Jun Wakita
Not to be confused with Junko Karashima, commonly referred to as jun.
Jun Wakita
Artist Information
- Name: Jun Wakita (脇田潤)
- Birthday: August 23, 1974
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/wac_toriaezu
Profile
A long-time sound data analyzer for BEMANI, Jun's work in BEMANI dates back as far as 1999's beatmania IIDX substream and pop'n music 3, as well as various entries in the beatmania/beatmania III series. From pop'n music 6 through pop'n music Sunny Park, he was the head/co-head sound director of every pop'n music arcade game. His first song for BEMANI was OVER THE CLOUDS in beatmania IIDX 5th style, and he's made at least one appearance in every beatmania IIDX game since then. He also did up until pop'n music 14 FEVER! most of the anime covers in the pop'n music series. His wide variety of musical styles has made him quite popular.
Jun currently serves as a sound supervisor for the pop'n music series and is the sound director of ノスタルジア (Nostalgia).
Aliases
- wac
- D.JW
- DJ.W
- 八戸亀生羅
- yu_tokiwa.djw (with vocalist Yu Tokiwa)
- LEGO STUDIO
- 少年ラジオ
- ELE BLOCK (with EeL)
- virkato
- SHRINE 418 (collab with Yuei Uematsu)
- iconoclasm (member of, with Takayuki Ishikawa)
- 玄武
- miru_maki.gjw
- Mr.Saturn
- XOGO BRYKK
- LekSak
- ZERO+ZIBA (with Kosuke Saito)
- Capital Wage Association
- TASUKI BOYZ
- 度胸兄弟 / ユニバーサル度胸兄弟 / ダイナミック野球兄弟 / シャイニング度胸兄弟 (with Toshiyuki Kakuta)
- ZODIACSYNDICATE
- 少年ゾディアック
- 楽士ゾディアック
- CHERRY BLOSSOMS (member of, with Asaki)
- WALPULG (member of, with Sota Fujimori)
- Buluka & Nilo
- 謎の黒猫神 W
- ねこまんまチーム！ (with NU-KO)
Trivia
- In live interviews/pictures, wac often dons a suit of a black cat or of a mask of a black cat, expressing his thoughts either visually or through cue cards.
- wac's song/staff comments tend to be much longer than other artists on the BEMANI song pages he talks on.
- wac's grandfather was an art teacher in Hokkaido, as noted in the song comments for Regulus.
- Unlike most BEMANI artists' main aliases, Jun Wakita has used his main wac alias very little in BEMANI song titles' artist names; only twelve different BEMANI songs as of July 2016 thank him under his wac alias.
- wac has composed/arranged songs for 18 beatmania IIDX games in a row, making him the second most frequent contributor to the beatmania IIDX series, only second to long-time beatmania IIDX contributor dj TAKA himself.