technickal
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Basically, if it's not a cover of a song from the games, it's got to go. This is demonstrated with the most commonly kept songs: the title card theme (Obtained a Gym Badge!), the movie title card theme (Opening Movie), Battle! (Wild Pokémon), Battle! (Trainer Battle), Clemont's invention theme (Route 4), and the To Be Continued theme (Congratulations on Entering the Hall of Fame!). I'm guessing they're allowed to keep these because the rights of the original music belong to Junichi Masuda and Shota Kageyama, not Shinji Miyazaki, and the songs were obviously kept in the international versions of X and Y, so they already have the rights. The only other song that's always kept is the TRio motto theme, and it's probably because it's a classic and has been kept in the dub since EP002.
The only exception I've found was the AZ/Snowbelle City medley in XY060. Who knows why that wasn't kept. Anyway, while I'm quite fond of Ed Goldfarb's dub score, I'm glad they're keeping music that was actually in the games. However, I'm kind of disappointed that some original series music that returned in Japanese M18 got replaced once again just because it wasn't in the games.
The only exception I've found was the AZ/Snowbelle City medley in XY060. Who knows why that wasn't kept. Anyway, while I'm quite fond of Ed Goldfarb's dub score, I'm glad they're keeping music that was actually in the games. However, I'm kind of disappointed that some original series music that returned in Japanese M18 got replaced once again just because it wasn't in the games.
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