Hayato Matsuo is a Japanese video game and anime composer, arranger, and orchestrator. Born in Kashiwa, Chiba on August 13, 1965, he started working under Koichi Sugiyama upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1991. A few years after '91, Matsuo joined independent music composition/sound effect troupe Imagine. Ever since that moment, he's continued to compose and orchestrate works for a variety of games as well as anime.
