, also known as Tono2097, is a

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video game sound designer, audio engineer, composer,

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, and musician, and is currently an instructor at HAL Osaka, a vocational school in

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. He is best known for sound design for the ''

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'' video game series, and his

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channel. Utsumi is also one half of the musical duo mT with Tanaka Hit, playing both the keyboard and the band's own creation, the MIDI stick, created from arcade-game controllers. Utsumi worked in

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's sound design department for 14 years. He left in 2009 to teach at HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design. He is married to former Capcom colleague Saori Maeda, who co-composed the soundtrack of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with Masami Ueda.

Birds

In 2021, a video recorded and uploaded to

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of Gumi, a pet

chattering lory The chattering lory (''Lorius garrulus'') is a forest-dwelling parrot endemic to North Maluku, Indonesia. It is considered vulnerable, the main threat being from trapping for the cage-bird trade. The race ''L. g. flavopalliatus'' is known as the ...

owned by Utsumi, became popular on the Internet, forming the basis of an

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. Within weeks of the video being published, Utsumi's

channel would surpass 200,000 subscribers and accrue over 10 million channel views. In addition to Gumi, Utsumi owns three other birds: Lemon, a white-bellied parrot; Kiwi, a harlequin macaw; and Kohaku, a

white cockatoo The white cockatoo (''Cacatua alba''), also known as the umbrella cockatoo, is a medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to tropical rainforest on islands of Indonesia. When surprised, it extends a large and striking head crest, which has a sem ...

. Utsumi also had a

black lory The black lory (''Chalcopsitta atra''), also known as the rajah lory or red-quilled lory, is a medium-sized, blackish parrot with black bill, dark grey feet and long rounded tail. It has yellow and red under-tail. The sexes are similar. It is nat ...

named Kuromi, who died of unknown causes on September 15, 2021.

List of works

*''

'' (1996) *''

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'' (1998) *''

El Dorado Gate is a series of role-playing video games for the Dreamcast, released in Japan. Its seven volumes were released on a bi-monthly basis in Japan from October 10, 2000, through October 10, 2001. Story The story involves twelve characters, each of ...

'' (2000) *''

Devil May Cry is a series of action-adventure games created by Hideki Kamiya. It is primarily developed and published by Capcom. The series centers on the demon hunter Dante and his efforts to thwart various demon invasions of Earth. Its gameplay consists o ...

'' (2001) *''

Clock Tower 3 is a survival horror video game co-produced by Capcom and Sunsoft for the PlayStation 2. Released in 2002, it is the fourth installment in the Clock Tower (series), ''Clock Tower'' series, and the first and only video game directed by Japanese ...

'' (2002) *''

'' ( GameCube remake) (2002) * Mega Man X: Command Mission (2004) *

Glass Rose is a point-and-click adventure psychological horror video game developed by Cing and Capcom's Production Studio 3 and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2. It was released in Japan on November 6, 2003 and later in Europe on March 26, 200 ...

(2004) *

Haunting Ground ''Haunting Ground'' is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. The story follows Fiona Belli, a young woman who wakes up in the dungeon of a castle after being involved in a car accident. S ...

(2005) * Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (2006) *''

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'' (2006) *''

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'' (2009)

Discography

*V.A. / KIVANDELYAN (1996) *V.A. / - natsu - (1997) *mT / Daydream (1999) *GAME OVER *u-man's diary -awaji-

Birds

List of works

Discography

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