Daisuke Ishiwatari

Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is a Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series Guilty Gear. He designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music. He also formerly provided the in-game voices for the characters Sol Badguy and Order-Sol, as well as Freed Velez in Battle Fantasia.

Ishiwatari was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ishiwatari worked with Arc System Works on the first Guilty Gear as soon as he left school. Ishiwatari, along with Yoshihiro Kusano, also wrote the music for BlazBlue, and painted the character selection portraits for the sequel, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

Ishiwatari is also a metal and rock composer, with many of his games featuring his music. His compositions feature intricate guitar work. The albums Guilty Gear XX in LA and Guilty Gear XX in NY include his vocals, as do three albums in Japanese by the band Lapis Lazuli.<ref>Template:Cite book Translation.</ref> He also composed for Hard Corps: Uprising.

Productions

• Virtual Open Tennis (assistant designer)
• EXECTOR (designer)
• Guilty Gear series (illustration, creation and BGM)
• Sangokushi Taisen DS (original Ba Tai design)
• Dimension Zero (card illustration)
• BlazBlue (sound director)
• Hard Corps Uprising (design, BGM)

Appearance

Games

• Guilty Gear series (Sol Badguy, Order-Sol) (1998–2007, replaced by Jouji Nakata as of 2007 onward.)
• Battle Fantasia (Freed Velez)

Radio

• Cafe Arc
• Guilty Gear Web Radio
• Isotchi no Shūkan Shakishaki (guest appearance)
• Impress TV (guest appearance)
• BlueRadio (3rd guest appearances)
• Zoku – BlueRadio (12th guest appearances)

Discography

Albums

• Guilty Gear Original Sound Collection （1998）
• Guilty Gear X Original Sound Track （2000）
• Guilty Gear X Heavy Rock Tracks ~ The Original Soundtrack of Dreamcast （2001）
• Guilty Gear X Rising Force Of Gear Image Vocal Tracks -Side.I ROCK YOU!!- （2001）
• Guilty Gear X Rising Force Of Gear Image Vocal Tracks -Side.II SLASH!!- （2001）
• Guilty Gear X Rising Force Of Gear Image Vocal Tracks -Side.III DESTROY!!- （2001）
• Guilty Gear XX Original Soundtrack （2002）
• Guilty Gear XX Sound Alive (2003)
• Guilty Gear Series Best Sound Collection （2003）
• Guilty Gear XX in L.A. Vocal Edition （2004）
• Guilty Gear XX in N.Y Vocal Edition （2004）
• Guilty Gear Isuka Original Soundtrack （2004）
• Guilty Gear Sound Complete Box (2005）
• Guilty Gear 2 Overture Original Soundtrack Vol.1 （2007）
• Guilty Gear 2 Overture Original Soundtrack Vol.2 （2008）
• Guilty Gear XX Λ Core – Secret Gig （2008）
• Aksys Games 2008 Promotional CD （2008）
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Original Soundtrack (2008)
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Original Soundtrack ~Bonus Discs~ (2009)
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Original Soundtrack ~Consumer Edition~ (2009)
• BlazBlue Song Accord No. 1 with Continuum Shift (2009)
• BlazBlue Song Accord No. 2 with Continuum Shift II (2010)
• BlazBlue in L.A. Vocal Edition (2011)
• Guilty Gear X Blazblue OST Live (2011)
• Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- Vocal Collection (2014)
• Guilty Gear Strive Original Sound Track (2021)

External links

• Game credits at MobyGames
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
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