Акари Кайда: Композитор видеоигр Capcom и Mega Man

Japanese video game music composer

Akari Kaida (海田 明里) is a Japanese video game music composer. She composed various soundtracks for Capcom games, including multiple in the Mega Man series. She has occasionally been credited as Akari Groves, taking the surname of her husband.

Kaida was a jazz piano major in college, spending her first year at the Osaka College of Music before joining Capcom in 1994. She became a freelance composer in 2005, but still continued to work on various Capcom projects, most recently becoming part of the Inti Creates sound team for Mega Man games.

Year Title Notes 1995 Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge with Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness with Takayuki Iwai, Masato Kouda, and Naoaki Iwami Street Fighter Alpha Console version arrangements 1996 Resident Evil Data conversion only 1997 Breath of Fire III with Yoshino Aoki 1998 Mega Man & Bass with Toshihiko Horiyama and Naoshi Mizuta 1999 Trick'N Snowboarder with Masami Ueda Dino Crisis "Abandoned Hope" 2001 Mega Man Battle Network 2004 Onimusha 3: Demon Siege with Masamichi Amano, Hideki Okugawa, and Kouta Suzuki Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation with Toshihiko Horiyama Mega Man Battle Network 5 2006 Ōkami with Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Rei Kondoh 2007 Luminous Arc with Yasunori Mitsuda, Kazumi Mitome, and Shota Kageyama 2008 Luminous Arc 2 with Yoko Shimomura, Yoshino Aoki, and Shunsuke Tsuchiya Mega Man Star Force 3 with Yoshino Aoki 2009 Rockman EXE Operate Shooting Star with Yoshino Aoki and Marika Suzuki 2010 Mega Man 10 "King of Blades (Blade Man Stage)" Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3rd Story with various others 2012 New LovePlus 2014 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Arrangements 2015 Chunithm: Seelisch Tact "The Desert Hunting Girl"2019 Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain with Masanori Ōtsuka, Yuichi Baba, and Shinya Chikamori2020Samurai Jack: Battle Through Timewith several othersEarth Defense Force: World Brotherswith Yuichi Baba and Noi Iizuka