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Shinji Hosoe
Shinji Hosoe
Video game composer and musician
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Go Shiina
Go Shiina
Japanese musician
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Yū Miyake
Yū Miyake
composer
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Hitoshi Sakimoto
Hitoshi Sakimoto
Japanese composer
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Nobuyoshi Sano
Nobuyoshi Sano
Japanese composer
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Yoko Shimomura
Yoko Shimomura
Japanese composer and pianist
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Motoi Sakuraba
Motoi Sakuraba
Japanese composer
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Atsuhiro Motoyama
Atsuhiro Motoyama
Japanese composer and musician
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Masashi Hamauzu
Masashi Hamauzu
Japanese composer and pianist
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Masafumi Takada
Masafumi Takada
Japanese video game music composer
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Masayoshi Soken
Masayoshi Soken
Japanese composer
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Kow Otani
Kow Otani
Japanese composer
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Jun Maeda
Jun Maeda
Japanese visual novel writer, composer and manga author
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Yuzo Koshiro
Yuzo Koshiro
Japanese video game music composer, electronic music producer, and audio programmer
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Takahito Eguchi
Takahito Eguchi
Japanese musician
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese musician
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Masaharu Iwata
Masaharu Iwata
Japanese composer
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Hirokazu Tanaka
Hirokazu Tanaka
Japanese composer
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Haruomi Hosono
Haruomi Hosono
Japanese musician, Yellow Magic Orchestra member (1947-)
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Motohiro Kawashima
Motohiro Kawashima
Japanese video game composer and techno producer
Keiichi Okabe
Japanese composer, arranger and entrepreneur

Keiichi Okabe

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Japanese composer, arranger and entrepreneur
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Keiichi Okabe (岡部 啓一, Okabe Keiichi, born May 26, 1969) is a Japanese composer and arranger, best known for composing music for Drakengard 3, Nier, and its sequel Nier: Automata, along with the Tekken series. He started his career as a video game composer where he worked at Namco between 1994 and 2001, primarily composing for arcade games. Outside of video games he has composed for anime series such as Working!! and Yuki Yuna Is a Hero, along with arranging tracks for J-pop artists such as Ryuichi Kawamura. He established the music production studio Monaca in 2004, which composes for various types of media.