Hideaki Utsumi

Hideaki Utsumi (内海 秀明, Utsumi Hideaki) is a Japanese video game sound designer, audio engineer, composer, YouTuber, and musician, and is currently an instructor at HAL Osaka, a vocational school in Osaka, Japan.

He is best known for sound design for the Resident Evil video game series (as a member of Capcom Sound Team), and his YouTube channel, where he usually do livestreams with his birds. Utsumi is also one half of the musical duo mT with Tanaka Hit, playing both the keyboard and the band's own creation, the MIDI stick, created from arcade-game controllers.

Utsumi worked in Capcom's sound design department for 14 years. He left in 2009 to teach at HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design.

He is married to former Capcom colleague Saori Maeda, who co-composed the soundtrack of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with Masami Ueda.