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Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working in the video game industry by joining Capcom the same year.
Yoko Shimomura served as the lead composer for Final Fantasy XV, writing around 80% of the soundtrack.. The musical score for the action role-playing game Final Fantasy XV, originally a spin-off game called Final Fantasy Versus XIII, was composed primarily by Yoko Shimomura, whose previous work included Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, and the Kingdom Hearts series.
The Mana series, known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説, lit."Holy Sword Legend"), is a role-playing video game series from Square Enix, created by Koichi Ishii.The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, although most Final Fantasy-inspired elements were subsequently dropped, starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana.
Square Enix is a Japanese video game developer and publisher formed from the merger on April 1, 2003, of video game developer Square and publisher Enix. [1] The company is best known for its role-playing video game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series.
Kingdom Hearts 15 key art. Yoko Shimomura – the composer behind the Kingdom Hearts series and so much more – has been around for a while, and is well-known as one of the best composers in the ...
Music for the spin-off series and main series games beginning with Final Fantasy X was created by a variety of composers including Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Kumi Tanioka, and Yoko Shimomura. The majority of Final Fantasy games, including all of the main series games, have received a soundtrack album release.
"Hikari" (光, lit. "light") is the theme song to the Japanese release of Kingdom Hearts, the first game in the series as well as the Game Boy Advance sequel Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and its remake Re:Chain of Memories, the PlayStation Portable prequel Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, as well as the theme to Kingdom Hearts coded and its DS remake Re:Coded.
The remixes were done by Shimomura, Tamaru, Hidenori Iwasaki and Keichi Takahashi. Multiple DJs also contributed, including Tomo, QUADRA, Dan K, Tribal Masters, Kay Nakayama, and Dummy Run. [15] According to Shimomura, the album came about when someone suggested to her creating full remixes of themes rather than making simple rearrangements.