[1] He is known for composing soundtracks to various visual novel and shoot 'em up video games since the 1990s, for several companies including FamilySoft, C's Ware [ja], ELF Corporation, D4 Enterprise, and CAVE.
From 1992 to 1993, he worked for FamilySoft, producing soundtracks for mostly anime-based games, including several based on the mecha anime franchises Gundam and Macross.
His first major projects were for several C's Ware visual novels, beginning with the 1994 title Desire, an eroge science fiction adventure game.
[5] He then worked with ELF, for which he composed the soundtrack for their most famous visual novel, YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world (1996).
He began gaining more international attention for his work with the company CAVE in the last few years of his life, producing soundtracks for bullet hell shooters such as Espgaluda II: Black Label (2010), Akai Katana (2010), NIN2-JUMP (2011), and Mushihimesama Version 1.5 (2011).