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During the first 15 seconds of the 1st DBZ ending song "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!", you can hear some sort of strange munbling. This munbling is actually a backward message.

This message is actually a list of names, followed by "Ganbattannda!" (which means that all these people worked really hard). These were the people listed:

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Kenji Shimizu (Fuji TV producer)

Takeshi Ike (An anime song writer active in the late 1980s who has produced over 2,000 songs)

Tatsuhiro Tokieda

Takashi Uchida 

Kenji Yamamoto (He was the music arranger for this song)

Hanae Yanagi

Takashi Nomura

When asked about this, Takeshi Ike gave an explanation on his official website that goes as follows:

“We finished the recording of vocalist MANNA’s cute and charming vocals and after she’d gone home I inserted the overdub chorus parts and background chatter (shouts/cheers) myself. I wanted to make the song even more interesting so I hit upon the idea of having meaningless words in the intro and interlude. I remembered hearing that for the alien language in the bar scene in the movie Star Wars (Mos Eisley Cantina scene) they used words from the languages of minority peoples played backwards with extra effects added on top, so I cheekily decided to use their method too.

I listed the names of the people in the studio and the staff who worked on the program then read them out and recorded it onto 6 millimetre tape. Then I played the tape backwards, shifted the pitch, and overlayed it onto the multitrack intro and interlude. It fit perfectly. I’d like those with the know-how to try playing the intro and interlude parts backwards. I think you should be able to hear the names of some people. It’s my way of saying these guys made this song!”

Source: https://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/01/21/s...ding-song/