For the character named after him, see U1 (character).
General Information[]
- Name: Yuichi Asami (浅見祐一)
- Born: September 1, 1971
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/U1_ASAMi
Profile[]
Yuichi Asami, or better known as U1, is one of the first known Konami artists for DanceDanceRevolution, along with Naoki Maeda. He first worked as an artist for the console releases until DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA and also directed some of the console titles, like Mario Mix for the GameCube and the HOTTEST PARTY series for the Wii.
Although Yuichi has been a DanceDanceRevolution artist for a long time, he has recently started composing songs for other BEMANI series like jubeat and beatmaniaIIDX.
Besides creating BEMANI works, Yuichi has also composed music for games like NBA POWER DUNKERS and Police 911.
Yuichi is currently the sound director of ミライダガッキ Future TomTom, Konami's newest BEMANI series.
Trivia[]
- His main alias, "U1", is read as "yu-ichi", since 1 in Japanese is pronounced "i-chi".
- Yuichi's NPD3's alias is a reference to the NBA POWER DUNKERS 3 game, where he composed music for.
- Yuichi's comments about his songs are often short.
- Yuichi's 2MB alias refers to the amount of RAM found in Sony's PlayStation gaming console.
- Outside of BEMANI, Yuichi has also composed music for games like the NBA POWER DUNKERS/IN THE ZONE series, RUMBLE ROSES, and Police 911.
- Yuichi currently has the second longest career of any in-house BEMANI artist, performing music for BEMANI since early April 1999, only two months behind dj TAKA.
- Almost every song Yuichi composed has its song comment center-aligned when shown in the game title's website.
- All of Yuichi's beatmania IIDX songs have their genre starting with ORBITALIC; this was also used in Flow's appearance in pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE.
Aliases[]
- U1-ASAMi - His main alias.
- U1 - A shortened form of his main alias.
- NPD3
- 2MB - Used mostly for remixing other songs composed by Naoki Maeda.
- 2.1MB underground - Used only for Tohoku EVOLVED.
- U1 overground
- CLUB SPICE
- Chang ma (member of, with Akira Yamaoka)
- U1ミライダガッキ連
- U1 undefined behavior
- U1 High-Speed
- Zodiac Fall
- Musical Cosmology
- U1 unplugged
- U1 Ground-Speed