Junichi Masuda

Junichi Masuda

Junichi Masuda (Japanese: 増田順一 Masuda Jun'ichi, born January 12, 1968) is best known as a game director and composer for the Pokémon games.

Junichi Masuda was the first person to compose for a Pokémon game and was the sole composer for the entirety of Generation I. He has composed for every handheld Pokémon game in the standard style to date. He has also composed for Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Stadium 2, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, Pokémon Channel, Pokémon Box and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. Junichi Masuda has also composed for two e-Reader games, Machop at Work and Kingler's Day.

Due to his work on the Pokémon games, he has worked on Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Junichi Masuda's game music has been used in the anime, rearranged by Shinji Miyazaki

He designed Hoenn, and as such he has been credited with original design in the anime since the Advanced Generation series. More recently, he was the director of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. He served as a writer for Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, The Rise of Darkraiand Giratin and the Sky Warrior.

Additionally, he runs a Director's Column (Japanese) on Game Freak's website, with many recent entries translated into English.

The character Pearl's optional name Jun is a possible reference to Masuda, as is the character of Vincent (whose Japanese name is: Jun'ichi) from Johto in the anime.

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