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Mohammed Taher

@robokick.tokyo

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ゲーム音楽レーベルの会長 Director of Brave Wave Productions • Worked on Streets of Rage 4, Shovel Knight, Octahedron • Clients: Capcom, Sega, Koei Tecmo, SNK など • “Kitamura’s Blueprints” is out now on Patreon • Photographer • 日本語を勉強してる • 🆓🇵🇸 https://bio.site/robokick

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · Apr 19

I collaborated with the most talented artists from around the world to create what I consider the best album I've ever had the pleasure of assembling. And it’s finally out!

Thank you to all our amazing collaborators and fans! Please enjoy our masterpiece!

Brave Wave @bravewave.net · Apr 19

⭐️ GIANTS is out now! ⭐️

Please enjoy our new album! Featuring new tracks & remixes from Mega Man composers Manami Matsumae & Harumi Fujita, Sonic Mania’s @teelopes.bsky.social, Celeste’s @kuraine.bsky.social, Final Fantasy’s Yoshitaka Suzuki, and many many more✨

🎶 orcd.co/bravewave-gi...

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 6d

Thank you for your interest! The project will resume once I’m able to do these myself without an interpreter. I believe it would allow me to dig much deeper and beyond game dev history. I will get there. I need time but I’ll get there. Proof that progress is made haha: bsky.app/profile/robo...

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

I stopped being open or vulnerable on social media because I have come to slowly despise all of it. But today is one of the best days of my life and there are not enough characters to properly say why BUT i tried. Seriously these five hours today were THIRTEEN friggin years in the making. Fuck yesss

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Keiji Yamagishi is the reason Brave Wave came to be, and sort of the reason I seeked Alex (@cvxfreak) to begin with. Ever since I met Yama-san in 2013, I have wished to be able to speak Japanese with him without interpreters. If you have been around Alex, you know how good his interpreting skills are. But there's something about walking around alone with a person and just... talking about music, making art, about childhood and sports and food and life that is just not possible to casually have when there's a cypher in between.

I started my Japanese journey in 2020, but specifically I started my weekly conversation lessons in 2023. While I'm quite far from being good, I stuck with it to this day. It was 3 lessons a week, then I had to change to one lesson because of time constraints. Anyway: I kept doing it even when I was feeling stuck, when I was depressed, when I was not making progress, I kept doing it all the time.

I met Yama-san last year but I couldn't speak much.
Our meeting had a lot of pauses and silence, a lot of Google Translate communication, and just a lot of no-communicating. This time around, I feel like a completely different person. I still can't believe that I spent 5 hours with him where I couldn't stop talking. I talked SO MUCH about everything. This is the day I had dreamt about back in 2013. What a privilege it is to be overwhelmed by a life I once
prayed for 😭😭😭

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 8d

For real for rrrreeeeaaaalllll 🥹🙏🏼🧡

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 8d

🥰🧡♟️

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 8d

LFG!!!! Congrats 🫡🙇🏻💝

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Ryan @ryanosaurz.bsky.social · 8d

I was a translator on FFT - The Ivalice Chronicles!
Worked on the new/previously unreleased material. ‘Twas a sincere joy.

Square Enix @square-enix-games.com · 9d

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles is out today!

Learn all about the game and read new messages from Director Kazutoyo Maehiro and Co-Director Ayako Yokoyama: sqex.link/FFTIClb

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 8d

Track no. 5 “Ultramarine” bravewave.bandcamp.com/album/giants

GIANTS, by Brave Wave Productions

22 track album

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

In case you don’t know who Keiji Yamagishi is (enjoy the albums, you’re welcome) www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/797...

Listen to this amazing chiptunes album from the composer behind Ninja Gaiden

After a long absence, Keiji Yamagishi is back with his first solo record

www.theverge.com

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

Thank you David 🫂🧡

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

My only addition to this:

• Tateishi-san now understands how many people love his music;
• He went to MAGFest & Kuwait, and connected with a lot of game musicians and fans;
• He released a brand new track with us last year—and YES he still got it;
• He’s happy now

God bless vgm and vgm artists 🫡🤘🏼

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 10d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 9d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 10d

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

Woke up in the morning, took a Shinkansen to Kyoto, met up with Rockman creator @akblueprints.bsky.social & then immediately went back to Shinagawa lol. Had to make a pit stop at the altar though 🛐

Akira Kitamura signing copies of Cocoron and Rockman 2

A selfie with Akira Kitamura and Alex Aniel

Kyoto’s Pokémon Center is relatively empty compared with Shibuya’s so I finished my shopping there. Deoxys and Miraidon are the pillars of my Regulation J team so I had to get them 🥵

Not much just a big ass bag of dreams & merch

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 9d

tweety says good morning have a blessed day !!!

ALT: tweety says good morning have a blessed day !!!

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Damnedto Hellgore 💀 @elmore.zone · 9d

Reason #96839397 why I'm grateful for @robokick.tokyo: he is uniquely talented at hunting down legendary artists who went under-rewarded, under-compensated etc., and putting together projects that connect those artists with the people who love them and their work through @bravewave.net. 🙏

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 10d

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 11d

Full-on Pokémoning in Tokyo this time around

Got 7 of each shiny Ruins legendary in addition to two shiny Miraidon and two shiny Koraidon

Filling up the bag with all the missing JP Pokémon games from my collection

Ended up snagging 20 codes of Shiny Koraidon and Miraidon for my friends. 30k steps later: mission accomplished (one per person per shop, so I had to go all around Tokyo)

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 15d

影山さんのお別れ会🥺❤️‍🩹

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 22d

Deoxys + psychic surge is a delete button. I’m cooking with this new team 🥵🔥

Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · 22d

I’m slowly playing Pokémon Ultra Moon (reached the third island), but I went back to Scarlet & Violet for some shiny hunting and online battles.

I replayed Violet on my Switch Lite to catch some missing legendaries, and I have to say that these games feel like enhanced ports on Switch 2.

Shiny Greninja doesn’t seem to like selfies

Shiny Flutter Mane. She’s grumpy as she’s always been accused of flipping the entire online battles meta on its head. The accusations are sadly correct but I still love her

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Patrick Ghoulikowski @pkrockin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rest in Peace, Masashi Kageyama. I was touched by the Diggin' in the Carts doc featuring him & his work on the Gimmick! OST. Meeting him on my 1st trip to Japan in 2018 was special; he welcomed me with his kindness & saxophone skills. 🎷 Glad he met with fans at MAGFest this year. He will be missed.

Masashi Kageyama with Manami Matsumae, Alex, and Patrick.

Masashi Kageyama playing a saxophone on a yakatabune in March 2018.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · Sep 8

Rest well, Kageyama-san.

It's not often that you can call one of your favorite classic video game composers a friend, but Masashi Kageyama was a special case.

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · Sep 8

I’m very sad. I can’t overstate what an incredibly kind and generous soul he was. Whenever I visited Tokyo, he would take me out on photography walks and always inspire me to become a better artist. The world feels dimmer today.

Thank you for everything, Kage-san. I will never forget you.

Brave Wave @bravewave.net · Sep 8

影山雅司永眠のお知らせ

We are deeply saddened to share that Gimmick! composer Masashi Kageyama has passed away.

Masashi Kageyama in Asakusa, Tokyo. January 2020

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Brave Wave @bravewave.net · Sep 8

影山雅司永眠のお知らせ

We are deeply saddened to share that Gimmick! composer Masashi Kageyama has passed away.

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · Sep 2

Wolfy’s latest 5-hour video on how he built his team and won the Pokémon championship in London is amazing. Aside from his mastery of Pokémon’s competitive battling, which never ceases to thrill and delight me, the writing and editing of the whole video are just sublime. youtu.be/MFmI5O8974Q?...

How I Won the Largest Pokemon Tournament Ever (Again)

YouTube video by WolfeyVGC

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Mohammed Taher @robokick.tokyo · Sep 2

Eevee gang 🙂‍↕️