(born August 13, 1967) is a Japanese video game music composer, well known for her work in the ''

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'' series.

Composing career

She used to work for

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and Riot, but many people who worked for these two companies left, and along with Naruke, later started working for

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. She has composed music for games outside of the ''Wild ARMs'' series, such as ''

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'' on the

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and the Tenshi no Uta series on the

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. While it was speculated that Naruke composed under the pseudonym "Hassy" for the @MIDI albums, the composer herself has stated that Hassy is a separate individual (

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)."I have an idea of who Hassy might be," says the composer, referring to the pseudonym attributed to her on Wikipedia. "I think we might have even worked together a long time ago." She has made a number of songs for Media.Vision's ''Wild ARMs'' series. Occasionally, the main theme and ending theme of the ''Wild ARMs'' songs will contain lyrics, formerly being sung by Machiko Watanabe and

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. Her compositions in the Wild ARMs series include her signature whistling parts, whistled by Naoki Takao. Naruke has composed more than 400 songs for the ''Wild ARMs'' series. However, during the development of ''Wild ARMs: The 4th Detonator'', Naruke fell ill, marking the first time in the ''Wild ARMs'' series that she did not compose the entire soundtrack. In an interview for ''Wild ARMs: Piece of Tears'', Naruke revealed items which she values, including her keyboard and rhythm machine, a pamphlet of

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, a figure of Kurokishi from "

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", an original score of

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, and a memorial vinyl disc.

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External links

Official website
(in Japanese) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Naruke, Michiko 1967 births Japanese composers Japanese women composers Japanese women musicians Living people Musicians from Chiba Prefecture Japanese video game composers