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I know Eddie once claimed Mr.T left KONAMI after IIDX RED, but that doesn't add up to the all the notecharts he did for the CS IIDX games as late as 2008, not to mention the HAPPY SKY OST listing him as a sound director.
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(I know Eddie once claimed Mr.T left KONAMI after IIDX RED, but that doesn't add up to the all the notecharts he did for the CS IIDX games as late as 2008, not to mention the HAPPY SKY OST listing him as a sound director.)
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== Profile ==
== Profile ==
A long-time contributor to both beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, Tomoyuki's work with BEMANI stretches as far back as 1999, where he started off as a sound data analyzer alongside [[Osamu Migitera]] and [[Jun Wakita]] in [[PnM AC 3|pop'n music 3]]. Less than a year later he wrote his first BEMANI song for [[AC KBM 2nd|KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX]], [[Ride on the Light]]. Shortly after he sound directed / supervised seven beatmania IIDX arcade games in a row, starting with [[AC 4th style|beatmania IIDX 4th style]]. He worked alongside [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]] from 4th to [[AC 8th style|8th]], along with [[Takehiko Fujii|SLAKE]] (who he once managed) in [[AC 9th style|9th]] and [[AC 10th style|10th]]. He also contributed covers / notecharts for pop'n music alongside his beatmania IIDX duties.
A long-time contributor to both beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, Tomoyuki's work with BEMANI stretches as far back as 1999, where he started off as a sound data analyzer alongside [[Osamu Migitera]] and [[Jun Wakita]] in [[PnM AC 3|pop'n music 3]]. Less than a year later he wrote his first BEMANI song for [[AC KBM 2nd|KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX]], [[Ride on the Light]]. Shortly after he sound directed / supervised seven beatmania IIDX arcade games in a row, starting with [[AC 4th style|beatmania IIDX 4th style]]. He worked alongside [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]] from 4th to [[AC 8th style|8th]], along with [[Takehiko Fujii|SLAKE]] (who he once managed) in [[AC 9th style|9th]] and [[AC 10th style|10th]]. He also contributed covers / notecharts for pop'n music alongside his beatmania IIDX duties. From 2004 onward, Tomoyuki also made notecharts for the CS beatmania IIDX games, up until his departure from the series after [[CS GOLD|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS]].


Tomoyuki left KONAMI in 2004, though he continued to provide notecharts for CS beatmania IIDX releases for a couple of years after his departure, as well as the CS versions of various BEMANI games (he was thanked under special thanks as late as [[PnM CS portable 2|pop'n music portable 2]]). He still occasionally appears in pop'n music and jubeat with new songs.
Tomoyuki left KONAMI around 2008, and was last listed in the credits of a BEMANI game as "special thanks" in [[PnM CS portable 2|pop'n music portable 2]]. He currently works at Sony Music Publishing Japan (Inc.) as a composer and arranger, his work with the company dating back as far as 2009.
 
Tomoyuki currently works at Sony Music Publishing Japan (Inc.) as a composer and arranger, his work with the company dating back as far as 2009.


== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==