The Composers and Arrangers of Kingdom Hearts III

Kingdom Hearts III had a large number of people behind its music production, at least compared with previous titles. This video was made to help show who was behind the creation of each track in the OST.
Sources used for this video are as follows;
Kingdom Hearts III, 0.2 and Back Cover cutscenes: KH-Vids
Union Cross cutscenes: damo279
Link to video: • Kingdom Hearts Union C...
Kingdom Hearts III and Back Cover title screens: ShadoKurosu
Link to video: • Kingdom Hearts All Dea...
Artwork in thumbnail by Tetsuya Nomura for the KH Orchestra First Breath
Artwork in intro/outro by Tetsuya Nomura for the KH Orchestra World of Tres
Music tracks from the intro and outro can be found in the album "Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX Original Soundtrack."
Music tracks used for the rest of the video can be found in the album "Kingdom Hearts - III, II.8, Unchained χ & Union χ [Cross] - Original Soundtrack."
Arranger Sections/Chapters;
00:00 Intro
00:40 Hikaru Utada
01:01 Hikaru Utada & Skrillex
01:13 Kaoru Wada
02:42 Kenichiro Fukui
02:58 Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
03:09 Natsumi Kameoka
08:01 PUNPEE
08:13 Sachiko Miyano
10:18 Sebastian Schwartz
10:46 Shotaro Shima
15:37 Takeharu Ishimoto
23:41 Tsuyoshi Sekito
34:01 Yasunori Nishiki
34:35 Yoko Shimomura
52:02 Yoko Shimomura & Natsumi Kameoka
52:38 Yoko Shimomura & Sachiko Miyano
53:10 Yoko Shimomura & Yui Morishita
53:49 Yoshiki Nakamura
57:24 Yoshitaka Suzuki
01:00:21 Yuki Hirose
01:02:21 Yuki Kishida
01:04:01 Yuko Komiyama
01:14:01 Outro

[@kingdomchains]

This is great! I hope more people see how amazing each arranger/composer is!

[@Titan_Trainer]

Thanks and same here! As amazing as Yoko Shimomura's work is, I believe more people should know the other talents behind the music production.

[@Vayne_Solidor]

@@Titan_Trainer I know Ishimoto from FF Type 0, I love his music.

[@KinodeVGM]

!!!! I really like the idea behind this video! A very easy way to grasp everyone's individual sounds and show just how many different people were involved with KH3's music. Also really like how you included the combinations of Yoko + Miyano and Yoko + Kameoka!
KH3 was definitely the only game in the franchise to have so many arrangers involved. Happy to see them all showcased here. Great job!

[@Titan_Trainer]

Thank you so much! Considering the large amount of people behind KH3's music production, at least compared with other games, I thought this video would be a good opportunity to help spread that knowledge.
And yeah, I really wanted to show how for certain tracks, such as Nachtflügel, weren't just made by Yoko Shimomura.

[@GreenRequiem]

This is really cool to see! Listening to these pieces in this order here makes it much easier to pick up on the unique musical vocabulary of all these arrangers.

[@Titan_Trainer]

Thanks so much! Glad to see that this video helped out!

[@pattouco]

Wow Great Video. Can you do The Composers and Arrangers of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance video please

[@Titan_Trainer]

Thanks so much! I have considered making similar videos for other titles, at least from BBS onwards, I just wasn't sure if they'd be worth it given that they don't have nearly as many composers/arrangers as KH3 does.

[@pattouco]

@@Titan_Trainer Little video will be good.

[@JamilBaydoun]

600th subscriber :)

[@kingdomheartscomments8742]

Such a cool video! Kameoka, Miyano and Shotaro absolutely need to come back for future installments. Kameoka just gets Shimomura’s compositions and really elevates them. Miyano brings so much drama to the tracks, love it. Shotaro’s cutscene music really captures Disney movie magic! They are phenomenal.
Ishimoto’s work never stood out to me through out the series, but his tracks for this installment are particularly lucklastre, sadly. With all due respect, If he’s going to keep working on the series, they should make sure he works with one of the aforementioned arrangers. As for Sekito, he is so great at creating “video gamey” music. That must be why his tracks worked so well in the Wreck-It-Ralph worlds. As always, his mini-game tracks were great. He’s really brought a new sound that is now a part of the series’ musical identity.

[@Vayne_Solidor]

I know Ishimoto from FF Type 0 and its one of the greatest OSTs.

[@DavidRussell323]

@@Vayne_Solidor I'd be interested which tracks from Type-0 that you really enjoyed--I see folks talk about this game a bunch, but I haven't properly gone through the game yet. I personally really like "The Beginning of the End", but I find that this track (and actually a lot of the ones I revisit from Type-0) are actually arranged by Kentaro Sato (Ken-P) and not Ishimoto

[@donalddiehl2912]

are you gonna do a video about Aqua's journey?