Daisuke Ishiwatari

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Daisuke at FanimeCon 2010

Daisuke Ishiwatari ( Japanese 石 渡 太 輔 ; born August 14, 1973 in Johannesburg ) is a Japanese video game developer, musician, composer and illustrator. He is best known for developing the 2D fighting game Guilty Gear . He developed the characters, composed the music, wrote the storyline and is also the voice actor for the characters Sol Badguy and Order-Sol. Daisuke Ishiwatari also composed the music for BlazBlue with Yoshihiro Kusano . Daisuke Ishiwatari also composed the soundtracks for Hard Corps Uprising with the Japanese guitarist Takayoshi Ohmura.

Childhood and youth

As a child, Daisuke Ishiwatari became interested in video games and anime. In his spare time, he enjoyed drawing anime pictures and playing video games, especially 2D fighting games like Street Fighter II . Because Ishiwatari became too dependent on it, his father banned him from playing these video games, but this led to his interest in them growing and eventually the desire to work in the video game industry. At the age of 13, Ishiwatari became enthusiastic about music, especially rock and metal music . At the age of 14 he began to learn to play the guitar himself, six months later he started playing drums. At the age of 15 and 16 he learned to play the bass and keyboard. Daisuke Ishiwatari only came to the violin in 2005.

Video game developer career

After graduating from high school, Daisuke Ishiwatari started working as a game tester before working as a developer. He first tested a children's video game called Pico . But he had different ideas about a video game. He said, "The thought I had at that time was that if I had to develop games like this, I would never work in the video game industry!"

Daisuke Ishiwatari started working at Arc System Works in 1997 . In 1998 Daisuke Ishiwatari's first video game called Guilty Gear was released for the PlayStation 1 . Guilty Gear sold over 10,000 times on the first day and got a huge number of followers. Since Guilty Gear was very successful, Ishiwatari decided to develop more parts of Guilty Gear. In 2000, Guilty Gear X was released for the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 . Guilty Gear X became the most popular 2D fighting game of the year 2000. By 2007 Daisuke Ishiwatari developed other Guilty Gear fighting games, such as "Guilty Gear X2" and "Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core". In Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core, he speaks the two characters Sol Badguy and Order-Sol. In 2008 Daisuke Ishiwatari started developing a 3D action game called "Guilty Gear 2 Overture". In 2011 his newest video game was released, another shoot 'em up game in the Contra series called Hard Corps Uprising, which has found a huge following in the USA.

Career as a musician

In 1995 Daisuke Ishiwatari founded the band ASH which was mainly responsible for perfecting the Guilty Gear soundtracks. The band consisted of five musicians. Daisuke Ishiwatari was initially just a composer. It wasn't until the band split up in 2003 that he personally took over the performance of his video game soundtracks. In 1998, ASH was offered a recording deal by Sony Music Distribution Japan , which the band signed. With this record deal it was possible to sell the soundtracks within Japan. When the band broke up in 2003 and Ishiwatari began to perfect his soundtracks himself, he got a recording deal from Sony Music Distribution Japan, as he was mainly the band's composer. In 2004, after the Guilty Gear Isuka Soundtracks were released, he also signed a recording contract with the American record company Team Entertainment Inc. With the conclusion of this contract with it was now possible to sell the soundtracks in the USA. Ishiwatari did not get a record deal to release his soundtracks in Europe because the European publishers were very dissatisfied with his music. In 2003 and 2011, two live CDs hit the Japanese and American markets. The first CD was Guilty Gear XX Sound Alive, on which the band ASH can be heard. The second live DVD is called Guilty Gear x Blazblue Music Live 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guilty Gear Overture - Holy Orders III by Daisuke Ishiwatari. (No longer available online.) In: extraype.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2011 ; Retrieved August 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.extrahype.com
  2. ↑ Info on Ishiwatari. In: tvtropes.org. Retrieved August 20, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b Presentation of Ishiwatari as a guest at the Anime-Expo 2012. (No longer available online.) In: anime-expo.org. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011 ; Retrieved August 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anime-expo.org
  4. ↑ Interview All About Guilty Gear With Creator Daisuke Ishiwatari. In: siliconera.com. May 6, 2011, accessed August 20, 2011 .
  5. ↑ New Guilty Gear? Creator Daisuke Ishiwatari Says It Will Happen "Eventually". In: siliconera.com. May 2, 2011, accessed August 20, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Biography of Ishiwatari. In: squareenixmusic.com. Retrieved August 20, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Interview on Guilty Gear and his music. In: guiltygear.ru. Retrieved August 20, 2011 .
  8. ↑ discography. In: musicbrainz.org. Retrieved August 20, 2011 .
  9. ^ Profile of Ishiwatari. In: vgmdb.net. Retrieved August 20, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Ishiwatari, Daisuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石 渡 太 輔 (Japanese); Ishiwatari, Daisuke Aganabi Xhola (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese video game developer, musician and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg