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Takeharu Ishimoto (石元 丈晴, Ishimoto Takeharu) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. Formerly employed by Square Enix, he joined them in 1999 as a synthesizer programmer on Legend of Mana, and worked for them on several games. In 2002, he was promoted to the role of composer, beginning with World Fantasista. He has since composed for several large-budget games, such as The World Ends with You, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy Type-0. In addition to his work for Square Enix, he is a composer and guitar player for the bands The Death March and SAWA. He left Square Enix at the end of 2017, becoming a freelancer.

Takeharu Ishimoto
Born	(1970-05-29) 29 May 1970 (age 52) Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Genres	Video game music rock hip hop pop electronica
Occupation(s)	Composer musician
Instrument(s)	Piano guitar
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Square Enix Music

Biography

Ishimoto first got into music as, according to him, he lived in the country and there was nothing else to do.[1] He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer; he began working as such in 1999 with Legend of Mana. Several games later, he began to also work as a composer with the PlayStation 2 soccer game World Fantasista. In 2004 he began to compose for games in the Final Fantasy series, which he had previously worked with as a synthesizer programmer on Final Fantasy X. His last work as a synthesizer programmer was for Kingdom Hearts II in 2005; since then he has worked exclusively for Square Enix as a composer.

Ishimoto was also a member of the Japanese musical group SAWA, with which he performed under the name HIZMI. He formed the band along with Sawa Kato in October 2008. Kato sang some of the songs and wrote the lyrics on Ishimoto's soundtrack for The World Ends with You. The band released an album, 333, in 2008.[1] After SAWA disbanded, he formed The Death March in 2012, a band that plays and re-arrange music from soundtracks composed by Ishimoto.[2] In December 2017, Ishimoto announced that he would be leaving Square Enix and becoming a freelancer.[3] Ishimoto stated that the decision to leave was his own, leaving on amicable terms with the company.[3]

Style and legacy

He was named by IGN as number ten in a top ten JRPG composers list in 2008.[4] Ishimoto composes songs in many different genres, including rock, hip hop, electronica, and pop.[5]

Works

Synthesizer programmer

• Legend of Mana (1999) – with Hidenori Iwasaki, Hirosato Noda, and Ryo Yamazaki[6]
• Front Mission 3 (1999)[6]
• Vagrant Story (2000) – with Hidenori Iwasaki and Hirosato Noda[6]
• All Star Pro-Wrestling (2000)[6]
• Final Fantasy X (2001) – with Keiji Kawamori and Ryo Yamazaki[6]
• All Star Pro-Wrestling II (2001)[6]
• All Star Pro-Wrestling III (2003[6]
• Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004)[6]
• Kingdom Hearts II (2005)[6]

Composer

• World Fantasista (2002) – with Masayoshi Soken[7]
• Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII (2004)[7]
• Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005)[7]
• Monotone (2007)[7]
• The World Ends with You (2007)[3]
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007)[4]
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy (2008)[4]
• Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010) – with Yoko Shimomura and Tsuyoshi Sekito[7]
• Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy (2011)[7]
• Final Fantasy Type-0 (2011)[8]
• Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (2012) – with Yoko Shimomura and Tsuyoshi Sekito[7]
• Final Fantasy Agito (2014)[7]
• Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (2015)[7]
• Rampage Land Rankers (2015)[7]
• Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015) – with Keiji Kawamori and Tsuyoshi Sekito[7]
• Dissidia Final Fantasy NT (2018)[3]
• Kingdom Hearts III (2019) – with Yoko Shimomura and Tsuyoshi Sekito[9]
• The World Ends with You the Animation (2021)[10]
• Neo: The World Ends with You (2021)[11]

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)

На других языках

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[de] Takeharu Ishimoto

Takeharu Ishimoto (japanisch 石元 丈晴 .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Ishimoto Takehara; * 29. Mai 1970 in Nichinan, Präfektur Miyazaki)[1] ist ein japanischer Videospielkomponist und Musiker. Von 1999 bis 2017 arbeitete er bei Square Enix, wo er für die Musik verschiedener Spiele verantwortlich war. Eingestellt wurde er 1999 als Synthesizer-Programmierer für Legend of Mana, seit 2002 arbeitete er als Komponist für Spiele wie World Fantasista und später Spiele aus den Reihen Final Fantasy und Kingdom Hearts. 2017 verließ er Square Enix und arbeitet seither als Freiberufler. Neben seiner Arbeit für Spiele ist er Komponist und Gitarrist der Bands The Death March und SAWA.

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- [en] Takeharu Ishimoto

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[ru] Исимото, Такэхару

Такэхару Исимото (яп. 石元 丈晴 Исимото Такэхару, род. 29 мая 1970 года) — японский композитор музыки для компьютерных игр крупнейшей фирмы-разработчика Square Enix. Он был принят на работу в Square в 1999 году, первой задачей Исимото стало программирование звукового движка игры Legend of Mana. Впоследствии он стал композитором и сочинил музыку для таких известных игр, как The World Ends with You, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Dissidia: Final Fantasy и Final Fantasy Type-0. Кроме того, он играет в группе SAWA, совместно с которой он выпустил альбом 333[1]. Он пишет музыку многих совершенно разных жанров, таких как рок, хип-хоп, электроника, поп, и экспериментальная музыка из The World Ends with You[2]. Исимото занял десятое место в списке десяти лучших композиторов для игр жанра JRPG по версии IGN[3].

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