User Banned (1 Week): Seeking to embarrass a developer over their past career for unrelated and petty reasons
EDIT: This thread isn't made as some sort of 'omg he did hentai!' smear. It's what Singa was most famous for (and almost 100% of his work) before he worked for Falcom. It's a thread unveiling 'who' this random person who's been making all these Falcom songs is and their credentials.
Credits to Josep, one of my fellow longtime Falcom fans. Been meaning to make a thread about this for a long time, actually.
This is regarding"Mitsuo Singa," who has been producing some of Falcom's worst tracks for games like Trails of Cold Steel 4 and Ys 9 as of late.
The info is sourced from Josep.
Anyway, let's start with this:
This is Singa's soundcloud, linked on his Twitter. It's hard to find any info about "Mitsuo Singa" online, so Josep did some digging regarding track titles, and came up with a name for a youtube account with one of those songs uploaded, "mitsuo suehiro." This youtube page has been deleted, so the link isn't visible, but here:
Thus, the trail leads to:
This. It turns out this "Mitsuo Singa" is actually the artist Mitsuo Suehiro, married to Yuuri Suehiro (aka Yuuri Nakamura) who also sung the Trails of Cold Steel 3 ending song. It's also one of Singa's better songs.
In 2015 he changed his alias to Mitsuo Singa. In his CycloMusic resume, we can see a possible reason why":
"その他商用ＯＶＡのＢＧＭや主題歌を多数提供。"
What "OVAs" did he do BGM for that would make him change his alias?
...Oh.
An example of early Singa work, with his wife singing the vocals, to the hentai OVA Kuroinu.
Okay, now that his old work and his other amateur work, seen here:
can be used as a background...
The reason for Josep investigating all this is that JDK BAND under Singa's direction has been really messy.
As an example, here is JDK BAND failing to even properly play Sunshine Coastline from Ys 8 properly:
Anyway, there is a point to all this! As of late, Falcom has been having more and more 'subpar' songs creeping into their soundtracks. Some are even downright awful. For example, "Deep Carnival" from Trails of Cold Steel 4:
And "Welcome to Chaos" from the now-out Ys IX:
Guess what? Both songs are arranged by Mitsuo Singa. In fact, almost every single song people have been like 'ehhhh' about in the new Falcom Sound Team JDK's work has all been Mitsuo Singa arrangement work. So yeah, a few of us Falcom fans have been mystified why Falcom is so intent on keeping Mitsuo Singa onboard and ruining so many tracks, when he clearly doesn't have the creativity, expertise and skill to have such a prominent arrangement position as an independent contractor Falcom absolutely insists on using these days.
In fact, in Ys IX he has more songs than ever (and that game just came out) because he has an extremely easy to recognize arrangement style and within several hours of the game being played you can hear like 6 different Singa songs come on, which has already made a few people disappointed.
Credits to Josep, one of my fellow longtime Falcom fans. Been meaning to make a thread about this for a long time, actually.
This is regarding"Mitsuo Singa," who has been producing some of Falcom's worst tracks for games like Trails of Cold Steel 4 and Ys 9 as of late.
The info is sourced from Josep.
Anyway, let's start with this:
This is Singa's soundcloud, linked on his Twitter. It's hard to find any info about "Mitsuo Singa" online, so Josep did some digging regarding track titles, and came up with a name for a youtube account with one of those songs uploaded, "mitsuo suehiro." This youtube page has been deleted, so the link isn't visible, but here:
Thus, the trail leads to:
This. It turns out this "Mitsuo Singa" is actually the artist Mitsuo Suehiro, married to Yuuri Suehiro (aka Yuuri Nakamura) who also sung the Trails of Cold Steel 3 ending song. It's also one of Singa's better songs.
In 2015 he changed his alias to Mitsuo Singa. In his CycloMusic resume, we can see a possible reason why":
"その他商用ＯＶＡのＢＧＭや主題歌を多数提供。"
What "OVAs" did he do BGM for that would make him change his alias?
...Oh.
An example of early Singa work, with his wife singing the vocals, to the hentai OVA Kuroinu.
Okay, now that his old work and his other amateur work, seen here:
can be used as a background...
The reason for Josep investigating all this is that JDK BAND under Singa's direction has been really messy.
As an example, here is JDK BAND failing to even properly play Sunshine Coastline from Ys 8 properly:
Anyway, there is a point to all this! As of late, Falcom has been having more and more 'subpar' songs creeping into their soundtracks. Some are even downright awful. For example, "Deep Carnival" from Trails of Cold Steel 4:
And "Welcome to Chaos" from the now-out Ys IX:
Guess what? Both songs are arranged by Mitsuo Singa. In fact, almost every single song people have been like 'ehhhh' about in the new Falcom Sound Team JDK's work has all been Mitsuo Singa arrangement work. So yeah, a few of us Falcom fans have been mystified why Falcom is so intent on keeping Mitsuo Singa onboard and ruining so many tracks, when he clearly doesn't have the creativity, expertise and skill to have such a prominent arrangement position as an independent contractor Falcom absolutely insists on using these days.
In fact, in Ys IX he has more songs than ever (and that game just came out) because he has an extremely easy to recognize arrangement style and within several hours of the game being played you can hear like 6 different Singa songs come on, which has already made a few people disappointed.
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