Kenzou Kumei

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Kenzou Kumei
Kenzou Kumei - 1.jpg
Local 粂井 謙三 (くめい けんぞう)
Born c. 1960
Birth Place
Nationality Japanese   Japan.svg
Aliases だんじり だんじり くむくむ (Danjiri Danjiri Kumukumu)

Kenzou Kumei is a Japanese musician. He composed music for Thinking Rabbit. He is best known for composing the soundtrack to the NES game 8 Eyes. Kumei is also an accomplished mandolin player.

Music Development

NES

For his NES music, Kumei probably wrote the music on sheet music paper, which was given to Thinking Rabbit for their programmers to implement into the game.

Gameography

Released Title Sample Notes
1986-07-30 Namida no Soukoban Special (FDS) (涙の倉庫番スペシャル) Composer?
1987-09-25 Kyonshies 2 (FC) (キョンシーズ2) Unknown arranger, possibly Masayuki Kurinaga.
1988-09-27 8 Eyes (NES) (エイトアイズ) Unknown arranger, possibly Hiroto Nakamura.
1989-11-20 Perfect Soko-ban (PC98)

Aliases

In Kyonshies 2 (FC), he is credited under the name Danjiri Danjiri Kumu Kumu. It is currently unknown what "Danjiri" means, but "Kumu" is most likely a shortening of his surname. Hiroyuki Imabayashi identified the alias as belonging to Kenzou.

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