Teruhiko Nakagawa

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Teruhiko Nakagawa
Place of birth: Mie Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1971-06-13 (age 53)
Employment history:
Sega Enterprises (1994-04-01[1] – )
Divisions:
Role(s): Composer, musician
Education: Nagoya University[1] (Mathematics[3])

Teruhiko Nakagawa (中川 輝彦) is a composer, sound director and sound producer for SEGA. He joined the company in 1994, creating soundtracks for the Sega 32X games Metal Head and Stellar Assault and became so prolific that it is said he had been involved in over 100 titles by 2010.[4] Notable titles include the Let's Make Baseball/Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! series, the Mario & Sonic and the Valkyria Chronicles, as well as the self-titled song "Teruhiko" composed for the Sega Sammy Baseball Club[5][6]. In addition to his official job in sound, Nakagawa has also been the head of Sega's company shogi club[7][5].

Nakagawa's hobbies are listening to music, reading, Japanese Chess, and watching live baseball games; favorite foods include sushi, Chinese noodles and green tea.[8]

He uses Studio Vision Pro for sequencing, and some of his instruments include S6000/S3200XL (Akai), TR-Rack/TRITON-Rack /WAVESTATION /01w (KORG), and SC-88 pro (Roland).[8]

History

Early life

When seeking a job, Nakagawa expected to enter the finance industry, an obvious choice for a maths major. He also got a teaching license in his free time. As the internet was not yet common, Nakagawa had to seek out job opportunities through recruiting agencies, which is how he discovered that a career in video game music was an option, a path he gravitated towards as he had lost interest in mathematics two years into university and had focused on music as a hobby. He applied to several companies and found Sega appealing because "Sonic's face was cool"[9].

Career

Teruhiko Nakagawa as a new Sega recruit in 1994.

Teruhiko Nakagawa joined Sega in 1994 and was assigned to console sound team, with Jun Senoue being his assigned mentor for one year.[10] His first job was to help Senoue compose music for the 32X game Metal Head.[10] Nakagawa contributed to a few 32X games, most notably Stellar Assault as lead composer, although the only song he himself digitized for the game the Staffroll.[10]

As the 32X's lifespan ended and the Sega Saturn became Sega's primary focus in the home market, Nakagawa moved over to working on various Saturn games, including a single track to Panzer Dragoon Zwei. He was heavily involved with the console's baseball franchises Greatest Nine, World Series Baseball and Pro Yakyuu Team wo Tsukurou!, the latter of which he would continue creating/directing for in further console generations. He as called Pro Yakyuu Team de Asobou! (an action-based spin-off of the franchise) his most memorable work, with special mention going to the game's trumpet cheer songs.[7]

His work on Hundred Swords in 2001 was perhaps his largest soundtrack up to that point, with 29 orchestra-like songs written by (up to 48 when counting co-writing credits)[11]. The epilogue theme "Flame in your eyes", featured throughout the game in instrumental re-arrangements, is his first song known to have been written for vocals. Nakagawa would work with Hundred Swords game designer and lyricst Tadashi Ihoroi again on Gunvalkyrie to create a unique blend of breakbeats and orchestration.[12]

Nakagawa (right) and director Hideyuki Isobe holding Dragon Treasure Original Sound Track.

Nakagawa and Gunvalkyrie's other composer Tatsuyuki Maeda would next compose for Overworks's 2002 reboot of Shinobi, and Nakagawa would return for contribute to its sequel and to the stage based on the game in Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax. Later the same year he would for the first time work on the Sonic the Hedgehog series with Sonic Advance 2, most notably creating the theme of the first zone Leaf Forest with various Sonic games to follow, such as Sonic Pinball Party and Sonic Heroes. In 2003 Nakagawa worked with Overworks on his first ever arcade game, Dragon Treasure, and would be the only person to compose for all 3 games in the series. Nakagawa was the sound producer for the 2004 Astro Boy game.

Due to his work on Sonic Advance 2, Nakagawa again worked on the Dimps-developed Sonic games when moving from Game Boy Advance to DS, directing Sonic Rush, Sonic Rush Adventure and Sonic Colours. He was therefore responsible for assigning Hideki Naganuma to compose the Sonic Rush soundtrack, maintaining a similar sound direction for Sonic Rush Adventure with a different sound team. For Rush Adventure, he also adjusted the in-game data for the music, created all the sound effects and recruited/signing contracts with both singer Tahirih Walker and the game's new voice actors.

In addition to continuing work on Yakyu Tsuku, Nakagawa expanded into directing the soccer/football equivalent beginning with Let's Make a Soccer Team! in 2006.

He directed sound of Homestar Portable in 2006 and was specifically called upon by producer Tetsuo Shinyu to arrange "Jupiter" from The Planets. Only a short version pulling from the second chorus was included and the promise of a full arrangement for the soundtrack CD was prevented due to his busy schedule,[13] most likely due to its close release to Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.

Nakagawa is the only known composer for the original Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and subsequently became the series' sound director.

In 2008 Nakagawa became sound director for the new Valkyria Chronicles series. Like Shinobi, he would compose themes to represent this series in Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax. It was Nakagawa's idea for the Sega-themed stages in Fighting Climax to be composed by people previously associated with these franchises.[14] Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, as well as the 2008 licensed title Blazer Drive, both saw Nakagawa working with lyrics written by director Takaharu Terada, who is incidentally also the director of the first and 4th Valkyria Chronicles installments.

In 2009 he was the sole Sega Sound Team member to work on Chindouchuu! Pole no Daibouken.

He was one of the composers for Puyo Puyo Chronicle, the 25th anniversary game in a series typically scored by Hideki Abe alone.

Artistry

Naofumi Hataya has praised Nakagawa as being second to none when it comes to composing "sad songs" within Sega.[15]

Influences

Nakagawa enjoys R&B and classical music, citing famous conductor Sergiu Celibidache as an influence.[8]

Production history

Games

Music

~Other (unsorted) work~

Song credits

Main article: Teruhiko Nakagawa/Song credits.

Shadow Squadron

  • Mission 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission Clear — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission 3 — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission 4 — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission 5 — Music & Arrangement
  • Last Boss — Music & Arrangement
  • All Mission Clear — Music & Arrangement
  • Staff roll — Music & Arrangement
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement
  • Not Use (Ending) — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission 4 Original — Music & Arrangement (with Masaru Setsumaru)

Panzer Dragoon Zwei

  • Hanuman — Music & Arrangement

Hundred Swords

  • 無垢の歌~流転~ — Music & Arrangement
  • 王者の誇り、力の法則 — Music & Arrangement
  • So Pathetic — Music & Arrangement
  • 高貴な悪童たち -Feofan & Eulie's Theme- — Music & Arrangement
  • ラバー・リング -Boris Veullow's Theme- — Music & Arrangement
  • 冬の嵐 — Music & Arrangement
  • サンクチュアリ -Vali Winogradow's Theme- — Music & Arrangement
  • 悲愴 -Assuly Winogradow's Theme- — Music & Arrangement
  • 黒い黙示録 -Zarn Kaliosthea's Theme- — Music & Arrangement
  • 響きと怒り -Igole Windogradow's Theme- — Music & Arrangement
  • 悪童たちの逆襲 — Music & Arrangement
  • 経験の歌~賛歌~ ~Admiration~ — Music & Arrangement
  • 揺らぎと甦り — Music & Arrangement
  • Flame in your eyes -Epilogue- — Music & Orchestration

Gunvalkyrie

  • Cosmic blast rising — Music & Arrangement
  • In the flat field — Music & Arrangement
  • Search and destroy — Music & Arrangement
  • Meat biscuits — Music & Arrangement
  • Sleep well, tonight — Music & Arrangement
  • Killing bedroom — Music & Arrangement
  • Plug in monster — Music & Arrangement
  • Megalomania — Music & Arrangement
  • Valkyrie's Barefoot - Ending - — Music & Arrangement
  • Killing bedroom (Expanded Guitar Version) — Music & Arrangement
  • Bridge (Intermission) — Music & Arrangement

Shinobi

  • 涼社 — Music & Arrangement
  • 遭遇 — Music & Arrangement
  • 化神 — Music & Arrangement
  • 濁渦 — Music & Arrangement
  • 寛栄寺 — Music & Arrangement
  • 黄金城 — Music & Arrangement
  • 卑瑠呼 — Music & Arrangement

Sonic Advance 2

  • Leaf Forest - Act 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • Leaf Forest - Act 2 — Music & Arrangement

Sonic Pinball Party

  • Take The Snow Train — Programming[36]
  • Gloom of The N.H.C. — Programming[36]
  • Mambo De Verano — Programming[36]

Dragon Treasure

  • Dungeon -Forest- — Music & Arrangement
  • Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • Pinch! — Music & Arrangement
  • Theme of DT Chance — Music & Arrangement
  • Gold Eater Chance — Music & Arrangement
  • Theme of Village — Music & Arrangement
  • Dungeon -Mountain- — Music & Arrangement
  • Dungeon -Castle- — Music & Arrangement
  • Angel Challenge — Music & Arrangement
  • Super Gold Eater Chance — Music & Arrangement
  • Dragon Zone — Music & Arrangement

Nightshade

  • Mechanised Specter — Music & Arrangement
  • Kan-Ei-Ji — Music & Arrangement
  • Kan-Ei-Ji Neo — Music & Arrangement

Sonic Heroes

  • Battle : City Area — Music
  • Event : All Heroes Gather — Music & Arrangement, Programming

Astro Boy

  • 就寝 — Music & Arrangement
  • 覚醒 — Music & Arrangement
  • 青騎士 Extra — Arrangement
  • ゲームオーバー — Music & Arrangement

Sonic Rush

  • Right There, Right On (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement
  • Ska Cha Cha (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement
  • Enemy or Friend? — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as "Blaze Appears"]
  • Ethno Circus (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement
  • Back 2 Back (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement
  • Jeh Jeh Rocket (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement
  • Get Edgy (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement
  • What U Need (Blazy Mix) — Re-Arrangement

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

  • Giant Girania — Music & Arrangement
  • Giant Girania : Hard Ver. — Music & Arrangement

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii version)

  • Opening & Ending Theme — Music & Arrangement
  • Main Menu — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Field - Hammer and Javelin Throw — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Field - High Jump and Pole Vault — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Field - Long and Triple Jump — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Track - 4x100m Relay — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Track - 100m — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Track - 110m and 400m Hurdles — Music & Arrangement
  • Athletics - Track - 400m — Music & Arrangement
  • Aquatics - 4x100m Freestyle — Music & Arrangement
  • Aquatics - 100m Freestyle — Music & Arrangement
  • Archery - Archery — Music & Arrangement
  • Fencing - Individual Epe — Music & Arrangement
  • Gymnastics - Trampoline — Music & Arrangement
  • Gymnastics - Vault — Music & Arrangement
  • Rowing - Single Sculls — Music & Arrangement
  • Shooting - Skeet — Music & Arrangement
  • Table Tennis - Singles — Music & Arrangement
  • Dream Fencing — Music & Arrangement
  • Dream Platform — Music & Arrangement
  • Dream Race — Music & Arrangement
  • Dream Table Tennis — Music & Arrangement
  • Gallery — Music & Arrangement

Uta Kumi 575

  • Twilight — Music & Arrangement[37]

Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax

  • Fighting Climax -opening version- — Lyrics (with Takaharu Terada)
  • 荒廃と済世i — Music & Arrangement, Programming
  • 深淵 — Music & Arrangement, Programming
  • 碧の幻影 — Music & Arrangement, Programming
  • Fighting Climax -ending version- — Lyrics (with Takaharu Terada)

Puyo Puyo Chronicle

  • みんなみんなだいすき — Music (with Hideki Abe), Arrangement
  • Tokoton from Puyo Puyo — Arrangement

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

  • Be careful of scams — Music & Arrangement

Interviews

 Some or all of the following content should be mirrored on Sega Retro (or Retro CDN).

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Teruhiko Nakagawa

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harmony, "1994 4" (JP; 1994-04-01), page 19
  2. ↑ http://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/020/index.html
  3. ↑ htt (Wayback Machine: 2002-08-21 17:54)
  4. ↑ https://www.nindori.com/blog/2010/06/100.html (Wayback Machine: 2024-08-11 12:44)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 @SEGA_OFFICIAL on X (archive.today)
  6. ↑ @Hiro_H10th on X (archive.today)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/020/003.html (Wayback Machine: 2016-11-14 16:29)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 htt (Wayback Machine: 2003-01-17 19:02)
  9. ↑ http://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/020/002.html (Wayback Machine: 2016-11-14 16:26)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 File:Super32X15thAA Booklet.pdf, page 12
  11. ↑ htt (Wayback Machine: 2002-06-25 12:32)
  12. ↑ https://media.vgm.io/albums/77/2677/2677-1251494375.jpg
  13. ↑ https://media.vgm.io/albums/61/4916/4916-1203828628.jpg
  14. ↑ https://media.vgm.io/albums/75/48557/48557-1425136260.jpg
  15. ↑ File:NiGHTSJODST Music JP Booklet.pdf, page 12
  16. ↑ File:Virtua Racing 32X credits.pdf
  17. ↑ File:Metal Head 32X credits.pdf
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 File:Stellar Assault 32X credits.pdf
  19. ↑ File:Guardian Heroes JP Saturn credits.pdf
  20. ↑ File:Panzer Dragoon Zwei JP Saturn credits.pdf
  21. ↑ File:Panzer Dragoon Zwei US Saturn credits.pdf
  22. ↑ File:World Series Baseball II Saturn credits.pdf
  23. ↑ File:Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 97 Saturn credits.pdf
  24. ↑ File:Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 97 Make Miracle Saturn credits.pdf
  25. ↑ File:Pro Yakyuu Team mo Tsukurou! Saturn credits.pdf
  26. ↑ File:Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 98 Saturn credits.pdf
  27. ↑ File:Greatest Nine GBA credits.pdf
  28. ↑ File:Sonic Advance 2 GBA credits.pdf
  29. ↑ File:RadioDCNo3 CD JP Box.jpg
  30. ↑ File:Sega01 book.pdf
  31. ↑ File:SeveralWIlls CD JP booklet.pdf, page 15
  32. ↑ File:StHOST CD JP booklet.pdf, page 6
  33. ↑ File:SRAOST CD JP booklet.pdf, page 3
  34. ↑ File:Super32X15thAA Booklet.pdf, page 15
  35. ↑ https://www.wiki.ja-jp.nina.az/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E7%A1%AC%E5%BC%8F%E9%87%8E%E7%90%83%E9%83%A8.html
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 http://www.wave-master.com/rdc/backnumber/137.html (Wayback Machine: 2007-10-22 22:20)
  37. ↑ https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23818283
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