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“Kawaisprite, the kingpin himself. In 2011, Kawaisprite was charged with armed robbery. He was sentenced to 14 years. In prison, Kawaisprite found a dusty Akai MPC3000 in the shed of the yard. After stabbing a fellow inmate over whatever, he was sent to solitary confinement for 7 years, with nothing but the beat machine. The initial prototype of Friday Night Funkin' was released a week after Kawaisprite got out jail. The rest, is simply history.”
― Friday Night Funkin' Kickstarter campaign description
“musical human, carving tunes from digital rubble.”
― Twitter bio

Isaac Jacob Garcia, better known online as Kawai Sprite, is an American musician, singer, rapper and artist. He is the main composer and sound designer for Friday Night Funkin'. He is responsible for most songs as well as several voices and sound effects in the game.

Involvement

Kawai Sprite was the first person to be contacted by ninjamuffin99 after he came up with the basic concept of the game he wanted to create for Ludum Dare 47. With his experience in music, Kawai Sprite was tasked with creating tracks appropriate for a rhythm game. According to ninjamuffin99, he wanted it to go in an old-school direction, specifically noting PaRappa the Rapper and Gitaroo Man as examples of what he was looking for in the music that was to be added.[2] Additionally, voices were unanimously decided to follow in the style of Vib-Ribbon, leading to the "boops and beeps" vocal style the game is known for.[3] During the course of the game's creation, Kawai Sprite created the start screen theme, Bopeebo and Fresh, as well as providing the voices for Boyfriend and Daddy Dearest.

Kawai Sprite continues to produce most of the game's music, sounds and character vocals. However, not all tracks in the game or all the voices were done by him. The Funkin' Sound Team is currently composed of various musicians. Other levels in the game had their opponents voiced by other people, such as Sr Pelo for Skid and Pump, Bassetfilms for Monster, l0litsmonica for Mommy Mearest and Nene, JohnnyUtah for Tankman and IvanAlmighty for Darnell.

Trivia

  • Kawai Sprite used to work at Firehouse Subs.[4]
  • Kawai Sprite and ninjamuffin99 created a Google Drive folder that contains the stems for most of the in-game songs that have been publicly released.[5] While the folder currently consists of mostly Kawai Sprite's tracks, the stems of other musicians' official compositions for the game may be released alongside those of his; however, they may choose not to have the stems of their work released.[6]
  • Kawai Sprite currently uses Ableton Live 11 to make the music for the game.[8] He previously composed his music using FL Studio until 2019.[9][10]
  • Kawai Sprite released a video on Twitter showcasing how he does the voices for Boyfriend and, by extension, all the other characters voiced by him. According to the video, he uses the Neptune Pitch Adjuster and Voice Synth device from Reason Rack Plugin.[11]
    • For Pico's voice, he uses Ableton Live's Frequency Shifter.[8]
  • PhantomArcade and Kawai Sprite are the oldest out of the main four due to both of them being born in January 1995; they were both 25 when Friday Night Funkin' was first created.
  • ninjamuffin99 has described Kawai Sprite as being the coolest person he knows.[12]
  • On the 12th of October, 2024, Kawai Sprite posted on Twitter an original character serving as his mascot. The character in question is Kranky, a creature with yellow skin, long pinkish-white eyes with 3 pointy eyelashes each and sharp teeth wearing a purple shirt, black sweatpants with 2 white lines on the side of each leg and white sneakers.[13]
    • According to Kawai Sprite, Kranky originates from an art piece he uploaded to Newgrounds titled frogboy.[14][15]
    • Kranky's exact species is currently unknown. He is commonly assumed to be a frog, but Kawai Sprite is unsure about it since Kranky has "chompers," which frogs don't have.[16]

Gallery

  • Kranky as he appears in Kawai Sprite's current icon on his social media accounts.
    Kranky as he appears in Kawai Sprite's current icon on his social media accounts.

  • A picture of Kawai Sprite used as the cover of his Drug Pop single "PBR & cigarettes".
    A picture of Kawai Sprite used as the cover of his Drug Pop single "PBR & cigarettes".
  • A photoshopped image of Kawai Sprite made to resemble Boyfriend. Used as the cover art for Fresh (Boyfriend Remix).
    A photoshopped image of Kawai Sprite made to resemble Boyfriend. Used as the cover art for Fresh (Boyfriend Remix).
  • Kawai Sprite (center) taking a picture with MKMaffo (left), ninjamuffin99 (right) and Tyler Bourke (far right) at the Too Many Games convention.
    Kawai Sprite (center) taking a picture with MKMaffo (left), ninjamuffin99 (right) and Tyler Bourke (far right) at the Too Many Games convention.

  • Sketch by PhantomArcade of the founders of The Funkin' Crew Inc. Kawai Sprite is using a turntable.
    Sketch by PhantomArcade of the founders of The Funkin' Crew Inc. Kawai Sprite is using a turntable.
  • The same sketch of the founders on a page of the Friday Night Funkin' volume 1 CD art booklet.
    The same sketch of the founders on a page of the Friday Night Funkin' volume 1 CD art booklet.
  • Kawai Sprite along with many Newgrounds characters and creators in an artwork by PKettles for Pico Day 2021.
    Kawai Sprite along with many Newgrounds characters and creators in an artwork by PKettles for Pico Day 2021.
  • Full-body reference of Kawai Sprite's original character and mascot, Kranky.
    Full-body reference of Kawai Sprite's original character and mascot, Kranky.

References

  1. ↑ Kawai Sprite (August 26, 2022). "phone charmz". From Spotify.
  2. ↑ ninjamuffin99 (December 31, 2020). "Parappa main-ish one that kicked it off, love Gitaroo man, uhhh Evilsk8r did a lot of the design stuff, so he'd know about that much more. Just parappa and Gitaroo man put me in the MOOD. Those early PS1/PS2 rhythm games". From Reddit.
  3. ↑ DidYouKnowGaming? (November 14, 2021). "How Newgrounds Changed Gaming ft. JohnnyUtah" (10:20). From YouTube.
  4. ↑ Kawai Sprite (October 11, 2022). "shout out to my former co-workers. i miss you guys. when i used to work at firehouse subs we would scream profanities as loud as we could when nobody was in the store.". From Twitter.
  5. ↑ Kawai Sprite (February 6, 2021). "Friday Night Funkin' stems! if you a content creator supporting the game, we lookin out 4 ya. happy creating! https://t.co/PsrkLXABjw". From Twitter. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021.
  6. ↑ Kawai Sprite (October 27, 2021). "that's the idea, however most of the game music will remain to be composed by me, we mainly have the music team for erect remixes. I want to give as many rights to the original composers as possible, so ultimately they will decide wether stems of their workwill be released or not". From Twitter. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021.
  7. ↑ "SONG STEMS". From Google Drive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "ADDITIONAL INFO AND RESOURCES". From Google Docs (January 11, 2021).
  9. ↑ Kawai Sprite (April 12, 2024). "fl rocks too! i used it for a long time before i switched to ableton live". From Twitter.
  10. ↑ Kawai Sprite (August 19, 2024). "its awesome, was my first daw and used it until 2019. switched over to ableton live cause of the time stretching algorithms, and audio editing capabilities". From Twitter.
  11. ↑ Kawai Sprite (November 30, 2020). "how i make the Friday Night Funkin voices". From Twitter. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021.
  12. ↑ ninjamuffin99 (November 3, 2022). "isaac was absolute muthufukin ice on this one i go back to his verse so damn often too damn clean he is the coolest person i know his verse starts at like 1:30 newgrounds.com/audio/listen/997358". From Twitter.
  13. ↑ Kawai Sprite (October 12, 2024). "very proud to introduce Kranky, the new OC and mascot for Kawai Sprite. For his likeness he’s being rewarded handsomely (minimum wage), say hello and treat him with respect! Fan art appreciated. gracias!". From Twitter.
  14. ↑ Kawai Sprite (October 13, 2024). "not entirely sure, a long time ago i drew this little character https://t.co/TGTzlvJPfr and i guess he eventually evolved into Kranky, unsure if the artist took inspo from that but i like this cover art!". From Twitter.
  15. ↑ Kawai Sprite (February 27, 2020). "frogboy". From Newgrounds.
  16. ↑ Kawai Sprite (October 12, 2024). "id like to say frog but hes got chompers which frogs are known to not have, so idk yet". From Twitter.
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