Kazumi Totaka

Kazumi Totaka
Born		August 23, 1967 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation		Composer, sound director, voice actor
Notable work		Mario Paint The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Animal Crossing series Luigi's Mansion series Wii system and Wii series

Kazumi Totaka (戸高 一生, Totaka Kazumi, born August 23, 1967) is a video game composer. Totaka has been the sound director for all mainline games in the Animal Crossing series, as well as the composer for many of the tracks. He has composed various songs from other Nintendo games, and is known to hide a short melody known as "Totaka's Song" in games he has worked on. This is present in all Animal Crossing games as "K.K. Song".

The character K.K. Slider is a caricature of Totaka, and his full name Totakeke is derived from "Totaka K.", since family names are written first in Japan. While most of K.K.'s songs in the original games were composed by Toru Minegishi, Totaka rearranged them for the live performances.

Totaka is also known for voicing Yoshi in the Mario series, which he has done since the game Yoshi's Story in 1997.

Works

• Animal Crossing – Sound Director
• Animal Crossing: Wild World – Sound Director
• Animal Crossing: City Folk – Sound Director
• Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Sound Director
• Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – Sound Director
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Sound Director

Song credits

Songs are listed by the first game they appeared in, though they may have reappeared in future games. Credits are not necessarily exhaustive and reflect only what can be sourced.

In Doubutsu no Mori

• Live arrangements of all K.K. Slider songs
• "K.K. Song"

In Animal Crossing

• "New Year's Wish" (Animal Crossing and Doubutsu no Mori e+ version)
• "Meteor Shower"
• "Kapp'n's Song"

In Doubutsu no Mori e+

• "Marine Song 2001"
• "Stale Cupcakes"
• "Spring Blossoms" (arrangement)
• "Wandering"
• "K.K. Birthday"

In Wild World

Totaka (left) presenting Machi e Ikou yo Doubutsu no Mori ~Mori no Ongakukai~ with fellow composers Shiho Fujii and Manaka Tominaga and CD planner Saori Okamoto.

• "Title"
• "Heavy Rotation" (Kapp'n's taxi theme)
• All hourly music
• "The Roost"
• Most other music with the assistance of Asuka Hayazaki

In City Folk

• "In Kapp'n's Bus"
• "First Time in the City"
• "City Plaza" (Day)

In New Leaf

Totaka plays "K.K. Bossa" with K.K. and Harvey (Hisashi Nogami), from the Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo Nintendo Direct.

• "K.K. Disco"
• "Animal City"

Totaka was also credited for the arrangement of the live versions of other K.K. songs that debuted in New Leaf on Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori: Original Soundtrack 2, though it is unknown if he or the other composers, Manaka Kataoka and Atsuko Asahi, actually composed them. The exception is "Bubblegum K.K.", which was composed by Asahi.

In Happy Home Designer

• Entire soundtrack

In New Horizons

Totaka was credited for the following tracks on the official soundtrack release for New Horizons:

• "2 AM"
• "5 AM"
• "7 AM"
• "8 AM"
• "9 AM"
• "12 PM"
• "2 PM"
• "5 PM"
• "7 PM"
• Rain and snow versions of above hourly themes
• "Island Life Orientation 4 (Campfire Evening)"
• "amiibo Invitation"

Totaka was also credited for the following tracks on the second soundtrack release:

• Kapp'n's Song (Outbound 1-5)
• Kapp'n's Song (Returning 1-5)
• "Harv's Island (Day)"
• "Harv's Island (Night)"
• "Extra Song 1"
• "Extra Song 2"
• "Extra Song 3"

In the Super Smash Bros. series

These new rearrangements debuted in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and later reappeared in Super Smash Bros. 4 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate:

• "Title Theme - Animal Crossing: Wild World (Brawl)"
• "The Roost"

This arrangement debuted in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate:

• "Title Theme - Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer"

Trivia

• Totaka is seen playing "K.K. Bossa" alongside (someone dressed as) K.K. in the Animal Crossing Direct for Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo.
• Aside from their name, Totaka and K.K. also share their birthday, August 23.

References

Companies and personnel

Companies Nintendo DeNA iQue NDcube OLM, Inc. Prima Games Sanrio Shogakukan Developers Katsuya Eguchi Aya Kyogoku Isao Moro Hisashi Nogami Takashi Tezuka Makoto Wada Composers Atsuko Asahi Sayako Doi Shiho Fujii Asuka Hayazaki Yasuaki Iwata Manaka Kataoka Toru Minegishi Kenta Nagata Shinobu Nagata Masato Ohashi Yumi Takahashi Kazumi Totaka Voice actors Mari Adachi Hisao Egawa Takaya Hashi Saori Hattori Yurika Hino Yui Horie Mitsup Iwata Takatoshi Kaneko Mika Kanai Yuichi Kimura Yū Kobayashi Takashi Miike Fukuen Misato Yuko Mizutani Kenichi Ogata Shun Oguri Fumiko Orikasa Otoha Tetsuo Sakagachi Akio Suyama Wataru Takagi Yasuhiro Takata Kazuya Tatekabe Junpei Takiguchi Naoki Tatsuta Masaki Terasoma Yuji Ueda Kappei Yamaguchi Other personnel Reggie Fils-Aimé Jōji Shimura Staff lists Doubutsu no Mori Doubutsu no Mori+ Animal Crossing Doubutsu no Mori e+ Wild World City Folk New Leaf Happy Home Designer New Horizons Category (companies) • Category (personnel)