Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

He also recorded live orchestras for the arcade games Derby Owners Club, World Club Champion Football, and Star Horse. Aside from original compositions, he also arranges, provides vocals, and is a performer for various projects, including S.S.T from 1988 to 1993, and [H.] from 2004 onwards. He is well-known for voicing the character Kage-Maru in the Virtua Fighter franchise. His younger brother, Kenji Mitsuyoshi, is a manga artist and member of the artist-writer duo Ark Performance along with Kōichi Ishikawa.

• Name — Takenobu Mitsuyoshi • Native Name — 光吉 猛修 • Born — 25 December 1967 • Birthplace — Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan • Employer — Sega • Occupation — * Composer • vocalist • keyboardist • Years Active — 1990–present • Education — Tohoku Gakuin University

• Year — Title — Role(s) • 1990 — G-LOC R360 — "Earth Frame G" • GP Rider — Music with Hiroshi Kawaguchi • 1991 — Rent a Hero • Strike Fighter — Music • 1992 — Virtua Racing • OutRunners — Music with Takayuki Nakamura • 1994 — Daytona USA — Music, vocals • Virtua Fighter 2 — Music with Takayuki Nakamura and Akiko Hashimoto • Virtua Striker — Music • 1995 — Sega Rally Championship • Manx TT Superbike • Virtua Fighter Remix — Sound design • 1996 — Sonic the Fighters — Music with Maki Morrow • Virtua Fighter Kids — Music with Takayuki Nakamura and Maki Morrow • J.League Victory Goal '96 — Musicians • Virtua Fighter 3 — Music with Fumio Ito and Hidenori Shoji • 1997 — |Virtua Striker 2 — Sound director • Fighters Megamix — Sound design • J.League Victory Goal '97 — Musicians • Digital Dance Mix Vol. 1 Namie Amuro — Sound director • 1998 — Daytona USA 2 — Vocals • Burning Rangers • 1999 — Shenmue — Music with various others • 2000 — F355 Challenge: Passione Rossa • 2001 — Crackin' DJ Part 2 • Shenmue II • 2002 — World Club Champion Football — Music • 2003 — |Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Marz — Sound design • 2005 — Sonic Gems Collection — "Fairy of A.I.F." • 2006 — Let's Go Jungle!: Lost on the Island of Spice — Music • Sega Rally 2006 — Music with various others • 2009 — Yakuza 3 — Sound production • Hummer — Music • 2010 — Yakuza 4 — Interpretation assistance • Let's Go Island: Lost on the Island of Tropics — Music with Junpei Mishima and Keisuke Tsukahara • 2011 — Ridge Racer — "Ridge Racer USA Mix" - DLC • 2012 — Maimai — Music with various others • Samurai Bloodshow — Music • 2015 — Chunithm — "Ikazuchi" • Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX — Motion actor • 2017 — Daytona 3 Championship USA — Music • 2018 — Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — "F-Zero Medley" • 2021 — Initial D The Arcade — "Super Sonic" • 2022 — Sin Chronicle — "A Reason of Unchosen" • 2023 — Sonic Superstars — "Golden Capital Zone Act 2", "Zap Scrap" • 2024 — Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth — "Reminiscent Mood" • 2026 — Denshattack! — "Infinite Sky"

• Year — Title — Role(s) • 1993 — Burning Rival — Bill • Virtua Fighter — Akira Yuki, Kage-Maru • 1996 — Virtua Fighter 3 — Kage-Maru • 2001 — Virtua Fighter 4 • 2003 — Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Marz — Sgt. Hatter • 2005 — 3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha: To the End of the Galaxy — Apharmd the Hatter • 2006 — Virtua Fighter 5 — Kage-Maru • 2012 — Phantasy Star Online 2 — Himself (English and Japanese) • Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed — Announcer (Japanese) • 2015 — Project X Zone 2 — Kage-Maru • 2017 — Sonic Mania — Competition Announcer • 2022 — Party Quiz Sega Q — Himself • 2025 — Shinobi: Art of Vengeance — Joe Musashi

Mitsuyoshi's music from Shenmue was performed live at the first Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany, in 2003. It was the first time that a concert featuring video game music was held outside Japan. Mitsuyoshi attended the world premiere of Play! A Video Game Symphony at the Rosemont Theater in Rosemont, Illinois, in May 2006, where music from the Shenmue series was performed by a full symphony orchestra. The event drew nearly 4,000 attendees. In 2007, his music from the World Club Champion Football series was presented at the fifth Symphonic Game Music Concert, with him joining the choir during the performance. For Symphonic Shades – Hülsbeck in Concert in 2008, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi arranged music from Apidya, by German composer Chris Hülsbeck. The event was performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne in Cologne, Germany, and marked the first live radio broadcast of a video game music concert. His first dinner show was scheduled for March 22, 2020, but was postponed to August 23 of that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then rescheduled again to January 24, 2021, due to the spread of the second wave of infection. He did an online dinner show livestream on August 23, 2020, to make room for the reschedule.

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is recorded with the occupation songwriter. Classed in the genre video game music. Recorded as composer, songwriter, singer and seiyū.