Yasunori Mitsuda

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/YasunoriMitsuda Profilehttps://www.procyonstudio.co.jp/staff/mitsuda/ Bloghttps://www.procyonstudio.com/blog/ Yasunori Mitsuda is a Japanese composer and musician. He is best known for his work in video games primarily for the Chrono Shadow Hearts and Inazuma Eleven franchises among various others. Mitsuda began composing music for his own games in high school later attending the Junior College of Music in Tokyo. While still a student he was granted an intern position at the game development studio Wolf Team. Mitsuda later joined Square Co. Ltd.now Square Enix upon graduation in 1992 after seeing a magazine advertisement in an office he was visiting with his professor. He worked there as a sound effects designer for two years before telling Squares vice president Hironobu Sakaguchihttps://anilist.co/staff/101047/HironobuSakaguchi he would quit unless he could write music for their games. Shortly after Sakaguchi assigned him to work on the soundtrack for Chrono Trigger whose music has since been cited as among the best in video games. After Chrono Triggers success and the musics acclaim. Mitsuda went on to compose for several other games at Square including Xenogears 1998 and Chrono Cross 1999. He left the company and became independent in 1998. In 2001 he respectively founded his own music production studio and record company Procyon Studio and Sleigh Bells. Mitsuda has also contributed music for anime series films and television programs as well as producing albums.