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Tokuyuki Iwatari

Tokuyuki Iwatari credited the song for 'The Kiss of Christmas'.

Additional information
The kiss of ChristmasComposer
The sovereign's kissGame music
First KissMusic
The brilliance of the southern melody is at the topMusic
Photo girlfriendComposing the game's BGM
ムーンライト スターライト（AcosticVer.）Composer

Production and performance

Tokuyuki Iwatari credited the song for 'The Kiss of Christmas'.

Noriyuki Iwatari credited the game music for 'Kimi Kiss'.

Noriyuki Iwadarei credited the game BGM for 'Photo Girlfriend'.

Music production

Noriyuki Iwatari credited the song for "First Kiss."

Noriyuki Iwadarei credited the music for 'Ki Nichinan Ondo'.

Tokuyuki Iwadarei credited the composition for 'Moonlight Starlight (Acostic Ver.)'.

Classic mode environmental reconstruction

After Takayama Kixi requested the classic mode, Iwatari Tokuyuki searched friends and the internet again for devices, software, and cables that had long been disposed of. The original PC98 hard drive failed, and the conversion program didn't work. In the end, he used the MOONLIGHT C.M.I, which had been used since the Mega Drive era, to directly input all the tracks into the PC88.

Ace Attorney: Melodic Inheritance and Gold's Music

When reinterpreting the theme of Ayudo Ishido for "Ace Attorney 3," Iwatara first listens to the descending scale treatment from "Ace Attorney 2," then chooses a back-and-back melodic direction.

After hearing about Gold's coffee-related concept, he thought of his favorite jazz café, and came up with character music inspired by the lazy jazz atmosphere, submitting it and passing it on the first try.

Orchestral arrangement and melodic instrumentation

After the development of "Ace Attorney 4" was completed, Qiaozhou proposed producing an orchestral album, and Iwatari was invited to arrange the music. During the recording session, the two discussed bringing these arrangements to the concert.

Iwatari hopes the orchestral tone will retain the impression of the original game track. The "Court Trial" medley includes versions from previous dynasties; to avoid sounding too similar, he assigned melodic lines to different instruments.

Music box performance and melody rewriting

When Haruka Shimotsuki performed "Serenade of the Guitar in Love" at a concert, Iwatari played the playable music box Canadeon beside her.

Takushu and Iwatari discovered that '13 Years of Love's Imprisonment' originally only had a title, and after discussion, added a melody. The song was later released in a remote performance.

From melody to arrangement, the sequence of work

Iwatari first created files for each piece and distinguished them by color, planning the overall style before focusing on the melody. After finishing all the melodies, he began arranging them the next day.

Spatial overlap of the 'Grandia Theme'

When TWOFIVE produced the Dolby Atmos version of "Grandia no Theme" in 2023, they commissioned Noriyuki Iwatari and used his 1997 multitrack recordings kept at home as material.

Iwataru placed the copper pipes to the side, the percussion to the back, and moved the guitar effects. The middle section features a violin sound that rotates, opposite the piano, expressing the concept of two instruments meeting.

In this spatial remix, Iwan Dai needed to compare sound at a fixed monitoring position. He realized that existing stereo piano materials struggled to produce clear dot images, so he and his team repeatedly experimented with material width and the recorded room reverberation.

Music learning and the first compositions in the classroom

In a 2024 interview, Iwatari recalled that when he was in fifth grade, his class participated in a choir competition, and he practiced trumpet in class. His music-loving homeroom teacher gradually introduced him to music. After learning guitar in middle school, he began trying his hand at composing music, and considered the theme of composing for the picture book 'Habard Obasanto Inu' in music class as his first time composing.

In high school, he played in wind ensemble, and in college, he entered the sound department of a music university.

From band keyboardists to game music

Near graduation, he was invited by friends to join the band as a substitute keyboardist. Although I also wrote original pieces, I mainly performed them; Later, a college friend introduced him to work in game music.

The accumulation of early Mega Drive timbres

Iwatari recalls that in his early work, amplifier noise would mask the soft sounds, and he wrote songs in the range of 0 to C13, within the sixteen ranges of 0 to F. He repeatedly experimented with sounds for the Mega Drive, accumulating quality until the 1991 release of "Langrisser," gradually reaching a level he could use with confidence.

Melody and the emotion of the scene

Iwatari values melodies that will remain in people's memories for years to come. He would carefully read the script, imagine how the emotions would change in the scenes, and then compose music for the scene.

Even when writing music for towns or villages, he imagines the residents' moods, the rhythm of life, and the liveliness of life, then composes the melody.

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Data compiled on: 2026-10-16.

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