Miki Higashino

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Miki Higashino (東野美紀, Higashino Miki, born January 1, 1968) is a Japanese composer best known for her works in the Suikoden series.

[edit] Biography

Miki Higashino first entered the music business as a student employed by Konami in 1985 and contributed to various minor products, often uncredited or under the alias MIKI-CHAN. Her substantial early works include the Gradius III soundtrack in collaboration with the Konami Kukeiha Club. Higashino has since been involved in over a dozen projects and compilations.

Aside from being the primary composer for the original Suikoden soundtrack, her most acclaimed work is generally considered to be the Suikoden II soundtrack^{[citation needed]}, a 105 track effort which she composed in its entirety save 7 songs by Keiko Fukami and 1 song by Tappi Iwase. In 2001 Higashino left Konami to pursue other goals and collaborated with legendary videogame composer Yasunori Mitsuda in 2005 on the Tsukiyo ni Saraba (Moonlit Shadow) soundtrack. Arranged versions of her original Suikoden music appear on the Suikoden IV and Suikoden V soundtracks.

[edit] Partial works

Gradius (1985)
Yie-Ar Kung Fu (1985)
Life Force (1986)
Gradius III (1989)
Surprise Attack (1990)
Contra III: The Alien Wars [credited as Miki Yanagisawa] (1992)
Premier Soccer (1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis version) (1994)
Genso Suikoden (1996)
Vandal Hearts: Ancient Lost Civilization (1996)
Genso Suikoden II (1998)
SALAMANDER ~Again~ (1998)
Genso Suikoden II: Orrizonte (2000)
Genso Suikogaiden Vol. 1 (2000)
Genso Suikogaiden Vol. 2 (2001)
Genso Suikoden IV (2005)
Moonlit Shadow (Tsukiyo ni Saraba soundtrack) (2005)
Genso Suikoden V (2006)