Talk:Ryo Asakawa

Regarding the KONAMI original status of the LITTLE CURE songs

So, I made some research regarding these songs, and I'm pretty sure they should be counted as regular KONAMI originals:

• They do not show copyright information in pop'n music 3, while ENDLESS SUMMER NUDE does. Furthermore, they also aren't shown in the copyright screens in the arcades.
  • HIRO does not make mention of them being licensed songs in Bit of Love's comments, he just mentions that Ryo Asakawa and LITTLE CURE were part of LMA Records.
• The bit of love album was released months after pop'n music 3 and pop'n stage. The album itself mentions them as being "from the pop'n music series" or "from pop'n music 3", the obi even stating that the full versions are re-recordings of the game versions of the songs.
• There's also the fact that they were revived in pop'n music 9 and have never been removed since, not even in a location test.

The only thing that could be a counter-argument that I can think of, it's the absence of both Bit of Love and LET ME FEEL SO HIGH from 3 CS, and of Bit of Love and full moon from 6 CS. From what I saw in the JASRAC database, JASRAC manages the appearance in games of all three LITTLE CURE songs, so that might be the reason behind their absence (also, the bit of love album was released by TV Tokyo Music, which is affiliated to JASRAC from what I know).

So for now, I'm going to clasify all three songs as KONAMI originals again. --FinalOffset (talk) 18:27, 11 August 2019 (UTC)