Jun Ishikawa

Jun Ishikawa in 2017

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.

Ishikawa's artistic influences include Paul Mauriat, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Brian Eno.

List of works

Jun Ishikawa in 2018

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's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (with Hirokazu Ando, Yuki Shimooka, Kiyoshi Hazemoto, Yuuta Ogasawara, and Yuki Kato)

Kirby albums

• Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track (with Hirokazu Ando and Tadashi Ikegami; arrangement for "Boss Battle Medley / Electronic ver.")
• The Sound of Kirby Café (with Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, and Megumi Ohara)
• Kirby Memorial Arrangements (with Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, and Megumi Ohara)
• The Sound of Kirby Café 2 (with Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, Megumi Ohara, Yuuta Ogasawara, and Yuki Shimooka)
• Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Festival (keyboard for "King Dedede Medley")

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

Welcome to Dream Land Green Greens Castle Lololo Float Islands Bubbly Clouds Boss Theme Shooting Entrance Mt. DeDeDe A New Wind for Tomorrow Invincible Done In Game Over Sparkling Star Kirby Dance

Kirby's Adventure

(Note: Compositions from Kirby's Dream Land)

Invincible Done In Sparkling Star Kirby Dance Black-and-white (Game Boy) Plains Stage Welcome to Dream Land (unused)

Kirby Super Star

Grand Opening Boss Battle Peanut Plains Cave Stage Candy Mountain Gourmet Race The Great Cave Offensive Sub-Tree Area Boarding the Halberd Havoc Aboard the Halberd VS. Meta Knight My Friend and the Sunset Milky Way Wishes Milky Way Wishes: Shooting Vs. Marx Samurai Kirby The Arena Milky Way Wishes: Staff Credits

Kirby's Dream Land 3

Opening Title File Select Level Select Grass Land: Stage Select Grass Land (1) Mission Complete Mission Failed Mid-Boss Goal Game Invincible Friends (1) Friends (2) Friends (3) Grass Land (2) Grass Land (3) Plains Stage Incorrect Path Boss Kirby Dance (Short) Ripple Field: Stage Select Ripple Field: Ocean Waves Ripple Field Ripple Field (3) Sand Canyon: Stage Select Stage: Comical Gourmet Race Desert Stage Cloudy Park: Stage Select Cloudy Park Mini-Game Entrance Defeated Game Over Iceberg: Stage Select The Last Iceberg King Dedede's Theme THE END? Wind Ambience VS. Dark Matter Vs. Zero True Ending Egg Bonus Stage (unused)

Kirby's Star Stacker (SNES)

VS. Poppy Bros. Jr. VS. Chef Kawasaki VS. Gryll

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

Training World Map Planet Popstar Room Guarder Quiet Forest Battle with Friends Boss Rock Star Ruins Inside the Ruins Aqua Star Down the Mountain Stream Neo Star: Stage Select Neo Star Shiver Star Above the Clouds Studying the Factory Ripple Star Miracle Matter Game Over Sub-Game Title 100-Yard Hop Bumper Crop Bump Checkerboard Chase Standings 0² Battle

Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land

Select Vegetable Valley Orange Ocean Rainbow Resort Fountain of Dreams Bomb Rally

Kirby Air Ride

Air Ride: Machine Passage Top Ride: Metal City Trial: Rowdy Charge Tank

Kirby: Canvas Curse

Growth Grasses Ghost Grounds Machine Mansion Mad Mechanism Spectacle Space The World of Drawcia Kracko Paint Panic Cart Run Drawcia Soul

Kirby: Squeak Squad

Squeak Squad: Title Squeak Squad Appears! VS. Squeak Squad Eerie Underground Sub-Game Title Smash Ride

Kirby Super Star Ultra

Spring Breeze: Title Heavy Lobster Kirby on the Draw Revenge of the King: Title Flying Fortress Kabula Masked Dedede's Theme True Arena Showdown Alternate Corkboard

Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track

Boss Battle Medley / Electronic ver.

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Yin-Yarn Mega Yin-Yarn

Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Planet Popstar You Got an Energy Sphere! VS Sphere Doomer So Many Energy Spheres! Fight! Mid-Boss Battle Beyond the Hill Invincible Candy Goal Game Battle on the Horizon You Got a Part Sphere! Kirby Dance (Long) - After Boss Raisin Ruins Sandy Wilds Exotic Pyramid Vestiges of the Ancients Onion Ocean Summer Sands and Cool Waves Water Sliders A Stroll on the Ocean Floor Snowball Scuffle On the Path of Frosty Roadblocks Tumbling Ice Perfect Sledding Weather Freezing Temple Nutty Noon Fierce Winds Defeat Game Over Sleepy Continue Time for a Challenge! Rush to the Goal! Green Greens Ninja Dojo - Title Enter the Ninja Dojo! Ninja Dojo Showdown How Many Did We Hit? Scope Shot Climactic Clash! Robo Dedede Too Bad... Well Done! Congratulations! Distant Halcandra The Long-Desired Land Egg Engines Techno Factory Rush on the Railway Coaster Into the Underground Waterway Pressure Panic Another Dimension Dimensional Silence Guardian Angel: Landia Welcome Your New Overlord Explanations Taking a Break Where the True Enemy Lies Otherworldly Warrior 100% Fanfare Wii Channel Banner

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

Floral Fields Dark Clouds Keychain Collection Must Dash Reflected Laughter Cold Odyssey Golden Legend Mountains in an Angry Sky Wind of the Membrane Wall Ripple Red Kirby Fighters Moonlight Capital Beautiful Prison Dedede's Royal Payback Sullied Grace The Arena Arena Showdown Rest Area The True Arena True Arena Showdown Shadow Strike HOME Menu Jingle

Kirby: Planet Robobot

Rhythm Code Resolution Road Gorgeous-Go-Round Bountiful Star Submarine Suburbs Gigabyte Grounds Dried-up Sea Studying the Power Plant Sky-High and Smitten Loud Locomotive Continue? VS. Mini Masher Team Kirby Clash TIME BEEEAM! Access Ark Working Sounds Pristine Office March L86 Inner Struggle Crazy Rolling in Money Intermezzo Without a Leader You Lack Discipline Continue? (Meta Knightmare Returns) StreetPass wins / Normal StreetPass wins / True Broken Heart The Road is Long... Faded & Flower The Greatest Warrior in the Galaxy Ever Well-fed Victory HOME Menu Jingle

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

Kirby's Blowout Blast

Game Over

Kirby Memorial Arrangements

Star Tumble

Kirby Star Allies

Friend Puzzle Invincible End Eyecatch! Friendly Field Reef Resort Echo's Edge Nature's Navel Sacred Square Blowing on a Cliff A Solitary Resounding Whistle My Friend and the Sound of Those Crossing Blades Memorial Fest Goal Game Done In Misteen Ocean Star Lavadom Chasing Our Dreams Rockabilly And Blues Holy Road Holy Shrine Puppet Offering La Follia d'amore Holy Offering Festival Prelude: Into the Sea of Stars Termina's Foreboding Squeak Squad: Title/Star Allies Arrangement ver. Taranza, the Master of Puppetry/Star Allies Arrangement ver. The Noble Haltmann/Star Allies Arrangement ver. He's Arrived! Daroach! Taranza Sees Right Through You! Susie Will Exterminate! The Three Mage-Sisters… Repay Their Debt! Nightmare's Battle VS. Marx / Star Allies Dream ver. True! Squeak Squad Theme Bad Boss Brothers

The Sound of Kirby Café 2

The King's Sparkling Full Course

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 Tilt-and-Roll Kirby Tilt-and-Roll Kirby (Extra Hard) Defeat Pitch-Black Valley Burning, Churning Power Plant Hunted by the Beast

Kirby's Dream Buffet

Cute, Colorful Candies Free Rolling 1 Winning Fanfare

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

Birdsong Serenade at the Grand Opening Enter the Ninja Dojo! Ninja Dojo Showdown INTERNAL STRUGGLE

Trivia

• In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby: Planet Robobot, Kirby's Dream Buffet, and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Jun Ishikawa's compositions are indicated with red musical notes in the Jukebox. In Kirby Star Allies and Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the notes are magenta instead.
• Ishikawa has a reputation for anecdotes about using everyday objects, such as empty cans and nutrition drink bottles, in order to make a convincing sound. For Studying the Power Plant, he made the harsh electronic sounds by sticking his reading glasses between the strings of an electric guitar.