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Junichi Masuda
Yokohama, Japan
Junichi Masuda is credited on 34 releases across 25 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1993–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
34
Pressings credited
25
Albums
4
Decades active
14
In collections
Biography
Junichi Masuda (増田 順一, Masuda Jun'ichi; born January 12, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an employee and executive at the company since 1989 after Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori founded it, starting as a music composer. In 2022, Masuda was appointed to be Chief Creative Fellow at The Pokémon Company. With the development of new Pokémon games, Masuda took new roles in future projects. He began to produce and direct games, starting with Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, and became responsible for approving new character models. His style seeks to keep games accessible while still adding increasing levels of complexity. His work sticks to older mainstays of the series, including a focus on handheld game consoles and 2D graphics. His music draws inspiration from the work of celebrated modern composers like Dmitri Shostakovich, though he used the Super Mario series as a model of good video game composition.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
34 releases · 25 albums · active 1993–2025
- Performance · 156
- Other credits · 3
- Production · 1
Studios: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Game Freak
- Various
- GaMetal
- Jammin' Sam Miller
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