‘Closing Fantasy’ Composer Nobuo Uematsu Is Getting a Biography

The music of Nobuo Uematsu has been throughout Square Enix games, together with the Final Fantasy series, and an upcoming e-book will chart his tenured profession.

On Friday, Viz Media introduced Nobuo Uematsu: On the Document, an “intimate biography” by writer James Mielke. Just like the writer’s different biographies—which targeted on Hideo Kojima, Hayao Miyazaki, and the late Satoru Iwata—readers can anticipate Mielke’s chronicle of Uematsu to function perception on his place to begin and massive moments of his work as a composer for the aforementioned JRPG collection, together with Chrono Set off, Blue Dragon, and extra.

For followers of the previous, collection creator Hironobu Sakaguchi will contribute a foreword about his longtime buddy and collaborator.

Announcement: The legendary Closing Fantasy composer goes on the file on this intimate biography! That includes a foreword by Hironobu Sakaguchi and written by James Mielke, Nobuo Uematsu: On the Document releases Fall 2026. pic.twitter.com/mj1zd5dFsG

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As Mielke tells it, the e-book shall be “the definitive chronicle on Uematsu. [It’s] jam-packed with wonderful revelations in regards to the Closing Fantasy composer that the general public has by no means heard about, as shared by himself and people closest to him.”

On the Document is one of some biographies in regards to the artist himself moderately than his music: earlier than this, the one different e-book to cowl his life was 2020’s Smile Please by authors Denys Fontanarosa and Jérémie Kermarrec, and that’s solely in French.

Nobuo Uematsu: On the Document shall be stocked in shops someday this fall.

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