Hotaru Matsuzaki

Hotaru Matsuzaki

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Hotaru Matsuzaki (birth name Hotaru Komatsu (小松蛍)) was a long-time artist in BEMANI, making her debut in beatmania completeMIX. Her art style is very distinctive, with large outlines around her characters, her art akin to underground comic art at times.

When beatmania ended in 2002, Hotaru joined the beatmania IIDX "VJ ARMY" during the production cycle of beatmania IIDX 9th style. Typography was a recurring theme in her beatmania IIDX videos, though her older art style used in beatmania could occasionally be seen in songs such as SPACE FIGHT, POODLE, and especially SHIFT. Her first video made for the series was The Biggest Roaster.

After over seven years of work on BEMANI titles, Hotaru left KONAMI in 2006, as stated in her blog on July 31st, 2006. Despite her departure, she continued to make videos in BEMANI as late as beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS.

Trivia

  • Hotaru's aliases F-FLY and MZD FIRE-FLY are a reference to her first name; hotaru is Japanese for firefly.

Aliases

  • F-FLY
  • MZD FIRE-FLY

Credited Works

Illustrations

Videos

beatmania

beatmania completeMIX

beatmania 4thMIX

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beatmania CORE REMIX

beatmania 7thMIX

beatmania IIDX

9th style

10th style

IIDX RED

HAPPY SKY

DistorteD

GOLD

DJ TROOPERS

EMPRESS

beatmania III

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

pop'n music CG designs

pop'n music 13 カーニバル

pop'n music 14 FEVER!