Square Enix Wraps FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo With Sound Panel and Yoshida Q&A
Square Enix held FFXIV Fan Festival 2026 in Tokyo at Makuhari Messe on October 31 and November 1.
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Why it matters
The Tokyo stop put the sound team and Yoshida in front of a live crowd two days after the keynote, giving the fan base direct access to the people behind the game's audio and its producer rather than only trailer footage.
Key Facts
- Square Enix held FFXIV Fan Festival 2026 in Tokyo at Makuhari Messe on October 31 and November 1.
- Sound director Masayoshi Soken and composers Takafumi Imamura and Daiki Ishikawa appeared on the day two sound panel.
- Composers Takafumi Imamura and Daiki Ishikawa both joined Square Enix in 2019.
- Producer and director Naoki Yoshida answered questions submitted in advance during a live Q&A.
- THE PRIMALS performed a live show during the second day.
The second day opened with a sound team panel featuring sound director Masayoshi Soken and composers Takafumi Imamura and Daiki Ishikawa, followed by a live Q&A with producer and director Naoki Yoshida and a THE PRIMALS live show.
The second day at Makuhari Messe ran clear and slightly cooler than the first. The sound panel opened the schedule, with Soken, Imamura and Ishikawa trading stories about how they ended up at Square Enix: Imamura after his savings fell below 5,000 yen, Ishikawa after leaving a human resources job at an electronics manufacturer. A BGM quiz segment walked through how the development team requests music and how the sound team builds it, and touched on sound systems and trailer production. Yoshida then took questions submitted in advance, and THE PRIMALS closed out the day with a live show.
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