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   Number 1: Composer Appreciation: Michiru Yamane

   Episode #439 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth have a long overdue one. We're finally highlighting the career of Michiru Yamane, a composer whose name has become inseparable from gothic grandeur even as her catalog stretches far beyond the castle walls she's best known for. After studying composition at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, where she built her thesis around Bach, Yamane joined Konami in 1988 and spent over two decades there, composing for more than forty games. From tiny handheld chips and loud arcade cabinets to the orchestral heights of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, she proved again and again that a classical foundation could bend to almost any hardware, genre, or mood. We're tracing the full arc of Yamane's journey, from one of her earliest credited jobs in 1990 all the way to the Castlevania theme that launched her legend. Along the way, we stop in on lush RPG worldbuilding, a beat-'em-up that never left Japan, a jazz-soaked fighting game, an indie love letter to the exact genre she helped define, and the freelance era that saw her wandering happily outside her comfort zone. From haunted halls to lounge-jazz curtain calls, this Composer Appreciation episode is dedicated to an artist whose fingerprints are all over the medium, whether you realized it or not. Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. Feedspot's Top 39 Best Video Game Music Podcasts Discussed on the Show: https://podcast.feedspot.com/video_game_music_podcasts/ EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Stage 1-2 Traffic Jam Sewers, Stage 4-2 Waste Dump Caves from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan [Michiru Yamane, 1990] Power in The Darkness from Vendetta [Michiru Yamane, 1991] Vinay Del Zexay from Suikoden III [Michiru Yamane, 2002] The Three of Us as One! Battle Start from The Sword of Etheria [Michiru Yamane, 2005] Ending Theme from Ganbare Goemon 2 [Michiru Yamane, 1989] Wood Carving Partita from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night [Michiru Yamane, 1997] A Toccata into Blood Soaked Darkness from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness [Michiru Yamane, 2005] Beyond the Fog and the Tears -Stage 5- from Mushihime-sama Bug Panic [Michiru Yamane, 2010] The Sewers from Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom [Michiru Yamane, 2018] Ark of Promise -Instrumental- from Arcalast [Michiru Yamane, 2019] Symphonic Poem -Planet Orbit- from Otomedius Excellent [Michiru Yamane, 2011] In a Moment's Time from Skullgirls [Michiru Yamane feat. Geila Zilkha, 2012] Ritual Of The Night from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night [Michiru Yamane, 2019] Calling From Heaven -Stage 6- from Castlevania: Bloodlines [Michiru Yamane, 1994] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

   September 03, 2026·2h 20min
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   Number 2: Exploring the Solar System

   Episode #437 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth board a spacecraft and blast off on a grand tour of the solar system. From the scorched rock of Mercury baking next to the Sun, out through the ruins of Venus and the god of chaos himself, past the red dust of Mars and the doomed little moon circling it, all the way to the frozen edge of everything and back again. Strap in for a journey that runs the whole emotional spectrum, from full-throttle rock and pulse-pounding chaos to sparse, lonely, gorgeous atmospheres drifting somewhere far past Neptune. So grab your headphones, mind the artificial gravity, and come explore the solar system with us. Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Plan of Action from Blast Corps [Graeme Norgate, 1997] Nirvana from Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 [Shoji Meguro, 2005] The Ruin from Destiny [Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori, 2014] Segmentation Fault from Deadzone: Rogue [Justin Goren, 2025] Calm Storm from Red Faction [Dan Wentz, 2001] Hiding the Secrets from Doom [Robert Prince, 1993] Ceres from Resogun [Ari Pulkkinen, 2013] Main Theme from Universe for Sale [Guglielmo Diana, 2023] Golden Plains from Europa [Matthew Thomason, 2024] Exhaust Velocity from Delta V: Rings of Saturn [Evader, 2023] Grineer Heavy Blades from Warframe [Keith Power & George Spanos, 2013] The Sol System from Starfield [Inon Zur, 2023] Nirgal from TerraGenesis [Alexander Winn, 2020] The Won-Stoppable Wonderful 101 -English Version- from The Wonderful 101 [Hiroshi Yamaguchi feat. Jimmy Wilcox, Rob McElroy & Bruce Blanchard, 2013] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

   August 20, 2026·2h 44min
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   Number 3: Rainforests & Amazon

   Episode #433 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth put on their explorer hats and take a trip down to the Amazon. Grab your machete and bug spray! From lost cities and hidden gold to survival horror where the jungle waits you out, the rainforest has never been one single thing. We'll go from a dinosaur-infested Amazon speedway to a Sierra cue that nobody heard for thirty years, through helicopter raids, a Rio street party, and one goodbye that tends to leave people misty-eyed. Don't get lost! Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Ceiba Jungle from Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure [Soundelux Media Labs, 1994] Rio Rider from Cruis'n Exotica [Vince Pontarelli, 2000] River Raid from Jungle Strike [Brian Schmidt, 1993] Eagle Song - Original Version -Unused- from Lost Secret of the Rainforest [Dan Kehler, 1993] Jungle Base -Mission 01- from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero [Nobuyuki Shioda & Yūsuke Takahama, 1991] Amazon Rider Koko ni Ari from Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes Fourze [Shunsuke Kikuchi/Akihiko Ishikawa, 2011] Amazon Women From Space -RB2 Mix- from Rocketbirds 2: Evolution [New World Revolution, 2017] The Search for El Dorado from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune [Greg Edmonson, 2007] Sad But True from Green Hell [Adam Skorupa, 2019] Noctilum -Night- from Xenoblade Chronicles X [Hiroyuki Sawano, 2015] Banquest Rainforest from Chicory: A Colorful Tale [Lena Raine, 2021] Jungle from Terraria [Scott Lloyd Shelly, 2011] Hillside Plaza Alternative -Brazil Stage- from Street Fighter V [Hideyuki Fukasawa, 2016] Goodbye Paititi from Shadow of the Tomb Raider [Brian D'Oliveira, 2018] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

   July 23, 2026·2h 32min
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   Number 4: Hell & Demons

   Episode #309 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. This week on the show, Bryan and Bedroth from RPGera continue the month of October by getting an early start on the rest of eternity that's sure to be spent in Hell! Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or whatever you want! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak & Xancu. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Boss 2 from Majyūō [Hiroshi Iizuka & Tomohiro Endo, 1995] I Sawed the Demons from DOOM 3DO [Robert Prince, 1995] Judgement from Hell is Other Demons [Remi Gallego, 2019] Not Today, Satan from Dicey Dungeons [Chipzel, 2019] Crossing the Styx from Dante's Inferno [Paul Gorman, 2010] Gates of Hell from Hades [Darren Korb, 2020] Your Own, Personal Demon from Afterparty [Scntfc, 2019] One Hell of a Time from Cuphead [Kris Maddigan, 2017] Final Push for the Surface! from Nociception: Simple Outlook From Hell [Princess Sylvysprit, 2021] In-Game from Astaroth: The Angel Of Death [Jochen Hippel, 1989] Blood Moon from Cult of the Lamb [River Boy, 2022] I Am Satan from LISA: The Painful [Austin Jorgensen, 2014] Hell from Diablo II [Matt Uelmen, 2000] Fastpass from Sigil [Buckethead, 2019] SUPPORT US Patreon: https://patreon.com/rpgera CONTACT US Website: https://rpgera.com Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Twitch: https://twitch.tv/therpgera Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalLDG Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryan.ldg/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/leveldowngaming RPGERA PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast The Movie Bar --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bgmania/message

   October 29, 2023·2h 12min
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   Number 5: Classical Music in Games

   Episode #237 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. ALERT! We have something that's never happened before on the show... Bryan is not in this episode! This week on the show, Bedroth from RPGera presents a solo sister episode to the "Licensed Songs Used Expertly in Games" show from two weeks ago and explores a much more different side of music... the Classical kind! Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, whatever you want really! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak & Xancu. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Music #1 (The Nutcracker Ballet: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) from Tetris [Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1989] Run! Run! Run! (William Tell Overture: Finale: March of the Swiss Soldiers) from Gokujou Parodius! Kako no Eikou wo Motomete [Kazuhiro Senoo / Gioachino Antonio Rossini, 1994] Just Dig! (Orphée aux Enfers: Galop Infernal) from Lemmings [Tomomi Hatakeyama / Jacques Offenbach, 1992] Turkish March (Piano Sonata No. 11: Alla turca) from Donkey Konga [Junko Ozawa / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 2003] Pachelbel's Canon (Canon in D) from Ane-San [Koji Hayama / Johann Pachelbel, 1995] Bonus Gallery (String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5: Minuetto) from Regular Show: Mordecai & Rigby in 8-Bit Land [Jake Kaufman / Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, 2013] Frantic Factory/Action Type B (Csiko's Post) from Yoshi's Cookie [Akira Satou, Nobuya Ikuta, or Noriko Nishizaka / Hermann Necke, 1993] Palace of Gods (Toccata & Fugue in D minor) from Battle of Olympus [Kazuo Sawa / Johann Sebastian Bach, 1989] Docking Sequence (An der schönen, blauen Donau: The Blue Danube) from Elite [Aidan Bell & Julie Dunn / Johann Baptist Strauss II, 1984] Moonlight Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 14: Sonata quasi una fantasia) from Resident Evil Remake [Shusaku Uchiyama, Makoto Tomozawa, or Misao Senbongi / Ludwig van Beethoven, 2002] Germany Stage: Wolfgang Krauser's Theme (Requiem in D minor: Dies irae) from Fatal Fury 2 [Toshio Shimizu / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1992] Ave Maria (Opus 52, No. 6: Ellens dritter Gesang) from Hitman: Blood Money [Jesper Kyd / Franz Peter Schubert feat. Daniel Perret of the Zurich Boys' Choir, 2006] G-Senjou no Aria #5 (Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D major: Second movement: Air on the G String) from G-senjou no Maou -The Devil on G-string- [tiko-μ / Johann Sebastian Bach, 2009] Planets Suite "Mars", "Jupiter" (The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War and Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity) from Catherine [Shoji Meguro / Gustav Theodore Holst, 2011] SUPPORT US Patreon: https://patreon.com/rpgera CONTACT US Website: https://rpgera.com Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Twitch: https://twitch.tv/leveldowngames Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalLDG Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryan.ldg/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/leveldowngaming --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bgmania/message

   June 05, 2022·1h 1min
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