Masanori Hikichi

Masanori Hikichi (曳地 正則, Hikichi Masanori, born October 30, 1969 in Saitama, Japan), is a video game music sound designer, most well known for co-writing the soundtrack to Terranigma. He also contributed to the soundtracks to the NEC PC Engine port of Langrisser: The Descendants of Light, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, and The Granstream Saga.

Hikichi was first an employee of Cube, working on games for various systems. He later joined both Quintet (1995-1998) and Shade, Inc. (1997-2000) to create music and sound effects for Sega Saturn and PlayStation titles.