Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

is a Japanese composer of video game music, singer, and video game voice actor. He has composed music for various games produced by Sega, including Virtua Fighter 2 and Shenmue. He first gained major recognition after the release of Daytona USA, for which he wrote music and personally sang vocals.

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, , is a manga artist and member of the artist-writer duo Ark Performance along with Kōichi Ishikawa.

Works Video games

Voice acting Year Title Role(s)

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.

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.