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OSVではインタビューを日本語でも掲載中！/ OSV Has Interviews in Japanese Too!

January 6, 2010 | Shota Nakama | 3 Comments Share this

いつもOSVを応援して頂きありがとうございます。

クリス・リンやジャスティン・フェイファーら翻訳家の助力もあり、今までOSVでは数多くの著名な日本人ゲーム音楽家のインタビューを掲載してきました。これまでは英文のみでしたが、OSVではこれから英文と日本文の両方を掲載いたします。OSV側で翻訳された記事に限られますが、これによって英語圏の読者と増えつつある日本からの読者のギャップを埋める事が出来ると思います。

各記事内の「日本語」ボタンをクリックすると、日本語での閲覧が可能となります。

それでは、これからもOSVをどうぞ宜しくお願いします！

OSV日本語編集長
仲間将太

Thank you for supporting OSV.

With the help of Chris Ling and Justin Pfeiffer, we have been publishing interviews of many renowned Japanese video game composers. Until now they were only available in English, but OSV will be publishing them both in English and Japanese from now on. It is limited to the articles that required translation, but it should help bridge the gap between our mainly English-speaking readers and a growing number of readers we have coming in from Japan.

You can view them in Japanese if you click on the “日本語” button in selected articles.
Game Music

Mass Exodus From Capcom Part 3: Interview with Hideaki Utsumi

December 29, 2009 | Jayson Napolitano | 3 Comments Share this

Sheesh, I can’t help but wonder what’s going on over at Capcom Japan. First it was Audio Director Tetsuya Shibata to form Unique Note, then sound designer and Sound Director Masayuki Endo to form Forcewick. We’ve now learned of a third key employee from Capcom Japan’s audio department that left the company, and that person is Hideaki Utsumi. While his name may not be immediately familiar, the list of titles he’s worked on over the years at Capcom is quite impressieve, including several titles in the Resident Evil series (including Resident Evil 5) and the Devil May Cry series.

As it turns out, Utsumi was the first to leave Capcom of the three we’ve mentioned, and he didn’t leave to go freelance either. As it turns out, Utsumi instead decided to become a music educator at the HAL Osaka Technical School (the sister site to the Tokyo campus where Kenichiro Fukui of Square Enix left to teach). We’ve fortunately been able to talk with Utsumi-sensei about this move, the programs at the HAL Technical Schools, his time at Capcom, and his record label, marth TERIT RECORDS, which has featured a number of awesome releases.

Read and learn in our exclusive interview with Utsumi-sensei after the jump! (more…)
Game Music

“100 Million Ton no Bara Bara” Sound Interview with Hideki Sakamoto

December 22, 2009 | Carl Larson | 2 Comments Share this

Want to spice up your list of New Years’ Resolutions with activities like rock climbing, torch welding, and ripping apart huge flying airships? Come February, you’ll be able to do all that on your PSP, thanks to SCEJ & Acquire’s latest collaboration. Your team needs to climb aboard an invading airship and start cutting away at that metal monstrosity, piece by piece, to send it crashing to the ground.

So what would this sky high adventure sound like? We watched the trailer video and then asked Hideki Sakamoto what that catchy song is all about. His company Noisycroak was hired to work on the game’s audio, and being the CEO has it’s benefits, like getting to pick which projects to work on himself!

Read our interview to find out how Hideki envisions the sound of 100 Million Tons. (more…)
Featured, Game Music

A Talk With G.O.D.: Yuji TECHNOuchi Interview

December 3, 2009 | Audun Sorlie | 4 Comments Share this

OSV’s Soundtrack of The Month in October was SD Snatcher for the MSX2. This title along with Pennant Race 2 and Rune Master 2 are special to me because, as I explained in that article, every summer I would travel to my friend’s house who owned an MSX2, a rarity here up north. One of the men behind that soundtrack, Yuji Takenouchi, or TECHNOuchi as he refers to himself, went on along with the other members of that sound team to great fame in Konami, eventually doing titles such as Space Manbow, X-Men and Mystic Warriors.

He has since left Konami, and after a lengthy hiatus returned to the game music scene doing arrangements on PSYVARIAR The Mix, dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU and Mushihimesama Double Arrange Soundtrack CD which is due out this month. He also made big headlines when he announced the creation of Video Game Sound Creator’s Alliance (Ge-On-Dan/G.O.D.), a new group dedicated to make the bond between game composers stronger and raise awareness on their works. We had the pleasure of speaking with TECHNOuchi on the future of G.O.D and what they seek to do musically and professionally, and talk some about his classic works.

Please enjoy our interview with the ever amazing Yuji TECHNOuchi! (more…)
Featured, Game Music

DARIUS BURST Sound Team Interview

November 26, 2009 | Carl Larson | 6 Comments Share this DARIUS BURST Sound Team Interview

The PSP shooter Darius Burst is approaching fast in Japan, just in the time for the holidays! The Darius series merges the depths of black space with the expanse of the blue ocean, turning familiar creatures of the sea into deadly mechanoids along the way. We contacted the composers who have been working on the sound design for this upcoming game, and Taito’s friendly staff agreed to lend a hand in translating our interview questions. It turns out to be hard work to balance the series’ unorthodox musical roots with providing a new and accessible experience at the same time.

Read our extensive interview to find out how the ZUNTATA sound team met these challenges during the making of the upcoming Darius Burst! (more…)
Anime, Featured, Game Music

Beautiful Music, Beautiful Lady: Kinuyo Yamashita Interview!

October 27, 2009 | Audun Sorlie | 16 Comments Share this

There are two games I always credit for starting my love for video game music, and those games are Sunsoft’s Batman, and Taito’s Power Blade, both released on the NES in the early 90s. In all interviews conducted with me about doujin and NSFs, I usually mention Power Blade as one of my all time favorite soundtracks, and I can recall note for note every song in that game. Today, we finally had a chance to speak with the lady responsible for the music in that title, Kinuyo Yamashita!

Yamashita is most famous for her work on Castlevania. Yes, THE Castlevania, the one that started it all. She was quite prolific on the Famicom and MSX, composing for many fan favorites, but she faded from game music in the 90s, and since has returned full force and is today working hard on several projects.

Find out what those projects are, why she was gone and how Castlevania’s music was pitched right here on OSV! (more…)
Game Music

Meet Forcewick, The Studio of Former Capcom Sound Director and Designer Masayuki Endo

October 15, 2009 | Jayson Napolitano | 2 Comments Share this

It was just a few months ago that we told you about Testsuya Shibata’s departure from Capcom to form his own studio, Unique Note, and in a similar fashion, Masayuki Endo has also started out on his own, but in the realm of sound design as opposed to composition.

For those who can’t seem to remember where they’ve seen Endo’s name, he was the sound director and designer for Street Fighter IV and Chaos Legion, and did sound design for a number of other titles during his years at Capcom. He’s now out on his own under the name of “Forcewick,” and OSV has been fortunate to be able to talk to him about the new studio and what his goals are for the company.

Read our interview with Forcewick’s Masayuki Endo after the jump! (more…)