Meet the Other Soundtrack Contributors
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:19 am
I've been doing a little research on the people behind the TSS soundtrack after it came up over here, and here are my findings...
Isao Mizoguchi - Is the president of Two Five, so he's Iwadare's empolyer. ^_^ Back in the Megadrive days especially he and Iwadare worked together on compositions a lot, but he shifted to lyric writing (and presidenting, I'd assume) over the years. Lyric writing is what's kept him in Lunar game credits; he's behind almost all the Japanese songs. He's apparently no stranger to self promotion, and he has interviews in the L:SSSC strategy guide and both of the artbooks. He hosts radio shows under the name Don Makkou (which seems terribly familiar but I'm not sure why).
Yoshiaki Kubodera - As recently as 2005 he worked for a game music production company called Cube, which according to this site employed all four TSS composers at one point. (Mizoguchi founded Two Five and head-hunted Iwadare around 1993.) But anyway, Kubodera. He composed music for Gleylancer, a Megadrive shooter, with Iwadare, Mizoguchi, and Masanori Kikuchi. He also worked on Rumble Roses (with five other people) and Lunar DS (with 3 others).
Hiroshi Fujioka - According to this, Iwadare and Fujioka were in a band together before they got into the game industry. He worked on Langrisser 1 with Iwadare and Mizoguchi, and much later he wrote the soundtracks for Growlanser 2 and 3. He also does compositions/arrangements for idol albums, such as Maria Yamamoto's "Arigato wo Kimi he". (She is a seiyuu and hosted a radio show with Mizoguchi.) I'm not sure if he still works for Cube, or Two Five, or if he freelances.
Isao Mizoguchi - Is the president of Two Five, so he's Iwadare's empolyer. ^_^ Back in the Megadrive days especially he and Iwadare worked together on compositions a lot, but he shifted to lyric writing (and presidenting, I'd assume) over the years. Lyric writing is what's kept him in Lunar game credits; he's behind almost all the Japanese songs. He's apparently no stranger to self promotion, and he has interviews in the L:SSSC strategy guide and both of the artbooks. He hosts radio shows under the name Don Makkou (which seems terribly familiar but I'm not sure why).
Yoshiaki Kubodera - As recently as 2005 he worked for a game music production company called Cube, which according to this site employed all four TSS composers at one point. (Mizoguchi founded Two Five and head-hunted Iwadare around 1993.) But anyway, Kubodera. He composed music for Gleylancer, a Megadrive shooter, with Iwadare, Mizoguchi, and Masanori Kikuchi. He also worked on Rumble Roses (with five other people) and Lunar DS (with 3 others).
Hiroshi Fujioka - According to this, Iwadare and Fujioka were in a band together before they got into the game industry. He worked on Langrisser 1 with Iwadare and Mizoguchi, and much later he wrote the soundtracks for Growlanser 2 and 3. He also does compositions/arrangements for idol albums, such as Maria Yamamoto's "Arigato wo Kimi he". (She is a seiyuu and hosted a radio show with Mizoguchi.) I'm not sure if he still works for Cube, or Two Five, or if he freelances.