We are nearing the release of some of the final items that I got to start development on during my time on the Pokémon team. There’s still a few left, but this really was one of the highlights to leave on!

Like what the hell is this

This reminds me a lot of Redminus

The Berry Bun Brainrot Blind Boxes need to be made.

But when it comes to composing music for Pokémon, I’m *always* going to try and emulate some aspect of Shinji Miyazaki’s style

For the lead melody I took a “mallet forward” approach as heard on tracks like Miyazaki’s Route 29 arrangement (sans the iconic Miyazaki clarinet/flute combo)

Less obvious; the biggest inspiration for this track was Asuka Sakai’s brilliant rearrangement of ‘Katamari on the Rocks’ that she titled ‘Overture II’ for ‘We Love Katamari’

I’m a low-tier composer at best (especially with Jazz) but it was fun riding the inspiration on this.

While I didn’t leave the influence of Shinji Miyazaki entirely behind, for this year’s calendar jingle I decided to do a genre shift towards Jazz.

I specifically (obviously) tried to emulate the shuffles heard in Vince Guaraldi’s ‘Peanuts’ compositions.

Massive faux pas posting this on Energy Sword Sunday

You got me in!! Thank you for being the bridge-builder from that crummy other site.

I feel like you were instrumental in curating such a good vibe here as people were moving over.

Congrats brotha!