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I've started to have some doubts about whether Miki Higashino was actually part of the THELONIOUS MONKEES.
So let's clear the other three before we do anything else. Masanori Adachi and Hirofumi Taniguchi are definitely members: Taro Kudo, who left Konami for Love-de-Lic with Adachi and Taniguchi, is in all probability a member too. "Taro" composed two pieces for Moon: Remix RPG Adventure under the TM group name and sang on the vocal arrangement "I kept my promise to you": Kudo did game design for Moon, so he appears in the credits of the game: So anyway I think he's surely a member too. Higashino, unlike the other three, remained at Konami, working on Genso Suikogaiden I and II. As far as I know, she was never explicitly credited on any TM works. On TEN PLANTS, she's in the "Special thanks" section for the THELONIOUS MONKEES track. I don't know why she'd be thanked separately if she were actually part of the group. Note also that that CGI "picture" of the group has three monkeys in it, not four. I'm sure the one in the middle is supposed to be Masanori Adachi. Both Hirofumi Taniguchi and Taro Kudo wear glasses, so they could theoretically be the other two, but obviously I'm wildly speculating that that picture is even a caricature in the first place. How did Higashino come to be associated with TM in the first place? In the credits for "I kept my promise to you" that I posted above, "Miki" is credited for lyrics translation (to English). She was a Konami Kukeiha Club member with all of them, working with Adachi and Taniguchi on Contra III (Adachi: co-composer, Taniguchi: SFX) and again on Suikoden (Adachi: played bass; Taniguchi: co-composer). Plus, TM's first known track was an original composition for the album Infinity, published in December 1995. That's also the month that Suikoden, Taniguchi's and Adachi's last known work at Konami, was released in Japan. The timing is close enough that they could very well have formed TM while all four of them were still at Konami, since we don't know exact dates. However, does Higashino even know English? I honestly have no idea. There's another Miki who worked on Moon who possibly could've done the lyrics translations: Miki Yamauchi. I really have no idea if it's her either, though. |
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We confirmed through an interview with Miki Higashino that she is not a member of the Thelonious Monkees. To be published in January.
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Just read the interview, good stuff. I removed her a while back just to be on the safe side, but tons of thanks for thinking to ask her for confirmation!
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Well apparently they have a website and podcast now (which haven't been updated in three months) http://theloniousmonkees.com
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I was curious why Love-de-Lic's sound team is a bunch of former Konami guys when the company itself was founded by former Square employees, but it looks like Kudo was working for Square at the time (he was an event designer on SMRPG). So he likely came onboard early or was maybe even one of the founders of Love-de-Lic (he ended up directing their first game, UFO) before reaching out to his brothers from Konami.
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I think this may have been confirmed for a while (they're listed in the game's web press kit), but the latest issue of Onion Games's newsletter says that Masanori Adachi and Hirofumi Taniguchi are composing for Stray Children. Here's the short Q&A:
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