Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.

I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.