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== Profile ==
== Profile ==
Yuji Takahashi, better known under his BEMANI alias VJ YUZ, is one of the former members of the beatmania IIDX team's "VJ Army," creating videos to go along with each and every one of the songs in beatmania IIDX. His videos often featured art by fellow beatmania IIDX staff member [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]]. Although he stopped down as a staff member in 6th style, he contained to produce videos for the series on and off until [[AC 9th style|9th style]].
Yuji Takahashi, better known under his alias VJ YUZ, was a former member of the beatmania IIDX team's "VJ Army", who created videos for the series. His videos often contained art by [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]]. Yuji was also a staff member for the KEYBOARDMANIA series, who was initially a CG designer in the [[AC KBM|first game]], and eventually the director of its [[AC KBM 2nd|two]] [[AC KBM 3rd|sequels]]. Although he stepped down as a beatmania IIDX staff member in 6th style, he continued to occasionally create videos for the series until his final BEMANI appearance in [[AC 9th style|9th style]].
 
Yuji also worked on [[AC KBM|KEYBOARDMANIA]], first as a CG designer in the first game, and later as a director of its two sequels.


== Aliases ==
== Aliases ==
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== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
* In the video and song production information for [[Happy Wedding]], both [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]] and [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]] note that one of the beatmania IIDX male VJs got married at the time, but they don't mention whom. Given that Yuji stepped down from the main visual staff after 6th style (later games only credit him as "special thanks"), didn't do any song videos in [[AC 7th style|7th style]], only did a single video in [[AC 8th style|8th style]], and left BEMANI altogether after 9th style, it's speculated to be him.
* In [[Happy Wedding]]'s song and video comments, both [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]] and [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]] respectively acknowledge that one of the beatmania IIDX male VJs got married at the time, but don't mention whom. Given that Yuji stepped down from the main visual staff after 6th style (later games only credit him as "special thanks"), didn't make any videos in [[AC 7th style|7th style]], only made one video in [[AC 8th style|8th style]], and left BEMANI altogether after 9th style, it's speculated to be him.
** TAKA's song comments also note Happy Wedding's original name was '''HAPPY WEDDING ○○○!''', leaving three letters for a VJ's name, further suggesting it was Yuji, whose VJ name is VJ YUZ [https://web.archive.org/web/20150507131351fw_/http://www.konami.jp/am/bm2dx/bm2dx7/songs_happy.html].
** dj TAKA also mentions that Happy Wedding's original title was called '''HAPPY WEDDING ○○○!''', leaving three letters for a VJ's name, further suggesting it was Yuji, whose VJ name is VJ YUZ [https://web.archive.org/web/20150507131351fw_/http://www.konami.jp/am/bm2dx/bm2dx7/songs_happy.html].


= Credited Works =
= Credited Works =
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=== beatmania IIDX 3rd style ===
=== beatmania IIDX 3rd style ===
* [[Cold Pulse]]
* [[Cold Pulse]]
* [[LEADING CYBER]]
* [[LEADING CYBER]]


=== beatmania IIDX 4th style ===
=== beatmania IIDX 4th style ===
* [[ABSOLUTE]]
* [[ABSOLUTE]]


=== beatmania IIDX 5th style ===
=== beatmania IIDX 5th style ===
* [[Abyss]]
* [[Abyss]]
* [[RIDE ON THE LIGHT (HI GREAT MIX)]] (with [[Noriyuki Niiyama|NEW-3]])
* [[RIDE ON THE LIGHT (HI GREAT MIX)]] (with [[Noriyuki Niiyama|NEW-3]])


=== beatmania IIDX 6th style ===
=== beatmania IIDX 6th style ===
* [[Buffalo]]
* [[Buffalo]]
* [[Colors (radio edit)]]
* [[Colors (radio edit)]]
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=== beatmania IIDX 8th style ===
=== beatmania IIDX 8th style ===
* [[Giudecca]]
* [[Giudecca]]


=== beatmania IIDX 9th style ===
=== beatmania IIDX 9th style ===
* [[Abyss -The Heavens Remix-]]
* [[Abyss -The Heavens Remix-]]
* [[Golden Horn]]
* [[Golden Horn]]
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=== KEYBOARDMANIA ===
=== KEYBOARDMANIA ===
* [[All the love]] (with [[Hideko Shigeta|Shige]])
* [[All the love]] (with [[Hideko Shigeta|Shige]])
* [[Armajiro]]
* [[Armajiro]]
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=== KEYBOARDMANIA CS ===
=== KEYBOARDMANIA CS ===
* [[Mighty Guy|Mighty Guy -Long Version-]]
* [[Mighty Guy|Mighty Guy -Long Version-]]


=== KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX ===
=== KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX ===
* [[Cycletron]]
* [[Cycletron]]
* [[Manhattan Sports Club]] (with [[Yoshiko Shiroki|SIRO]])
* [[Manhattan Sports Club]] (with [[Yoshiko Shiroki|SIRO]])
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=== KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX ===
=== KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX ===
* [[Frozen Ray]]
* [[Frozen Ray]]
* [[Klungkung 1655]]
* [[Klungkung 1655]]
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