Staff
Fivda
Founder, Software & Sound Staff
- Real name: Robin
- Pronouns: she/her
- Date of birth: June 16th
- Place of birth: France
Founded KodamaSoft in 2017, and started writing and developing on Stellar Sanctuary, a visual novel still in developement. In 2020, Robin decided to expand on another side of the circle: KodamaSounds, focused on a multitude of arrangement & original work album compilation projects. She soon started to learn music on her own starting with KodamaSounds’ second album in 2021, all the while supervising every single album published on the circle to this day.
Kopan
Sound Staff
- Real name: Malik Oussalah
- Pronouns: he/him
- Date of birth: March 13th
- Place of birth: Algeria
Kopan is one of the earliest KodamaSounds member, and joined in 2017 as the lead sound composer of Stellar Sanctuary alongside postblankvoid. Since then, he’s produced music for most of our album releases as one of the most faithful artists of the circle, with his jazzy & rhythmic influences!
postblankvoid
Sound Staff
- Real name: El
- Pronouns: N/A
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
postblankvoid joined the team as early as 2017, producing some of the earliest BGM of Stellar Sanctuary alongside Kopan. With roots deep within the electronic scene and more niche & retro medias, they’ve got quite the unique and experimental touch!
Garrrros
Design Staff
- Real name: Garance
- Pronouns: N/A
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: France
Garrrros joined us in 2019, and took charge of almost every visual aspect of Stellar Sanctuary, and is basically our lead artist designer here at KodamaSoft / KodamaSounds! They’ve also produced those adorable Kodamas on this page!
Scramel
Sound Staff
- Real name: Orión Sánchez
- Pronouns: N/A
- Date of birth: October 31st
- Place of birth: Caracas, Venezuela
Hobbyist musician, full-stack web developer, based remixer, digital artist, and hopefully a game developer in the near future. Joined KodamaSounds for Stellar Sanctuary BGM production around 2020.
Vintagestep
Sound Staff
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: N/A
- Date of birth: March 27th
- Place of birth: Colombia
Vintagestep joined us in 2021, right after our first album release. Currently in hiatus, but has quite a few surprises up their sleeves…
Yanis
Translator
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: he/him
- Date of birth: 1998
- Place of birth: France
Yanis started helping us out in 2021 as our lead Japanese interpret & translator, for any kind of documentation and exchanges with artists. Without him, you probably wouldn’t be able to see as many japanese speaking artists on our albums!
YOKAI
Sound Staff
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: he/him
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: France
YOKAI is single person EDM/Electro project inspired by the Japanese electronic scene and videogames music. His roots and inspirations can be found in the J-Pop scene but also in traditional Japanese music. A lots of his songs use traditional instruments like the shamisen, alongside epic/gothic-typed orchestrations and ambient atmospheres. Joined the Sound staff in 2021.
krz
Software Staff & Webmaster
- Pronouns: he/him
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: France
The reason you’re able to have such a great and clean website in the first place. krz is a strong & talented developer, and the ace of the team when it comes to web development. Started out with the UI design of Stellar Sanctuary in 2018, and became our lead webdesigner in 2022, with our own dedicated website.
Justin Shin
Sound Staff
- Pronouns: he/him
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: N/A
Justin Shin (a.k.a jys_music) joined the team as the lead arranger for KODAMA JAMS in 2022. Composer and arranger for games and media, wearer of bucket hats, and consumer of music! Justin has produced a dense amount of video game soundtracks under his real name, while keeping jys_music for his more hobbyst and arrangement-typed works.
Maxx
Sound Staff
- Real name: Maxime Lambert
- Pronouns: he/him
- Date of birth: Dec 19th, 1990
- Place of birth: Liège, Belgium
A legally blind guitarist and producer that tries his best to overcome the challenges of making music while not being able to see, while producing the hottest guitar riffs out there. Often collaborating with Kopan, Maxx decided to join us in 2023!
AIKATYPE
Sound Staff
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: N/A
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: Italy
AIKATYPE is a multi-faceted music composer for VGM and OSTs who occasionally dabbles in EDM experiments and sound design. They’ve had several musical arrangements on their belt, focusing on production by ear and unique visions. Joined in December 2023.
trailmix37
Sound Staff
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: he/they
- Date of birth: N/A
- Place of birth: N/A
A NEET that joined us in December 2023. They like music a lot! They also like cats. They asked me to tell you that it’s nice to meet you.
Zeth
Design Staff
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: he/they
- Date of birth: 2002
- Place of birth: Malaysia
Born into an environment of coffee-loving people and growing up playing rhythm game his whole life, Zeth is a graphic designer who works for people around rhythm games and independent music circles as a way for him to give back to the community that started his graphic design life. Being entirely self-taught since 2021, and not having a "style" (according to himself), he has worked for multiple community rhythm game tournaments, album/song jackets, 3D renders, and almost everything in between.
ne_pura
Design Staff
- Real name: N/A
- Pronouns: N/A
- Date of birth: March 4th
- Place of birth: Australia
Usually either drawing or practicing drawing, ne_pura is an illustrator who likes tea, crazy basslines, cool and cute art, completing projects before deadlines, or doing anything that gives a challenge!