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Katamari Damacy Soundtracks: Transliterated Tags
While on vacation in Japan, I bought the soundtracks to the PlayStation 2 games Katamari Damacy and We ♥ Katamari. These CDs were produced for the Japanese market, and are labeled entirely in Japanese. When I returned home and copied the CDs to audio files on my computer, I needed to tag the song files with the title and artist names, but they’re written in Japanese characters that I can’t readily type, and I didn’t really want to use the Japanese characters anyway since I can’t read them. So I spent some time and did some research, and came up with a complete list of the transliterated names of everyone who’s credited for the music on this pair of albums.
The names written in Japanese are exactly the ones that appear in the cover booklets of the two CDs, and the Latin transliterations were obtained through many hours of looking up kanji characters in the online Unihan Database and the GNOME Character Map, as well as various web searches. Some of these people, such as Yu Miyake, have their transliterated names mentioned frequently on the Web and were easy to find; others were very difficult, and required more creative searching and occasional guess-and-check.
(Note that if you don't have Japanese fonts installed on your computer, you won’t be able to see the Japanese characters on these pages. If “大” appears as a box or question mark or something, rather than the kanji character for “big”, you’re missing Japanese fonts.)
In the course of tagging these albums as well as others, I’ve built up a list of Japanese music terms.
This is a list of all the musicians, in Latin alphabetical order by given name. The Japanese forms of these names are written in Japanese order (family name followed by given name) as they appear in the CD booklets; the Latin forms are written in Western order (given name followed by family name) as they typically appear when mentioned this way on the Web.
- Ado Mizumori (水森 亜土)
- Singer of A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic.
- Akitaka Toyama (遠山 明孝)
- Composer and lyricist of The Moon and the Prince.
- Composer of You Are Smart, Stardust Fanfare, and Sunbaked Savanna.
- Composer, arranger, and lyricist of Everlasting Love.
- Alisa (有紗)
- Singer of Everlasting Love.
- Asuka Sakai (境 亜寿香)
- Composer of Overture, Overture Ⅱ, Fugue #7777, Last Samba, and Sunbaked Savanna.
- Composer and lyricist of A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic and Que Sera Sera.
- Composer and arranger of Bluffing Damacy.
- Charlie Kosei (チャーリー・コーセイ)
- Singer of Que Sera Sera.
- Dokaka
- Arranger, lyricist, and singer of Katamari on the Rocks (second version).
- Hideki Tobeta (戸部田 英樹)
- Composer and lyricist of Katamaritaino.
- Composer of Katamari★Stars and Sunbaked Savanna.
- Composer, arranger, and lyricist of Angel Rain and Houston.
- Hiroshi Okubo (大久保 博)
- Composer, arranger, and lyricist of Baby Universe and Disco★Prince.
- Illreme (イルリメ)
- Composer, arranger, and lyricist of Kuru Kuru Rock.
- Kahimi Karie (カヒミ・カリィ)
- Lyricist and singer of Blue Orb.
- Katamari Company Jr. (かたまり隊 Jr.)
- Singers of Cherry Blossom Color Season.
- Katamari Robo (カタマリロボ)
- This is the synthesized voice heard in Houston.
- Katamari Samba Company (塊サンバ隊)
- Singers of Last Samba.
- Katsuro Tajima (田島 勝朗)
- Composer and arranger of The Royal Academy of Katamari.
- Composer of A Song for the King of Kings.
- Kazuyuki Oda (小田 一行)
- Lyricist of Katamari Mambo ~ Katamari Syndrome Mix.
- Keita Takahashi (高橋 慶太)
- Lyricist of Katamari on the Rocks ~ Main Theme and Bluffing Damacy.
- Kenji Ninuma (新沼 謙治)
- Singer of The Moon and the Prince and Disco★Prince.
- Kirinji (キリンジ)
- Singer of Bluffing Damacy.
- Maki Nomiya (野宮 真貴)
- Singer of Baby Universe.
- Masayuki Tanaka (田中 雅之)
- Singer of Katamari on the Rocks ~ Main Theme.
- Natsuki Isaki (井崎 夏樹)
- Lyricist of Que Sera Sera.
- Nobue Matsubara (松原 のぶえ)
- Singer of Katamari Mambo ~ Katamari Syndrome Mix.
- Sakamoto‐Chan (坂本ちゃん)
- Singer of Katamari Mambo ~ Katamari Syndrome Mix.
- Saki Kabata (椛田 早紀)
- Singer of Lonely Rolling Star.
- Shigeru Matsuzaki (松崎 しげる)
- Singer of Katamari Love ~ Ending Theme and Katamari on the Swing.
- Takaki Horigome (堀込 高樹)
- Arranger of Bluffing Damacy.
- Takeshi Ugajin (宇賀神 岳史)
- Lyricist of A Song for the King of Kings.
- Tomoki Kanda (神田 朋樹)
- Composer of Blue Orb.
- Tomu Miyazaki (宮崎 吐夢)
- Singer of A Song for the King of Kings.
- Yohihito Yano (矢野 義人; alternatively spelled “Yoshihito”)
- Composer and lyricist of Lonely Rolling Star, Katamari Love ~ Ending Theme, and Katamari on the Swing.
- Composer of Beautiful Star.
- Composer and arranger of Sunbaked Savanna.
- You
- Singer of Angel Rain.
- Yu Miyake (三宅 優)
- Composer of Nananan Katamari, Overture, Overture Ⅱ, Wanda Wanda, Angel Flavor’s Present, Lovely Angel, Last Samba, and Katamari March Damacy.
- Composer and lyricist of Katamari on the Rocks ~ Main Theme, Cherry Blossom Color Season, Introduction, Katamari on the Rocks (second version), and Beautiful Star.
- Composer, arranger, and lyricist of Katamari on the Swing.
- Arranger of Disco★Prince.
- Composer and arranger of Sunbaked Savanna.
- Arranger and lyricist of A Song for the King of Kings.
- Yui Asaka (浅香 唯)
- Singer of Katamaritaino.
- Yuri Misumi (三角 由里)
- Composer of The Wonderful Star’s Walk is Wonderful and Sunbaked Savanna.
- Composer and lyricist of Katamari Mambo ~ Katamari Syndrome Mix.
- Composer, arranger, and lyricist of Katamari Holiday.
- Arranger and lyricist of A Song for the King of Kings.
- Yuusama (ゆうさま)
- Singer of Katamari Holiday.
- John the Dog (イヌのジョン)
- Bigmouth the Duck (アヒルのビッグマウス)
- Yuuhi the Crow (カラスのユウヒ)
- Pe the Goat (ヤギのペー)
- Booby the Pig (ブタのブービー)
- Sexy the Cat (ネコのセクシー)
- Nyuu the Cow (ウシのニュウ)
- These are the animal sounds which are used as instruments in Sunbaked Savanna.