Kazumi Totaka

Kazumi Totaka
Born		August 23, 1967 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation		Composer, sound director, voice actor

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 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.

In Animal Crossing

• "New Year's Wish"
• "Meteor Shower"
• "Kapp'n's Song"
• "K.K. Song"

In Doubutsu no Mori e+

• "Marine Song 2001"
• "K.K. Birthday"

In Wild World

• "Title"
• "Heavy Rotation" (Kapp'n's taxi theme)
• All hourly music (with Asuka Ohta)
• "The Roost"

In City Folk

• "In Kapp'n's Bus"
• "City Plaza"

In New Leaf

• "K.K. Disco"
• "Animal City"

In Happy Home Designer

• Entire soundtrack

In New Horizons

• "9 AM"

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)