Jigokuguruma Nakamura (#5279)

[CHz]

Regarding edits to the reading of this name, is "Jigokusha" confirmed anywhere? I really haven't researched him, so I don't know if that's ever been officially used by Konami, but "Jigokuguruma" appears in the credits of Dracula X68000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr7-bpadeGg#t=3m36s

[Cedille]

http://gyusyabu.ddo.jp/MP3/1993/AKU1/doc.html

This seems to be a transcription of the document file included in Akumajo Dracula X68000 and he himself gives Jigokuguruma as the reading.

６８ユ－ザ－のみなさま！　　はじめまして！私が、”地獄車　中村”です。この「悪魔城ドラキュラ」では、小林でびさんと共に作曲・編曲を担当いたしました。そしてこれ が、私のデビュー作ということで、今回は私の名前について説明したいと思います。

地獄車（じごくぐるま）・・・　それは、日本柔道における究極の技である。そしてその破壊力は、牛をも殺す事のできる凄まじいものなのであ る。柔道が発祥してから現在までに、この技を自由に使いこなせたのは、私（”地獄車　中村”）、一条直也、直也の師匠、風祭右京の四人のみである。

[Revoc]

Btw, like Chris said here, I'm still wondering if Jigokuguruma is in fact Keizou Nakamura...

[seanne]

My mistake, I'll change everything to Jigokuguruma. At least we have solid confirmation now.

[Revoc]

Is this kanji name 中村地獄車 or 地獄車中村? At least in the credits of Rondo of Blood is 地獄車中村.

[Ira]

Originally Posted by Revoc

Is this kanji name 中村地獄車 or 地獄車中村? At least in the credits of Rondo of Blood is 地獄車中村.

It seems to be written 地獄車中村 pretty much everywhere. Odd for it to be written in the form of 'given name - surname', you'd have to swap the two to make it display correctly (though doing that in itself is wrong.)

[Revoc]

It's really weird. But in this case I prefer to copy the entire Kanji Name in the Given Name field to not cause any confusion with the hiragana reading. I'm going to change to 地狱车中村. If you search in Google, 中村地狱车 shows up in only one website. If anyone has any objection please let me know.

[Raizen1984]

Originally Posted by Revoc

Btw, like Chris said here, I'm still wondering if Jigokuguruma is in fact Keizou Nakamura...

Apparently not since, according to the document Cedille posted, Dracula X68000 was his debut work, and Keizo Nakamura has been active since about 1988.

[Cedille]

Originally Posted by Revoc

Btw, like Chris said here, I'm still wondering if Jigokuguruma is in fact Keizou Nakamura...

This twitter account name strongly indicates it, since he is that Keizo Nakamura who left Konami, joined in LOVEdeLIC and then Vanpool (youtube) with Masanori Adachi, based on these tweets.

[Revoc]

Good finding! I hope someone can ask him directly to confirm. I really couldn't find another clue besides the similar family name.

[Dag]

Other piece to the puzzle:

Akumajo Dracula X68000's original release credits Jigokugurama Nakamura, while the PS Akumajo Chronicles rerelease changes it to Jigokuokusama Iizuka for no apparent reason.

But, since Jigokuokusama=Jigoku-okusama, okusama=wife, it could mean "she" married a Mr. Iizuka. (or maybe it's an in joke...)

EDIT: also, if Nakamura worked on Gradius 3 (it could have been Kozo Nakamura though), his nickname was "La Nakamur".

[Raizen1984]

There's also a Hiroshi Iizuka credited for music in Castlevania Chronicles alongside Sota Fujimori. He's not mentioned on the OST, but he's in the game. Possibly a connection?

[Revoc]

Very interesting details, Dag and Raizen1984.

There is a discussion in this japanese message board regarding this question:
http://2chz.org/thread.php/game/game...1293816887/l50

[Cedille]

I think it's now totally safe to conclude he is Keizo Nakamura, as these tweets from akiropito look definitive.
https://twitter.com/#!/akiropito/sta...72790179053568
https://twitter.com/#!/akiropito/sta...58674998964224

[Nisto]

Is there a reason why we haven't put the kanji and hiragana parts of the names in respective given / family name fields?

[Secret Squirrel]

It looks like it's because he always writes this name backwards (family name last), and that's how it shows on every source.

Originally Posted by Revoc

It's really weird. But in this case I prefer to copy the entire Kanji Name in the Given Name field to not cause any confusion with the hiragana reading. I'm going to change to 地狱车中村. If you search in Google, 中村地狱车 shows up in only one website. If anyone has any objection please let me know.

[CHz]

Nickname + family name in that order is a pretty common alias format, especially in the '80s/early '90s Konami sound team. I can think of more than ten other KKC members who had a similar deal. (Just randomly go through the list here, chances are you'll hit a few.)

[Gigablah]

And since it's a nickname, it doesn't actually belong in the "given name" field. Maybe we should add a separate field for that.

Example: http://vgmdb.net/db/artists-submit.php?do=edit&id=10903

If you put チャーリー in given name, the full japanese name would show as 田中チャーリー, which is wrong.