Kenichi Tokoi

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Kenichi Tokoi
Kenichi Tokoi
Overview
Gender	Male
Birthday	13 July 1969
Birthplace	Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Company(s)	Sega of Japan
Job	Composer, musician

Kenichi Tokoi (床井 健一, Tokoi Ken'ichi^?) is a Japanese composer who had contributed to the soundtracks of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

History

Tokoi joined Sega in 1996, and the first game he composed for was Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition. His first work on the Sonic series was Sonic Jam in 1997, and he would go on to make many more music tracks for the Sonic series. Notably, he was the sound director for Sonic and the Secret Rings. Tokoi also worked alongside Tomoya Ohtani on Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors. He also worked on Sonic Generations remixing some of his old tracks, including Planet Wisp. Later, in Sonic Forces, he remixed the American version of the theme for Stardust Speedway's Bad Future from Sonic the Hedgehog CD, which would be used for the Metal Sonic boss fight.

Credits

Soundtracks

• Sonic Jam
• Sonic Adventure
• Sonic Adventure 2
• Sonic Battle
• Sonic Advance 3
• Sonic Riders
• Sonic and the Secret Rings
• Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
• Sonic Unleashed
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii)
• Sonic and the Black Knight
• Sonic Colors
• Sonic Generations
• Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
• Sonic Forces
  • "Battle with Metal Sonic [US ver. Remix]"
• Team Sonic Racing
  • "Team Ultimate: Metal Sonic"

Trivia

• Tokoi's favorite character from the Sonic series is Knuckles. Tokoi is also the composer of Knuckles' theme song from Sonic Adventure, "Unknown from M.E.".

External links

• Kenichi Tokoi at VGMdb.

Sonic Team members

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