Yoko Shimomura

is a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as "the most famous female video game music composer in the world". She has worked in the video game music industry since graduating from Osaka College of Music in 1988. From then until 1993, she worked for Capcom, where she composed wholly or in part the scores for 17 games, including Final Fight, Street Fighter II, and Disney's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom.
From 1993 to 2002, Shimomura worked for Square (now Square Enix), where she composed for a further eight games, Super Mario RPG, Parasite Eve, and Legend of Mana games. While working for Square, she was best known for her work on the soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts, which was her last game for the company before leaving. Starting with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, she began working as an active freelancer, writing for over a dozen titles.
Shimomura's works have gained a great deal of popularity, and have been performed in multiple video game music concerts, including one, Sinfonia Drammatica, that was focused half on her "greatest hits" album Drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura, and half on the music of a previous concert. Music from several of her games has been published as arranged albums and as piano scores.
==Compositions for the Kingdom Hearts series==
Year	Game
2002	Kingdom Hearts
2004	Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
2005	Kingdom Hearts II
2007	Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
2008	Kingdom Hearts coded
2009	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
2010	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
2011	Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
2012	Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
2013	Kingdom Hearts χ
2013	Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX
2014	Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
2015	Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ
2016	Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue
2019	Kingdom Hearts III
==Gallery==
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Category:Composers
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Category:Japanese people