Ryu Umemoto

Ryu Umemoto

Local 梅本 竜 (うめもと りゅう) Gender Male Born 1974-02-18 Birth Place Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Nationality Japanese   Died 2011-08-16 (Aged 37) Aliases MIZINCO

Ryū Umemoto was a Japanese video game music composer, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known for composing soundtracks to various visual novel and shoot 'em up video games since the 1990s, for several companies including FamilySoft, C's Ware, ELF Corporation, D4 Enterprise, and CAVE. He is considered to be one of the greatest FM-synth chiptune composers, and has often been compared to Yuzo Koshiro. He also helped Takeaki Kunimoto get back into the video game music composition.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample
1992-??-??	Hibiki (PC98)
1992-??-??	Mobile Suit Gundam Hyper Classic Operation (FMT)
1992-??-??	Square Resort (X68)
1993-??-??	Azure (FMT)
1993-??-??	Dengeki Division (PC98)
1993-??-??	Macross: Remember Me (PC98)
1993-??-??	Mobile Suit Gundam: A Year of War (PC98)
1993-??-??	Mobile Suit Gundam: Return of Zion (PC98)
1993-??-??	MSX Train (MSX)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (PC98)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (FMT)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (PCE)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (DOS)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (W16)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (MAC)
1993-??-??	Princess Maker 2 (GP32)
1993-??-??	Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (PC98)
1993-??-??	War Torn Versnag (X68)
1994-??-??	DESIRE ～Spiral of Immorarity～ (PC98)
1994-??-??	DESIRE ～Spiral of Immorarity～ (W16)
1994-??-??	XENON ～Phantom Limb～ (PC98)
1994-??-??	XENON ～Phantom Limb～ (FMT)
1995-??-??	EVE Burst Error (PC98)
1995-??-??	EVE Burst Error (FMT)
1995-??-??	EVE Burst Error (W16)
1996-??-??	YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world (PC98)
1996-??-??	YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world (W16)
1996-??-??	GROUNSEED (PC98)
2000-??-??	Psyvariar (ARC)
2002-??-??	Popotan (W32)
2003-??-??	ECLIPSE (W32)
2003-??-??	Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi (ARC)
2004-??-??	Mushihime-sama (ARC)
2005-??-??	Espgaluda II (ARC)
2005-??-??	GLAS AUSZEICHNUNG (W32)
2006-??-??	CrymeRhymeParadox (W32)
2006-??-??	Ano Machi no Koi no Uta (W32)
2007-??-??	StoneAge2 (W32)
2007-??-??	R.U.R.U.R. (W32)
2009-??-??	Mushihime-sama Futari: Black Label (X360)
2009-??-??	Kaiten Illust Puzzle Guruguru Logic (NDSi)
2009-??-??	Kitto, sumi wataru asa shoku yorimo (W32)
2009-??-??	Spinning "Guru Guru" Logic (NDSi)
2010-??-??	Espgaluda II Black Label (X360)
2010-??-??	Akai Katana (ARC)
2010-??-??	Akai Katana Shin (X360)
2011-??-??	NIN2-JUMP (XLARC)
2011-??-??	Instant Brain (X360)

Links

• twitter.com/ryu_umemoto - Twitter.
• gamasutra.com/view/feature/178187/memorial_composer_ryu_umemoto.php - Memorial.