Kazunori Maruyama
J-Pop Exchange
Exclusive Radio Interview

Did your interest in music begin in your childhood?  How did you become interested in music?

Who are your musical influences?

What music do you like to listen to?

Can you give us some insight into your writing process?  When you compose music, how do you progress from inspiration to creation?

How did you become involved with composing music for anime?

Please tell us about the scoring process behind a production such as Bomberman Jetters.  Where in the process do you, as a composer, become involved?  Do you get to see the animation ahead of time?

You also composed the score for the series, Transformers Super Link; please tell us what your experience was like producing music for that series.

In regards to your entire body of work, are there any particular pieces that stand out as favorites or have a particular significance for you?

Do you have any current or upcoming projects that you would like to talk about?

Recently, I became aware of the fact that you have served as a professor of Music and Fine Arts.  How did this opportunity come to be, and how did you feel about it?

In conclusion, is there anything you would like to talk about that we have not discussed thus far?