Jun Wakita
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 Parks run. wac continued to be a notechart designer in the series as well, 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 live interviews/pictures, wac often dons a suit of a black cat or of 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 grandfather was an art teacher in Hokkaido, as noted in the song comments for Regulus. He passed away before he 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 little in BEMANI song titles' artist names; only thirteen different BEMANI songs as of 2022 credit him under it.
- According to an interview, he uses different aliases to "fit the worldview of the song each time".
- 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)