Shinkichi Mitsumune

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Shinkichi Mitsumune is a Japanese composer who writes music primarily for anime. He graduated from Rikkyo University, College of Economics. From the young age of four, he attended the Yamaha Music School and received acoustic training. He started playing the electronic organ at the age of 10 and received tuition from Koichi Oki - a jazz organist while still in junior high school. While at university, he started playing the keyboard for professional bands following which he joined the band of jazz vocalist, Marlene, and toured various jazz festivals across Japan for about two years.

In 1995, he worked on his first anime soundtrack, Nurse Angel Ririka SOS in which the profound, high-quality and soothing composition performed with a full orchestra garnered high acclaim. This performance was followed by a string of hit anime soundtracks including Revolutionary Girl Utena, Yu-Gi-Oh!, The series Rozen Maiden, Negima! (2005), The Series Zero no Tsukaima and Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.