Yasunori Mitsuda

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yasunori Mitsuda
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1972(1972-01-21)
Age	52
Country	Japan
Birth City	Shūnan
Horoscope	Capricorn

Yasunori Mitsuda Biography

Yasunori Mitsuda is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on January 21, 1972 in Shūnan, Japan. Born in Tokuyama (Japan) on January 21, 1972. He was raised in Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Kumage District. At five years old, he began piano lessons. However, he was more interested in other sports and stopped taking music seriously at six. He wanted to be a professional golfer for a while. In high school, Mitsuda discovered music again, inspired by Vangelis’ Blade Runner and Henry Mancini’s The Pink Panther film scores. He decided to be a music composer after watching Railman. After his father gave him a PC, which was rare at the time, he became interested in computers. He began to program computers and create music. He also took more technical classes.

Mitsuda was a sound effects designer for 2 years despite his title as composer. After threatening to quit Square’s vice-president, Hironobu Sakaguchi in 1994, Mitsuda was given the task of writing the soundtrack for Chrono Trigger. He continued to compose for Square after the game’s success. Mitsuda quit Square in 1998 to become a freelance composer. He founded Procyon Studio, his music production studio, and his own record label, Sleigh bells, in 2001. While Mitsuda still composes for video games in his spare time, he started to produce music for other media, such as anime series, movies, and independent albums.

Mitsuda’s music has been heavily remixed by fans, sparking several albums. These include the officially licensed Time & Space – A Tribute to Yasunori Mitsuda, released by OneUp Studios on October 7, 2001, and containing 18 remixes, with a second version of the album released on June 17, 2003. Another popular album release was Chrono Symphonic, an unofficial download-only album release by the remix website OverClocked ReMix on January 3, 2006, containing 25 remixes. A related popular album release was Radical Dreamers: Thieves of Fate, an unofficial download-only album release by the OverClocked ReMix on January 5, 2008, containing 15 remixes of the soundtrack to Radical Dreamers.

Following his leaving, Mitsuda has only worked on one more original game with Square, composing for 1999’s Chrono Cross, the sequel to Chrono Trigger. He has worked on over a dozen games since then, including the spiritual sequel to Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, and major games such as Shadow Hearts and Luminous Arc. In addition to video games, Mitsuda has composed music for the anime Inazuma Eleven and for the independent album Kirite. On November 22, 2001, Mitsuda formed Procyon Studio as a company to produce his music, along with a record label, Sleigh Bells. The company consisted of only Mitsuda as composer along with a few sound producers for several years, but has since expanded to include six employees. Mitsuda and Procyon Studio have also produced more arranged albums, such as Sailing to the World and 2009’s Colours of Light, a compilation album of vocal pieces Mitsuda has composed. The studio was also involved in co-designing the KORG DS-10 synthesizer program for the Nintendo DS, and its successor for the Nintendo 3DS, KORG M01D. Mitsuda claims that, for the projects Procyon had been working on in the late 2000s, he was focusing more on working as a music producer for a team of artists rather than just as a composer. Despite that, Mitsuda continued to compose for several notable games in the 2010s, such as the Inazuma Eleven series, Soul Sacrifice, and Valkyria Revolution, with the latter marking his first fully solo game soundtrack in eight years. Around the same time, Mitsuda also began to compose for non-video game media, including several NHK-produced television shows, as well as anime series such as Black Butler and adaptions of Inazuma Eleven. In addition to serving as the lead composer for 2017’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Mitsuda also was in charge of the game’s audio budget, musician booking, schedule management, and music sheet proofreading, for which he claimed was the largest project he ever worked on. He also composed for its expansion pack, Torna – The Golden Country.

While his official title was composer, Mitsuda began to work more as a sound engineer. He created sound effects for Final Fantasy V, Hanjuku Hero and Romancing SaGa 2, over the next two-years. Recognizing that he wouldn’t be able to take on a compositional role without taking drastic action, and worried about his low salary, he gave Square Vice President Hironobu Sakaguchi a ultimatum: Let him compose or he would quit. Sakaguchi gave the young musician a job on the Chrono Trigger team, and told him that “after it’s finished, maybe your salary will rise.” Mitsuda was the only composer assigned to the game. He created 54 tracks for the final release. Mitsuda worked tirelessly on the score until he fell asleep. He would then wake up with new ideas for songs, such as the final theme. He was so dedicated to the score that he developed stomach ulcers. Uematsu took over and finished the tracks.

Yasunori Mitsuda Net Worth

Yasunori Mitsuda is one of the richest Composer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yasunori Mitsuda 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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1972. He is a Japanese composer and musician. His work in videogames is most well-known, primarily for the Chrono and Xeno franchises. Mitsuda started composing music in high school for his own games. He later attended the Junior College of Music, Tokyo. He was awarded an internship position at Wolf Team, the game development studio. This was part of his college course. After seeing an advertisement for Square in a magazine, he decided to join Square upon his graduation in 1992.

Mitsuda spotted an advertisement for Square’s sound producer in Famitsu magazine while he was visiting a local game company. He applied for the job, even though he didn’t have any clear ideas about what he wanted to do after high school. Mitsuda submitted a demo, which earned him an interview at the studio. In spite of his self-described “disastrous interview” with Nobuo Uematsu, composer, and Minoru Akao sound programmer, Mitsuda was offered the position on the company’s sound team in April 1992.

Chrono Trigger proved a great success, and the soundtrack proved popular with fans. Mitsuda claims that it is his “landmark” title, which “matured” him. He attributes its success with fans to his use of folk and jazz styling, rather than the “semi-orchestral” style popular in game music at the time. Following Chrono Trigger, Mitsuda composed the soundtrack for Front Mission: Gun Hazard, again with Uematsu. According to Uematsu, Mitsuda again worked so much that he eventually defecated blood out of stress and physical problems. Mitsuda worked on three more titles for Square: Tobal No. 1 and Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki both in 1996, and Xenogears in 1998, which featured the first ballad in a Square game, the Celtic ending theme “Small Two of Pieces” sung by Joanne Hogg. Mitsuda also during this period produced albums of arranged music of his original scores, creating acid jazz remixes in Chrono Trigger Arranged Version: The Brink of Time and a Celtic arrangement album of Xenogears music, Creid. In July 1998, following up on what he had said in his original interview with the company, Mitsuda left Square to work as a freelance composer, the first of several of Square’s composers to do so.

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Yasunori Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yasunori Mitsuda celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.