Masato Kouda

Masato Kouda (also known as Masato Coda) is a Japanese composer and orchestrator who is known for the Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry games. Kouda has worked on several Nintendo titles.

History
Kouda was born in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan on October 24, 1971. He studied at Kunitachi College of Music and later graduated, where he later joined Capcom's Sound Team until 2003. Afterwards, he joined Design Wave Corp. where he worked on numerous game projects and anime television shows.

Production History

 * Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (1995) - Music
 * Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (1996) - Music
 * Monster Hunter (2004) - Music (with Tetsuya Shibata)
 * Boys Demon Shyen Tsuzi (2005) - Music
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - Arrangement Supervisor (with various others)
 * The Wonderful 101 (2013) - Music (with Norihiko Hibino, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh, Akira Takizawa, Hitomi Kurokawa)
 * Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars (2013) - Music
 * Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014) - Arrangement Supervisor (with various others) (as Masato Coda)
 * Project X Zone 2 (2015) - Music (with Norito Hasegawa)
 * Fire Emblem Fates (2016) - Music (with Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh, Yasuhisa Baba)
 * Sakura! Expedition Corps (2016) - Sound
 * Fire Emblem Heroes (2017) - Music (with Hiroki Morishita)
 * Hey! Pikmin (2017) - Music / Sound (with Kento Hasegawa)
 * Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Arrangemer (with various others)

Other Names

 * Masato Koda
 * Masato Kohda
 * KODA MASATO
 * Masato Coda
 * pia-com3go

External Link(s)

 * VGMdb profile
 * Japanese Wikipedia article
 * Moby Games profile
 * Design Wave game archives
 * Twitter profile