Good afternoon, all; we've just received this news related to the Nintendo company itself - another very talented music composer has departed the group to work on other freelancer projects: Yasuaki Iwata.
Yasuaki Iwata is known to have composed many unique songs for Nintendo's many franchises; for the Super Mario franchise itself which we also focus on in my doing Super Nintendo music styled arrangement covers for them, Iwata was known for doing songs for Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8. According to sources, Iwata departed the company during July of last year, but only made this post on Twitter (X) recently to confirm the announcement itself.
We'd like to take a moment to also give this same Yasuaki Iwata our thanks for their great contributions to the Nintendo company as a whole on the music front which includes the Super Mario franchise along with wishing him the best in his future endeavors outside of Nintendo. Take care for now until next time around, everyone.