Junichi Masuda
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Japanese video game developer
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- The single period inventory model
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Junichi Masuda (増田 順一 Masuda Junichi, born January 12, 1968) is a video game composer, director, designer, producer, and programmer best known for his work on the Pokémon franchise. He is a member of the Game Freak board of directors, and has worked at the company since 1989. He helped compose the music for games like Mendel Palace and Smart Ball before beginning to work on the first Pokémon games. On Pokémon Red and Green he worked mainly as the soundtrack and sound effects composer, as well as
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5 total works indexed
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes
· 2006 · cited 4,903x
- Ordered Metal Nanohole Arrays Made by a Two-Step Replication of Honeycomb Structures of Anodic Alumina
· 1995 · cited 4,816x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,394x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy
· 2012 · cited 2,918x
- Olaparib for Metastatic Breast Cancer in Patients with a Germline
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Mutation
· 2017 · cited 2,836x
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- Born
- ( 1968-01-12 ) January 12, 1968 (age 58) , Yokohama , Kanagawa , Japan
- Alma mater
- Japan Electronics College
- Occupations
- Composer director designer producer programmer
- Years active
- 1989–present
- Employers
- Game Freak (1989–2022) The Pokémon Company (2022–present)
- Genres
- Video game music
- Instruments
- Piano , trombone
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- date of birth
- 1968-01-12
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- Junichi Masuda
- name in kana
- ますだ じゅんいち
- name in native language
- 増田順一
- start of work period
- 1989-00-00
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- 500582
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Junichi Masuda (増田 順一, Masuda Jun'ichi; born January 12, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an employee and executive at the company since 1989 after Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori founded it, starting as a music composer. In 2022, Masuda was appointed to be Chief Creative Fellow at The Pokémon Company.
With the development of new Pokémon games, Masuda took new roles in future projects. He began to produce and direct games, starting with Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, and became responsible for approving new character models. His style seeks to keep games accessible while still adding increasing levels of complexity. His work sticks to older mainstays of the series, including a focus on handheld game consoles and 2D graphics. His music draws inspiration from the work of celebrated modern composers like Dmitri Shostakovich, though he used the Super Mario series as a model of good video game composition.