Where exactly was it confirmed that Akhuta is Kijin? --M.B. (talk) 21:42, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
- Have you seen Snakey Kung-Fu video? The three artists are all pretty visibly there and have the masks representing their animal aliases in question (lion obvious, the one with ossicones/horn is the giraffe, the one long mask is the tapir) --UBerserker (talk) 21:46, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
so... is Taira Akutagawa his real name? --totally not by MENDES (talk) 03:40, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
- I think it is a joke, but who knows. --FinalOffset (talk) 04:12, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Akhuta on NOSTALGIA
I think there's an argument to be made that sometime in NOSTALGIA's first year, during or possibly before FORTE's operation, Akhuta was moved to work on the series as a co-sound director. This would explain his increased involvement in FORTE and Op.2, especially if considering the "ToWha = Akhuta" talk. I think there are other smaller things that seem to point toward this, but they're not concrete enough for me to call them legitimate.
I think what helps sell this though is the NOSTALGIA arrangement of 夏色DIARY, a song that has only been arranged and remixed each by the sound directors of their respective games (with the obvious exception of SOUND VOLTEX given that arranging/remixing is not something that Cody is actively engaged in). I'd argue that virkatoの主題によるperson09風超絶技巧変奏曲 is also worth mentioning given that this is the second instance of the same two in-house artists collaborating within a year and that this was used as The 8th KAC finals song for NOSTALGIA, but there have been two prior occurrences in which Ahkuta was involved in a KAC finals song for a series that he was not a sound director for. -Divinity
- I think this is plausible, but given how little info is Konami giving us about the BEMANI staff nowadays, we might never know. --FinalOffset (talk) 02:45, 23 May 2019 (UTC)