Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, the voice of SEGA (Daytona USA, Burning Rangers)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Takenobu Mitsuyoshi stands as a unique character of SEGA's history, being the voice behind Daytona USA or Burning Rangers.
As part of the Archipel "Caravan" series, we asked him about his career, before a spectacular live performance, inside SEGA's studio.
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#sega #daytonausa #burningrangers
I wonder if Japan has any idea this guy is a national treasure.
Of course, they sent him a Sega Astro mini
The composer of Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest) SUGIYAMA Kouichi was designated as Person of Cultural Merit at the age of 89 this year.
So Mitsuyoshi must keep living at least more 35 years.
He must be, he even recently sang Captain Falcon's stage music for Smash Bros Ultimate and a bunch of PSO2's tracks till the last Chapter of it.
This comment section has many Japanese fans cheering for Takenobu Mitsuyoshi!☺💖
Don't worry they do
Finally I can put a face to the great man behind the "GAME OVER YEAH!!!!!" screen in Sega Rally Championship, and many other epic titles of the golden age. I'm crying.
Make AnaitGames great again!
Watch this one if you haven't already, it's a treasure of a video th-cam.com/video/F3V3tLfSVKg/w-d-xo.html
Oh man. Amazing
As you, l'm crying of memories
I've never wanted to be someone's friend this bad
Your life must be sad...
For real
@@DrNoBrazil lmao why even post a message like that, stay mad
I know right, amazing creative mind.
Gee is that bad? I'll be your friend!
Holy crap his Daytona usa vocals are so on point after all these years.
No shit, I wasn't expecting him to cleanly reach those notes at his age but I guess being a studio musician vs live makes all the difference as far as voice preservation goes (having to perform long shows in loud venues for many months of the year)
Japanese is always honor perfection, you wont see them miss a single note in live concert, for a test, if you happened to have record of a song being sang in live performance and then superimposed that live vocal and live band performance on their official music video, they will still an exact match. I ve tried before
@@bpcgos Heh, I noticed the opposite when looking at an I've Sound concert compilation, almost none of the singers were hitting their notes, until KOTOKO rocked up... =)
You can also watch some The Black Mages concerts where one of the guitarists (I forget who it was) is kinda all over the place, but he's having fun so I'll allow it.
This guy's mission on Earth is to put a smile on your face.
He certainly does a great job at it :)
Mission accomplished
In fact, I read that while watching with a smile in my face, so yeah
Exactly. You can feel his passion at every heartbeat. He's the kind of person to make people follow their dreams.
You fool, his mission has already been completed hundreds of thousands of times. He doesn't have to try, it just makes me happy.
I also have an unhealthy obsession with Daytona USA, so I'm pretty easy to please.
52 Years old and the man still has an amazing singing voice!!!
Not only a great composer but a wonderful performer. Rare!
Wow he’s only that age , I remember those games so many years ago
Music keeps you young. That's why oppressive regimes (Stalin, Mao, Obama, etc.) suppress the arts. They make everything ugly.
This man is a quiet hero in my life. That voice is gold.
I see you are a man of culture, Nei avatar, thumbs up.
As soon as the video started, my first thought: "I hope he'll sing Burning Rangers!". Was not disappointed!
We must admit we have trouble removing the song from our head after making this video :)
@@ArchipelDocumentaries Burning Rangers came out right in the middle of the original EVANGELION craze, borrowing a lot of moods and feels from Anno Hideaki's revolution particularly as for the use of seiyuu(s). Nonetheless, SONIC TEAM really did remarkable sound works in the SegaSaturn age, with NiGHTS ost shining high almost as one of its kind. :-)
BTW, this video is SO GREAT in any detail it's almost hard to believe it's real. The whole production level, the overall quality is just amazing. Amazing.
ah ah the same here, blessed we are
Before there was One Way Dream, dubbed by many to be the Sonic Team anthem, there was
(S)ight (O)f (N)ight (I) (C)heer (T)o (E)mbrace (A) (M)agic
I think prefer the later.
4:07 for Daytona
10:00 for DAYTONAAAAAAAA
16:32 Burning Rangers
All these years i thought the songs were performed by a guy who was American, now i find out the guy was Japanese. The amazing voice really fooled me for the past 20 odd years.
4:07 is a vocal exerpt from Rolling Start (easy mode music for Daytona USA)
5:10 is Sky High (hard mode music for Daytona USA)
@@matthewlumibao7057 5:10 is all I could ever want. Manual Transmission for life
光吉さん無くしてデイトナUSAの成功はなかったかも、と思う。
ここまで語り継がれるのは歌の良さがある。
ノリがとにかく良いんだよなぁ。
When he said he was at 52 I could not believe it. The guy has such a fun energy. Wish I had played more SEGA games at the 90s, Burning Rangers looks so cool!
I never realised he actually did the keyboards, I thought he was just an amazing vocalist. Much respect, Takenobu rocks.
He's also a bass player, you can even see him playing it in some old concert videos.
Daytona is really an earworm, a brain-washing song.
Absolutely. One of my strongest memories of this generation of gaming.
@@antenant9294 Same here. Sky High was my jam
The song is "Let's go away" though...
The Big 4, "The King of Speed", "Let's Go Away", "Sky High", and the one I've come to enjoy
much more than I used to, "Pounding Pavement".
This man has a really unique pitch and voice when he is singing in English, I'm really happy to see this video! Thanks again Archipel! or Toco Toco!! :)
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Maybe it's just on my end but both links don't work because of the ) at the end, might confuse some people :3
13:21 That's got to be Jun Senoue on Guitar there.
If you ever interview Toshihiro Nagoshi (again), please ask him why does Daytona USA has Brazilian references around the Three-Seven Speedway track.
Was it because of Ayrton Senna??
Can you add non auto-generated Japanese subtitles please?
あの声と曲がかっこよくてデイトナUSAのサントラ持っています。外国の方が歌っていると思っていました。
今もその歌声を維持されていることに驚きました。美しい声ですね。
Agreed as a foreigner i can appreciate his art
Daytona is not Daytona without the soundtrack. Stayed in my head for decades lol
yep agreed why just have a racing game why not a karaoke racing game singing out full volume in the arcades to put off my rivals lol
An amazing human being! His voice has NOT changed hardly at all over the years!
After being a fan since burning rangers, I'm glad I finally attended his concert (virtually, in PSO2 lol)
It was a fun concert to dance with. lol
They did a Mitsuyoshi concert in PSO2? Damnit, sounds amazing...
It's beyond amazing to see these incredibly well produced documentaries featuring the real heroes of the industry: JAPANESE DEVELOPERS... on a platform where, regarding videogames, the norm is to scream, use a forced accent, fake emotions, disinformation, pointless system wars, and those cheesy cringey and clíckbait-esque thumbnails with arrows and a guy opening his mouth trying to look surprised.
Archipel, you don't know how good your work is, really. Let me tell you that this is PRICELESS.
Thank you.
Thank you for the kind word 🙏
Back in the day, Japanese game developers were very secretive. You didn't know much about them, like what kind of people they were. They didn't even use their real names in the credits, opting for aliases like "Yu2", "Nakazoo", "TenTen", and "S.Miyahon", that last one of course being the alias for Shigeru Miyamoto. I'm to understand that game companies required these aliases to prevent their employees from being "poached" (hired away) by a rival studio, but I'm not sure about that. The quality of being unknown made these developers seem a bit mysterious and even threatening, especially when considering the legal aggressiveness their companies -- Nintendo in particular -- got up to at the time.
Today, these Japanese developers have made themselves more visible. They're doing interviews and documentaries, and Sakurai and Miyamoto appear regularly in Nintendo promotions to talk about the games and other things they have planned. I think it helps gamers connect with the human side of the games they play, the passion and artistry that goes in to making them.
OH MY GOD THE NOSTALGIA RUSH WHEN I HEARD DAYTONAAAAAA LET'S GO AWAY
That's the impression I have.
Mitsuyoshi-san has the courage to put his own voice in, saying, 'If no one else is making game music with his voice in it, let's do it.'
I am impressed.
He could very well be THE reason why SEGA games have so many vocal tracks. He is great!
4:23
Vocal range of this man is immeasurable, even at such age.
I always wonder if these Japanese people can speak fluently English when most of the videos is them speaking japanese, yet there's a lot of ocassion of them speaking English either text or a song
I've heard of a lot of musicians grow tired of their signature hit, but Takenobu Mitsuyoshi REALLY loves what he's created. His face says it all, "Pure Bliss" is what he's feeling.
Man, that Sky High singing got me emotional. This man is so amazing, I think he can't even imagine how important he is
光吉さん歳取って、渋くなってて格好いい。デイトナの歌も最高で大好き！
9:59 Daytona USA - Let's Go Away 2020 version!!
Hearing him sing Sky High brought a tear to my eye.
same here
Your not alone :)
自分がゲーム業界で特にSEGAが好きなのは、光吉さんの存在が大きいです。兄貴だったり、ミュージシャンだったりヒーローみたいな存在です。I love sega!daytonaaaaaaaa!!!
I was as giddy as a child when he started playing piano. Nothing could have prepared me for the smile Mitsuyoshi San gave me today. That was a glee filled 21 min video. Beautiful work once again @Archipel
Thank you! It felt good for us as well to see someone with such a positive energy during these strange times...
DAYTONA唄の本人まさか日本人の方！渋すぎ！
やばっ！あの声は日本人だったの！？！？しかもセガの社員？AM2研？
ていうか弾きながらこの歌唱力。
たまに藤井風さんかと思った。
9:59 is what I’m here for! Still amazing timbre of voice, and the fact that English is his second language is just fantastic!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Playing Daytona at the arcades felt modern and vibrant not only due to the highly saturated visuals and finely detailed environment but in great part due to a less obvious choice in musical accompaniment. These themes made their way into the shower singing domain, catchy and unique as they were. Seeing Mitsuyoshi-sama singing them is something I never thought possible.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
この歌を日本人 しかもSEGAの社員の方が歌ってるの知った時は本当にびっくりしました。
やっぱりいいな！
デイトナはゲーセンでもやってたなぁ。
Thank you so much for this.
Thanks for watching!
If I was rich I swear I would hire hire this guy to make the music for the game I'm making.
God I don't know why I couldn't find this channel before
Because focused, creative, highly produced and researched content like this always struggles to gain mass attention when the masses all prefer the cheap and nasty lets plays, reaction vids, unboxings and other useless mindless dribble that falls under the "video games" banner.
Well, we're still glad you eventually found us :)
当時ナムコが経営するゲーセンで働いていたけど、確かにデイトナUSA等の曲で洗脳されてしまったなぁ
I dont know how Sega does it. They have a knack for hiring amazing talent. Their music is just a cut above the rest, thanks in part to Mr Mitsuyoshi!
Sega has excellent musicians.
When he started singing I couldn't stop smiling! SEGA today, SEGA tomorrow, SEGA 4 EVER!
光吉さんの歌が本当に好きです。今でも楽しんで聴いています。
当時、最先端だったPCM音声がゲーム中に流れるというコンセプトがとても気に入っていて、とても新鮮で好きでした。
これからも応援しています！！！
デイトナUSA 、アウトランナーズ、バーチャレーシングのBGMは人生に衝撃を与えてもらいました。何度も口ずさみました。
成功も失敗も閃きの産物なのか？
間違いなくレースゲームにサウンドの改革を起こしたのではないでしょうか？デイトナUSA以降直ぐにナムコもR4などボーカルに力を入れ32ビット時代を熱く盛り上げた・・・
やはりセガはいつも一歩早い
良くも悪くも、時代の先を行っていたのだった…😅💦💦
きっと、基本中の基本情報だったんだろうと思うが、
これ日本人が歌っていたなんて今知った!
しかもセガの社員!
スゲー!
そうなんです！
セガ社員の才能えげつないw
てかデイトナの歌でbehindをビハインドでなくバハインドに近く発音する日本人初めてみた。そっちが正しい発音だからね。
I feel like the algorithm should have recommended this channel to me a looooooong time ago. Wonderful stuff
Glad you ultimately made it here :)
デイトナUSAは、光吉氏が居なかったら成功してないよ。
Everyone watching and waiting to hear him sing something from Daytona: "Do the thing!"
*Mitsuyoshi sings something from Daytona*
Everyone: "HE DID THE THING! HE DID THE THING!!"
VF1,2,3とシェンムーのテーマ曲は特に好きです。
声量すげえ、体もしっかり鍛えられていて納得の歌声
是非ファーストテイクでやっていただけないでしょうかねぇ
素晴らしい歌声をありがとうございます。感動で泣けてきました。
th-cam.com/video/ODWeirgcpQ8/w-d-xo.html
He also sings lyrics set to the Ryu stage theme from Street Fighter on the SF2 tribute album!
*"DAY-HEE-TONAAAAAAA"*
😂
We must admit we do have the same type of "Daytona spikes" since working on this video...
LET'S GO AWEE!
❤️ Mitsuyoshi-san is pretty awesome. When his music gets stuck in my head, it can only be a good thing. Makes me feel happy 😃
This was such a great watch, and an even better listen! Perhaps we could see one of these featuring Hideki Naganuma...?
Not much time before the Internet drones eventually culture cancel him for his latest "misadventures". ♫ soul brotha ♫
歌い出した途端鳥肌が立ち彼を見る目が一変した
彼は断じてオヤジではない エネルギッシュなイケオジだ
正直当時は子供でゲームセンターで遊ぶお金もなかったし、セガサターンも持ってなかったのでセガ道は全然通ってなかったのですが、
それでもゲーセンから聞こえてくるデイト～ナ～は強烈に覚えてるし、
やったのことの無いはずのバーニングレンジャーの曲をどこかで耳にして、CD買って、今でもバイクに乗りながら聴いてます😊
バーニングレンジャー。お世辞抜きで完璧な曲だと思う。
よくイントロは良いのに歌い出しイマイチとか、サビしか知らん曲とか多いけど、バーニングレンジャーはイントロ、AメロBメロ、サビ、間奏、そして熱い歌声！
バイクで走りながらついつい一緒に熱唱してしまう😅
上手いわ
凄い声でてる
I love that even all these years later he has an absolute blast singing Let's Go Away. It's wonderful to see such incredible energy and drive.
those J A Z Z chords are tasty
70s - 90s Japanese music was obviously influenced by jazz chords and fusion like T-Square is still a thing.
バーニングレンジャーのテーマ
今仕事きついから心から全力で叫ぶように歌いたいです
その気持ちわかります（笑）
Would love a series on Yasumi Matsuno and his time at Quest and beyond
We got to meet Matsuno-san for the first time a few weeks ago, maybe someday hopefully...
@@ArchipelDocumentaries fingers crossed! Keep doing what you're doing! Thankyou!
Holy fucking shit this is amazing... the man behind the Daytona USA songs....
Iconic 🎉
This is awesome. I would love to see the Ridge Racer guy from RR1 even though he didn't sing. Just to see him screaming into a mic "he's right on your tail!" would be amazing.
People who say “Only Americans watch Nascar” have been real quiet over here.
And I’m an Asian Nascar fan.
Such a legend in the racing game industry and in general, I remember burning tracks from Daytona USA onto a CD and driving around town blasting those tunes in my first car. Thanks for the upload Archipel, your vids are some of the best on TH-cam.
Thank you very much 🙏
I remember doing the same but with the Ridge Racer soundtrack and i love going through the highway listening to that soundtrack passing through the bridges and stuff.
Hah. And I had always mondegreened it as “Blue blue skies, like (the) sea”
未だに脳内でデイトナが流れて困る。
責任取っていただきたいものであるｗ
光吉武信さんの音楽性とパッションが素晴らしくかっこいいです！
Burning Rangers has been stuck in my head since I first heard it in PSO a long time ago. It's been one of my dream games to own for so long, if only it wasn't $800 for a US copy...
ゲームそっちのけで同梱CDをサターンの再生機能で聴きまくったバーニングレンジャー
大好きすぎる😍
今でもサターンの宇宙船みたいな音楽再生画面思い出せるなー
Thanks Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, pelo momentos incríveis ouvindo suas canções e jogando, deu todo um clima diferenciado nos games, sem isso eles não seriam os mesmos.
Congratulations! ❤❤❤
全く声の衰えもみえず、現役ですね
流石日本一歌の上手い会社員
凄い！
I'm just impressed. This video came in a really good time. This year has been hard for everyone, this goes without saying, but for me personally these past weeks are really wearing me out.
And then I saw this video. Precisely cut, well done! And the main subject, Mr. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi.
Man... his presence lighten up my spirit! He seems to have such an upbeat nature, it is just impossible to not getting into it. I remembered the good times at arcades, playing at home, and naturally grew fond of games, Sega (interesting how it does a bit of distinction from when it was still Sega Enterprises), and games with a delightful unique sound design.
Thanks again, Archipel, your videos transmit real passion. And thanks a lot, Mitsuyoshi-san! There are some people on my list of really interesting, influential and remarkable people on the world, you are on it for sure!
This man is a legend in every sense of the word.
This man always make me tear a bit I love his music and his personality, a truly cool guy !!! lml
He's so fun to watch perform you can tell he just enjoys playing music
Right?
Need more passion like that in life.
Oh heck yeah! Normally I put your videos in my watch later, but I'm watching this one RIGHT NOW!
Hope you enjoyed :)
Japan has many talents!
The charisma and energy of this man! I loved seeing him in interviews and live singing since I was a kid, felt so good to see him with such energy this horrible year!
This video made me feel like a child again, seeing one of the living incarnations of my childhood performing with full energy like it's the 90s.
I remember getting Daytona Usa, on the Saturn and I felt the soundtrack was so weird I did not like it as a kid, now 35 and understanding more from music being a musician myself I Feel what was going on back then This Man is Legendary and the Music he made comes from the soul Love it Thank you sir. I LOVE THIS VID :D and it's a beautiful day.
I had the biggest smile watching this video. Hearing Mitsuyoshi singing again is a blessing. I just had to sing along too, what a treasure this man is
Sight
Of
Night
I
Cheer
To
Embrace
A
Magic
This man is a legend! I am glad I got to know the face behind the talent.
Mitsuyoshi-San, Kondo-San, Suzuki-San, Senoue-San are national treasures.
Who else I forgot?
this guy's songs always put a smile in my face. what amazing energy!
omg i now know the guy behide one of my fav PSO songs very funny that they made a english ver but it just does not sound no where near as good or same as japanese ver
This was awesome! Thanks! To think that Galaxy Force (one of my favourite game soundtracks ever) was what inspired him.
when he started singing I started crying.
I swear to god, if Sega made a new racing game with Takenobu Mitsuyoshi doing vocals again, everyone would be happy. Hearing that man’s voice makes me so happy, hearing it echo throughout Dave and Busters.
A fantastic peek into this mad man's work - that Daytona theme is still stuck in my head :P
Definitely apt to call it a brainwashing song lol
He is a legend!
his soul breaks language barriers
Singing Sega Daytona USA wearing Sony Headphones
he's always been such a fun guy, a real performer too
I used to work in my local Arcade when I was in High School. That damn Daytona machine would kept on playing DAYTONAAAA DAYTONAAAA DAYTONAAAA endlessly! All the staff members would also unknowingly hum DAYTONAAAA when we are doing our tasks! It almost drove us mad!
19:58 No Mr Mitsuyoshi, we're all glad you kept on doing this and will be eternally thankful!
Nothing short of an absolute legend and truly the voice of Sega. You can see him just come to life once he starts signing and both his voice and character is utterly intoxicating. Great to see him singing Burning Rangers as well; even though I played the English version endlessly back in 1998 when it released, I'm fully familiar with the Japanese vocals and it still gave me goosebumps.
What a pleasure. Thanks Archipel, you are doing the work of the gaming gods.
Thanks a lot for the kind word!
Game over yeeeeeah!!! 🥁