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Takeharu Ishimoto

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(石元丈晴, Ishimoto Takeharu) is a Japanese video game music composer and synthesizer programmer currently working at Square Enix. He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer. His first work as a composer is the PlayStation 2 soccer game World Fantasista. More recently, he has been working as one of the composers for the Final Fantasy series and he is also known for working on The World Ends with You. He is also a member of the Japanese musical group SAWA.

His discography includes:

As a Synthesizer Programmer:
Legend of Mana (1999) – with Hidenori Iwasaki, Hirosato Noda, and Ryo Yamazaki
Vagrant Story (2000) – with Hidenori Iwasaki and Hirosato Noda
All Star Pro-Wrestling (2000)
Final Fantasy X (2001) – with Keiji Kawamori and Ryo Yamazaki
All Star Pro-Wrestling II (2001)
All Star Pro-Wrestling III (2003)
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004)
Kingdom Hearts II (2005)

As a Composer:
World Fantastista (2002) - with Masayoshi Soken
Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII (2004)
Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005)
Monotone (2007)
The World Ends with You (2007)
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007)
Dissidia: Final Fantasy (2008)
Final Fantasy Agito XIII (TBA)

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video game music, soundtrack, final fantasy, instrumental, japanese
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1	The Price of Freedom	153
2	The Burdened	73
3	Underground	67
4	Theme of CRISIS CORE "Successor"	66
4	It's So Wonderful	66
6	First Mission (from FFVII "Opening ~ Bombing Mission")	65
7	Theme of CRISIS CORE "Dreams and Pride"	64
8	Theme of CRISIS CORE "Under the Apple Tree"	63
9	Wandering on a Sunny Afternoon	62
10	On the Verge of the Assault (from FFVII "Those Who Fight")	61
11	Controlling the Iron Beast	60
12	The Mako City	59
13	Burden of Truth	58
14	Fragments of Memories -D.M.W-	57
15	The Summoned (from FFVII "Those Who Fight Further")	56

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chocomog257 wrote:
12 days ago

Encounter is also the climax!

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Ksb16 wrote:
15 days ago

gah! i wish i could find the tabs to his songs >.>

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Dr_Trouble wrote:
15 days ago

Ты и тут засветился ^^

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CloudInSky wrote:
15 days ago

Супер, слушаю все, что он писал для FF7:CC. ^_^

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NobodyROXas wrote:
23 days ago

Gotta love the guitar parts in the OST. So beautiful

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Quintessence666 wrote:
last month

The Japanese do it so much better then the americans, I can't believe half the shit I was listening to. I'd like to agree with Ninja Viking.

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Ninja-Viking wrote:
last month

In long time I haven't heard such a good soundtrack in WHOLE. It's not that it have good song or two , but entire Crisis Core OST is great. :)

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DrewniaQ wrote:
last month

http://www.lastfm.pl/group/The+Cult+of+Kefka Feel free to join ;)

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Suna_no_Mai wrote:
September 2009

The music made the game! :)

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Rachsucht wrote:
September 2009

Fulfilled Desire = Epic Ending! I Love this Track!

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Rachsucht wrote:
September 2009

Damn it! When will they ever start to merge it with the other profile -.-. http://www.lastfm.de/music/%E7%9F%B3%E5%85%83%E4%B8%88%E6%99%B4

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gtabro wrote:
September 2009

the music of Crisis Core is sooo unique... excellent sounds (mm)

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Yuanreek wrote:
September 2009

Wandering on a Sunny Afternoon <3

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xxvalentinexx wrote:
August 2009

Sky-Blue Eyes is definitly underrated! I loooove it! <3333 But the whole soundtrack is just PERFECT. ♥

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twelfthofnever wrote:
August 2009

Favourites have to be 'The Price of Freedom', 'Moonlight Wandering' and 'Night of Seclusion'.

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StinkLover wrote:
August 2009

"Wanderin on a Sunny afternoon" is brilliant!

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Vampirmagierin wrote:
August 2009

I love "The Price of Freedom"! The soundtrack from Crisi Core is wonderful<3

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Ayries wrote:
August 2009

TWEWY has such a great soundtrack. It's great to see someone who doesn't look at 'just' a DS game as something to be limited by. :D

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breakingout wrote:
July 2009

Although I enjoyed the music from Crisis Core, I found the experience of listening to the Dissidia: Final Fantasy soundtrack similar to landing a sharp fall with my face. There was broken glass on the ground too.

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Tobi_sixty wrote:
July 2009

wonderful Music! thank you for your great work!

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