Ryoue Takagi

Ryoue Takagi

Local 高木 了慧 (たかぎ りょうえ) Born July 18 Birth Place Nationality Japanese   Aliases Ryoue.T

Ryoue Takagi is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. She graduated from Souai University, Faculty of Music, majoring in composition. She also studied composition under Teizo Matsumura. She has composed music for all forms of media including television, film, religious, and video games.

Around 1995, she started working for TOSE, her first work being Kirby's Block Ball. She also worked on a vast majority of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy titles that TOSE worked on. It appears she left the company around 2011.

Takagi continues to compose and perform today. She plays the Hichiriki.

Audio Development

Game Boy

Ryoue had to write the music in a custom hexadecimal MML into TOSE's sound driver.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1995-12-14	Kirby's Block Ball (GB) (カービィのブロックボール)		With Sukezo Oyama.
1995-12-22	Virtual Bowling (VB) (バーチャルボウリング)		With "Nicochimans".
2002-11-10	Resident Evil Zero (GC) (バイオハザード０)		Sound Editor
2003-03-29	Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (GBA) (ドラゴンクエストモンスターズ キャラバンハート)		Music Programmer
2004-07-29	Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (GBA) (ファイナルファンタジーⅠ・Ⅱアドバンス)
2004-11-27	Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (PS2)		Music Programming
2005-12-01	Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (NDS) (スライムもりもりドラゴンクエスト２ 大戦車としっぽ団)
2005-12-12	Final Fantasy II (GBA) (ファイナルファンタジーⅣアドバンス)
2005-12-29	Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (NDS) (東北大学未来科学技術共同研究センター川島隆太教授監修　もっと脳を鍛える大人のＤＳトレーニング)
2006-10-12	Final Fantasy V Advance (GBA) (ファイナルファンタジーⅤアドバンス)
2006-11-30	Final Fantasy VI Advance (GBA) (ファイナルファンタジーⅥアドバンス)
2009-07-11	Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (NDS) (ドラゴンクエストⅨ星空の守り人)		Music Programming
2011-12-01	Fortune Street (WII)		Sound Programming
2012-02-23	Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning (3DS)		With Noriko Ishida, Kenji Ichio, Yoshiaki Kimura, Takashi Honda, Ayumu Murai, and Hidenori Miyanaga.

Picture Gallery

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  Ryoue December 21, 2012; Ryoue's Facebook.

Links

• facebook.com/ryoue.takagi - Facebook.
• w.atwiki.jp/gamemusicbest100/pages/3544.html - Atwiki.jp (Japanese).