Sachio Ogawa

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Sachio Ogawa
Employment history:
Sega Enterprises ( – 2000)
Divisions:
Sega (2000 – 2001)
Divisions:
Sega AM2 (2001 – 2004)
Sega (2004 – )
Divisions:
Role(s): Composer, Musician

Sachio Ogawa (小河 幸男) is a former sound designer and music composer at Sega. He is best known for being the main composer of Virtua Fighter 4.

Career

Console years

Ogawa, performing at the AM2 Summer Festival in 2001.

Sachio Ogawa began working at Sega as a sound designer in the 80's, with late-era Master System works Space Harrier 3D and Kujaku Ou to his name, as well as the Mega Drive launch title Super Thunder Blade, all of which he was credited with using different aliases incorporating the word "Sting". He was a member of the brief pre-cursor to S.S.T. Band, the Sega Sound Staff Band, playing bass with the group under the name S.Sachio (S.さちお) at live shows.[1] He continued to play bass throughout his life, such as on the Shenmue II song "Joy".

He would continue to create music and sound effects for the Mega Drive, but was usually either uncredited (such as for the Phantasy Star II Text Adventures and The Hybrid Front) or used different aliases, before settling on S.O (a name previously used when commenting on the appearance of Super Thunder Blade in Power Drift & Mega Drive) for use in J.League Pro Striker, Dark Wizard, and his first encounter with the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic the Hedgehog 2. This was shortly followed by working on Sonic the Hedgehog 3, becoming its least-documented sound team contributor. He would not work on the Sonic series again until the 3DS version of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games nearly 20 years later.

Transfer to arcades

Ogawa, posing with the Virtua Fighter 4 cabinet for Dorimaga.

Up to this point Sachio Ogawa had worked under the Sega CS sound section, but in the mid-90s he was transferred to AM2 to work on arcade games, with his best known work from this period being the arcade version of Sega Bass Fishing. His involvement with the original StarHorse by Sega Mechatro, as well as the game Mograpper developed by one of its predeccesors AM4, may indicate he primarily contributed to said department's products.

He became much more prominent in the early 2000's when he returned to AM2, with Beach Spikers and the unreleased Propeller Arena being notable titles in his first year. However, his most famous work was Virtua Fighter 4, briefly replacing Takenobu Mitsuyoshi as the sound lead for the Virtua Fighter series, continuing to contribute music and jingles to Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution and Virtua Fighter 5. He was instructed by Yu Suzuki to give the series a different tone, a hard, twisted sound that avoid "beautiful, delicate sounds", though which was still reminiscent of Virtua Fighter 2, all to further the harsh atmosphere of the series and immerse players in the pain of being beaten.[2][3] He was accompanied by the respected Hideaki Miyamoto, who composed his favourite song for the game, "Blue Impact" (the theme of Pai's stage).[2][3] His bass-playing was again on display, both at the AM2 Summer Festival and for the in-game music,[2], but he also sang and played electric guitar on some songs, such as the opening theme "Ignite Your Heart"[4] and ending theme "Nite Crawler"[3].

While less well-known, another notable title of Sachio Ogawa's during his stint at Sega-AM2 is Virtua Cop 3, for which he was part of a large sound team, but is the only person credited to any songs as seen on the JASRAC Works Identification Database. It should be noted that this is an incomplete list of music in Virtua Cop 3, only containing 24 of the roughly 50 pieces of background music created for the game.

Less information is available about his later years at AM2 outside of OutRun 2 and Quest of D, but one of his most famous songs, 誰が為に, was created in this period as a guest appearance for Yakuza. Made to be the final boss theme against Akira Nishikiyama, the song has been re-arranged for Ryu ga Gotoku: Ishin! by Keitaro Hanada, for Yakuza 0 by Heigo Tani and for Yakuza Kiwami by long-time series lead composer Hidenori Shoji. The first of these is of some note, as Sachio Ogawa is credited for music production in the game, but no songs apart from 我が為に are credited to him on either volume of the soundtrack and he is not credited as arranger.

After AM2

In 2007, Sachio Ogawa was transferred again, this time to work at Family Entertainment under Kazuhiko Nagai,[5] and would take over Nagai's role as composer for the Mushiking: The King of Beetles and Love and Berry: Dress Up and Dance! series, composing all new songs featured in the 5th Collection of Love and Berry. He may have also worked on Let's Go Safari with Nagai.[6]

Like fellow Family Entertainment sound designers Takeshi Isozaki and Daisuke Anayama, the department's closing in 2010 led to contributions on certain high-profile console games, those being the aforementioned Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Ryu ga Gotoku: Ishin! in Ogawa's case. They were otherwise assigned to Sega, with Ogawa composing music for Code of Joker alongside Hidenori Shoji.[7]

No later titles are currently documented, but it has been speculated[8][9] that he is the artist named Sachi who contributed Sega original eurobeat songs for Initial D Arcade Stage Zero, following on from being credited as supporter in Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity.

Production history

Games

Music

Song credits

Main article: Sachio Ogawa/Song credits.

Space Harrier 3D

  • Title — Music & Arrangement
  • Main BGM — Arrangement
  • Danger Area — Music & Arrangement
  • Bright Rays — Music & Arrangement
  • Ida — Arrangement
  • Mysterious Sky — Music & Arrangement
  • Squilla — Arrangement
  • Stanray — Arrangement
  • Volcano — Music & Arrangement
  • Godarni — Arrangement
  • Syura — Arrangement
  • Wiwi Jumbo — Arrangement
  • Valda — Arrangement
  • Ending — Music & Arrangement
  • Battle Field — Arrangement
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement
  • White Summer — Arrangement
  • Lake Side Memory — Arrangement
  • Lovers — Arrangement

Kujakuou

  • Title — Music & Arrangement
  • Main BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • Temple — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss — Music & Arrangement
  • Forest — Music & Arrangement
  • Lute Boss — Music & Arrangement
  • Underwater — Music & Arrangement
  • Kakogen — Music & Arrangement
  • Mt. Hinokami — Music & Arrangement
  • Pyramid — Music & Arrangement
  • Yomotsu — Music & Arrangement
  • Final Boss — Music & Arrangement
  • Ending — Music & Arrangement
  • Death — Music & Arrangement

Super Thunder Blade

  • Title — Music & Arrangement
  • Burning Point (Stage 1) — Arrangement
  • Thunder Blade (Stage 2) — Arrangement
  • Type II (Stage 3) — Arrangement
  • Type III (Stage 4) — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss — Music & Arrangement
  • Big Boss — Music & Arrangement
  • Round Clear — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Ending]
  • Ending — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Name Entry]
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement

SpellCaster

  • Ending — Music & Arrangement

The Hybrid Front

  • その他勢力ターン（第２部・通常） — Music & Arrangement
  • その他勢力ターン（第２部・バリエーション１） — Music & Arrangement

StarHorse

  • No Way To Stop Me — Music & Arrangement
  • Natural Born Runners — Music & Arrangement

Virtua Fighter 4

  • Ignite Your Heart — Music & Arrangement
  • Stand — Music & Arrangement
  • Watch Out — Music & Arrangement
  • The Fort — Music & Arrangement
  • Defile a Sanctity — Music & Arrangement
  • Terminus — Music & Arrangement
  • A Star of Sand — Music & Arrangement
  • Behind the Mind — Music & Arrangement
  • A Turning of Leaf — Music & Arrangement
  • Cutting Edge — Music & Arrangement
  • Nightmare — Music & Arrangement
  • The Last Survivor — Music & Arrangement
  • Metal Dream — Music & Arrangement
  • Melting Pot — Music & Arrangement
  • Nite Crawler — Music & Arrangement
  • Ray of Light — Music & Arrangement
  • Buzz — Music & Arrangement

Shenmue II

  • Joy — Bass

Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution

  • hate a person like poison — Music & Arrangement
  • New Challenger ~ etc. — Music & Arrangement

F355 Challenge: Passione Rossa (PlayStation 2 version)

  • Resurrection — Music

Virtua Cop 3

  • Dangerous Guys — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission Select — Music & Arrangement
  • Operation "Angel Allow" — Music & Arrangement
  • Rush — Music & Arrangement
  • Confused Fight — Music & Arrangement
  • Gale's Theme — Music & Arrangement
  • Predicament — Music & Arrangement
  • "Glitter" Sword Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • "Glitter" Claw Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • Operation "Stray Cat" — Music & Arrangement
  • Feint Operation — Music & Arrangement
  • Enter Brand — Music & Arrangement
  • Street — Music & Arrangement
  • Crowd — Music & Arrangement
  • Brand — Music & Arrangement
  • Operation "Owl Strike" — Music & Arrangement
  • Military Base — Music & Arrangement
  • Sneak — Music & Arrangement
  • Rapid Fire — Music & Arrangement
  • Crab Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • Fang (VC3 Version) — Music & Arrangement
  • Dino Fang — Music & Arrangement
  • Escape — Music & Arrangement
  • Theme of VC3 — Music & Arrangement

OutRun 2 (Arcade version)

  • Opening Jingle — Music & Arrangement

Love and Berry: Dress Up and Dance!

  • あのそらのむこうに — Music, Arrangement & Lyrics
  • ハッピィきねんび — Music & Arrangement
  • オシャレマジック — Music & Arrangement, Lyrics (with Kazuhiko Nagai)
  • まだまだなつもよう — Music & Arrangement, Lyrics (with Kazuhiko Nagai)
  • あきいろセレナーデ — Music & Arrangement
  • スマイル×スマイル — Music, Arrangement & Lyrics
  • ラブベジ — Music & Arrangement, Lyrics (with FUTABA)
  • ぎんがのファンタジー — Music, Arrangement & Lyrics
  • カラフル☆シーズン — Music & Arrangement, Lyrics (with 荒井 紀子)
  • オレンジのかなたへ — Music & Arrangement, Lyrics (with FUTABA)

Yakuza

  • 誰が為に — Music & Arrangement

Virtua Fighter 5

  • Beginning Eileen — Music & Arrangement
  • Deep Mountain (Lei-Fei VF5 Ver.) — Music & Arrangement

Code of Joker

  • In to a cyberworld (チュートリアルバトルBGM) — Music & Arrangement
  • Cyber base (サテライトBGM) — Music & Arrangement
  • Deck builder (デッキ編集BGM) — Music & Arrangement

Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin!

Go Sega - 60th Anniversary Album -

Patents

  • JPB 003407382

  • JPA 1996160972.pdf

Magazine articles

Main article: Sachio Ogawa/Magazine articles.

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Sachio Ogawa

References

  1. ↑ https://shmuplations.com/sst/
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dorimaga, "2001-07 (2001-08-24)" (JP; 2001-08-10), page 7
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://media.vgm.io/albums/93/1739/1739-1384190021.jpg
  4. ↑ @JfodxVSqgXSoeOY on Twitter
  5. ↑ @StudioRezitativ on Twitter (Wayback Machine: 2023-01-05 07:43)
  6. ↑ @StudioRezitativ on Twitter (Wayback Machine: 2023-01-05 07:45)
  7. ↑ htt (Wayback Machine: 2017-04-05 17:24)
  8. ↑ @41_Larabelle on Twitter
  9. ↑ https://x.com/140VGM/status/1364968396463480835?s=20
  10. ↑ File:Super Thunder Blade MD credits.pdf
  11. ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 MD credits.pdf
  12. ↑ File:Pro Striker MD credits.pdf
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 File:Dark Wizard MCD JP credits.pdf
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 File:Dark Wizard MCD credits.pdf
  15. ↑ File:Pro Striker Kanzenban MD credits.pdf
  16. ↑ File:Heavenly Symphony MCD credits.pdf
  17. ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 3 MD credits.pdf
  18. ↑ File:Sonic & Knuckles MD credits.pdf
  19. ↑ File:VirtuaFighter4_PS2_JP_SSCredits.pdf
  20. ↑ File:VirtuaFighter4Evolution_PS2_JP_SSCredits.pdf
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