| 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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| Embed: | no |
| mT | |
| Background: | band |
| Origin: | Japan |
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| 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]
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]