Ryo Yonemitsu

From Falcom Encyclopedia

Japanese Name: 米光亮
Status: Arranger, Composer

Informations:
Was born 1958.9.1. Makes his debut with the band Tax'81. He then becomes a "session man", only occasionaly working with various bands to play guitar and polish arrangements. He works on Kazuyuki Sekiguchi' (from the famous band Southern All Stars) solo album "Gold Dust" (砂金) as a guitarist, programmer and arranger and also works on anime series like "Here is Greenwood", "Yagamikun no Katei no Jijou" and regularly works on anime projects produced by Yuko Miyamura. By the end of the 80's, he will also work with artists like Kyoko Koizumi, and Light Genji (光ＧＥＮＪＩ), doing arrangements for songs that became popular in Japan. Works as a guitarist only for other popular artists like Hiroko Taniyama, Aiso Haruhi, Saito Neko etc... This page contains informations on popular songs and anime series he worked on.
It's interesting to notice that it seems he never composed anything, or really little at least in his 80's period.

He starts working with Falcom on the album Music from Ys (K30X-7701) in 1987 and will approximatively until 1994.

As for his non-Falcom VGM works, he did arrangements for Megami Tensei 1 & 2 (VICL-40029~30) in 1991 and for the World Heroes 2 Image Album (PCCB-00137) in 1993.

An interview (japanese)