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Discography Of The Soul Series
''Soulcalibur'' is a weapon-based fighting game series by Namco Bandai Games. The series revolves around a sword that, after years of bloodshed and hatred, gained a soul of its own, the Soul Edge, and the sword forged to counter it, Soulcalibur. The discography of the ''Soulcalibur'' series consists of two soundtrack albums for the first game in the series, ''Soul Edge'', and one soundtrack album each for ''Soulcalibur'', ''Soulcalibur II'', '' III'', '' IV'', '' V'' and '' VI''. None of the other games in the series have received a soundtrack release. Music from the series was performed by a live orchestra at a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in February 2017. ''Super Battle Sound Attack Soul Edge'' ''Super Battle Sound Attack Soul Edge'' is the soundtrack album for the arcade version of ''Soul Edge''. It was composed by Namco employees Takayuki Aihara and Takanori Otsuka, with Aihara providing the majority of the tracks while Otsuka composed tracks 9, 11, 16, 20, and 25. ...
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Soulcalibur (series)
is a weapon-based fighting game, fighting video game franchise by Bandai Namco Entertainment. There are seven main installments of video games and various media Spin-off (media), spin-offs, including music albums and a series of manga books. The first game in the series, ''Soul Edge'' (or ''Soul Blade'' outside Japan), was released as an arcade game in 1995 and was later ported to video game consoles; the widespread success of its first sequel ''Soulcalibur (video game), Soulcalibur'' in 1998 led to ''Soulcalibur'' becoming the name of the franchise, with all subsequent installments also using the name. More recent games in the series have been released for consoles only and have evolved to include online playing modes. The central motif of the series, set in a historical fantasy version of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, are mythical swords, the evil weapon called Soul Edge and the subsequent sword used to oppose this evil, Soul Calibur (parsed as two words, while the ...
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BMG Japan
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music company was formed as RCA/Ariola International in 1985 as a joint venture to combine the music label activities of RCA's RCA Records division and Bertelsmann's Ariola Records and its associated labels which include Arista Records. It consisted of the BMG Music Publishing company, the world's third largest music publisher and the world's largest independent music publisher, and (since August 2004) the 50% share of the joint venture with Sony Music, which established the German American Sony BMG from 2004 to 2008. Acquisition In March 1998, BMG sold its video game publisher BMG Interactive to Take-Two Interactive, with Bertelsmann taking a 16 percent stake in Take-Two. BMG Interactive published the ''Grand Theft Auto'' video game series. The ...
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Masaharu Iwata
is a Japanese video game music, video game composer. After graduating from high school, where his musical projects included composing on a synthesizer and playing in a cover band, he joined Bothtec as a composer. He composed the soundtrack to several games there, beginning with 1987's ''Bakusou Buggy Ippatsu Yarou'', and after the company was merged into Quest Corporation, he left to become a freelance composer. Some of his notable projects include ''Ogre Battle'', ''Tactics Ogre'', ''Final Fantasy Tactics'', and ''Final Fantasy XII''. He was one of the founding members of Basiscape, headed by fellow composer and friend Hitoshi Sakimoto. His compositions for ''Ogre Battle'' and ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' have been cited as among the most well-recognized in the tactical RPG genre. Biography Early life Iwata, born in Tokyo, Japan on October 26, 1966, has been interested in music since he was a child, though he terms his first attempts at "experiments with music" while at school to ...
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Marvelous Entertainment
(MMV) was a multinational corporation that produced animation, music, video games and television series. MMV is known for its involvement in the ''Story of Seasons'' series. They merged with AQ Interactive in 2011 and became Marvelous AQL; the "AQL" was dropped later on. Local operations Locally, MMV was involved in a number of forms of entertainment, including the production of anime and music by their two subsidiaries Artland and Delfi Sound respectively. Artland is an animation studio that produced a number of popular anime including the award-winning ''Mushishi'' and the hit shōnen ''Katekyō Hitman Reborn!'', and Delfi Sound is a recording studio that was involved in the production of a number of albums, radio dramas, and soundtracks since its establishment in 2005. MMV also produced a number of live television series, movies, and musical theatre productions, like the highly popular Prince of Tennis musical, ''Tenimyu''. Merge with AQ Interactive In 2011, AQ Interact ...
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Victor Entertainment
, also known as in Japan, is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Entertainment operates the RCA Victor label. History *April 1972: is spun off as a subsidiary of JVC. *September 30, 1982: JVC Musical Industries, Inc. is founded in the U.S. *February 1984: The sales and marketing department of JVC is spun off as . *January 1990: JVC Musical Industries announces its first video game release will be ''Boulder Dash''. *October 30, 1991: JVC Musical Industries Europe, Ltd. is founded. *April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Musical Industries merge and the name is changed to *October 1, 1996: Victor Interactive Software takes over video game-related activities after Pack-In-Video is merged with Victor Entertainment. *May 1, 1997: JVC Musical Industries is renamed to JVC Music, Inc. *May 14, 1997: JVC Musical Indust ...
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Link (The Legend Of Zelda)
is the protagonist of Nintendo's video game franchise ''The Legend of Zelda''. He was created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Link was introduced as the hero of the original 1986 ''The Legend of Zelda (video game), The Legend of Zelda'' video game and has appeared in a total of List of The Legend of Zelda media#Main series, 19 entries in the series, as well as a number of spin-offs. Common elements in the series include Link travelling through Hyrule whilst exploring dungeons, battling creatures and solving puzzles until he eventually defeats the series' primary antagonist, Ganon, and saves Princess Zelda. Throughout ''The Legend of Zelda'' series, Link has made multiple appearances in a variety of incarnations. He has been rendered in both 2D computer graphics, 2D and 3D computer graphics, 3D form and has been traditionally depicted in his signature green cap and tunic carrying a sword and shield. Over the course of the series, he appears as a child or young ...
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The Legend Of Zelda
''The Legend of Zelda'' is an action-adventure game franchise created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is primarily developed and published by Nintendo, although some portable installments and re-releases have been outsourced to Capcom, Vanpool, and Grezzo. The gameplay incorporates action-adventure and elements of action RPG games. The series centers on the various incarnations of Link, a courageous young Hylian man, with pointy, elf-like ears; and Princess Zelda, a magical princess who is the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Hylia; as they fight to save the magical land of Hyrule from Ganon, an evil warlord turned demon king, who is the principal antagonist of the series. Ganon wishes to use the Triforce, a sacred relic left behind by the three goddesses that created Hyrule, to remake the world in his own dark image. When gathered together, the power of the Triforce can grant any wish its user desires; however, if someone w ...
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ...
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Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ...
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DigiCube
DigiCube Co., Ltd. (株式会社デジキューブ; ''Kabushiki-gaisha Dejikyūbu'') was a Japanese company established as a subsidiary of software developer Square on February 6, 1996 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The primary purpose of DigiCube was to market and distribute Square products, most notably video games and related merchandise, including toys, books, and music soundtracks. DigiCube served as a wholesaler to distributors, and was noteworthy for pioneering the sale of video games in Japanese convenience stores and vending machine kiosks. History At the close of 1997, DigiCube reported that their vending machine service had exceeded 10 million software units since the service launched in November 1996. At its peak in 1998, DigiCube recorded sales of 8.6 million units, equaling ¥46.8 billion JPY. On February 2, 2000, Digicube announced it would start carrying the PlayStation 2 the following month, and expected sales of 100,000 consoles and 400,000 games. By May 200 ...
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Junichi Nakatsuru
is a Japanese video game composer and sound director employed at Bandai Namco Entertainment. He is best known for his work in the ''Soulcalibur'' series. Biography Growing up, Nakatsuru enjoyed music, playing around with instruments while listening to music on the radio as a boy. His parents provided him with classical piano lessons, and he would always play popular songs with his own arrangements instead of practicing for the lesson. While attending high school, Nakatsuru played the trombone in a brass band, and was a keyboardist and band composer in his private life. He majored in art at the university and studied music theory, acoustics, and desktop music (DTM), although he was more interested in making original songs and playing them in a band. Musical style and influences For his work on ''Soulcalibur'', Nakatsuru mostly uses composited music, but sometimes incorporates live orchestral elements into his soundtracks. Commenting on the use of a live orchestra, he notes that ...
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Taku Iwasaki
is a Japanese composer and arranger. His hometown is Tokyo, Japan. He is a graduate of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Works Anime *''The Irresponsible Captain Tylor'' (OVA series (theme songs composition, etc.); 1995, 1996) *''Now and Then, Here and There'' (1999) *'' Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal'' (1999) *'' R.O.D -Read or Die-'' (2001) *''The SoulTaker'' (2001) *''Sadamitsu the Destroyer'' (2001) *'' Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection'' (2001) *'' Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land'' (2001) *''GetBackers'' (2002) *''Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō'' (2002) *''Witch Hunter Robin'' (2002) *''R.O.D the TV'' (2003) *''Yakitate!! Japan'' (2004) *''Black Cat'' (2005) *''Angel Heart'' (2005) *'' Binchō-tan'' (2006) *''Ōban Star-Racers'' (2006) *''Kekkaishi'' (2006) *''009-1'' (2006) *''Gurren Lagann'' (2007) *'' Persona: Trinity Soul'' (2008) *'' Soul Eater'' (2008) *'' Black Butler'' (2009) *''Katanagatari'' (2010) *'' C'' (2011) *''Heaven's Memo Pad'' (2011) *''Ben-To'' (2011) *'' ...
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