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This page links to Jun Wakita. For the BEMANI artist commonly referred to her 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: sound director
Profile
A long-time sound data analyzer for BEMANI, Jun Wakita's work in BEMANI dates back as far as 1999's beatmania IIDX substream and pop'n music 3, as well as various entries in the beatmania / beatmania III series. From pop'n music 6 through pop'n music Sunny Park, he was the head/co-head sound director of every pop'n music arcade game. His first song for BEMANI was OVER THE CLOUDS in beatmania IIDX 5th style, and he's made at least one appearance in near every beatmania IIDX game since then. He also charted up until pop'n music 14 FEVER! most of the anime covers in the pop'n music series. His wide variety of musical styles has made him quite popular.
Jun Wakita is currently the sound director of ノスタルジア.
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 pop'n music 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 2021 thank him under it.
- 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)
- ジャカルタファンクブラザーズ (member of, with Naoyuki Sato and Yoshihiro Tagawa, 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)
- 牛 (with Toshiyuki Kakuta and Shigeharu Saeki)
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
- 音楽 (2012)