Hikari no Sasu Mirai e!

"Hikari no Sasu Mirai e!"
Single by Hironobu Kageyama
from the album Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World Original Soundtrack
Released	December 25, 2008 (2008-12-25)
Format	CD single
Genre	Anison
Length	17:00
Label	King Records
Writer(s)	Yuriko Mori Kenz
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"Hikari no Sasu Mirai e!" (光のさす未来へ!, To the Future Pointed By the Light!) is the opening theme to the PlayStation 2 video game Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World and is the sixty-ninth single by Japanese singer Hironobu Kageyama. It was released by King Records on Christmas Day in 2008 in Japan only and would peak at 200 on Oricon.^[1] The song was written by Yuriko Mori and the composition and arrangement was by Kenji Yamamoto (Kenz).^[2][3]

Information

This release also include the closing theme "Dragon Ball Party" and the English version of the opening theme "We Gonna Take You There".^[2] Ironically, the version of the song that was used was the Japanese version as opposed to the English version, which contrasted to the previous two Dragon Ball Z console games Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and Burst Limit which used English versions of their opening theme songs.

Track list

1. 光のさす未来へ!
   Hikari no Sasu Mirai e!/To the Future Pointed By the Light!
2. Dragon Ball Party
3. We Gonna Take You There
4. 光のさす未来へ! (instrumental)
   Hikari no Sasu Mirai e! (instrumental)/To the Future Pointed By the Light! (Instrumental)

Reception

The songs along with the rest of the soundtrack would receive mixed reviews from gaming critics. Unfortunately these critics mistakenly credited Kageyama as composer due to the North America packaging only listing Kageyama responsible for the music, "Music by Hironobu Kageyama". Sites like Gamer 2.0 and IGN would give the tracks low scores.^[4] with IGN's Greg Miller calling the music repetitive.^[5] While other sites such as the Gamer Temple and Game Radar cite the music as the only good part the game has to offer^[6] with Game Radar's Alan Kim stating to "download the tunes and skip everything else".^[7] Ben Dutka of PSXExtreme found the music to be disconcerting citing that the atmosphere gave the impression that it was mocking the game.^[8]

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