11 Facts About Rika Muranaka

Rika Muranaka is a Japanese composer and music producer renowned for her songs in Konami's Metal Gear video game series.

Rika Muranaka composed the song "I Am the Wind" for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the song "Esperandote" for the original Silent Hill.

In May 2020, Muranaka was featured in the Visual Collaborative Polaris catalog.

Rika Muranaka started to write music at the age of 16, but at first was doing it only for herself.

Rika Muranaka continued writing music and composed music for commercials, advertising, the Japanese government and demos for multimedia companies in Japan; she “was on TV, doing everything from jingles to writing music for artists.

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Rika Muranaka was small at the time and the team creating the game was very small consisting from only about 20 people and they did not expect Metal Gear Solid to become so successful.

Rika Muranaka revealed that, when working on Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima did not wish to hear any songs in English or any other language he would understand.

Rika Muranaka believes by doing so she has contributed to setting the trend of attracting film producers to the music composition in game industry.

Rika Muranaka involved jazz musicians, such as Gerald Albright, Kevin Eubanks and Hubert Laws, in creating music for the game series.

Rika Muranaka describes the process of creating music for game and film industry as different.

Rika Muranaka explains that “in games, the music has to fit within a game, meaning you have to make a transition every 30 seconds and it has to be loopable so they can cut or stretch the audio to sync to the game visuals.