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| − | Hi, I'm an editor on VGMdb/MusicBrainz. I noticed recently someone made an edit to the "K.K. Bossa" track listing Toru Minegishi as the composer and they referenced [[Special:Diff/576584|your edit]] as the source. However, on the [[Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori: Original Soundtrack 2|second New Horizons soundtrack release]] that track is attributed to Kazumi Totaka. Do you have a source for your Toru Minegishi credit?
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| − | :Hi! I'm glad you reached out. Composer credits for the ''Animal Crossing'' series are a passion of mine that Nintendo has, like many of its games, made unfortunately tricky. However, this is based on several interviews corroborating that for nearly all [[K.K. Slider songs]] in the [[first-generation]] games, Toru Minegishi, who was responsible for "indoor music", first created the aircheck (instrumental) versions, and then Kazumi Totaka rearranged (and expanded upon) them for K.K. Slider's live performances.
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| − | :In [https://web.archive.org/web/20080614145139/http://www.zelda.com/universe/game/twilightprincess/inside13.jsp this interview], Minegishi discusses composing "over 50" of these instrumental tracks in various genres:
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| − | During the development of Animal Crossing, I was in charge of composing K.K. Slider’s “present music.” I needed to create more than 50 different musical tracks! It had to be from all kinds of musical genres, and it also had to sound like it was played on some cheap keyboard! I had no problem composing music from genres I was already familiar with, but I couldn’t create tunes from more than 50 different genres just using my imagination. I needed to study hard and learn about a variety of music to complete the project, and it was a very tough job to squeeze all that information into my head. In order to respond to these types of needs, it’s important for sound designers to be familiar with various kinds of music.
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| − | :In [https://web.archive.org/web/20140817212431/http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0105/kaibo/talk/index.html this interview], Totaka said that he left the majority of the composition up to the three composers working under him as sound director, and more relevantly: (rough translation via DeepL)
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| − | The others took a year to do it, but I was a little different. I was in charge of arranging and developing already existing songs. 58 songs had to be made in 2 weeks, and I didn't have much time, so I was already working on them on the train or something (laughs).
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| − | :Note that in [https://shmuplations.com/animalcrossing/ this translation by shmuplations], the translator, presumably not knowing about Minegishi, translated this as "I re-arranged compositions I had already made.", as without context this could also be a feasible translation.
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| − | :Lastly, and I haven't even updated this wiki on this (I'll do so soon), in an interview in Vol. 100 of ''Nintendo DREAM'' about {{DnMe+}}, Totaka made the same claim about "someone else" creating the instrumentals for the new game as well, which he then rearranged. I own a physical copy of this issue, so it is not easy information to come by.
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| − | :From all this, we can infer that for most of the first 70 K.K. Slider songs, Minegishi composed them and Totaka rearranged the live versions. I say most because [[K.K. Song]] is evidently [[Totaka's Song]], and the last three "invalid request songs", [[My Place]], [[Forest Life]] and [[To the Edge]] had only live versions until ''e+''. (Though Forest Life is a rearrangement of the Title theme, which was composed by [[Kenta Nagata]].) The other exception is [[Marine Song 2001]], which was taken from {{DnM+}} and almost certainly composed by Totaka, who has been credited for all Kapp'n's other songs including ones that were rearrangements of this.
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| − | :Minegishi has also received more specific credits affirming this in various places, including K.K. Bossa on the [https://vgmdb.net/album/10379 Touch Generations soundtrack]. I would encourage you to read the pages I have written on this wiki on each composer which includes as many credits as I could find for each of them and a source (pending the aforementioned update on e+). This ended up being a rather long response but I hope it helps you. [[User:Chubby Bub|Chubby Bub]] ([[User talk:Chubby Bub|talk]]) 04:16, April 14, 2024 (EDT)
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