Hiroki KikutaDeveloper BIO
Hiroki Kikuta (菊田 裕樹) was born in 1962 in Aichi prefecture, Japan. He began his career at
Square in 1991 as a manager. He designed the sound effects for the game
Romancing SaGa, and after that was asked to compose the music for
Secret of Mana. The soundtrack took off, and then he composed the sequel
Seiken Densetsu 3 (1995) and
Sōkaigi (1998).
Kikuta wanted a bigger challenge than composing music, and he felt he could not do it with Square. When he realized this, he set up
Sacnoth, with financial backing of
SNK, and took the position of CEO. He was the designer, scenario writer, and producer of
Koudelka (1999), for which he also directed the CG movies and composed the music. Koudelka was a failure on the market, and after this, he resigned his position as CEO.
In March 2001 Kikuta founded Norstrilia, a private record label that publishes his albums. During the next three years he was working as a concept designer and game planner for a Chinese online role-playing game that was eventually canceled. His work in the video game industry became once again confined to music, as he went on to compose soundtracks for the
eroge visual novel
Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro (2004) and a few other games afterwards.
Websites
- Angel's Fear -- Hiroki Kikuta's official web site. News, information on past work, articles, and more. Predominantly in Japanese, though some content is available in English.
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