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Japanese video game composer

Hideaki Utsumi
内海 秀明
Born Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Other names Tono2097
Occupations Video game sound designermusic teachercomposermusicianYouTuberaudio engineer
Known for Resident Evil, Devil May Cry
Spouse Saori Utsumi
YouTube information
Channel Hideaki Utsumi
Genres Animals Music Miniature collecting Video game streaming
Subscribers 335,000[1]
Total views 102,701,978[1]
Creator Awards100,000 subscribers2021
Last updated: 6 June 2022
mT
Origin Japan
Genres Pop musicElectronic music
Years active 1999-present
Labels marth TERIT Records
Members Hideaki Utsumi Tanaka Hit
Website happyducky.com/mtrc

Hideaki Utsumi (内海 秀明, _Utsumi Hideaki), also known as Tono2097, is a Japanese video game sound designer, audio engineer, composer, YouTuber, and musician, and is currently an instructor at HAL Osaka, a vocational school in Osaka, Japan.[2][3]

He is best known for sound design for the Resident Evil video game series,[4][5][6][7] and his YouTube channel. Utsumi is also one half of the musical duo mT with Tanaka Hit, playing both the keyboard and the band's own creation, the MIDI stick, created from arcade-game controllers.[8]

Utsumi worked in Capcom's sound design department for 14 years. He left in 2009 to teach at HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design.[8]

He is married to former Capcom colleague Saori Maeda, who co-composed the soundtrack of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with Masami Ueda.[9][10]

In 2021, a video recorded and uploaded to Instagram of Gumi, a pet chattering lory owned by Utsumi, became popular on the Internet, forming the basis of an Internet meme. Within weeks of the video being published, Utsumi's YouTube channel would surpass 200,000 subscribers and accrue over 10 million channel views.[11]

In addition to Gumi, Utsumi owns three other parrots: Lemon, a black-legged parrot; Kiwi, a harlequin macaw; and Kohaku, a white cockatoo.[12] Utsumi also had a black lory named Kuromi, who died of unknown causes on September 15, 2021.[13]

  1. ^ a b "About Hideaki Utsumi". YouTube.
  2. ^ "突撃！HALの先生ってどんな人？vol.３ ～ゲームサウンドクリエイター～". HAL Osaka Blog (in Japanese). HAL Osaka. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  3. ^ "ミュージック学科 昼間部／4年制". HAL Osaka (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 June 2022. 指導分野:サウンドエンジニアリング・MIDI
  4. ^ Research on Biohazard 2 Final Edition. Micro Design Publishing. 1998. ISBN 4-944000-77-4.
  5. ^ Marusu Goto (1 June 2000). Capcom Electronic Heroes - Interviews with 32 People Living in the Game Century. Famitsu Books. ISBN 4-7577-0054-7.
  6. ^ "Famitsu No.495". Famitsu. ASCII Corporation. June 1998.
  7. ^ DIGI-CRE Staff (December 1998). "DIGI-CRE". Sony Magazine. p. 37.
  8. ^ a b c Napolitano, Jayson (2009-12-29). "Mass Exodus From Capcom Part 3: Interview With Hideaki Utsumi". Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  9. ^ "Hideaki Utsumi". YouTube. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  10. ^ "Neriko (Saori Utsumi)入院中 on Twitter: "旦那氏のYouTubeチャンネルのコミュニティの方で、手術のこと書いてくれてて、大勢の方が成功を祈ってくれてたのさっき知って、めちゃありがたい…Twitterでもたくさんの方に応援してもらえて大感謝"". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  11. ^ "Hideaki Utsumi". YouTube. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  12. ^ Hideaki Utsumi [@hideaki_utsumi] (September 13, 2021). "The name of the birb" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ^ Hideaki Utsumi [@hideaki_utsumi] (September 15, 2021). "Kuromi drop dead this afternoon. The cause of death is unknown. It was sudden. I don't know what to write because my mind isn't organized" (Tweet) – via Twitter.