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Japan (1991 – present)

菊田裕樹 (Hiroki Kikuta) is a Japanese video game music composer, and was born on August 29th, 1962 in Aichi prefecture, Japan. He attended Kansai University and earned a degree in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. After graduating, he worked as a manga illustrator and anime music composer.

He started his career as video game music composer in 1991, when he presented some demos of his work to Square , and was promptly hired to create the sound effects for Romancing Saga. Square then asked him to compose the soundtrack of Secret of Mana, which became a big hit. While at Square, he went on to compose the soundtrack to the next game in the Mana series, Seiken Densetsu 3, as well as Soukaigi, which was developed by Yuke’s.

After finishing his work on Soukaigi in 1997, he left Square and subsequently founded his own game development company called Sacnoth while taking some of Square’s staff with him. They went on to develop Koudelka, to which he acted as a Concept Designer, Game Planner, Scenario Writer, Producer and Composer. Due to friction within the company, the game did not turn out exactly as he wanted it to be, and became a commercial failure.

After development on Koudelka was completed in 1999, he resigned from his position as CEO and left the company. In 2001, he founded a new company focussing solely on music called Norstrilia Ltd., which is still active today. That same year he started working on a Taiwanese MMORPG called Chou Bukyou Taisen, for which he took the role of Concept Designer, Game Planner and Composer. However, development was discontinued after the closed beta test, and the game never saw a release.
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  • finessays

    Secret of Mana is so underrated and the soundtrack is amazing.

    last month

  • NickScott

    Secret of Mana > A Link To The Past

    April 2012

  • AzureMeimu

    I just can't get over how amazing the Secret of Mana soundtrack is <3

    March 2012

  • darkkeeper666

    Love the Secret of mana Soundtrack he did such a great job, best game ever, the music is beautiful and authentic just awsome! When i listen to the OST im just happy :3 LOVE IT! <3

    January 2012

  • alicefairyberry

    Well said <3

    January 2012

  • Plutoniumgrahl

    just wanted you to know, that u made a big part of me and my brothers childhood. i played secret of mana (saiken densetsu2) many times. i wonder if you even know, what you did with your soundtracks. i live in europe, so you can be proud to have touched thousends of hearts all over the world. thanks for all the tears i cried because of my wonderfull childhood.

    January 2012

  • flamboyance

    Epic!

    November 2011

  • FaithlessMr

    Fear of the Heavens is amazing.

    September 2011
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