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Would it be more accurate to say that Air Ride got it's sound track from the Hoshi no Kaabii anime, or vice versa.
I know Air ride came out later in the anime and they've been using music that's been in air ride since the beginning, but I could be wrong.

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There's no way to be 100% sure, but I believe the music in the anime was composed first, then it was reused in Kirby Air Ride.
Akira Miyagawa was credited as the composer for the anime, but was only credited as "Special thanks" in Kirby Air Ride. That could mean a few things, but I'm assuming any song played by a live orchestra in Kirby Air Ride was composed by him, since he composed and conducted a lot of the orchestral music in the anime. Not sure about digital tracks such as Final Strategy/Drag Race (which is a remix of Green Greens anyways, so Jun Ishikawa would likely be listed as the composer even if he didn't make the arrangement himself) , or tracks that only appeared in Air Ride, though. It's possible it was unused songs from the anime composed by Akira, but it's more likely that those songs were composed by the four who were actually credited as composers: Jun Ishikawa, Hirokazu Ando, Tadashi Ikegami, and Shogo Sakai.

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That makes sense! Then technically things that were "Air Ride OST" should be more the "Hoshi no Kaabii OST"? That aside, I guess I can see why it's not that in the US considering the 4kids dub didn't use the real OST...

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Yeah, Air Ride used a lot of songs from the anime.
Especially the orchestrated ones.
You see, there are some songs made for Air Ride that do have an orchestra feel to it, like Magma Flows, but those are actually just really good midis.
There were some digital/midi tracks made for the anime too, and, if I'm not wrong, Final Strategy/Drag Race was one of them.
Most of the game remixes in the anime were digital/midi, with the exception of "Nightmare's Giant Fortress", which is a Castle Lololo remix.
This one was arranged for a live orchestra by Akira, but was reused in Air Ride, just like the other anime songs.
In the last episodes of the anime, some Air Ride songs are used, like Magma Flows, but they're clearly there just to promote the release of Air Ride.
Recently, some anime music was used in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (with no modifications) and I don't know if Akira was credited as a composer in that game (or even in the "Special Thanks" part).
From what I can remember some new background music was made for the anime in 2003-ish.
Maybe they didn't had the budget to hire an orchestra again.
Those are a lot more midi-like, even tough the original score made for the start of the series was kept.
The game remixes are also something really interesting to me.
Did Akira arranged those? Why do they feel so digital compared to the rest of the score?

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I am actually very happy that Air Ride used the anime's music, since 4Kids would not. To this very day, I believe that remaking the soundtrack was the worst thing the dubs did.

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Kirby Air Ride came out before the 4 Kids dub of the anime, right? It's possible that 4kids couldn't get rights to the music after it was used in the game.

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Actually from my knowledge it wasn't until mid series, and they randomly rushed out air ride in style to "promote" the american release of air ride.

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