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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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  • 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

    last month
  • alicefairyberry

    Well said <3

    last month
  • 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.

    last month
  • flamboyance

    Epic!

    November 2011
  • FaithlessMr

    Fear of the Heavens is amazing.

    September 2011
  • KaeruCT

    I love his boss battle songs the most <3

    June 2011
  • Rennsteigripper

    Just rediscovered "Innocent Sea" by a playthrough trough Seiken 3... Damn, what an awesome track.

    October 2010
  • Evolution99

    the Sword of Mana games have great music,and we have this guy to thank for it :) awesome job there!

    October 2010
  • DayvanMollusk

    SOM had such a great atmosphere :-)

    July 2010
  • BoyofBattle

    genius

    July 2010
  • yuusuke27

    kikuta hiroki is genius!!

    May 2010
  • MadFuhrer

    @Kanji: brofist. SD3 is far too underrated. Meridian Child is Kikuta's masterpiece.

    April 2010
  • Trunkzor

    Star of Darkness... prolly one of my favs of all time, this guy needs to hit the square team again with nobou throw in Yasunori Mitsuda too and never worry about music spawning to the likes of FF12 again -.-

    April 2010
  • KrabbLa

    The Oracle ... so fucking crazy! I love this Soundtrack <3

    March 2010
  • Shad4k

    Seiken Densetsu 2 makes for the greatest ringtones ever.

    March 2010
  • Bakashih

    wow, i just found out that he composed koudelka ost.. now i admire him even more!

    March 2010
  • 33ee

    fkn genius

    January 2010
  • psychedali

    the SOM soundtrack reminds me of the good old years, when I played this game so often ... can't avoid to get corny. ♥

    November 2009
  • Shad4k

    The SD2 soundtrack is so wonderful...

    November 2009
  • Bakashih

    thanks for being awesome, sir

    November 2009
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