Baka Mitai's Composer Reacts to Fan Covers (Yakuza Composers Interview)

I flew to SEGA's Headquarters in Tokyo to sit down with Yakuza series Composers, Mitsuharu Fukuyama (Baka Mitai) and Hidenori Shoji (Judgement) to ask them questions about their process in writing music for the Yakuza games, as well as interesting stories from their careers.
Here's what they told me!

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All the Bakamitai Covers in this video:
- ‪@LittleVMills‬ :    • Bakamitai (Dame Da Ne) [LITTLE V COVE...  
- ‪@DanVasc‬ :    • Dame Da Ne (Baka Mitai) METAL COVER  
- ‪@Astrophysicsynth‬ :    • Baka Mitai (synthwave/retro remix) fe...  
- ‪@SakiRose‬ :    • Yakuza / 龍が如く - Baka Mitai (ばかみたい）-Fe...  
- ‪@TreWatsonMusic‬ :    • Tre Watson - "Bakamitai/馬鹿みたい" Yakuza...  
The Internet & ‪@CrimsonZockt‬ :    • Видео  
Alex Moukala:    • Baka Mitai (Dame Da Ne)  
- ‪@TheConsoulsBand‬ :    • Baka Mitai (Yakuza 5) Band Cover - Th...  

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00:00 - Intro
00:31 - Hidenori Shoji's favorite Yakuza track
02:01 - Mitsuharu Fukuyama's favorite Yakuza track
03:40 - Fukuyama-san's favorite character
04:36 - What other games did Fukuyama-san write music for?
06:53 - Shoji-san's work on F-Zero GX
07:54 - Bakamitai Composer reacts to Fan Covers!
12:25 - Fukuyama-san's thoughts on Bakamitai's popularity
14:39 - How Shoji-san worked on the Like A Dragon: Ishin soundtrack
16:18 - Announcement: I am a character in Like A Dragon: Ishin!

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