OdiakeS

OdiakeS (born March 22) is a Japanese composer from Tokyo, Japan who has worked for a variety of visual novel companies. His first work was on the game One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e under Tactics. When the staff of One left Tactics to create the company Key, OdiakeS became a member of Key and had a hand in the musical composition of Key's first title Kanon. After Kanon was complete, OdiakeS left Key and became a freelance artist; over time he has been employed by several different visual novel companies. OdiakeS has also been active with his dōjin music circle SJV-SC.

Career OdiakeS began his musical career for visual novels with One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e by the company Tactics under Nexton released in 1998. After the completion of One, OdiakeS, and much of the staff who made One, including Jun Maeda, Itaru Hinoue, Shinji Orito, and Naoki Hisaya, left Tactics to work under the video game publishing company VisualArt's where they formed the company Key. After forming Key, OdiakeS worked on the music for their first title Kanon released in 1999, which proved to be very popular in the adult game market in Japan. Despite being one of the founding members of Key, OdiakeS left Key after Kanon'''s release and became a freelance music artist. The year 2000 proved to be a busy year for OdiakeS when he contributed to the music in no less than six visual novels for four separate companies. Three of these titles were by Janis—London Star: Koi no Double Click, Watashi no Arika., and Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever—while the remaining three were Omakase Dōkōkai by Rain Software, Remel by Usagi Kurabu, and Prism Heart by Pajamas Soft. Also in 2008, OdiakeS provided music for Whirlpool's MagusTale Infinity''.