[CHz]

I posted a little bit about NON's name a while back, buried in another thread. He has a profile on some music production company's site under the name Kazuo, but he's registered with the Canadian copyright agency exclusively as Norio, and as far as I know it's only real names there. He doesn't make it easy.

Originally Posted by CHz

I found a profile for Kazuo Hanzawa here: http://www.silentvision.net/PROFILE/profile_D.N.P..html. Mentions game music for Sega, Nintendo, Konami, and Enix, all of which have published games NON/Hanzawa worked on, but no specifics are listed. It says Kazuo composed for a Genesis game awarded game of the year in 1993 by an unnamed American magazine, and that Hideki Matsutake collaborated on the soundtrack. Gunstar Heroes was awarded action game of the year by EGM in the 1994 buyers' guide, which was published at the end of 1993: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...94&postcount=1. Gunstar Heroes was composed by NON, and Matsutake did synthesizer manipulation on the arrange album: http://vgmdb.net/album/2678.

I've always thought Norio was his real name, but based on that profile, perhaps it is Kazuo after all.

EDIT: More Norio/Kazuo controversy. The Canadian Copyrights Database has "Norio Hanzawa" registered for the 2009 game Sin & Punishment: Star Successor: http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/cp...ype=1&lang=eng. Game was registered with them on April 28 of this year. Sigh.