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About Soyo Oka

Career to date

Started playing piano at an early age, studied composition at Osaka College of Music, and began working in music. 1987 joined Nintendo as a sound composer, responsible for music for Nintendo's video game software. 1995 left Nintendo to work as a freelance artist. Her representative works during her time at Nintendo include "Ice Hockey," "Fumikon Mukashi Hanashi Yuyuki," "Super Mario Kart," "Sim City," and "Pilot Wings. Since becoming independent, she has provided music for animation, commercials, and games. She has written many books and serialized his work in magazines and other publications.

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Career

Composer / Arranger / Lecturer at College of Music

Nintendo

1987-1995

Family Computer / Disk System

Ice Hockey

NES Grand Prix II 3D Hot Rally

VS Excite Bike

Famicom Old Tales Yu-Yu-Ki

Wario no Mori

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Pilot Wings

SimCity

Super Mario Kart

Super Mario Collection

Freelance

90's(1995-)

GAME

Playstation SME Lagnacur 1997

Playstation Battle Bucks 1997

Many more

CM, VP, Web, Events, etc.

So-net Corporation

Fujitsu Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

MAPLE, Inc.

Gakken

Tsukuda Original

Panasonic Wonder Entertainment

Frog Cafe

And many more

2000's

GAME

PS2 Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magical Te 2004

GBA TDK Core Gakko no Kaidan 2004

and Many others

CM, VP, TV programs, Web, events, etc

Mitsubishi Estate

Daishin Food

Kyocera Corporation

Yamaha Corporation

Asahi Corporation

Edison Life Insurance Company

East Japan Railway Company

Toride Box

UCC Coffee

NTT West

SEIKO

Sony Pictures

TV Tokyo

Animax, Inc.

Tokyo Big Sight

CYBIRD

Toshiba Corporation

and many others

​Music provided

Ending music for the anime "Nurse Witch Wheat Girl Magical", 2002

CD Nurse Witch Wheat Girl Magical, 2 songs composition and arrangement

Ending song for anime "Sunabozu", 2005

Participation works

Several CDs of Nurse Witch Wheat Girl series

Other

Instrument Maker Development

Copyright-free sound source development

2010 - 

GAME

Arcade Konami pop'n music 20 fantasia "JiGSaW!

Nintendo DS Chunsoft "Zombi Daisuki" 2011

Participating works

CAVE Deathsmiles Remix Album 2010

Taito Dariusburst Remix Wonder World 2010

KONAMI Castlevania Tribute 2011

KEY Planning Rewrite Arrange Album 'Soil' 2011

Lecturer

1996 - 2020

avex artist academy

Konami School

Bantan Group Vocational School

Shobi University

​Komazawa Women's University

2017 - 

SENZOKU GAKUEN COLLEGE of MUSIC

Album

SECOND BRAIN 2007

4star orchestra Thema BGM CD Cobito Story  2011​

Book

楽らくひける 9 すぐわかる楽譜とコード 1998
どうなっている?コンピューターと音楽(共著)1998
かんたん講座 ぱそこんで音楽しよう! 2001
曲が弾きたい!キーボードコード基礎ブック 2005
知りたい!弾きたい!キーボード 2007
ポピュラーピアノ作曲術 (モティーフ作りからアレンジまで) 2008
DTM に役立つ音楽ハンドブック 2011
初心者のピアノ基礎教本 2011
弾きながらマスター! ピアノコード入門 2011
キーボードの知識奏法がわかる本 2014
サントラ、BGM の作曲法 2016
つくれるサントラ BGM(CD 付き) 2017

歌もの・インストの作曲法(CD 付き) 2019

Magazine Coverage Serialization

Sound & Recording Magazine

Hello, Waveform December 1999- November 2001

Keyboard Magazine February 2000 issue

and many othes​

arranging musical scores

Yamaha Music Media

Shinko Music

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