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Jun Ishikawa (石川淳 Ishikawa Jun, born 1964) is a senior sound composer at HAL Laboratory and one of the main composers of the Kirby series. Along with frequent collaborator Hirokazu Ando, Ishikawa has composed many of the classic Kirby songs. He is best known for his energetic, electronic-based compositions.
List of works
Kirby series
- Kirby's Dream Land
- Kirby's Adventure (with Hirokazu Ando; compositions from Kirby's Dream Land)
- Kirby Super Star (with Dan Miyakawa)
- Kirby's Dream Land 3
- Kirby's Star Stacker (SNES) (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (with Shogo Sakai, Hirokazu Ando, and Tadashi Ikegami)
- Kirby Air Ride (with Hirokazu Ando, Tadashi Ikegami, and Shogo Sakai)
- Kirby: Canvas Curse (with Tadashi Ikegami)
- Kirby: Squeak Squad (with Hirokazu Ando, Tadashi Ikegami, and Shogo Sakai)
- Kirby Super Star Ultra (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby's Epic Yarn (with Tomoya Tomita, Hirokazu Ando, and Tadashi Ikegami)
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition (with Hirokazu Ando and Shogo Sakai)
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby: Planet Robobot (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby's Blowout Blast (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby Star Allies (with Hirokazu Ando and Yuuta Ogasawara)
- Super Kirby Clash (with Hirokazu Ando and Kiyoshi Hazemoto)
- Kirby Fighters 2 (with Hirokazu Ando, Kiyoshi Hazemoto, and Yuki Shimooka)
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land (with Hirokazu Ando, Yuuta Ogasawara, and Yuki Shimooka)
- Kirby's Dream Buffet (with Yuuta Ogasawara, Shogo Sakai, Hirokazu Ando, Megumi Ohara, and Yuki Shimooka)
Kirby albums
BoxBoy! series
- BoxBoy! (with Hirokazu Ando)
- BoxBoxBoy! (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Bye-Bye BoxBoy! (with Hirokazu Ando)
- BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! (with Hirokazu Ando and Yuuta Ogasawara)
Other selected works
- Adventures of Lolo 3
- New Ghostbusters II
- HAL's Hole in One Golf
- HyperZone (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Arcana (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Alcahest
- Picross 3D (with Hirokazu Ando and Yasumasa Yamada)
Song credits
The following are all Kirby songs Jun Ishikawa has been credited for being in charge of:
Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Adventure
(Note: Compositions from Kirby's Dream Land)
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dream Land 3
- Opening
- Title
- File Select
- Level Select
- Grass Land: Stage Select
- Grass Land (1)
- Mission Complete
- Mission Failed
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- Mid-Boss
- Goal Game
- Invincible
- Friends (1)
- Friends (2)
- Friends (3)
- Grass Land (2)
- Grass Land (3)
- Plains Stage
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- Incorrect Path
- Boss
- Kirby Dance (Short)
- Ripple Field: Stage Select
- Ripple Field: Ocean Waves
- Ripple Field
- Ripple Field (3)
- Sand Canyon: Stage Select
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- Stage: Comical
- Gourmet Race
- Desert Stage
- Cloudy Park: Stage Select
- Cloudy Park
- Mini-Game
- Entrance
- Defeated
- Game Over
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Kirby's Star Stacker (SNES)
- VS. Poppy Bros. Jr.
- VS. Chef Kawasaki
- VS. Gryll
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Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
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- 100-Yard Hop
- Bumper Crop Bump
- Checkerboard Chase
- 0² Battle
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Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Kirby Air Ride
Kirby: Canvas Curse
Kirby: Squeak Squad
Kirby Super Star Ultra
Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track
- Boss Battle Medley / Electronic ver.
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Kirby's Epic Yarn
Kirby's Return to Dream Land
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- Game Over
- Too Bad...
- Good Job!
- Congratulations!
- Got a Part Sphere!
- Green Greens
- Faraway Halcandra
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Kirby: Triple Deluxe
Kirby: Planet Robobot
The Sound of Kirby Café
- Gourmet! Carnival / Gourmet Race
- Teatime Under Sunbeams / Forest/Nature Area
- Sixty-four / VS. 0²
- Eating a Meal and Having a Dream / Milky Way Wishes: Staff Credits
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Kirby's Blowout Blast
Kirby Memorial Arrangements
Kirby Star Allies
The Sound of Kirby Café 2
- The King's Sparkling Full Course
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Through the Tunnel
- Stage Cleared!
- Abandoned Beach
- Welcome to Wondaria
- Invasion at the House of Horrors
- Pitch-Black Horror
- Please Don't Inhale the Cinema Patrons
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- Tilt-and-Roll Kirby
- Tilt-and-Roll Kirby (Extra Hard)
- Defeat
- Pitch-Black Valley
- Burning, Churning Power Plant
- Hunted by the Beast
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Kirby's Dream Buffet
Trivia