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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...
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    The music of the Kingdom Hearts video game series was composed by Yoko Shimomura with orchestral music arranged by Kaoru Wada. The original soundtracks...
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  • with two wins. The BAFTA Fellowship was presented to Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura. The ceremony was opened with a performance by Peredur ap Gwynedd, and...
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  • Live A Live (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    were handled by different manga artists. The music was composed by Yoko Shimomura as her first large-scale project after joining Square. Reception of...
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  • placing on the Japanese Oricon Albums Chart. Drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura reached position 179, as did SQ Chips. SQ Chips 2 reached position 102...
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  • Radiant Historia (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    produced by A-1 Pictures. The music for both versions was composed by Yoko Shimomura, with theme songs performed by Haruka Shimotsuki. Reception and sales...
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  • Kingdom Hearts IV (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    were to return to his world, his look would revert. Series composer Yoko Shimomura returns to score the game.[better source needed] Japanese: キングダム ハーツIV...
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  • Legend of Mana (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    acclaim to its vibrant and colorful hand-drawn graphics and soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura, but were critical of the lack of a clear main storyline, stating that...
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  • Super Mario RPG (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    and Yoshihiko Maekawa, produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, and scored by Yoko Shimomura. Super Mario RPG's story focuses on Mario and his friends as they seek...
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  • mainline entry in the Final Fantasy series, was composed primarily by Yoko Shimomura. Having previously worked on the Kingdom Hearts series, among various...
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  • live rendition for Pope Francis by a circus. Other musicians such as Yoko Shimomura have also performed their own interpretations. Various media outlets...
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  • on September 30, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2007. Shimomura, Yoko (February 26, 2014). "Yoko Shimomura tweet". Twitter.com (in Japanese). Archived from...
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  • featuring American rapper Rico Nasty and Japanese video game composer Yoko Shimomura. XXXTentacion released his debut studio album, 17 in August 2017 to...
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  • Parasite Eve (video game) (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    and directed by Takashi Tokita. Music for the title was composed by Yoko Shimomura who was widely acclaimed for her work to create an "inorganic" and "emotionless"...
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  • Kingdom Hearts III (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    long-time series composer, Yoko Shimomura, and features additional contributions from Takeharu Ishimoto and Tsuyoshi Sekito. Shimomura felt pressure over working...
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  • Heroes of Mana (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    The story was written by Masato Kato, and the music was composed by Yoko Shimomura. The game was not a commercial success, selling around 180,000 copies...
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  • and Super Mario RPG served as major inspirations; Fox looked up to Yoko Shimomura's works in particular. Her song "Megalomania" for the game Live A Live...
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  • actress and actress Yoko Shibui (陽子, born 1979), Japanese long-distance runner Yoko Shimada (楊子, 1953–2022), Japanese actress Yoko Shimomura (陽子, born 1967)...
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  • label), an imprint of Sony Music Australia Murmur, a 2007 album by Yoko Shimomura "Murmur", a song by John Frusciante from the 2001 album From the Sounds...
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  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    voice in Nintendo's Mario franchise. The game's music was composed by Yoko Shimomura, who also previously composed the soundtrack for Super Mario RPG. Superstar...
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    the score for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, along with composers Yoko Shimomura and Grant Kirkhope. “The three talents were tactically deployed across...
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  • renowned composers in the video game industry, including Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Chris Hülsbeck, and Yuzo Koshiro. Merregnon: Heart of Ice features...
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  • based on the novel of the same name by Hideaki Sena, was composed by Yoko Shimomura, and was one of her early popular successes. The music for its 1999...
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  • spoke at the High Score 2023 conference hosted by APRA AMCOS, alongside Yoko Shimomura. Larkin integrates elements of his classical training with a diverse...
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  • The King of Dragons (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    players progress through the game. The game's music was composed by Yoko Shimomura. The King of Dragons was ported to the Super NES in 1994. An emulated...
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  • The 3rd Birthday (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    Sekito, with additional work by original Parasite Eve composer Yoko Shimomura. Shimomura was involved from an early stage, when The 3rd Birthday was still...
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  • music across all of the games' soundtracks. The main composers are Yoko Shimomura, Hiroyuki Sawano, and most notably Yasunori Mitsuda. Other music composers...
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  • Xenoblade Chronicles (video game) (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    including first-timer and lead composer Manami Kiyota and industry veterans Yoko Shimomura and Yasunori Mitsuda, with the latter also writing the ending theme...
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  • first assignment was to score the 1995 title Front Mission alongside Yoko Shimomura. She subsequently contributed the track "Boss Battle 1" to Chrono Trigger...
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  • Kingdom Hearts II (category Video games scored by Yoko Shimomura)
    Hearts II features music by Yoko Shimomura and Hikaru Utada. The Original Soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts II was composed by Shimomura and released on January...
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