Greetings, Gamers, and welcome to a very special bonus episode, where Bedroth flies solo to discuss the songs featured in the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics!

Special thanks to Nikkei on Twitter, who appears to have been the first to publish the official list of 19 songs played in the ceremony. Thanks also to YouTubers Deh Almeida and Nicolas Monteiro, who uploaded rips of the individual themes played at the ceremony which, along with the always-wonderful VGMDB website, helped make this episode possible. Anything I get right today will be a tribute to the information I found there, as well as on various crowdsourced info-banks like Wikipedia (only approved, source-citing articles!) and the Fandom Wiki (for the more obscure stuff).

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Playlist:

Roto's Teme/Theme of Erdrick - Dragon Quest/Dragon Quest III - Koichi Sugiyama - Enix -  1986/1988



Victory Fanfare - Final Fantasy - Nobuo Uematsu - Square - 1987



Sorey’s Theme: The Shepherd - Tales of Zestiria  - Motoi Sakuraba - Bandai Namco - 2015



Proof of a Hero - Monster Hunter IV - Masato Kouda - Capcom - 2013



Olympus Coliseum - Kingdom Hearts - Yoko Shimomura - Square - 2002



Frog's Theme - Chrono Trigger - Yasunori Mitsuda - Square - 1995



First Flight - Ace Combat 5 - Keiki Kobayashi - Bandai Namco, 2004



Royal Capital Majestic Grandeur - Tales of Graces - Motoi Sakuraba - Bandai Namco - 2009



Wind of Departure - Monster Hunter 4 - Marika Suzuki - Capcom - 2013

Robo's Theme - Chrono Trigger - Yasunori Mitsuda - Square - 1995



Star Light Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog Masato Nakamura - Sega - 1991



Main Theme - Final Fantasy - Nobuo Uematsu - Square - 1987 (with elements from the ending theme of 1999's Final Fantasy VII)



Guardians - Phantasy Star Universe - Hideaki Kobayashi - Sega - 2006



Hero’s Fanfare - Kingdom Hearts III - Yoko Shimomura - Square Enix - 2019



Act I-1 - Gradius in Classic I - Miki Higashino and others in the Konami Kukeiha Club - This arrangement comes from 1 1993 orchestral album released in Japan by King Records, performed by the London Philharmonic and arranged by Michiru Oshima, Masamichi Amano, Kunihiro Kawano, and the late Norio Maeda, who is responsible for this arrangement.



Song of the Ancients - Nier - Square Enix - 2010. The arrangement used for the opening ceremony comes from the Nier Orchestral Arrangement Album - Addendum. The game was composed by Keiichi Okabe (who also produced the album), Keigo Hoashi, and Kakeru Ishihama. The track on the album was arranged by Sachiko Miyano and performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic with Emi Evans & J'Nique Nicole on vocals

“The Minstrel’s Refrain: SaGa Series Medley 2016” - This medley is taken from The Orchestral SaGa - Legend of Music album. The medley compiles tracks from several games in the series and includes pieces composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenji Ito, Ryuji Sasai, Masashi Hamauzu. It was arranged by Kosuke Yamashita

The Brave New Stage of History - Soulcalibur VI - Junichi Nakatsuru - Bandai Namco - 2018