Daichi Watanabe
This page is for BEMANI artist Daichi Watanabe, commonly known as PON. For the jubeat copious APPEND license song of a similar name, please see PONPONPON.
Daichi Watanabe
General Information
- Name: Daichi Watanabe (渡辺大地)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/daichi_kazama
- Website: http://mp.i-revo.jp/user.php/pon/
Profile
Daichi Watanabe debuted in BEMANI as part of the sound staff in pop'n music 16 PARTY♪, being in charge of creating charts for many songs, including most of the licensed songs. Daichi currently is one of the two sound directors of the series along with Jun Wakita. Since then, Daichi has composed songs for nearly every BEMANI series.
Daichi has also been credited as a sound designer in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS and beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS, as well as a sound assistant in GuitarFreaks V5 & DrumMania V5: Rock to Infinity.
Beginning with the upcoming pop'n music ラピストリア, Daichi is the head sound director of the pop'n music series.
Trivia
- "PON" stands for "Power Of Nature".
- Daichi is the composer of all the pop'n music system' instrumental BGM since pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝.
- Daichi is never referred to by his full name in interviews, events, or promotions.
- Since 2010, he's also been referred to as PON in the credits of all BEMANI games.
- It is currently speculated that Mystic Moon is one of Daichi's aliases, because of the similarity of some of his instrumental songs with the Mystic Moon songs.
Aliases
- ApachE (lyrics/vocals, with 96 composing)
- PON
- PooooN
- ガチャPON
- Power Of Nature
- コナミ矩形波動剣 (member of)
- han@*mori (member of, with m@sumi)
BEMANI Songs
Since so many Daichi Watanabe songs feature guitars, only songs not composed by him that he provides guitars for are listed.