# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroki-kikuta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:34.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroki-kikuta"
name: "Hiroki Kikuta"
slug: "hiroki-kikuta"
description: "Hiroki Kikuta  is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991."
tagline: "Japanese composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiroki_Kikuta.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.95
  momentum:             0.1822600243013366
  historical:           11.690504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Hiroki_Kikuta"
    handle:    "Hiroki_Kikuta"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/125758507448700"
    handle:    "125758507448700"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452882/"
    handle:    "nm0452882"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://hirokikikuta.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هيروكي كيكوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "هيروكى كيكوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Kikuta"
    title: "Hiroki Kikuta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "هیروکی کیکوتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Kikuta"
    title: "Hiroki Kikuta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Kikuta"
    title: "Hiroki Kikuta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Kikuta"
    title: "Hiroki Kikuta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%8A%E7%94%B0%E8%A3%95%E6%A8%B9"
    title: "菊田裕樹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%82%A4%EC%BF%A0%ED%83%80_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%ED%82%A4"
    title: "키쿠타 히로키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Кикута, Хироки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%8A%E7%94%B0%E8%A3%95%E6%A8%B9"
    title: "菊田裕樹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0b7713fc-0794-4324-a9fc-7316f9f54f40"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2588785"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1168280"
    title: "Hiroki Kikuta"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump