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The MO5.COM association has the great pleasure of announcing that Manami Matsumae, composer of Mega Man, has just joined the association as an honorary member.
She considers our initiative necessary and welcome, and offers us her support by agreeing to become an honorary member of the association. There is no doubt that the support of such a personality from the world of video games will help us to make ourselves known and develop.
Manami Matsumae was born on Christmas Day 1964 in Kyoto, Japan. She graduated from the Osaka Academy of Music in 1987 and joined the local company Capcom as a composer the same year. A pioneer of NES and 8-bit music, she is known for her work on Mega Man and the memorable themes of its various levels. She left Capcom in 1990 to become a freelancer, and shortly after moved to Tokyo where she lived for fifteen years before returning to Kansai, to Osaka with her husband, also a composer, Kimitaka Matsumae, and their son. Over the years, she has composed game music for various publishers, including U.N. Squadron, the Derby Stallion series and Dragon Quest Swords. She has returned to the forefront in recent years, notably composing a track for Mega Man 10, her first Mega Man since Mega Man II. Studio Yacht Club Games commissioned her for two tracks for their retro hit Shovel Knight, and she reunited with Keiji Inafune after more than fifteen years for Mighty No. 9, which broke the new record on Kickstarter for a video game in September 2013. She is one of the leaders of the Brave Wave Productions label based in Japan and Kuwait, and has composed tracks for each of the label's albums: World 1-2, In Flux, Retro Active Pt. 1 and Rainblocks. She is currently working on a solo album planned for 2017 as well as Project Light, a collaborative album with other former Capcom composers like Yoko Shimomura and Ippo Yamada. She came to Japan Expo in Paris in 2015, where she was able to meet many of her European fans for the first time.
Mega Man (NES, 1987)
Mercs (arcade, 1990)
Adventures of Lolo (Game Boy, 1994)
Shovel Knight (2014)
Mighty No. 9 (2016)
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