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= Atsushi Shindo =

== General Information ==

* Name: Atsushi Shindo (新堂敦士)
* Birthplace: Osaka
* Hobbies: Going to the cinema, DVD&CD collection, videogames, driving
* Favorite artists: Prince, Sex Pistols, T-Rex, Beatles
* Favorite food: Fruit, chocolate, yakiniku, fried egg
* Dislikes: Cooked fish, shiitake
* twitter: https://twitter.com/a2c_lion

== Profile ==

Atsushi Shindo (born April 7th, 1969) is a former prolific commission artist in the pop'n music series, appearing in almost every arcade entry from [[AC pnm 3|pop'n music 3]] through [[AC pnm 10|pop'n music 10]] (the one exception being [[AC pnm 6|pop'n music 6]]). He is well-known for the long-running POWERFOLK series of songs, and his distinctive singing voice.

In 2004 Atsushi's 5-year contact with KONAMI expired. At the same time, though, Atsushi was being accused of plagiarism in his lyrics, as this [https://web.archive.org/web/20190315033958/http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/3478/ archived web page illustrates the accounts of]. When this became public, KONAMI removed all of Atsushi's songs from the pop'n music arcade series in [[AC pnm 12|pop'n music 12 いろは]]; he hasn't been seen in BEMANI since. Despite the plagiarism controversy, Atsushi continued to write music with his long-time arrangement partner Katsuyuki Harada until 2006.

After 2006, Atsushi Shindo went quiet until 2015, when he started doing collaborations and new songs again, this time self-publishing his own material. He released his first album in almost a decade, ''Juicy!'', in 2015, and did an EP with [[Tatsuya Furukawa|good-cool]] titled '' DESIREEEEEE!!'' under the alias A2COOL (A2 coming from his first name, A'''tsu'''. Tsu is read in Japanese as the number two).

== Trivia ==
* Data of [[Eros]] can be found in [[AC pnm 11|pop'n music 11]]. However, the song never made it to the final version.
* All of Atsushi Shindo's songs were composed, written, and sung by Atsushi himself, and all of them were arranged by [[Katsuyuki Harada]] (原田勝道).
** The one exception was [[Shake! -Game Ver.-]], whose short cut was co-arranged by [[Yoichi Hayashi]].
* Three of Atsushi Shindo's post-2015 songs later appeared as licenses in CAPCOM's ''crossbeats REV.SUNRISE'' - ''Juicy!　～幸せスパイラル～'', ''赤いヘッドホン'', and ''愛をほおばりたいッ！～Like a Monkey!～''.
** These songs mark Atsushi's first appearances in ''any'' music game in over 11 years.
* According to his appearance in the ''crossbeats Housoukyoku #01'' (クロスビーツ放送局#01) stream, Atsushi was a high school classmate of [[Naoki Maeda]].

== BEMANI Songs ==
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!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="275px"|Song
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="125px"|Genre
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="125px"|Game
|-
| [[Nanka hen da!|なんか変だ]] || POWER FOLK || [[AC pnm 3|pop'n music 3]]
|-
| [[Kimi wo kowashitai|君を壊したい]] || POWER FOLK 2 || [[AC pnm 4|pop'n music 4]]
|-
| [[Kimi ga suki da yo ~mamotte mamotte ageru kara|君が好きだよ ～守って守ってあげるから]] || POWER FOLK 3 || [[AC pnm 5|pop'n music 5]]
|-
| [[Kimi ga suki da yo ~mamotte mamotte ageru kara...Folky Version|君が好きだよ ～守って守ってあげるから・・・Folky Version]] || POWER ACO || [[AC pnm 5|pop'n music 5]]
|-
| [[SLOW DOWN]] || POWER FOLK 4 || [[CS pnm 5|pop'n music 5 CS]]
|-
| [[Shake! -Game Ver.-]] || POWER FOLK 7 || [[CS pnm 6|pop'n music 6 CS]]
|-
| [[Samurai syndrome|サムライ・シンドローム]] || POWER FOLK 5 || [[AC pnm 7|pop'n music 7]]
|-
| [[Fashion ~ver.1~|Fashion ～ver.1～]] || POWER FOLK 6 || [[AC pnm 8|pop'n music 8]]
|-
| [[Dynamic! Atomic! S.C.B.G. ~ver.1~]] || CYBER ROCKABILLY || [[AC pnm 9|pop'n music 9]]
|-
| [[New Sensation]] || SLASH BEATS || [[CS pnm 9|pop'n music 9 CS]]
|-
| [[Nervous breakdown ~type zero~|ナーバス ブレークダウン～タイプゼロ～]] || DIGI FOLK || [[AC pnm 10|pop'n music 10]]
|}

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===
# [[Kimi wo kowashitai ~Triple Zero~|君を壊したい〜Triple Zero〜]] (2002)
# [[BRAND-NEW UPPER!]] (2004)
# BA-ZOO-KA (2006)

=== Singles ===
# I KISS YOU (1996)
# [[Nanka hen da! ~from pop'n music 3~|なんか変だ! 〜from pop'n music 3〜]] (1999)
# [[Kimi wo kowashitai (single)|君を壊したい]] (2000)
# [[Kimi ga suki da yo ~mamotte mamotte ageru kara (single)|君が好きだよ〜守って守ってあげるから〜]] (2001)
# [[Shake! (single)|Shake!]] (2001)
# [[Samurai syndrome (single)|サムライ・シンドローム]] (2002)
# [[SLOW DOWN~chikyuu yo maware~|SLOW DOWN〜地球よ廻れ〜]] (2002)
# [[Dynamic! Atomic! S.C.B.G. / Crazy 4U]] (2003)
# [[Kibou|祈望]] (2003)
# Gold (2005)
# Beautiful days (2006)
# Going Crazy (2006)

=== EP ===
* DESIREEEEEE!! (2016, with [[Tatsuya Furukawa|good-cool]] as A2COOL)

== External Link ==
* [http://www.a2c.bz/ Atsushi Shindo's official website]

[[Category:BEMANI Artists|Shindo, Atsushi]]
[[Category:Vocalists|Shindo, Atsushi]]
[[Category:pop'n music Artists|Shindo, Atsushi]]
[[Category:Commission Artists|Shindo, Atsushi]]