Hideaki Utsumi Explained

Hideaki Utsumi
Native Name:内海 秀明
Native Name Lang:ja
Birth Place:Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Nationality:Japanese
Other Names:Tono2097
Known For:Resident Evil, Devil May Cry
Spouse:Saori Utsumi
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mT
Background:band
Origin:Japan
Current Members:
  • Hideaki Utsumi
  • Tanaka Hit
Years Active:1999-present
Label:marth TERIT Records

, 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.[1] [2]

He is best known for sound design for the Resident Evil video game series,[3] [4] [5] [6] 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.

Utsumi worked in Capcom's sound design department for 14 years. He left in 2009 to teach at HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design.[7]

He is married to former Capcom colleague Saori Maeda, who co-composed the soundtrack of with Masami Ueda.[8] [9]

Parrots

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.[10]

In addition to Gumi, Utsumi owns three other parrots: Lemon, a black-legged parrot; Kiwi, a harlequin macaw; and Kohaku, a white cockatoo.[11] Utsumi also had a black lory named Kuromi, who died of unknown causes on September 15, 2021.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 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 . HAL Osaka . 6 June 2022 . Japanese. 20 January 2017.
  2. Web site: ミュージック学科 昼間部/4年制 . HAL Osaka . 6 June 2022 . Japanese . 指導分野:サウンドエンジニアリング・MIDI.
  3. Book: Research on Biohazard 2 Final Edition. 4-944000-77-4. Micro Design Publishing. 1998.
  4. Book: Marusu Goto. Capcom Electronic Heroes - Interviews with 32 People Living in the Game Century. 1 June 2000. 4-7577-0054-7. Famitsu Books.
  5. . June 1998. Famitsu. Famitsu No.495. ASCII Corporation.
  6. DIGI-CRE Staff . December 1998. DIGI-CRE. Sony Magazine. 37.
  7. Web site: Mass Exodus From Capcom Part 3: Interview With Hideaki Utsumi. 2009-12-29. Napolitano. Jayson. 2021-08-22.
  8. Web site: Hideaki Utsumi. YouTube. 2021-11-09.
  9. Web site: 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. 2021-11-09.
  10. Web site: Hideaki Utsumi. YouTube. 2021-08-22.
  11. Hideaki Utsumi. hideaki_utsumi. 1437550975078699015. The name of the birb.
  12. Hideaki Utsumi. hideaki_utsumi. 1438118692110225411. 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..