We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

I receive more fan mail from the females.