Go Sakabe

Go Sakabe (坂部 剛, Sakabe Gō, born January 31, 1982) is a Japanese composer and arranger.^[2] He has provided the music for several anime series, such as Date A Live and Digimon Adventure tri., as well as television dramas and movies—especially tokusatsu—, such as the Kamen Rider series.^[3] His works also include opening and ending theme songs for many series and video games.^[4]

Go Sakabe
坂部 剛
Born	(1982-01-31) January 31, 1982 (age 42) Japan
Education	Department of Composition, Kunitachi College of Music
Occupations	Composer arranger
Years active	2005–present
Musical career
Genres	Soundtrack electronic classical Orchestral rock J-pop anison
Instruments	Piano keyboard
Labels	Ash Bunny[1]
Website	www.ashbunny.com/artist-go-sakabe

Biography

Sakabe was born in Japan, in 1982.^[2] He began learning piano in the first grade of elementary school. Around his junior high school, he used to compose songs at home, using the music notation software Finale. In high school, he joined the choir club and became more familiar with music. In the winter of his second year of high school, he decided to go to a music college, and later entered the Department of Composition at Kunitachi College of Music. After that, Sakabe studied under Toshihiko Sahashi—a composer and arranger—, while working as his assistant.^[5]

Sakabe's musician career started in 2005, with him involved in writing songs for other artists.^[6]

In 2007, he made his debut as a series composer with the opening theme song "I Say Yes" from the season 2 of the anime The Familiar of Zero.^[7][8]

Works

Anime

Year	Title	Role(s)	Note(s)
2007	The Familiar of Zero Season 2	Opening theme song composer	[7][8]
2010	Yumeiro Patissiere SP Professional	Ending theme song composer	[2]
2011	Gosick	Opening and ending theme song composer and arranger	[9]
2012	Strike Witches: The Movie	Theme song composer and arranger	[10]
2013	Date A Live	Composer Opening theme song composer and arranger	[11][12]
	Chronicles of the Going Home Club	Composer	[13]
2014	SoniAni: Super Sonico the Animation		[14]
	Date A Live II	Composer Opening theme song composer and arranger
	Wolf Girl and Black Prince	Composer	[15]
2015	World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman		[16]
	Date A Live: Mayuri Judgement
	Digimon Adventure tri. Part 1: Reunion		[17]
2016	Digimon Adventure tri. Part 2: Determination
	First Love Monster	Composer Ending theme song composer and arranger	[18]
	Digimon Adventure tri. Part 3: Confession	Composer
	Cheating Craft	Composer Opening theme song composer and arranger	[19]
	Kiss Him, Not Me	Ending theme song composer and arranger	[20]
	Magic-kyun! Renaissance	Composer	[21]
2017	Digimon Adventure tri. Part 4: Loss		[3]
	Digimon Adventure tri. Part 5: Coexistence
2018	Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls		[22]
	Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6: Future
	Reizouko no Tsukenosuke!
2019	Forest of Piano Season 2	Ending theme song composer and arranger
	Date A Live III	Composer Opening theme song composer and arranger	[23]
	The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Climax Season	Ending theme song composer and arranger	[24]
	Bakumatsu Crisis	Composer	Other tracks by Ryo Kawasaki[25]
2020	Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet	Composer Opening and ending theme song composer and arranger	[26][27]
	Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen	Composer Opening theme song composer and arranger	[26][28]
2021	LBX Girls	Composer
	Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House		[29]
2022	She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man		[30][31]
	Date A Live IV	Composer Opening and ending theme song composer and arranger	[32][33]
2023	Kizuna no Allele	Composer	[34]
2024	Re:Monster		[35]
	Date A Live V		[36]
2025	I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths!		[37]

Television dramas

Year	Title	Note(s)
2015	Kamen Rider Ghost	[38]
2018	Mob Psycho 100 (television drama)
2019	4 Week Continuous Special Super Sentai Strongest Battle!!	Other tracks by Koichiro Kameyama, Kousuke Yamashita, Kei Haneoka, Hiroshi Takaki, Kotaro Nakagawa and Eiji Kawamura
	Kamen Rider Zero-One	[39]
2021	Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga	[40]
2023	Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger
2024	Kamen Rider Gavv

Movies

Year	Title	Note(s)
2015	Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie War Genesis	Other tracks by Shuhei Naruse and Kotaro Nakagawa[41]
2016	Kamen Rider 1	Other tracks by Shuhei Naruse and Kotaro Nakagawa
	Kamen Rider Ghost: The 100 Eyecons and Ghost's Fated Moment	[42]
	Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider	Other tracks by ats-, Takehito Shimizu and Toru Watanabe[43]
2017	Ghost Re:Birth: Kamen Rider Specter
	Hurricane Polymar (2017 movie)	[44]
2019	Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation	Other tracks by Toshihiko Sahashi[45]
2020	Kamen Rider Zero-One the Movie: Real×Time	[46]
2021	Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai
	Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Vulcan & Valkyrie

Video games

Year	Title	Role(s)	Note(s)
2013	Date A Live: Rinne Utopia	Opening and ending theme song composer and arranger	[47][48]
2014	Date A Live: Ars Install	Composer Opening theme song composer and arranger	Other tracks by Shigeki Hayashi, Kenichi Sakoh, Yusuke Shirato, and Motoi Sakuraba[49][50][51]
2019	Blue Oath	Composer	Other tracks by Yoshiaki Fujisawa, Shigenobu Okawa, Fukuhiro Shuichiro, Akiyuki Tateyama, Mamoru Mori, Makino Tadayoshi, Miao Jinchuan, Shiki, and G-angle[52]

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External links

• Official Ash Bunny page
• Discography at VGMdb
• Go Sakabe at IMDb
• Go Sakabe at Anime News Network's encyclopedia