Daichi Watanabe
This page is for BEMANI artist Daichi Watanabe, commonly known as PON. For the jubeat copious APPEND license song of a similar name, please see PONPONPON.
Daichi Watanabe
Artist Information
- Name: Daichi Watanabe (渡辺大地)
- Birthdate: November 11th
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/daichi_kazama
- Website: http://mp.i-revo.jp/user.php/pon/
Profile
Daichi Watanabe debuted in BEMANI as part of the sound staff in pop'n music 16 PARTY♪, being in charge of creating charts for many songs, including most of the licensed songs. Since then, Daichi has composed songs for nearly every BEMANI series.
Daichi has also been credited as a sound designer in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS and beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS, as well as a sound assistant in GuitarFreaks V5 & DrumMania V5: Rock to Infinity.
As of pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝, Daichi is one of the sound directors of the pop'n music series alongside TAG.
Trivia
- "PON" stands for "Power Of Nature".
- Daichi is the composer of all the pop'n music system' instrumental BGM since pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝.
- Daichi is never referred to by his real name in interviews, events, or promotions.
- Since 2010, he's also been referred to as PON in the credits/staff messages of all BEMANI games (aside from CD manuals).
- It is currently speculated that Mystic Moon is one of Daichi's aliases, because of the similarity of some of his instrumental songs with the Mystic Moon songs.
Aliases
- ApachE (lyrics/vocals, with 96)
- PON
- PooooN
- ガチャPON
- Power Of Nature
- キャプテンパンク
- コナミ矩形波動剣 (member of)
- han@*mori (member of, with m@sumi)
- GeMiNioИ (with Akhuta)
BEMANI Songs
Since so many Daichi Watanabe songs feature guitars, only songs not composed by him that he provides guitars for are listed.
Discography
Albums
- Power Of Nature (2014)