theme songs when one of them appear? That wouldn't go well, and it would get annoying to hear after a couple of episodes. Plus, the games already do that.
 
JB88 said:
Do you mean theme songs when one of them appear? That wouldn't go well, and it would get annoying to hear after a couple of episodes. Plus, the games already do that.
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No I mean a vocal theme that they sing, Like the examples I posted earlier.
 
Well you just listed them, so they do have imagesongs. It's a shame we never see them in the dub though, which is why some people aren't familiar with them.

As for more imagesongs, they usually only do them for the main characters, so I don't see Paul singing about being a Pokemon champion or anything. :p
 
Hah! Paul singing in his dreadful voice. It'd certainly shock Reggie.
 
Scott85 said:
Well you just listed them, so they do have imagesongs. It's a shame we never see them in the dub though, which is why some people aren't familiar with them.

As for more imagesongs, they usually only do them for the main characters, so I don't see Paul singing about being a Pokemon champion or anything. :p
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Paul singing....LOL
 
All the main characters and prominent rivals should have image songs, in my opinion.
I don't see why they don't, really.
 
Scott85 said:
As for more imagesongs, they usually only do them for the main characters, so I don't see Paul singing about being a Pokemon champion or anything. :p
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That would be awesome.

And they gave Geraldan one, so it's not too out of the question.
 
I think the reason Jirarudan got one is because his Japanese actor is known for Broadway musicals (Jesus Christ Superstar and Le Miz for just two). But I wonder why no other movie gave any other characters image songs. Imagine how fantastically emo Lucario's would be. Or how overly cutesy Annie and Oakley's would be--it'd be like bubblegum pop except it'd be about stealing stuff.

And Arceus would need one. And it would be the very definition of EPIC.

I'm just surprised Jesse's never gotten a song on her own. While it's argued about if Lucky Lucky is actually James's image song or just his actor singing it, she's never gotten one of her own at all.

Pikachu should have one in the style of Menchi from Excel Saga, where it's squeaked out and the voice actress translates in a flat voice as though she's reading off subtitles.
 
Musashi deserves an image song more than anyone on the show. I really don't understand why her singing talents are so underused.
 
Don't forget Lapras ni Notte, sung by Misty.

Megumi Hayashibara sings Umi, but it seems more like a random song that isn't connected to Jesse at all.
 
This anime needs more image songs. A lot of them. An entire CD of them, at least.

*image song addict*

Ketsuban said:
Megumi Hayashibara sings Umi, but it seems more like a random song that isn't connected to Jesse at all.
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It's not Hayashibara Megumi.
 
Grr, Hayashibara Megumi does NOT sing Umi. It's just some random lady singing it. The only ones she's sung are "Maemuki Rocket-dan", "Rocket-dan Yo Eien Ni" and "Nyasu no Party". T_T I wish that she would sing atleast an ending song for Pokémon. It doesn't necessarily have to be Musashi's image song (10 years too late, don't you think), but yeah. It sorta would be.
 
I'm a sucker for character songs and yes, I'd be more than satisfied if there were such singles for Pokemon characters - and not just Satoshi and Hikari but also the ones with smaller role in the show. Actually I'm quite surprised why there's a real lack of image songs in Pokemon since they've got some very popular voice actors with great singing voices, such as Megumi Hayshibara, Miki Shinichirou, Rie Tanaka and Tatsuhisa Suzuki.

However, I think that the reason there isn't so much these things is because the characters themselves aren't the main point in the show - the Pokemons are. There is lot of shows with a great offer of character "fanservice"(Sailor Moon, Prince of Tennis, Lucky Star just to mention) but this is because the actual characters are so much hyped. Still, it's such a shame... :(

//Oh, and a slight OT: what about drama CD's? I know there is some drama for Team Rocket but that's pretty much about it. It would be so nice if there were a funny mini drama for each character album!
 
I don't think we've had CD dramas for years :/ Shame.

And as a big Megumi Hayashibara fan, the fact that she's sung in a grand total of 3 songs, none of which are by herself, pisses me off big time >_< Not that I don't love Shin'ichiro Miki and Inuko Inuyama, but they've had at least one song of their own (and Nyasu has sung plenty). MUSASHI IMAGE SONG PLZ!!1!1
 
Character songs and drama CD's would make me a very happy fangirl.
Look how successful the Digimon discography is; I'd love for Pokemon to emulate something similar.
 
JB88 said:
Hah! Paul singing in his dreadful voice. It'd certainly shock Reggie.
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That was my first thought. Except maybe he'd turn out to have a surprisingly good singing voice. xDD Either that, or his seiyuu/voice actor does, but to keep in-character, he just sounds bored/annoyed through the whole thing.

Maybe have cameos of Satoshi and Reggie/Reiji bugging him in it. xDDD

Guys, does the remixed jazzy Pichu music that plays whenever Jun's around kind-of-sort-of count as an image /theme/? ^o^;

Nyasu also has "To Itteru Nya" where he translates various Pokemon's conversations. Not exactly an image-song, but so cute. xD;
 
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