Hotaru Matsuzaki

Hotaru Matsuzaki

Staff Information

• Name: Hotaru Matsuzaki (松崎ほたる)
• Position:
  • beatmania: CG designer, beatmania completeMIX→beatmania 4thMIX 〜the beat goes on〜, beatmania CORE REMIX, beatmania 7thMIX keepin' evolution
    
  • beatmania III: CG designer, beatmania III→beatmania III THE FINAL
  • beatmania IIDX: movie designer, beatmania IIDX 9th style→13 DistorteD
• Website: Hotaru Komatsu's blog (archived)

Profile

Hotaru Matsuzaki (birth name Hotaru Komatsu (小松蛍)) was a long-time artist in BEMANI, making her debut in beatmania completeMIX. Her art style is very distinctive, with large outlines around her characters, her art akin to underground comic art at times.

When beatmania ended in 2002, Hotaru joined the beatmania IIDX "VJ ARMY" during the production cycle of beatmania IIDX 9th style. Typography was a recurring theme in her beatmania IIDX videos, though her older art style used in beatmania could occasionally be seen in songs such as SPACE FIGHT, POODLE, and especially SHIFT. Her first video made for the series was The Biggest Roaster.

After over seven years of work on BEMANI titles, Hotaru left KONAMI in 2006, as stated in her blog on July 31st, 2006. Despite her departure, she continued to make videos in BEMANI as late as beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS.

Trivia

• Hotaru's aliases F-FLY and MZD FIRE-FLY are a reference to her first name; hotaru is Japanese for firefly.

Aliases

• F-FLY
• MZD FIRE-FLY

Credited Works

Illustrations

• Cradle
• Enjoy your life
• Distress
• MINT
• Power of Love
• 罠

Videos

beatmania

beatmania completeMIX

• 20,November (hard mix)
• Believe again (HYPER MEGA MIX) (english Version)
• LUV TO ME (english Version)
• quick master (reform version)

beatmania 4thMIX

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• DRUNK MONKY
• JAZZ A PUMP UP
• LOGICAL DASH
• RUGGED ASH
• SODA

beatmania CORE REMIX

• 2 gorgeous 4U ～EMULATE MIX～
• 20,November ～FINAL EDIT～
• Acid Bomb ～LATINIZE MIX～
• ACROSS THE BOARDERS
• alienhead
• ANALYZE
• Beginning of life (THE GROUND PULSE MIX)
• Deep Clear Eyes ～THE BLEEPING UP MIX～
• DJ-BATTLE ～JODLER MIX～
• e-motion ～ROMANTIC STYLE～
• GUILTY
• greed eater ～DEAL WITH IT MIX～
• jam jam reggae ～JAM JAM MIX～ (with M.E.G.)
• LOVE SO GROOVY ～SLEEP MIX～
• love's theme of beatmania
• rock the beatz (with M.E.G.)
• something special
• STAY WITH ME ～BIGBEAT MIX～
• u gotta groove ～FUTURE LATIN MIX～

beatmania 7thMIX

• BABY BABY GIMME YOUR LOVE 2002
• CALDERA
• Cappuccino bossa
• CHAMPION
• FIRE DUB
• HEALEN
• LIGHT MOTION
• PANATIUM
• SPACE TRIBE
• What is Love?

beatmania IIDX

9th style

• BAD BOY BASS!! (dj Remo-con MIX)
• BRIGHTNESS DARKNESS
• lights
• moon_child
• quasar (added in 10th style)
• Prelude
• SWEETEST SAVAGE
• The Biggest Roaster

10th style

• Boundary
• Drop on the floor
• Don't forget
• Freezing atmosphere
• Innocent Walls
• Love Is Eternity
• NO DOUBT GET LOUD
• Smell Like This
• SPACE FIGHT

IIDX RED

• Click Again
• Close my Eyes for Me
• EVO66
• Les filles balancent
• Move Me
• TEXTURE
• 大桟橋
• ピアノ協奏曲第１番”蠍火” (with VJ GYO)

HAPPY SKY

• alla turca con passione
• Don't let it go
• First Resolution
• POODLE
• Pollinosis
• SCREAM SQUAD
• Tizona d'El Cid
• Under the Sky

DistorteD

• iFUTURELIST

GOLD

• カミロ・ウナ・メンデス
• LASER CRUSTER
• ヨシダさん

DJ TROOPERS

• ROCK ME NOW
• SHIFT
• 走馬灯 -The Last Song-

EMPRESS

• JEWELLERY STORM

beatmania III

• All is vanity
• Badboy flygirl
• Cyber Girl

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

• A SHOOTING STAR
• CaptivAte～裁き～ (with HES)
• First Date
• Opus Life

pop'n music CG designs

pop'n music 13 カーニバル

• ワンダーアイランド - 部下A/部下B

pop'n music 14 FEVER!

• Let's go out! - RIN&DAIKI&Hurry (with VJ GYO)
• popdod - Hipopo&Tamayo (with VJ GYO)