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[[Image:Wac.jpg|thumb|Jun Wakita]] | [[Image:Wac.jpg|thumb|Jun Wakita]] | ||
''This page links to Jun Wakita. For the BEMANI artist commonly referred to | ''This page links to Jun Wakita. For the BEMANI artist commonly referred to as jun, please see the [[Junko Karashima]] page.'' | ||
= Jun Wakita = | = Jun Wakita = | ||
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== Profile == | == Profile == | ||
A long-time | A long-time BEMANI composer, Jun Wakita joined KONAMI back in April 1998, when he enrolled in KCE School's newly established Tokyo branch. [http://furimuki.sakura.ne.jp/2/page9810.html#cap2] His first BEMANI project was 1999's [[AC substream|beatmania IIDX substream]] as a notechart designer. He also served as the notechart designer in [[AC pnm 3|pop'n music 3]], as well as various entries in the [[beatmania Information|beatmania / beatmania III]] series. wac's first game as a sound director was the pop'n music spinoff game [[AC pnm Animelo 2|pop'n music アニメロ2号]]. Starting the following year, he became the sound director of the main pop'n music series beginning with [[AC pnm 6|pop'n music 6]], a position he held for 13 years, until the end of [[AC pnm Sunny Park|pop'n music Sunny Park]]'s run. wac continued to be a notechart designer in the series, and charted most of the anime covers in the series up to [[AC pnm 14|pop'n music 14 FEVER!]]. | ||
wac's wide variety of musical styles has made him quite popular in the BEMANI community. He has dabbled in a variety of genres, including piano, folk rock, house, techno, and trance. He even released an album, [[Ongaku (album)|音楽]], in 2012. | |||
wac is currently the sound director of the ノスタルジア series. | |||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* In live interviews | * In pictures and live interviews, wac often dons a suit or a mask of a black cat, expressing his thoughts either visually or through cue cards. | ||
* wac's song/staff comments tend to be much longer than other artists on the BEMANI song pages he talks on. | * wac's song/staff comments tend to be much longer than other artists and staffs on the BEMANI song pages he talks on. | ||
* wac's grandfather was an art teacher in Hokkaido, as noted in the song comments for [[Regulus]]. He passed away before | * wac's grandfather was an art teacher in Hokkaido, as noted in the song comments for [[Regulus]]. He passed away before wac graduated from high school in the 1990's. | ||
* wac notes in the peace page for [https://web.archive.org/web/20150507063124/http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music8/peace/staff2.html pop'n music 8] (archived) how stressful the game was for him to make, compounded with him having moved from home and into an apartment during its development. | * wac notes in the peace page for [https://web.archive.org/web/20150507063124/http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music8/peace/staff2.html pop'n music 8] (archived) how stressful the game was for him to make, compounded with him having moved from home and into an apartment during its development. | ||
** He also notes the idea of the numerous crossovers featured in [[AC pnm 8|pop'n music 8]] came when [[Tomosuke Funaki|TOMOSUKE]] asked him to crossover some songs from [[AC MAGG|MAMBO A GO GO]] into pop'n music 8. This eventually spun off into having a wider variety of BEMANI crossovers in the game. | ** He also notes the idea of the numerous crossovers featured in [[AC pnm 8|pop'n music 8]] came when [[Tomosuke Funaki|TOMOSUKE]] asked him to crossover some songs from [[AC MAGG|MAMBO A GO GO]] into pop'n music 8. This eventually spun off into having a wider variety of BEMANI crossovers in the game. | ||
* Unlike most BEMANI artists' main aliases, wac has used his main alias very | * Unlike most BEMANI artists' main aliases, wac has used his main alias very rarely in BEMANI song titles' artist names; only thirteen BEMANI songs and a ''single'' solo song as of 2023 credit him under it. | ||
** According to [https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/bemani/fansite/p/report/2014w/report1.html?page=5 a BEMANI Fan Site interview in 2014], he uses different aliases "to fit the worldview of each song". | |||
* wac's favorite song is the 1994 song [[Sora mo toberu hazu|空も飛べるはず]], a cover of which appears in ノスタルジア. | * wac's favorite song is the 1994 song [[Sora mo toberu hazu|空も飛べるはず]], a cover of which appears in ノスタルジア. | ||
* Outside of BEMANI, wac remixed [[risette]]'s ''01 apple'' for their album, ''Extras''. This remix is credited to his full name, Jun Wakita. | * Outside of BEMANI, wac remixed [[risette]]'s ''01 apple'' for their album, ''Extras''. This remix is credited to his full name, Jun Wakita. | ||
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* 牛 (with Toshiyuki Kakuta and [[Shigeharu Saeki]], as 埼玉ホルスタイン脇田) | * 牛 (with Toshiyuki Kakuta and [[Shigeharu Saeki]], as 埼玉ホルスタイン脇田) | ||
* ダメですの人 | * ダメですの人 | ||
* とおりすがりのしらないおじさん | |||
* JYUNN (with [[Shunsuke Sato]]) | |||
* 神 | * 神 | ||
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| [[Ignis Irae|Ignis†Iræ]] || BEMANI Sound Team "神" || [[AC BISTROVER|beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER]] || X || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Ignis Irae|Ignis†Iræ]] || BEMANI Sound Team "神" || [[AC BISTROVER|beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER]] || X || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[ | | [[Idol|アイドル]] || Covered by BEMANI Sound Team "[[Aritomo Hamada|HuΣeR]] × wac" feat. [[Iori Saeki|佐伯伊織]] || [[AC EPOLIS|beatmania IIDX 31 EPOLIS]] || IIDX EDITION || - || - || - || - || ✓ | ||
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| [[Kyun kyun bakkyun LOVE|きゅん×きゅんばっきゅん☆LOVE]] || [[Matsushita|松下]]feat.[[Sota Fujimori|Sota]] & wac || [[AC BST AnimTribe|BeatStream アニムトライヴ]] / [[AC DDR 2014|DanceDanceRevolution (2014)]] / [[AC pnm eclale|pop'n music éclale]] / [[AC RB VOLZZA|REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA]] || - || - || - || ✓ || - || - | | [[Kyun kyun bakkyun LOVE|きゅん×きゅんばっきゅん☆LOVE]] || [[Matsushita|松下]]feat.[[Sota Fujimori|Sota]] & wac || [[AC BST AnimTribe|BeatStream アニムトライヴ]] / [[AC DDR 2014|DanceDanceRevolution (2014)]] / [[AC pnm eclale|pop'n music éclale]] / [[AC RB VOLZZA|REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA]] || - || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[On top of the world]] || LUCA || [[AC GFDM XG|GuitarFreaksXG & DrumManiaXG]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[On top of the world]] || LUCA || [[AC GFDM XG|GuitarFreaksXG & DrumManiaXG]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[gloom]] || w/[[Akino Mizuno|Akino]] || [[AC GFDM XG2|GuitarFreaksXG2 & DrumManiaXG2]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[gloom]] || w/[[Akino Mizuno|Akino]] || [[AC GFDM XG2|GuitarFreaksXG2 & DrumManiaXG2 Groove to Live]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Todoroke! Koi no beanball!!~96 bat hou sakuretsu! GITADORA series MVP dan!~|轟け!恋のビーンボール!!~96バット砲炸裂!GITADORAシリーズMVP弾!~]] || [[Toshiyuki Kakuta|ダイナミック野球兄弟]] v.s. [[Mayumi Morinaga|クロスファイヤーPrim]] || [[AC GD|GITADORA]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | | [[Todoroke! Koi no beanball!!~96 bat hou sakuretsu! GITADORA series MVP dan!~|轟け!恋のビーンボール!!~96バット砲炸裂!GITADORAシリーズMVP弾!~]] || [[Toshiyuki Kakuta|ダイナミック野球兄弟]] v.s. [[Mayumi Morinaga|クロスファイヤーPrim]] || [[AC GD|GITADORA]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | ||
|- | |||
| [[I LOVE uUu ~Holy Graduation~|I LOVE uUu ~Holy Graduation~]] || Cherry Blossoms([[Asaki|ASAKI]] & wac) || [[AC GD FUZZ-UP|GITADORA FUZZ-UP]] || - || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Shounen ripples|少年リップルズ]] || [[Yu Tokiwa|常盤ゆう]] || [[AC jb ripples APPEND|jubeat ripples APPEND]] || EMOCTRO || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[Shounen ripples|少年リップルズ]] || [[Yu Tokiwa|常盤ゆう]] || [[AC jb ripples APPEND|jubeat ripples APPEND]] || EMOCTRO || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Quilt|キルト]] || [[Osamu Migitera|Des]]-[[Sanae Shintani|Sana]] | | [[Quilt|キルト]] || [[Osamu Migitera|Des]]-[[Sanae Shintani|Sana]]+w[[Daichi Watanabe|p]][[Tomosuke Funaki|t]][[Daisuke Kurosawa|9]] || [[AC jb knit APPEND|jubeat knit APPEND]] / [[AC pnm 19|pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET]] || QUILT || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Astraia no soubei|アストライアの双皿]] || ZODIACSYNDICATE || [[AC jb saucer|jubeat saucer]] || ZODIAC ORACLE 7 || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Astraia no soubei|アストライアの双皿]] || ZODIACSYNDICATE || [[AC jb saucer|jubeat saucer]] || ZODIAC ORACLE 7 || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Milchstrasse|Milchstraße]] || Buluka & Nilo || [[AC jb saucer fulfill|jubeat saucer fulfill]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Milchstrasse|Milchstraße]] || Buluka & Nilo || [[AC jb saucer fulfill|jubeat saucer fulfill]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
|- | |||
| [[MAGICAL SUMMER SMILE]] || wac feat. [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|VE]][[Sota Fujimori|NUS]] || [[AC jb prop|jubeat prop]] / [[AC pnm Lapistoria|pop'n music ラピストリア]] / [[AC RB groovin'!! Upper|REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! Upper]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - || ✓ | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [[BEEF]] || BEMANI Sound Team "牛" || [[AC jb festo|jubeat festo]] || - || ✓ || - || ✓ || ✓ || - | | [[BEEF]] || BEMANI Sound Team "牛" || [[AC jb festo|jubeat festo]] || - || ✓ || - || ✓ || ✓ || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[ | | [[Piano dokusou mugonka "Kaijin"|ピアノ独奏無言歌 "灰燼"]] || BEMANI Sound Team "Virkato Wakhmaninov" || [[AC jb festo|jubeat festo]] / [[AC SDVX EG|SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR]] / [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]] || THRENODY || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Homesick Pt.2&3]] || [[Kiyotaka Sugimoto|ORANGE NOISE SHORTCUT]] || [[AC pnm 7|pop'n music 7]] || SOFT ROCK LONG || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Homesick Pt.2&3]] || [[Kiyotaka Sugimoto|ORANGE NOISE SHORTCUT]] || [[AC pnm 7|pop'n music 7]] || SOFT ROCK LONG || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Pop music ron|ポップミュージック論]] || ギラギラメガネ団 || [[AC pnm 13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]] || MEGANE ROCK || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || -|| - | | [[Pop music ron|ポップミュージック論]] || ギラギラメガネ団 || [[AC pnm 13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]] || MEGANE ROCK || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || -|| - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[ | | [[MAH-JONG FIGHT CLUB tokubetsu setsuzokukyoku|麻雀格闘倶楽部特別接続曲]] || 麻雀格闘倶楽部 || [[AC pnm 13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]] || MFC || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Parade|パレード]] || [[Sanae Shintani|新谷さなえ]] || [[AC pnm 13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]] || PARADE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Parade|パレード]] || [[Sanae Shintani|新谷さなえ]] || [[AC pnm 13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]] || PARADE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[hora de verdad]] || [[Ryutaro Nakahara|Vandalusia改]] || [[AC pnm 14|pop'n music 14 FEVER!]] || CYBER FLAMENCO || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[hora de verdad]] || [[Ryutaro Nakahara|Vandalusia改]] || [[AC pnm 14|pop'n music 14 FEVER!]] || CYBER FLAMENCO || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Odoru Fever Robo|踊るフィーバーロボ]] || | | [[Odoru Fever Robo|踊るフィーバーロボ]] || [[Shinichiro Yamanaka|ダニエル]]&[[eimy]] と [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|よしくん]] || [[AC pnm 14|pop'n music 14 FEVER!]] || FEVER ROBO || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[World Spider Web]] || (Wly) & The hampatensions || [[CS pnm 14|pop'n music 14 FEVER! CS]] || FUNK FEVER || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[World Spider Web]] || (Wly) & The hampatensions || [[CS pnm 14|pop'n music 14 FEVER! CS]] || FUNK FEVER || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Help me, ERINNNNNN!! -VENUS mix-]] || [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|VE]][[Sota Fujimori|NUS]] || [[AC SDVX III|SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS]] || - || - || - || - || ✓ || - | | [[Help me, ERINNNNNN!! -VENUS mix-]] || [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|VE]][[Sota Fujimori|NUS]] || [[AC SDVX III|SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS]] || - || - || - || - || ✓ || - | ||
|- | |||
| [[CHASE CHASE JOKERS no uta|チェイスチェイスジョーカーズのうた]] || カギコ&チノン(CV:金元寿子&大空直美) || [[AC SDVX EG|SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR]] || - || ✓ || ? || ✓ || - || - | |||
|- | |- | ||
| [[CaptivAte~jouka~ (Wiegenlied mix)|CaptivAte~浄化~]] || [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|DJ YOSHITAKA]] || [[AC NST|ノスタルジア]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || ✓ | | [[CaptivAte~jouka~ (Wiegenlied mix)|CaptivAte~浄化~]] || [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|DJ YOSHITAKA]] || [[AC NST|ノスタルジア]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || ✓ | ||
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| [[Voca Nostalgia]] || || [[AC NST Op.2|ノスタルジア Op.2]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - || - | | [[Voca Nostalgia]] || || [[AC NST Op.2|ノスタルジア Op.2]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - || - | ||
|- | |||
| [[Audite Nostalgia]] || BEMANI Sound Team "[[Naoyuki Sato|猫叉]]Virtuoso" || [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | |||
|- | |||
| [[nostos algos]] || BEMANI Sound Team "Setaria Virtuoso" || [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | |||
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| [[Piano taisou dai ichi|ピアノ体操第一]] || ノスタルジア演奏会協会♪ || [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]] || - || ? || ? || ? || ✓ || - | | [[Piano taisou dai ichi|ピアノ体操第一]] || ノスタルジア演奏会協会♪ || [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]] || - || ? || ? || ? || ✓ || - | ||
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| [[Souhi no fragment|蒼氷のフラグメント]] || BEMANI Sound Team "[[Shunsuke Sato|JYUNN]]" || [[AC NST Op.3|ノスタルジア Op.3]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | |||
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| [[Hoshi no tsukurikata|ほしのつくりかた]] || [[Osamu Migitera|D-wacrew]] || [[CS pnm rhythmin|ポップンリズミン]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[Hoshi no tsukurikata|ほしのつくりかた]] || [[Osamu Migitera|D-wacrew]] || [[CS pnm rhythmin|ポップンリズミン]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Go Go Girls&Boys!|Go↓Go↑Girls&Boys!]] || [[Matsushita|松下]]feat.[[Sota Fujimori|Sota]] & wac || ([[DDR-pop'n-REFLEC-VOLTE x utaite (Matsushita)|DDR・ポップン・リフレク・ボルテ × 歌い手【松下】]]) || - || - || - || ✓ || - || - | | [[Go Go Girls&Boys!|Go↓Go↑Girls&Boys!]] || [[Matsushita|松下]]feat.[[Sota Fujimori|Sota]] & wac || ([[DDR-pop'n-REFLEC-VOLTE x utaite (Matsushita)|DDR・ポップン・リフレク・ボルテ × 歌い手【松下】]]) || - || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Super sentou Babanburn|スーパー戦湯ババンバーン]] || [[Hideo Suwa|すわひでお]],[[Akinari|秋成]],[[Kabocha|かぼちゃ]],[[Nakuru Aitsuki|藍月なくる]],[[Iori Saeki|NU-KO]] by BEMANI Sound Team "八戸亀生羅" || ([[BEMANI 2021 manatsu no utagassen 5 ban shoubu|BEMANI 2021真夏の歌合戦5番勝負]]) || オンセン♨ヒーロー || ✓ || ✓ || | | [[Trill auf G(NOSTALGIA Style)]] || BEMANI Sound Team "[[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]]" || ([[Ichika no BEMANI touhyou senbatsusen 2019|いちかのBEMANI投票選抜戦2019]]) || - || - || ✓ || - || - || ✓ | ||
|- | |||
| [[voltississimo(NOSTALGIA Style)]] || BEMANI Sound Team "[[Takahiro Fukase|PHQUASE]]" || ([[Ichika no BEMANI touhyou senbatsusen 2019|いちかのBEMANI投票選抜戦2019]]) || - || - || ✓ || - || - || ✓ | |||
|- | |||
| [[Midnight WAR(NOSTALGIA Style)|ミッドナイト☆WAR(NOSTALGIA Style)]] || [[Yoshihiro Tagawa|いちか]] || ([[Ichika no BEMANI touhyou senbatsusen 2019|いちかのBEMANI投票選抜戦2019]]) || - || - || ✓ || - || - || ✓ | |||
|- | |||
| [[Super sentou Babanburn|スーパー戦湯ババンバーン]] || [[Hideo Suwa|すわひでお]],[[Akinari|秋成]],[[Kabocha|かぼちゃ]],[[Nakuru Aitsuki|藍月なくる]],[[Iori Saeki|NU-KO]] by BEMANI Sound Team "八戸亀生羅" || ([[BEMANI 2021 manatsu no utagassen 5 ban shoubu|BEMANI 2021真夏の歌合戦5番勝負]]) || オンセン♨ヒーロー || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | |||
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| [[Sekai no hate ni yakusoku no gaika wo|世界の果てに約束の凱歌を]] || [[Daichi Watanabe|Zutt]] feat.[[Iori Saeki|NU-KO]] || ([[KONAMI Arcade Championship|The 10th KONAMI Arcade Championship]]) || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | |||
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| [[Sekai no hate ni yakusoku no gaika wo|世界の果てに約束の凱歌を]] || | | [[Sekai no hate ni yakusoku no gaika wo (STARDOM Remix)|世界の果てに約束の凱歌を (STARDOM Remix)]] || BEMANI Sound Team "[[Shunsuke Sato|JYUNN]]" || ([[KONAMI Arcade Championship|The 10th KONAMI Arcade Championship]]) || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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Revision as of 01:49, 12 May 2024
This page links to Jun Wakita. For the BEMANI artist commonly referred to as jun, please see the Junko Karashima page.
Jun Wakita
Artist Information
- Name: Jun Wakita (脇田潤)
- Birthdate: August 23rd, 1974
- Blood type: AB
- Club activities: Football, Kendo club, chorus, band circles
- Favorite food: Something with natto
- Disliked food: Cheese or butter (loves milk, ice cream, and yogurt)
- Favorite comic: Manga michi (まんが道)
- Favorite movie: Baka ga tanku de yatte kuru (馬鹿が戦車でやってくる)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/wac_toriaezu
- Position:
- beatmania: notechart designer (beatmania featuring DREAMS COME TRUE, beatmania THE FINAL)
- beatmania IIDX: notechart designer (beatmania IIDX substream→beatmania IIDX 5th style)
- beatmania III: notechart designer
- pop'n music:
- notechart designer (pop'n music 3→pop'n music 4, pop'n music アニメロ2号)
- sound director: (pop'n stage ex, pop'n music アニメロ2号, pop'n music 6→Sunny Park)
- sound supervisor: pop'n music ラピストリア→éclale
- ノスタルジア→ノスタルジア Op.3: sound director
Profile
A long-time BEMANI composer, Jun Wakita joined KONAMI back in April 1998, when he enrolled in KCE School's newly established Tokyo branch. [1] His first BEMANI project was 1999's beatmania IIDX substream as a notechart designer. He also served as the notechart designer in pop'n music 3, as well as various entries in the beatmania / beatmania III series. wac's first game as a sound director was the pop'n music spinoff game pop'n music アニメロ2号. Starting the following year, he became the sound director of the main pop'n music series beginning with pop'n music 6, a position he held for 13 years, until the end of pop'n music Sunny Park's run. wac continued to be a notechart designer in the series, and charted most of the anime covers in the series up to pop'n music 14 FEVER!.
wac's wide variety of musical styles has made him quite popular in the BEMANI community. He has dabbled in a variety of genres, including piano, folk rock, house, techno, and trance. He even released an album, 音楽, in 2012.
wac is currently the sound director of the ノスタルジア series.
Trivia
- In pictures and live interviews, wac often dons a suit or a mask of a black cat, expressing his thoughts either visually or through cue cards.
- wac's song/staff comments tend to be much longer than other artists and staffs on the BEMANI song pages he talks on.
- wac's grandfather was an art teacher in Hokkaido, as noted in the song comments for Regulus. He passed away before wac graduated from high school in the 1990's.
- wac notes in the peace page for pop'n music 8 (archived) how stressful the game was for him to make, compounded with him having moved from home and into an apartment during its development.
- He also notes the idea of the numerous crossovers featured in pop'n music 8 came when TOMOSUKE asked him to crossover some songs from MAMBO A GO GO into pop'n music 8. This eventually spun off into having a wider variety of BEMANI crossovers in the game.
- Unlike most BEMANI artists' main aliases, wac has used his main alias very rarely in BEMANI song titles' artist names; only thirteen BEMANI songs and a single solo song as of 2023 credit him under it.
- According to a BEMANI Fan Site interview in 2014, he uses different aliases "to fit the worldview of each song".
- wac's favorite song is the 1994 song 空も飛べるはず, a cover of which appears in ノスタルジア.
- Outside of BEMANI, wac remixed risette's 01 apple for their album, Extras. This remix is credited to his full name, Jun Wakita.
Aliases
- wac
- DJ.W / D.JW
- yu_tokiwa.djw (with vocalist Yu Tokiwa)
- LEGO STUDIO
- 少年ラジオ
- iconoclasm / アイコノクラズム (member of, with Takayuki Ishikawa)
- Morning Blue Dragon / M.B.D
- Shine All Stars (member of)
- ワックン
- virkato / Virkato Wakhmaninov
- ELE BLOCK (member of, with EeL)
- 五条式改 (member of, with Naoki Maeda)
- SHRINE 418 (member of, with Yuei Uematsu)
- ギラギラメガネ団 / ギラギラ眼帯団 / ギラギラメガネ楽団 / ギリギリメガネ団 (member of)
- 玄武
- Vandalusia改 (member of, with Ryutaro Nakahara)
- 八戸亀生裸 / 八戸亀生羅
- Andante Cantabileo / 楽士カンタビレオ / 弁士カンタビレオ / 幻樂士カンタビレオ
- miru_maki.gjw
- 5年3組アンサンブルクラブ
- (Wly) & The hampatensions
- Mr.Saturn
- لا تبع سمكا و هو في البحر
- コナミ矩形波動剣 (member of, with Yukky, Papehina, PON and 96)
- かむがたりべ
- XOGO BRYKK
- LekSak
- TASUKI BOYZ
- ZERO+ZIBA (member of, with Kosuke Saito)
- Capital Wage Association
- w / 謎の黒猫神 W
- 度胸兄弟 / ユニバーサル度胸兄弟 / ダイナミック野球兄弟 / シャイニング度胸兄弟 / ミニョンヌ鉄道兄弟 / レ・度胸兄弟 (member of, with Toshiyuki Kakuta)
- ZODIACSYNDICATE / 少年ゾディアック / 楽士ゾディアック / 溟海ゾディアック
- CHERRY BLOSSOMS (member of, with Asaki)
- WALPULG (member of, with Sota Fujimori)
- D-wacrew (member of, with Osamu Migitera)
- Buluka & Nilo
- ねこまんまチーム! (with vocalist NU-KO, as くろねこさん)
- ジャカルタファンクブラザーズ (video appearance only, as ABBAS)
- Zutt (member of, with Daichi Watanabe)
- Setaria Virtuoso
- Noah Cantate
- 少年トトリオット (member of, with Yoshihiro Tagawa)
- amnesia
- wakhuta / Wakhmaninov Akhutaninov (with Akhuta)
- aωc (member of, with Asaki and chiLdish cLoud)
- メガネ
- 鮭の産卵 2019
- 牛 (with Toshiyuki Kakuta and Shigeharu Saeki, as 埼玉ホルスタイン脇田)
- ダメですの人
- とおりすがりのしらないおじさん
- JYUNN (with Shunsuke Sato)
- 神
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
- 音楽 (2012)