Career
He also contributed to the soundtracks to the Nippon Electric Corporation Personal Computer Engine port of Langrisser: The Descendants of Light, Doctor 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, Incorporated.
(1997-2000) to create music and sound effects for Sega Saturn and PlayStation titles.
Hikichi was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. At the age of 14, he watched the performance of a band on television, and that led him to become a musician.
When he was in high school, he started to compose music for his band to perform. After high school, he attended music school.