| Kirite | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Yasunori Mitsuda |
| Cover: | Kirite.jpg |
| Released: | May 18, 2005 |
| Length: | 49:45 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Label: | Sleigh Bells |
| Producer: | Yasunori Mitsuda |
| Prev Title: | Moonlit Shadow |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
Kirite is a 2005 album composed by Yasunori Mitsuda based on The Five Seasons of Kirite, a story by Masato Kato. Unlike their other previous major collaborations like Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Chrono Cross, Kirite was never developed and published as a video game, but published as musical album bundled with Masato Kato's story text in Japanese and a collection of artistic nature photographs. The music of Kirite incorporates Celtic music, jazz and ambient noise influences.
"The Five Seasons of Kirite" by Masato Kato set inside a world of magic and fantasy, tells the story of a boy by the name Kirite, a girl by the name Kotonoha and a darkness by the name Orochi. When those three would meet, the world would silently start to go mad.
Yasunori Mitsuda and Masato Kato devised the concept of Kirite in 2003.[1]