to celebrate Meguro's work on the Persona series, where Persona favorites were played. During this time, he also worked on the music on Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon. Meguro was promoted to game director for the PlayStation Portable remake of Persona. During this time he received some criticism from some fans for changing the soundtrack for the remake, but overall received a warm response. He later directed the PSP ports of both Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. In the mid-2010s, Meguro served as the sound director for three spin-off Persona titles, as well as composing and producing the majority of the soundtrack for Persona 5. Meguro also contributed to the upcoming Project Re Fantasy game, the film Mint, and Persona 5 Royal. He also served as the lead composer for Persona 5: The Animation, arranging various tracks from the original game in addition to writing new material. Meguro announced his departure from Atlus in October 2021, choosing to become a freelancer while still being contracted to work on some Atlus projects. His first announced project after leaving was Guns Undarkness, an indie game which he designed and composed music for. He later launched a Kickstarter campaign to help crowdfund the game, with it expected to be released on PC and consoles. Musical style and influences Although many of his works feature a signature rock style, Meguro experiments with different musical genres, such as orchestral, electronica, jazz, and hip hop on various projects. Meguro cites video game composers Koichi Sugiyama, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, as well as T-Square, Casiopea, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky as some of his musical influences. Regarding the use of English lyrics in many of the Persona games, Meguro stated that due to Japanese people not fully understanding the language, it helped create music that was not as distracting to them as Japanese would be. Works All works listed below were composed by Meguro unless otherwise noted. References 1971 births Japanese electronic musicians Japanese jazz guitarists Japanese male composers Male guitarists Japanese rock guitarists Japanese video game designers Japanese video game directors Living people Musicians from Tokyo Nihon University alumni Persona (series) Video game composers 21st-century guitarists 21st-century Japanese composers 21st-century Japanese male musicians 20th-century guitarists 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century Japanese male musicians Male jazz musicians Freelance musicians