Aru Azumaya
Information
- Name: Aru Azumaya (東屋アル, sometimes written as あずまやアル)
- Twitter: JohtoKen (main English), AzumayaAru (main Japanese), azuraroom (work and TL)
- Sites: http://azuraroom.tumblr.com/ and Jikobest (high score collection)
Profile
Aru Azumaya (born December 10, 1991) is a translator/localizer, musician, game developer, and visual artist to be with various hobbies. His first exposure to BEMANI was at a Las Vegas arcade with the first US version of Dance Dance Revolution, with interest in the BEMANI franchise rising slowly afterwards.
He began branching off to various BEMANI games such as GuitarFreaks, beatmaniaIIDX, and Pop'n Music as early as late 2010 and has been rising a bit since. He's been more or less out of long-running modern BEMANI (e.g. Beatmania IIDX, GITADORA, SDVX) as of late, but he still enjoys playing old-school BEMANI games (e.g. Beatmania III and Keyboardmania) every once in a while.
He also makes music as A-zu-ra with some limited exposure and success. He has formerly participated in One Hour Compo (OHC) on ThaSauce Network as well as Battle of the Bits (9-Bit Records went poof and shows no signs of coming back). He currently does music whenever on the side. He has plans to eventually invest more in his musical endeavors.
He's also part of Nintendo's developer program which basically means releasing Wii U games. He has released nothing so far, however.
Current BEMANI skill
- IIDX
- Difficulty range: 9.5-10.5
- Dan rank: 六段 (challenging 七段)
- Accuracy: B
- Pop'n Music
- Difficulty range: 38-42 new scale
- Accuracy: 60K-70K
- GuitarFreaks
- Difficulty range (pass): high 60s
- Difficulty range (skill): low 10s
- Accuracy: B
- GITADORA GuitarFreaks
- Difficulty range (pass): 6s
- Difficulty range (FC): 4s
- Accuracy: A
- Jubeat
- Difficulty range: 7-8
- Accuracy: 850K and above on up to 8s
- SDVX
- Difficulty range: 6-9
- Skill Level N/A
- Accuracy: AA on 5s and 6s
- MUSECA
- Difficulty range: 9-13
- Accuracy: 90% CR
Reflec Beat to be determined.
Translation Work
As a translator, Aru will sometimes translate the lyrics of some select songs on this wiki.
- Brand New World by VENUS (Pop'n Sunny Park)
- REcorrection by 猫叉Master feat. 常盤ゆう (Pop'n 20 Fantasia)
- Baku Nana testroyer by ARM feat. ななひら (Beatstream)[Contributed Japanese, Romaji, and English]
Trivia
- Goes by A-zu-ra in his work endeavors, which includes music and translation/localization.
- Goes by I Am Dumb-zu-ra for dumb work endeavors, usually with music (via mashups and playful remixes).
- Goes by Chirigami Zed for heavily sample-based endeavors.
- Slows down and speeds up his music on his spare time, intrigued by listening to music in different pitches and speeds.
- An avid player of LoveLive: School Idol Festival; currently plays consistently and is rank 220.
- A somewhat avid player of Tokyo 7th Sisters; currently plays parts of the game based on events and is rank 108.