Kenji Yamamoto (s)

I've always been much fond of the Dragon Ball / Z arrange albums by Kenji Yamamoto. They've got that eclectic and rocky thing that I love in early VGM albums.

I've also always been quite surprised that the same person was apparently behind the music from Metroid, but never gave it much attention.

The other day though, while checking last.fm, I felt like making sure and checked GMCL2. Here's what I found:

http://ng-stg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gm/name/ya.html

So yep, it would seem there are in fact two VGM composers of the same era whose names romanize to Kenji Yamamoto.

One, 山本健誌, is (was?) a Nintendo employee, and is responsible for the compositions of the Metroid and Famicom Tantei Club series, or also to classics like Mike Tyson Punch Out.

The other is 山本健司 and has been doing the music to most of Bandai's DBZ fighting games and other DB/Z games. He also produced arranged albums to the majority of those.

Brought to you by The More You Know - VGM Edtion ~

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edit: as always, snesmusic was in the known.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, it's particularly interesting in the way that both are very talented and do have common traits, even if they remain quite discernible. Cool to know both are still active, too.

Someone should edit wikipedia, but I hate doing that. ;_;

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well done. =D

Can't wait for the upcoming Slightly Dark release btw, which should be one the last 2 missing DB/Z Yamamoto's arranged albums.

Also, an interesting link.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.