Saster
― Twitter bio
Kevin Takeshi Takami, better known online as Saster or Sub0ru, is a Japanese-American musician, voice actor, artist, and graphic designer. He is well-known in the Friday Night Funkin' fandom for his fan content and for working on various mods. He is now serving as a guest composer for the official game.
Involvement
Saster's involvement in Friday Night Funkin' began when he co-composed the song "Tormentor" for the Friday Night Funkin': Corruption mod with fellow mod composer SimplyCrispy. He would then go on to compose multiple songs for various other mods like Indie Cross, Starlight Mayhem, and Vs. Impostor v4.
On the 15th of December, 2022, ninjamuffin99 would reveal during an AMA on /funkg/ that someone from the mod community was recently hired to work on the official game.[1] On the 16th, PhantomArcade would follow up in a tweet that he was "the one to nab em", and that he "just nabbed another" person from the mod community to help work on the game.[2] Saster and fellow Friday Night Funkin' mod composer Saruky would both be revealed to officially be part of The Funkin' Crew Inc. on the 30th of April, 2024, when the WeekEnd 1 update released.
During a Twitch live stream on the 27th of June, 2024, PhantomArcade would reveal that he picked Saster and Saruky to join the music team due to him being fans of their work, and that he asked the two to join when the ERECT remixes were being made.[3]
Trivia
- Both Saster and Saruky's involvement were accidentally leaked hours before the WeekEnd 1 update released due to an error with DistroKid uploading the Friday Night Funkin' OST Vol. 3 albums on streaming platforms earlier than intended.
- Saster, Saruky, fabs, Sugar Moon, DozenRahyz, IGJH, gackt enzo, Funni342, DegoDraws, and bbpanzu are currently the only people from the Friday Night Funkin' modding community known to be involved with the official game.
- Similar to Saruky, Saster would make fan songs for the Undertale community before joining the Friday Night Funkin' community.
Gallery
- Reference sheet of Saster's persona, drawn by The Winterer.