Misplaced Pages

Chiyomaru Shikura (志倉千代丸, Shikura Chiyomaru, born July 3, 1970) is a Japanese video game writer, lyricist and composer. He is the executive producer and former chairman of Mages. He planned and wrote the 2008 visual novel Chaos;Head, and subsequently other works in the Science Adventure series including Steins;Gate. He has also been credited with composing the opening and ending songs of the Science Adventure series.

Career

In the early 2000s, he collaborated with Yūko Miyamura and composed music for the band loose@rouse.

In April 2005, he founded 5pb. Inc. after leaving his director position at Scitron, a record label company. He later became the chairman of Mages with the merging of his company with AG-ONE.

In January 2023, he stepped down as chairman of Mages but remained as executive producer.

Science Adventure series

Shikura has created and worked on all 6 main entries in the Science Adventure series.

• Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes, Chaos;Child, Anonymous;Code: Creator, writer, lyricist.
• Occultic;Nine: Creator, writer.

References

1. "Chiyomaru SHIKURA - Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2024-07-22. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
2. "Chiyomaru Shikura - VGMdb". vgmdb.net. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
3. "AG-ONE to Take Over Chaos;Head Game Developer 5pb". Anime News Network. 2011-04-21. Archived from the original on 2024-07-22. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
4. Liu, Stephanie (2023-01-05). "Game Developer Mages' Chairman Steps Down". Siliconera. Archived from the original on 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-08-23.

This article about a Japanese composer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1970 births
• Japanese video game composers
• Living people
• Musicians from Saitama Prefecture
• Japanese composer stubs