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Old Jun 23, 2009, 11:33 AM
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Shocking news. I just found out "Aoi Yoshiki" (and not "Yoshiki Aoi", for that matter) is not a person, but a unit. I added the two musicians to the database.
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Old Jul 13, 2009, 09:50 PM
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That's quite a discovery, Zanasea. It'll be fun trying to decipher who composed what on the Drag-Dragoon 2 album.

I wonder if these two are regulars in the anime industry?
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Old Sep 9, 2009, 12:55 PM
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Are you sure this is the correct name order? Drag-on Dragoon 2 credits have "Yoshiki Aoi", and 吉勇あおい returns no actual results in google.
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Old Sep 9, 2009, 04:22 PM
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It's not common to have the surname written in hiragana, but then again this isn't a "real" name anyway.
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Old Oct 1, 2009, 10:33 AM
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So, as this isn't a real name, why isn't it "Yoshiki Aoi"?
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Old Oct 1, 2009, 11:46 AM
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Changed to Yoshiki Aoi based on this:
http://www.musicman-net.com/cgi-bin/...hid=05-02-0921
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Old Mar 5, 2013, 01:16 AM
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This is really weird. According to the Drag-on Dragoon 2 OST liner notes translation Yoshiki Aoi is a person. WTF?
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Old Mar 5, 2013, 09:31 AM
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This is really weird. According to the Drag-on Dragoon 2 OST liner notes translation Yoshiki Aoi is a person. WTF?
I handled the translation, and yes, it is handled as if Aoi was a single person, but that doesn't mean that what's written above isn't correct. I was just rendering the text more or less "as written", and decided that it was talking about Aoi as a person, and went with that rather than inserting what I learned from here.
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Old Oct 1, 2014, 10:08 PM
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New project for this enigmatic duo:

http://www.vgmonline.net/drakengard-...rmilion-arena/

Trailer music sounds promising.
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 02:07 PM
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Great news! Thanks Chris (and Don). They must have a musical act as a day job, or something. I've never been able to find out much about either over the years. I can't fathom why they (or Sano and Aihara) weren't tapped for Drakengard 3.
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 02:58 PM
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They seem to be employed here: http://smile-co.jp
You can see an small picture of them in the creator section: http://smile-co.jp/docs/creator.pdf
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 02:59 PM
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Bio blurb on them here: http://www.junglewalk.co.jp/369/staff.html. No terribly interesting info about them, except when they formed (2003) and where they graduated (Matsumoto: Tokyo College of Music, Yu: Tokyo University of the Arts).

Based on web mentions and other profiles, it seems like they're mysterious because they're not especially prolific: arrangement/orchestration/performance credits on songs here and there with the occasional score.

Here are some other works beyond the scope of VGMdb:
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Old Oct 2, 2014, 08:18 PM
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Nice findings!

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[*]Scored the 2009 Japanese film The Neighbor (369 no Methuselah)
Soundtrack published by their production joint, Smile Company. (No cat #?)
The catalogue number of this album is JGWK-01.
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Old Oct 3, 2014, 02:21 PM
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Well done, gentlemen.
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