Takuya Kobayashi

Takuya Kobayashi

Takuya Kobayashi

Staff Information

• Name: Takuya Kobayashi
• Position: Product designer / movie designer / technical manager
• X: https://x.com/tQy
• Blog: https://tqy.hatenadiary.jp

Profile

Takuya was a long-time contributor to the GITADORA series, who's been with the franchise since the original drummania as a product designer. He also worked on Dancing Stage featuring DREAMS COME TRUE and Dancing Stage featuring TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON around the same time in the same position. Starting with GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX, though, he moved up to a become a CG and movie designer, becoming one of the series' longest-running movie artists.

Takuya was one of the design and technical managers of the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series until his departure from KONAMI in January 2022 [1]. He's currently a freelance designer and works as a teacher at HAL Osaka.

Aliases

• tQy

Credited Works

Illustrations

熱闘！BEMANIスタジアム

• 野球の遊び方　そしてその歴史　～決定版～

jubeat

• polygon
• STREET DANCER

Videos

beatmania IIDX

beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD

• four-leaf
• 鬼言集

beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS

• 2 tribe 4 K

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

GUITARFREAKS 6thMIX & drummania 5thMIX

• BOBBY SUE AND SKINNY JIM
• hypnotheque
• My Sweet Darlin'
• Sunflower Girl
• 天体観測

GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX

• Concertino in Blue
• Destiny lovers
• Double Trouble
• Look Back Again
• Rebirth
• 誰?

GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX

• Homesick Pt.2&3 (with shio)

GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX power-up ver.

• begin (with K-GO)
• わすれもの

GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX

• Black horizon
• GET READY (with mito and voltex)
• 淚のregret
• 瞬的愛歌(JET LOVE)

GUITARFREAKS 10thMIX & drummania 9thMIX

• Handsome JET L-Project
• Mr.Bobby
• RISE
• 浮舟 (with 大阪土壽田頭照焼)

GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX & drummania 10thMIX

• AHD (with 筧昌也 and 田平衛史)
• Dream Again... (with Lapin graphics)
• GET GOING (with ワクイアキラ)
• SUNRISE STREET (with Lapin graphics)
• Tail Spin (with 真理藻)
• 二人はラブラブ(仮) (with MAD BARBARIANS)

GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2

• Be Proud

GuitarFreaks V3 & DrumMania V3

• Micro fin
• 虧兎に告ぐ

GuitarFreaks V4 & DrumMania V4 Яock×Rock

• DEADMAN'S BED
• RЁVOLUTIΦN
• Vertigo (with 猫将軍 and nyt..)
• 極東史記

GuitarFreaks V5 & DrumMania V5 Rock to Infinity

• ATOMS
• Mannequin (with T田, NekoshowguN, and ikepii)
• 腐斯偽堕日本

GuitarFreaks V6 & DrumMania V6 BLAZING!!!!

• Sonne
• Under The Nest

GITADORA

• Last Song (with たかたん and Ray)
• memento mori -intro-
• Obsidian
• Rosetta Stone (with たかたん and Ray)
• SPRING BAZOOKA (with たかたん and Ray)
• クリムゾンゲイト (with Ray)
• 見習い天使と星降りの丘 (with たかたん and RAY)

GITADORA OverDrive

• heliodor
• Nature(GITADORA ver.) (with たかたん)
• Noli Me Tangere
• Quarrel and Harmony
• Silver star
• 幽明異境

GITADORA Tri-Boost

• Golden galaxy