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Anyone know what this guy's been up to lately? I love his work on Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and I'm kinda rediscovering his work on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year-Door which is really good.
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Indeed! I, too, am wondering if this guy's been up to other things.
Can anyone help us out? |
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His MySpace bio says that he's a freelancer now (was he ever properly an employee of Intelligent Systems?), but he doesn't seem to list any new game works there or on his homepage since the Nintendo stuff from 2007/2008.
Only thing I saw that looked interesting is that he did "jingle production" for some Japanese radio show, Kakiiin. The show started in 2007, but Hirano doesn't say when he worked on it or what the extent was. |
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A "Taishi Senda" was credited for Advance Wars and Mario Story, but all other Advance Wars games (2 and DS feature music straight from AW) are credited to Hirano here. There doesn't seem to be any other information on this Taishi Senda whatsoever; I'm really curious where the kanji (泉田大志) come from, though Google gives some entertaining results.
Considering that all further Advance Wars and Paper Mario games were then credited to Hirano, with all of these being the first sightings of Hirano, I believe Taishi Senda is a pseudonym. (ugh, mobygames decided to "update" too. yet another "domain squatter"-looking site, though it does look better than generation-msx's take on the concept...) |
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Pokemon Puzzle Challenge's credits are mixed J/E.
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Purely subjectively, I'd toss in that I thought the new songs written for AW2 and AWDS were way better than the tunes carried over from AW1, and that can be explained narratively if the composer switched from Senda to Hirano. Last edited by CHz; Sep 19, 2013 at 06:43 PM. |
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Ah, didn't know he did Pokemon de Panepon. I did see that Facebook, but I get the impression that's a different person, even if the kanji's the same. Thing is, the new music in 2 sounds very similar, to me; I get the feeling Paper Mario is the same way. And then DS and DoR sound completely different, though the DoR CO themes evoke older AW a little... I dunno, it all just seems a little too weird, not sure what to make of any of it.
(Yeah, I dislike the utility themes in AW1, at least. Some of the (series) CO themes are really good, though... Max, Eagle, Olaf, Sturm.) |
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I called those Facebook profiles "likely" because both of them are friends with each other and several other (ex-)Intelligent Systems staffers. Neither of them outwardly identify as such themselves, though.
Actually I just realized we have a Twitter account for Hirano, and his pic there is the same as one of the photos he's posted on Facebook, so that's clearly Hirano at least. |
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I can vouch for Hirano and Senda being two different people. As I have stated before, Hirano is friends with me, but Senda will not accept. Both Senda and Saki Kasuga make comments and posts on his wall. All three are supervised by Yuka Tsujiyoko whom did score most of the games that they seem to be leading the scores with now. Like most other Nintendo series, such as Zelda from being done by Kondo to his subordinates of composers.
Oddly, Junichi Nakatsuru is friends with the IS composers. I noticed that Nakatsuru befriended Yuka first which probably led to the other friendship. I believe that Yuka and Junichi went to Osaka U. together, but not in the same class though. Many animators, illustrators, singers, composers, directors, actors, designers, come from that university. Nintendo has kept very close ties with that university. |
#9
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Apparently Hirano is working on Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. (!!!)
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Oh, Maan, what to say here?! Hmm? I think I'll start by saying this: Hirano working on Codename S.T.E.A.M. is looking to be very awe-some!!! xD
This Game's Music has both 19th century string-type instruments and rock music for the steam punk. Music is dynamic, to reflect enemy awareness of danger, etc. Here are some samples of the Game's Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sATOOAY-14 - Blazing Guitar action!! This song is pretty Awe-Some, I have to admit that much to it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxCni3bkTn8 - This one is pretty atmospheric, yet, gives you a really good idea of sneaking around! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaLO44y2IqE - Pretty Nice Guitar Chug mixed with other instruments!! Here are some Trailers to go along with these samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SezVDf66YA - Nice songs in this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EO6NsPqBRA - HOLY SHIT!!!!!! XDXDXD My hype meter just blew over this one!!!! ROCK N ROLL STYLE FIRE EMBLEM THEME!!!!!!!!!! LMFAO!!! XD GUYS!!! If you have anything to say over all this, please, tell me! Feed back is always appreciated!!! xD |
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Hirano is good at that chuggin' guitar action theme thing, but I much prefer his orchestral stuff, especially his strings.
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HIRANO'S BACK (Everyone play the demo, the game is Intelligent Systems XCOM and it owns bones) |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHqZSWZSNbE&t=8m07s
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There's a 関河義人 mentioned in this blog post about a concert by Intelligent Systems employees and he's called a freelancer. Last edited by CHz; Mar 16, 2015 at 07:55 PM. Reason: accidentally a word |
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Since when did the male take the female's surname?
On the blog you have Minanno Chikara posting, so that is possibly Chika's blog name. Then there is also shimashimakun. I remember visiting this blog before. Yuka had posted a page on her FB wall over a year ago. |
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I don't know about its relative rarity compared to other countries, but it's entirely possible in Japan for a husband to take his wife's family name. Typically it's done for a economic (marrying into a better-off family) or lineage (bringing a male heir into a family without one) reasons. I'm 100% guessing that marriage is what happened here though, just want to make that clear.
The blog is a group blog with many authors and the handle of the person who made that post is にゃぁ. I don't think the title is any evidence that Chika Sekigawa is involved with the blog because minna no chikara just means "the strength of everyone" or "combined strength." |
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The credits of Paper Mario: Color Splash say that Yoshito Sekigawa is a member of Intelligent Systems; I don't know if that means that he rejoined the comapny at some point (he has been doing quite some work for them since Fire Emblem Awakening), or he is still freelance and was contracted and for some reason they have labeled him as part of IS (which would be really weird imo).
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I can ask him if you want.
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That would be cool, just for clarification.
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Actually, I don't even need to ask. He added it to his Facebook at some point:
Work: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Co., Ltd. Previous Workplace: MIKIGAKKI Co.,Ltd, INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS |
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Thanks for the help!
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hes in charge of the new paper mario game
SOUND DIRECTOR / COMPOSITION LEAD Yoshito Sekigawa COMPOSITION Shoh Murakami Yoshiaki Kimura Hiroki Morishita Fumihiro Isobe SOUND EFFECTS LEAD Masanobu Matsunaga SOUND EFFECTS Yuki Hisamatsu Kengo Hagiwara Daichi Ishihara Yuuki Toujinbara Kanae Uchiyama SOUND DESIGN / SOUND EFFECTS Yuki Kusuhara HD RUMBLE Kazuki Komai SOUND ENGINEER Yasutoshi Tanaka RECORDING ENGINEER Mitsuhiro Tanigawa Takafumi Wada Ryosuke Kawasaki SOUND COORDINATION Yuriko Kikuchi INSTRUMENTS / VOCALS Macoto Hirose (Violin) Ayana Imanishi (Violin) Koichiro Muroya (Violin) Yu Kosakai (Violin) Akiko Igaki (Violin) Atoko Noda (Violin) Wakana Noguchi (Violin) Yuka Kawahara (Viola) Hyojin Kim (Viola) Yu Odanagi (Cello) Masateru Nishikata (Cello) Noriko Ozaki (Flute) Yukari Seki (Flute) Natsumi Hirase (Flute) Yuya Deguchi (Oboe) Erika Hashizume (Oboe) Sayoko Ito (Clarinet) Hana Fujita (Clarinet) Shizuka Matsumoto (Bassoon) Kwandae Park (Sax) Takeshi Higashikawauchi (Sax) Kohei Shibata (Sax) Atsushi Inoue (Trumpet) Koji Shionoya (Trumpet) Michitaro Mochida (Trombone) Atsuo Hori (Horn) Yuta Nakagawa (Guitar) Makiko Naruo (Erhu) Yuko Nago (Vocal) Yumiko Fukui (Vocal) Kiyohito Shimakage (Vocal) Osamu Matsumori (Vocal) Yuriko Kikuchi (Vocal) Katsu Shijima (Vocal) Ritsuko Shijima (Vocal) Yoko Shimomura (Vocal) Shizuka Komatsu (Vocal) NATSUMI (Vocal) SOUND SUPPORT Kenichi Nishimaki Takeru Kanazaki Daichi Aoki Masato Nakamura Jumpei Ikawa Shota Fukagawa Hiroaki Hanaoka |
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That's a nice surprise. I was fully expecting this to be another Kanazaki project.
With Sekigawa in charge, hopefully there will be some TTYD vibes. |
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That sounds great, even if I was hoping that Yuka Tsujiyoko did contribute to this as well like in the original Paper Mario.
Hopefully, there will be a soundtrack release by Tablier Communications or sort of in the distant future. |
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I contacted Yoshito Sekigawa/Hirano on Facebook, so Chimeratio and I could try asking about composer breakdowns for the Paper Mario games (I specifically referenced TTYD and Origami King). Unfortunately, I got the reply I feared:
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After asking him if there was any chance the information would be revealed in the future: Quote:
Yeah, nothing surprising here, and not exactly new information either, but I felt it was worth noting for the future, just so everyone knows what the official word on this is (and so other people don't waste their time asking the composers themselves). Sadly, it seems as though any composer breakdown for the Paper Mario series shall remain a mystery. Last edited by KTB; Dec 21, 2020 at 05:57 PM. |
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