is a Japanese video game music composer. She composed various soundtracks for Capcom games, including multiple in the Mega Man series. She has occasionally been credited as Akari Groves, taking the surname of her husband.
Career Kaida was a jazz piano major in college, spending her first year at the Osaka College of Music before joining Capcom in 1994. She became a freelance composer in 2005, but still continued to work on various Capcom projects, most recently becoming part of the Inti Creates sound team for Mega Man games.
Notable works Year Title Notes 1995 Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge Music with Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness Music with Takayuki Iwai, Masato Kouda, and Naoaki Iwami Street Fighter Alpha Console version; arrangements with Naoshi Mizuta and Naoaki Iwami 1996 Resident Evil Data conversion 1997 Breath of Fire III Music with Yoshino Aoki 1998 Mega Man & Bass Music with Toshihiko Horiyama and Naoshi Mizuta 1999 Trick'N Snowboarder Music with Masami Ueda Dino Crisis "Abandoned Hope" 2001 Mega Man Battle Network Music 2004 Onimusha 3: Demon Siege Music with Masamichi Amano, Hideki Okugawa, and Kouta Suzuki Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation Music with Toshihiko Horiyama Mega Man Battle Network 5 Music 2006 Ōkami Music with Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Rei Kondoh 2007 Luminous Arc Music with Yasunori Mitsuda, Kazumi Mitome, and Shota Kageyama 2008 Luminous Arc 2 Music with Yoko Shimomura, Yoshino Aoki, and Shunsuke Tsuchiya Mega Man Star Force 3 Music with Yoshino Aoki 2009 Rockman EXE Operate Shooting Star Music with Yoshino Aoki and Marika Suzuki 2010 Mega Man 10 "King of Blades (Blade Man Stage)" Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3rd Story Music with various others LovePlus+ Music with various others 2011 Dream Club Zero Arrangements ("Sunao ni Narenai" and "Toki no Kakera") 2012 New LovePlus Music with various others 2014 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Arrangements 2015 Chunithm "Sabaku no Hunting Girl" Prince of Stride Vocals ("Let the Wind Blow") 2019 Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain Music with Masanori Ōtsuka, Yuichi Baba, and Shinya Chikamori Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 6Lyrics with various others2020Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Music with various othersEarth Defense Force: World Brothers Music with Yuichi Baba and Noi Iizuka 2021DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power Music with various othersPhantasy Star Online 2 New GenesisLyrics ("A World Beyond a Sky") 2023Fashion Dreamer Music with various others 2024Tekken 8 Music with various othersEarth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 Music with various othersPhantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis The Festival of Light & The Dark TyrantLyrics ("Driven by Hope" and "Unite") TBAPenny Blood Music with Yoshitaka Hirota, Nobuo Uematsu, and Kenji Ito
References
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