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Naoshi Mizuta
Born	January 24, 1972 (1972-01-24) (age 37) Kochi, Japan
Genres	Rock
Occupations	Composer, musician
Instruments	Bass guitar
Years active	1998–present
Labels	DigiCube Square Enix
Associated acts	The Star Onions

Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志, Mizuta Naoshi^?, born January 24, 1972) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He is best known for his work on Final Fantasy XI (with Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka), but has also composed music for Mega Man & Bass, Street Fighter Alpha, and Parasite Eve II. He was formerly a composer for Capcom, but is currently a composer for Square Enix.

[edit] Biography

Born in Kochi, Japan, Mizuta's interest in music began to grow when he was in either second or third grade.^[1] His musical influence was Ryuichi Sakamoto. He attended Chiba University, majoring in law and economics.^[1] He began his career scoring the Street Fighter series where he was involved in scoring Street Fighter Alpha in 1996 with Isao Abe, Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, and Yuko Kadota.

When he was composing music for Capcom, he answered a Square recruitment advertisement in 1998, and he subsequently signed on.^[1] His first assignment for Squaresoft was to score Parasite Eve II. The original Parasite Eve game was scored by Yōko Shimomura, and Mizuta incorporated some of the original game's tracks into Parasite Eve II. Mizuta scored most of the Final Fantasy XI soundtrack. For the MMORPG's expansion pack soundtracks, Square Enix decided to license Mizuta to go solo, thus deciding not to enlist the services of Uematsu and Tanioka to assist him in scoring the expansion packs. Tanioka left to pursue other musical projects, while Uematsu left Square Enix to freelance.

Mizuta is also the bass guitarist of the band The Star Onions, which also includes Tanioka, Hidenori Iwasaki, and Tsuyoshi Sekito.He is also a casual video game player.

[edit] Discography

Composer

• Street Fighter Alpha (1995) - with Isao Abe, Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, and Yuko Takehara
• Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (1996) - with Setsuo Yamamoto, Syun Nishigaki, and Tatsuro Suzuki
• Rockman & Forte (1998) - with Kirikiri-chan and Akari Kaida
• Parasite Eve II (1999)
• Final Fantasy XI (2002) - with Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka
• Tetra Master (2002)
• Final Fantasy XI: Rise of the Zilart (2003)
• Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia (2004)
• Hanjuku Hero 4 ~The 7 Heroes~ (2005) - with Nobuo Uematsu, Kenji Itō, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Hirosato Noda, Ai Yamashita, Kenichi Mikoshiba
• Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan (2006)
• Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess (2007)
• The Shochu Bar (2007)
• Blood of Bahamut (2009)^[2]
• Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden (2009)^[3]

Arranger

• Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special (2004)

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