Hiroki Kikuta (菊田 裕樹, Kikuta Hiroki, born August 29, 1962 as Yūki Kikuta) is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991.
After composing the soundtracks for his first three best-known works, he formed his own video game production company, Sacnoth, for which he was the president and CEO. After producing and composing Koudelka in 1999, he left to become a freelance composer. Since his departure he has formed his own record label, Norstrilia, through which he produces albums of his own compositions and collaborations with other artists, as well as his previous scores. His music has been performed in concerts such as the Symphonic Fantasies concerts in Cologne, Germany in September 2009, and selections of his works have been published as piano arrangements in sheet music books.
HirokiKikuta (菊田 裕樹, KikutaHiroki, born August 29, 1962 as Yūki Kikuta) is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana...
created by HirokiKikuta, a former employee of Square who formed Sacnoth with other Square staff members in 1997 to develop the game. Kikuta was its director...
designer/director Koichi Ishii, producer Masaru Oyamada, and composers HirokiKikuta, Tsuyoshi Sekito, and Ryo Yamazaki. Visions of Mana is set in a fantasy...
1997 by HirokiKikuta and a number of other former Square staff. Internal conflict between Kikuta and the developers eventually led to Kikuta resigning...
The company was founded in April 1997 by HirokiKikuta with funding from SNK; its staff, including Kikuta, were veterans of Square. While their first...
system, and innovative real-time battle system. Critics also praised HirokiKikuta's soundtrack and the customizable artificial intelligence (AI) settings...
Nobuteru Yūki, while the music was composed by Secret of Mana composer HirokiKikuta. Although the game was only published in Japan, English-speaking players...
The music of Final Fantasy Adventure was composed by Kenji Ito, while HirokiKikuta composed Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana and Yoko Shimomura wrote...
project with a generous budget which allowed for live music composed by HirokiKikuta and full voice acting. Character designs were created by Natsuki Sumeragi...
Music of HirokiKikuta & Yoko Shimomura". Gamasutra. UBM. Archived from the original on 2015-10-17. Retrieved 2009-09-01. Jeriaska; Kikuta, Hiroki (2007-06-16)...
Chrono Cross and Trials of Mana, working on the game's world design, HirokiKikuta, previously involved in multiple entries in the Mana series as music...
Mebae Miyahara. The original score was written by video game composer HirokiKikuta. The story starts with the birth of a beautiful princess whose skin...
Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana), but was forced to hand the project off to HirokiKikuta as his first score due to the demand on his time for scoring Romancing...
Kuīn) Kaguya's robot partner. The music of the game is composed by HirokiKikuta. The game was released on December 16, 2010, in Japan. The song, entitled...
footballer HirokiKikuta (裕樹; born 1962), Japanese video game composer and designer Hiroki Kishida (岸田 裕樹; born 1981), Japanese football player Hiroki Kobayashi...
role-playing game Koudelka, the music of which was composed by company founder HirokiKikuta. Each game has received a soundtrack album, with Hirota also producing...
Kong & Taiwan on May 28, 2014. The music for the game was composed by HirokiKikuta, and the theme song by Kenji Ito. It is made up of orchestral music...
Jeriaska (August 31, 2009). "Interview: Magical Planet – The Music of HirokiKikuta & Yoko Shimomura". Gamasutra. Retrieved October 9, 2009. Final Fight...
Hiroki Miura (三浦宏規, Miura Hiroki, born March 24, 1999) is a Japanese stage actor associated with Will-B International Inc.. Miura was born in the Mie Prefecture...
Kenji Ito (Final Fantasy Adventure, Children of Mana, Dawn of Mana), HirokiKikuta (Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana) and Yoko Shimomura (Legend of Mana...
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