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{{nihongo|'''Yasunori Mitsuda'''|光田 康典|Mitsuda Yasunori|born January 21, 1972}} is a Japanese video game composer, sound programmer, and musician. {{Featured}}

Although his official job title was "composer", Mitsuda found himself working more as a sound engineer. In 1994, he gave Square's vice president, Hironobu Sakaguchi, an ultimatum: let him compose, or he would quit. Sakaguchi assigned the young musician to the team working on [[Chrono Trigger]]. Mitsuda was allowed to compose the majority of the tracks for the game under the watchful eye of Uematsu, in the end arranging fifty-four tracks with Uematsu composing the remaining ten, having [[Noriko Matsueda]] assist him with one. The Chrono Trigger soundtrack proved extremely popular with fans.

Mitsuda revealed in 2004 that Uematsu offered to help him on the soundtrack after he developed a stomach ulcer due to his working so hard. Following Chrono Trigger, Mitsuda composed the soundtrack for Front Mission: Gun Hazard, again with Uematsu. According to Uematsu, Mitsuda worked so much that he eventually defecated blood out of stress and physical problems.

Following Chrono Trigger, Mitsuda also composed the music of [[Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki]], in 1996.

In 1998, Mitsuda went freelance, though he continued to work closely with Square Enix on projects such [[Chrono Cross]]. A new acoustic arrangement of the music from Chrono Cross' was quoted by Mitsuda as planned for release in 2006, despite it being previously rumored to emerge in July of 2005. However, such an album has yet to be published.