Manaka Kataoka

Manaka Kataoka
Occupation		Composer
Notable work		Wii Fit Animal Crossing: City Folk Animal Crossing: New Leaf The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Manaka Kataoka, née Tominaga, (片岡真央, Kataoka Manaka) is a composer at Nintendo. She is known for her work on the Animal Crossing series as well as the soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (which she worked on with Yasuaki Iwata).

Works

• Animal Crossing: City Folk – Music (credited as Manaka Tominaga)
• Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Music

Song credits

Songs are listed by the first game they appeared in, though they may have reappeared in future games. Credits are not necessarily exhaustive and reflect only what can be sourced.

In Animal Crossing: City Folk

Kataoka (center right) presenting Machi e Ikō yo Doubutsu no Mori: Mori no Ongakkai with fellow composers Kazumi Totaka and Shiho Fujii and CD planner Saori Okamoto.

• "Marquee"
• "Dr. Shrunk's Performance"
• "Shrunk's Outro (First Time)"
• "Shrunk's Outro"
• "Frillard's Performance"
• "Frillard's Outro"
• "K.K. Sonata"

In an interview in Volume 182 of Nintendo DREAM, Kataoka explained that she composed the themes for the Marquee and other songs from buildings in the City, "K.K. Sonata" and one of the three invalid songs. She also arranged the track "Shrunk's Dream", featured as a bonus on Machi e Ikō yo Doubutsu no Mori: Mori no Ongakkai and Animal Crossing: Your Favourite Songs - Original Soundtrack.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

• "Title"
• "8 AM"
• "7 PM"
• "Main Street by Day 1"
• "Main Street by Day 2"
• "Main Street by Day 3"
• "Main Street by Night 1"
• "Main Street by Night 2"
• "Main Street by Night 3"
• Rainy and snowy versions of above themes

Although not confirmed, files in amiibo Festival indicate that Kataoka was also responsible for the following tracks:

• "Redd's Gallery" (arrangement)
• "Chased by Bees"
• "Stung by Bees"
• "Festivale"
• "Festivale (Pavé)"
• "Halloween" (arrangement)
• "Harvest Festival" (arrangement)
• "Coffee Fanfare" (arrangement)
• "Achievement"

In the Super Smash Bros. series

This new arrangement debuted in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and was carried over to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

• "Outdoors at 7 p.m. (Sunny) / Main Street - Animal Crossing: New Leaf"

References

Companies and personnel

Companies Nintendo • DeNA • iQue • NDcube • OLM, Inc. • Prima Games • Sanrio • Shogakukan Developers Katsuya Eguchi • Aya Kyogoku • Isao Moro • Hisashi Nogami • Takashi Tezuka • Makoto Wada Composers Atsuko Asahi • Sayako Doi • Shiho Fujii • Asuka Hayazaki • Yasuaki Iwata • Manaka Kataoka • Toru Minegishi • Kenta Nagata • Shinobu Nagata • Masato Ohashi • Yumi Takahashi • Kazumi Totaka Voice actors Mari Adachi • Hisao Egawa • Takaya Hashi • Saori Hattori • Yurika Hino • Yui Horie • Mitsup Iwata • Takatoshi Kaneko • Mika Kanai • Yuichi Kimura • Yū Kobayashi • Takashi Miike • Fukuen Misato • Yuko Mizutani • Kenichi Ogata • Shun Oguri • Fumiko Orikasa • Otoha • Tetsuo Sakagachi • Akio Suyama • Wataru Takagi • Yasuhiro Takata • Kazuya Tatekabe • Junpei Takiguchi • Naoki Tatsuta • Masaki Terasoma • Yuji Ueda • Kappei Yamaguchi Other personnel Reggie Fils-Aimé • Jōji Shimura Category (companies) • Category (personnel)