1968 - Today
Junichi Masuda (増田 順一, Masuda Jun'ichi, born January 12, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an employee and executive at the company since 1989 when he founded it alongside Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Junichi Masuda has received more than 885,576 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Junichi Masuda is the 1,223rd most popular composer (down from 1,115th in 2019), the 1,322nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,231st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Composer.
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Among composers, Junichi Masuda ranks 1,223 out of 1,216. Before him are Thomas Weelkes, John Kander, H. C. Robbins Landon, Rachel Portman, Harry Warren, and John Debney. After him are Morten Lauridsen, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ernest Gold, Virgil Thomson, Fartein Valen, and Pascal Dusapin.
1576 - 1623
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 1,217
1927 - Present
HPI: 44.25
Rank: 1,218
1926 - 2009
HPI: 44.25
Rank: 1,219
1960 - Present
HPI: 44.08
Rank: 1,220
1893 - 1981
HPI: 44.07
Rank: 1,221
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.00
Rank: 1,222
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.85
Rank: 1,223
1943 - Present
HPI: 43.73
Rank: 1,224
1875 - 1912
HPI: 43.65
Rank: 1,225
1921 - 1999
HPI: 43.62
Rank: 1,226
1896 - 1989
HPI: 43.60
Rank: 1,227
1887 - 1952
HPI: 43.56
Rank: 1,228
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.44
Rank: 1,229
Among people born in 1968, Junichi Masuda ranks 246. Before him are Thomas Strunz, Katja K, Oleh Tyahnybok, Jorge Larrionda, Jaume Balagueró, and Danny Nucci. After him are Iris Chang, Lawrence Makoare, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Michael Hall, Shelley Lubben, and Gloria Trevi.
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.04
Rank: 240
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.02
Rank: 241
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.93
Rank: 242
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.88
Rank: 243
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 244
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 245
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.85
Rank: 246
1968 - 2004
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 247
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.73
Rank: 248
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.72
Rank: 249
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.71
Rank: 250
1968 - 2019
HPI: 43.66
Rank: 251
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 252
Among people born in Japan, Junichi Masuda ranks 1,322 out of 6,048. Before him are Yukiko Okada (1967), Norifumi Abe (1975), Tokiharu Abe (1911), Daijiro Kato (1976), Naomi Kawase (1969), and Keiko Saito (1965). After him are Noboru Terada (1917), Yōjirō Takita (1955), Tomoyasu Hotei (1962), Mika Nakashima (1983), Takashi Tezuka (1960), and Kazumi Tsubota (1956).
1967 - 1986
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 1,316
1975 - 2007
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 1,317
1911 - 1996
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 1,318
1976 - 2003
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 1,319
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 1,320
1965 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 1,321
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.85
Rank: 1,322
1917 - 1986
HPI: 43.84
Rank: 1,323
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 1,324
1962 - Present
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 1,325
1983 - Present
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 1,326
1960 - Present
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 1,327
1956 - Present
HPI: 43.78
Rank: 1,328
Among composers born in Japan, Junichi Masuda ranks 17. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Akira Yamaoka (1968), and Hiroyuki Sawano (1980). After him are Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), and Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969).
1933 - 2022
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 11
1925 - 1989
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 12
1914 - 1955
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 13
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 14
1968 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 15
1980 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 16
1968 - Present
HPI: 43.85
Rank: 17
1955 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 18
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.75
Rank: 19
1967 - Present
HPI: 40.35
Rank: 20
1967 - Present
HPI: 38.48
Rank: 21
1969 - Present
HPI: 36.20
Rank: 22