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hmm i'm kinda bothered by the way the poll frames itself:
-Junichi Masuda is one of like 10 pokemon compoesrs even within mainline pokemon, and hasn't been the 'main' pokemon composer on really any game since the gb era.
-Jun Senoue's contributions to the sonic franchise are spread pretty thin across all the games he's contributed to. he did like 5 songs for sonic 3 and they're not ones people talk about mostly. plenty of sonic games since then haven't had his influence at all.
-kenji yamamoto's the most prominent metroid composer i guess but only by a slight margin and he wasn't even on the original. minako hamano contributed some of the most well-recognized tunes to the series and she's always overshadowed by him just due to name recognition (and i like minako hamano a lot)
-why Martin O'Donnell and not Michael Salvatori?
-not even going to get into how all my favorite castlevania composers are... various castlevania composers that are not yamane..and how i've been listening to non-yamane castlevania soundtracks like all day (yamane is great tho)

anyway i don't want to get nitpicky and sound like i'm picking on you obnoxiously. that's not what i'm going on about that for. i just feel it's a bit damaging that these composers seem chosen as the most well-known name to rep their series when there's so many other people who contribute to the sound most people know these series for, maybe even moreso than these quickly listed names. winds up becoming unintentionally misleading information that denies the credit that the other composers who worked on those games also deserve!

anyways my favorite vgm composer is Kimihiro Abe; almost all his soundtracks involve other collaborators, but some songs I like specifically credited to him from those soundtracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpJbCReKaBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqbKBg9NEjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-5xPGV4OCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uy3-DiP8Gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXnuL7Hfe7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1osbrRdEWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SibS_nAfeyg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvBQelE78gA

note: some of these list other composers than him in the credits in most places, but they're songs now known to be abe's specifically

anyways. abe has a pretty quirky style, but it's exactly what i look for in so many ways it's overwhelming to explain. Crazy unique sense of harmony, and he's in no way avoidant of the kinds of ambiguous rhythms i look for either. He ranges from super goofy cartoony synth stuff to Epic Orchestra soaring in the sky music. Wide range of style in terms of what the music represents in broad aesthetic, but compositionally, always full of detail and oddities, even if subtle about its presentation of those things. the exact details i find the most interesting and seek out personally anyways.
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