Kenji Ito’s Seiken Densetsu days began in 1991 when he composed the music for Final Fantasy Adventure.  In Secret of Mana he worked on Sound Effect Design.  It would not be until Sword of Mana, the remake of Final Fantasy Adventure, that Kenji Ito would lead the music in the Seiken Densetsu series again.  His track “Rising Sun” has become the main theme for the Seiken Densetsu series recently.  More recently he has done the music for Children of Mana and worked on many tracks in Dawn of Mana.
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Brownie Brown is a game development studio funded by Nintendo which opened up in 2000.  Among the people working at Brownie Brown there are many of the artists from Legend of Mana, and the studio was founded by two people who worked on the various Seiken Densetsu games on Gameboy and Super Nintendo.
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Yoko Shimomura is the composer of the wonderful music in Legend of Mana.

Unlike Hiroki Kikuta and Koichi Ishii, Yoko Shimomura is a bit easier to find info on!  But for some reason her “Who Is” update is shorter than their stuff… I guess mystery makes for awesome writing. Read the rest of this entry »

Hiroki Kikuta is the guy who did the music for Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3.

Duh.

If you didn’t know that, go stand in the corner and think about what you have done.  The rest of you, stay here and listen to what else this guy has done.  Consider yourselves enlightened by this experience.  Hiroki Kikuta also did one other game soundtrack while working for Square.  In 1998 the game Soukaigi came out, and it interestingly it features a track titled “Angel’s Fear Again,”  a guitar and piano bit which does not seem to be similar to the “Angel’s Fear” of the Seiken Densetsu series.  The track, however, does remind me a lot of “Prayer of the Arctic Circle/Meridian Beast” from Secret of Mana.  Perhaps this will be a Monday Music update sometime where you can decide if they are similar.
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Welcome to The Seikens’ “Who Is” Wednesday!

Koichi Ishii
Most of us Seiken Densetsu fans know who Koichi Ishii is.  He’s the father of the Seiken Densetsu series, and the person we pray to every night for new awesome Seiken Densetsu games.  Also, he delivers Seiken Densetsu related gifts to us on Christmas.  Sometimes he even appears at our front door and says “Hey Sheexy, you want to come and help me run the Seiken Densetsu series?” and I reply, “Totally man, I’ve got so many ideas, this is gonna rock!”  “You know, I can make all of your Seiken Densetsu dreams come true right?”  “Really?”  “Yeah, check this out!”  And then suddenly I find myself in a room full of Rabites.  And I have a sword.  The Mana Sword.
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