Takeharu Ishimoto (石 元 丈 晴 Ishimoto Takeharu) is a composer and programmer of the Japanese video game music synthesizer, currently employed by Square Enix. He worked as a synthesizer programmer on several games before moving to the rank of composer thanks to the football game World Fantasista then Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII on mobile phone. He then composed for the game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.