Yuu Miyake

Yuu Miyake (三宅 優, Miyake Yū, born November 19, 1973 in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer and sound engineer formally for Bandai Namco Entertainment. His most known work surfaced with Katamari Damacy soundtracks, on which he served as a sound director. Other works include various tracks in the Tekken and Ridge Racer series.^[1]

Before joining Namco, Miyake was a university student specializing in management information. His first game with the company was Tekken 3.^[2] In 2000, Miyake worked with Namco director Keita Takahashi on a video project called "Texas 2000". Takahashi was so impressed with his work that he gave him full responsibility as sound director on the 2004 release Katamari Damacy.^[3] Miyake attended MAGFest 13 in January 2015, holding a QA conference and performing various Katamari Damacy series songs under his DJ handle of "eutron".^[4] Friend and Bandai Namco sound designer Yoshihito Yano also attended the event.^[5]

Works

• Tekken 3 (PS1) (1997)
• Tekken Tag Tournament (1999)
• Ridge Racer V (2000)
• Tekken 4 (2002)
• R:Racing Evolution (2003)
• Katamari Damacy (2004)
• Ridge Racers (2004)
• We Love Katamari (2005)
• Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (2005)
• Ridge Racer 6 (2005)
• Me & My Katamari (2005)
• Ridge Racer 7 (2006)
• Beautiful Katamari (2007)
• Katamari Forever (2009)
• Ridge Racer (2011)
• Touch My Katamari (2011)
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (2012)
• Tekken Revolution (2013)
• Persona 4: Dancing All Night (2015)

References

External links

• Yuu Miyake at the Internet Movie Database
• Yuu Miyake at MobyGames