Michiru Yamane



Michiru Yamane (山根 ミチル, Yamane Michiru) is a former video game music composer from Japan. She is known primarily for her work on the Castlevania series and other Konami games, including Suikoden. Her debut composition was Twinbee (prequel of the released Stinger in the United States). Michiru Yamane performed her music from the Castlevania-series live on cembalo at the fourth Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany on August 23, 2006. She also played A Tocatta into Blood Soaked Darkness on a giant pipe-organ at the Press Start video game music concert and Wood-Carved Partita in Leipzig. She left Konami in 2008 and became an independent music composer.

Castlevania Production Roles

 * Castlevania: Bloodlines - Principal composer
 * Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Principal composer
 * Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance - Produced "Boss Rush" mode tracks (Dark Door, Knight Head and Vampire Killer 2K2) only
 * Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - with Takashi Yoshida and Soshiro Hokkai
 * Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - Principal composer
 * Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - with Masachiko Kimura
 * Castlevania: Curse of Darkness - Principal composer
 * Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - with Yuzo Koshiro
 * Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles - Principal composer : made arrangements of original Rondo of Blood tracks, composed by Konami Kukeiha Club
 * Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - with Yasuhiro Ichihashi
 * Pachislot Akumajo Dracula Original Soundtrack - Not prinicpal composer, some of her Curse of Darkness and Dracula X Chronicles were used in this soundtrack