Noriyuki Iwadare

Japanese composer

Noriyuki Iwadare

Iwadare in 2010

Background information
Born|  (1964-04-28) April 28, 1964 (age 59)
Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Occupation(s)| Composer
Instrument(s)| Piano, guitar
Years active| 1990-present

Musical artist

Noriyuki Iwadare (岩垂 徳行, Iwadare Noriyuki, born on April 28, 1964) is a Japanese video game composer.

## Biography[edit]

Iwadare was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. He began composing for Toaplan, arranging their arcade video game soundtracks for their Sega Mega Drive home console ports, notably the Mega Drive version of Zero Wing (1990), before composing for other companies such as Game Arts on their Lunar and Grandia series.[1][2]

The first award he won was the Best Game Music award, the Mega Drive/Genesis category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the Sega Saturn Music category for Grandia in 1997 and in the Dreamcast category for Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works, which he himself has done several times, as with the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra arrangements (orchestral arrangements of the Ace Attorney series music).

He was a special guest at the 11th French Japan Expo that was held on July 2010 in Paris.[3]

## Works[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role

|
|

1990  | Space Invaders: Fukkatsu no Hi |
Space Invaders '90 |
Zero Wing (Mega Drive)  | Arrangements[4][5]
After Burner II (Mega Drive)  | Arrangements
1991  | Wings of Wor |
Langrisser | with Hiroshi Fujioka and Isao Mizoguchi
Blue Almanac | with several others
Head Buster | with Hiroshi Fujioka and Isao Mizoguchi
Parasol Stars |
Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Mega Drive) | Arrangements with Yoshiaki Kubodera
1992  | Steel Empire | with Isao Mizoguchi and Yoshiaki Kubotera
Sotsugyou: Graduation |
Gley Lancer | with Masanori Hikichi, Yoshiaki Kubotera, and Isao Mizoguchi
Lunar: The Silver Star | with Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, and Yoshiaki Kubotera
1993  | Kishi Densetsu | with Isao Mizoguchi
Maten no Soumetsu | with Isao Mizoguchi
SimEarth (Sega CD)  |
Tanjou: Debut |
Langrisser: Hikari no Matsuei | with several others
Alien vs Predator: The Last of His Clan |
1994  | Crusader of Centy | Sound programmer
Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends (Mega-CD)  | Arrangements
Langrisser II | with Isao Mizoguchi
Wing Commander (Sega CD) | with Isao Mizoguchi, Kenichi Okuma, Maki Tanimoto
Lunar: Eternal Blue |
Sotsugyou II: Neo Generation | with Maki Tanimoto, Kenichi Okuma, Isao Mizoguchi
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Game Boy) | with Kenichi Okuma
Mercurius Pretty |
1995  | Der Langrisser |
Dōkyūsei | "Opening Theme"
1996  | Lunar: Walking School |
Monstania |
Tanjou S |
Lunar: Silver Star Story |
Doukyuusei if | "Opening Theme"
True Love Story | with Kenichi Okuma, Maki Tanimoto, Ataru Sumiyoshi
1997  | Doukyuusei 2 (Sega Saturn)  | "Opening Theme"
Langrisser IV | with Makoto Asai, Yuichiro Honda
Magic School Lunar! |
Grandia |
1998  | Langrisser V: The End of Legend |
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue |
1999  | True Love Story 2 |
Yuukyuu no Eden |
Growlanser |
2000  | Grandia II |
Mercurius Pretty: End of the Century |
2001  | True Love Story 3 |
2002  | Grandia Xtreme |
Wind: A Breath of Heart | with Maki Tanimoto
2003  | True Love Story: Summer Days, and Yet… |
Mega Man X7 | "Higher The Air ~ Air Force Stage"
2004  | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations |
2005  | Radiata Stories |
2006  | Grandia III |
KimiKiss |
Project Wiki |
Kanji no Wataridori |
2007  | Elvandia Story | with Norihiko Hibino
KimiKiss: Pure Rouge | with Hikaru Nanase and Masaru Yokoyama
2008  | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Arrangements[a]
True Fortune |
2009  | Amagami |
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth | with Yasuko Yamada
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony |
2010  | Grandia Online |
2011  | Ace Attorney Investigations 2 |
Otomedius Excellent | with several others
2012  | Kid Icarus: Uprising | with several others
2013  | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies |
2014  | Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U | Arrangements[b]
2015  | Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei |
Zombie Tokyo | with Michiko Naruke
2016  | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice | with Toshihiko Horiyama and Masami Onodera
Reco Love: Blue Ocean and Gold Beach[6] |
2018  | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Arrangements[c]
2019  | Rakugaki Kingdom | "Spiral Power Bomb"[7]
2020  | Ninjala | with several others
2023  | Loop8: Summer of Gods[8] |
2024  | Project MBR[9] |

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Yoshi's Island", "Meta Knight's Revenge", "With Mila's Divine Protection (Celica Map 1)"
2. ^ "Gear Getaway", "In the Space-Pirate Ship", "Air Man Stage"
3. ^ "City Trial", "Delfino Plaza", "Top Man Stage", "Light Plane", "Electroplankton", "Kurikinton (Fatal Fury 2)", "Stormy Saxophone 2 (The King of Fighters '96)"

## References[edit]

1. ^ Greening, Chris (June 27, 2009). "Noriyuki Iwadare :: Biography". Square Enix Music Online. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
2. ^ "Tatsuya Uemura (Interview)". Shooting Gameside (in Japanese). Vol. 4\. 2 December 2011. pp. 33-40 (40). Retrieved 28 February 2022. "For example, in the Mega Drive port of Zero Wing, Noriyuki Iwadare remixed the music to give it a stronger band feeling, and in Slap Fight, Yuzo Koshiro added songs he personally composed."
3. ^ "Japan Expo - Noriyuki IWADARE" (in French). Japan Expo. April 16, 2010. Archived from the original on May 16, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
4. ^ Greening, Chris (June 27, 2009). "Noriyuki Iwadare :: Biography". Square Enix Music Online. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
5. ^ "Tatsuya Uemura (Interview)". Shooting Gameside (in Japanese). Vol. 4\. 2 December 2011. pp. 33-40 (40). Retrieved 28 February 2022. "For example, in the Mega Drive port of Zero Wing, Noriyuki Iwadare remixed the music to give it a stronger band feeling, and in Slap Fight, Yuzo Koshiro added songs he personally composed."
6. ^ Greening, Chris (28 January 2017). "Noriyuki Iwadare's latest dating sim soundtrack revealed". Video Game Music Online. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
7. ^ ""ラクガキ"がコンセプトのRPG『ラクガキ キングダム』正式発表。自分の描いた絵が立体化して動き出す『ラクガキ王国』を進化させた新機軸【先出し週刊ファミ通】". Famitsu (in Japanese). July 11, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
8. ^ Romano, Sal (October 18, 2022). "Loop8: Summer of Gods launches March 16, 2023 in Japan for PS4, Xbox One, and Switch; March 21 for PC". Gematsu. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
9. ^ Romano, Sal (March 1, 2023). "Japanese studio SIEG Games announces multiplayer mech action shooter Project MBR for PS5, PC". Gematsu. Retrieved March 2, 2023.

## External links[edit]

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