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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.

   • Years active: 1988–present
   • Labels: Midiplex, Brave Wave Productions

   • Alma mater: Osaka College of Music

2. www.ign.com › articles › yoko-shimomura-reflects-onYoko Shimomura Reflects on Lifetime Achievement: 'I Knew I ...

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   Mar 20, 2024 · For Women's History Month, we spoke to legendary video game composer Yoko Shimomura about her ability to love her own work, even when she feared it was at its worst.

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   • Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts is a role-playing adventure game, co-produced by Disney and Squaresoft. As well as sumptuous, piano-led electronic orchestral music by Shimomura, it features a voice cast that stars Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) and Hayden Panettiere (Heroes).
   • Final Fantasy XV. Final Fantasy XV was one of the biggest video game releases of 2016. Whereas fellow video game composer Nobuo Uematsu was responsible for music earlier on in the franchise, Shimomura made a sweeping, Wagnerian epic of her score for the fifteenth chapter.
   • Parasite Eve. In 1998, Square produced a video game version of Hideaki Sena’s 1995 novel Parasite Eve, which explores the power of microscopic cellular mitochondria – and what might have happened in an alternate universe where they split away from cellular life and formed a separate intelligent conscious life-form, dubbed Eve.
   • Legend of Mana. Yoko Shimomura took the pen for Mana in its third instalment, with composers Kenji Ito and Hiroki Kikuta, respectively, being her predecessors for the music.

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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.

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   • A number of Yoko Shimomura’s works, both original scores and rearrangements and remixes, are available now through Square Enix Europe and Square Enix North America’s online stores. Thanks to Square Enix Merch EMEA for setting up this interview.

   Interview: Yoko Shimomura talks writing some of the genre's ... - RPG Site

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   • The Japanese composer has set the bar high for video game music – from ‘Final Fantasy XV’ to ‘Kingdom Hearts’, here are her very best scores. The Hyōgo-born composer of over 45 scores, Shimomura has been honing her craft in emoting pixels in close-combat situations since she graduated from Osaka College of Music in 1988.

   Yoko Shimomura’s music: 7 greatest pieces by the video game composer

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   • Yoko Shimomura has been crafting the soundtrack to countless childhoods for decades. One could even call the epic, classically-inspired sounds of the Kingdom Hearts, Parasite Eve, and Street Fighter II themes to be “ perfect .”

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5. articles.retroware.com › 2021/02/05 › slowly-seepingSlowly Seeping In: The Mind Behind Yoko Shimomura’s Legacy

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   Feb 5, 2021 · Yoko Shimomura, a prolific video game composer whose career spans the past thirty years of gaming, often shares her thoughts on her line of work and subsequent portfolio, which contains mostly games of a narrative caliber.

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   May 19, 2021 · Learn about how Yoko Shimomura went from tackling her first projects at Capcom to crafting the timeless soundtracks of the Kingdom Hearts series.

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   Born on October 19, 1967 in the Hyogo prefecture, Yoko Shimomura is one of the most popular and talented composers in the gaming industry, known for her eclectic works on behalf of Capcom and Square Enix.

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   Jan 5, 2016 · Besides her work on new arrangement albums, Shimomura is of course knee-deep in working on Square Enix Japan’s two largest upcoming releases – Kingdom Hearts III and Final...

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