Video game developer, illustrator, composer, musician and voice actor for ARC SYSTEM WORKS. He is responsible for creating the GUILTY GEAR 2D fighting game series. He designed the characters, wrote the storyline and composed the music for the games, as well as provided the in-game voices for Sol Badguy and Order-Sol from the very first installment Guilty Gear: The Missing Link until Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core where Nakata Jouji takes over the voice work of Sol Badguy. He also composed the music for its spiritual successor, BLAZBLUE, and its sequels. He is credited for contributing to the scenario, art design and music for Hard Corps: Uprising. He is noted as being a skilled composer in the metal and rock genres.
