Kohei Tanaka (composer)
Japanese composer, arranger and singer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kohei Tanaka (Japanese: 田中 公平, Hepburn: Tanaka Kōhei, born February 14, 1954) is a Japanese composer, arranger, conductor and singer-songwriter. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine. He has created numerous musical scores for anime television series, OVAs, films, video games and tokusatsu series including Gunbuster, Sakura Wars, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Betterman, and One Piece.
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| Born | February 14, 1954 Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
| Alma mater | Tokyo University of the Arts Berklee College of Music |
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| Years active | 1982–present |
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Biography
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Tanaka was a student at Berklee College of Music.[1] While employed playing the piano in a hotel lounge, he was requested to arrange a song in Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX, a 1982 TV anime, and it became his first work as a composer. Afterwards, he produced some songs and arrangements for the Super Sentai series and his first work as a lead composer was for the television anime Konpora Kids in 1985.
Notably, the background music in Gunbuster made his name and talent very famous among anime fans and is recognized as one of his most important works.[2] He also handled the composition of Diebuster, a sequel series of Gunbuster, and showed a peculiar arrangement to his own work 17 years ago.
He hosted the Dai Anime Hakurankai radio show on Tokai Radio together with the voice actress Konami Yoshida from April 1993 to September 1994. His discussions with Toshio Okada and Hiroshi Yamamoto about anime, originally published in the hm3 voice acting magazine, have been republished in book form.
On February 14, 2008, he opened an official website and announced his intention to work also as a singer in the future. On July 4, he released his first solo album called Kokorone song 1st.
Works
Anime
Films
Video games
| Year | Title | Crew role | Notes | Source |
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| 1990 | Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom | Music | FM Towns version | [16] |
| 1992 | Xardion | Music | [17] | |
| Paladin's Quest | Music | |||
| Just Breed | Music | [16] | ||
| 1993 | Tengai Makyo: Fuun Kabukiden | Music | [16] | |
| 1995 | Tengai Makyō Zero | Music | [16] | |
| 1996 | Lennus II | Music | [16] | |
| Sakura Wars | Music | [18] | ||
| 1997 | Alundra | Music | [19][20] | |
| 1998 | Dragon Force II: Kamisarishi Daichi ni | Music | Main song | [21] |
| Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die | Music | [16] | ||
| 1999 | Alundra 2 | Music | [22] | |
| 2001 | Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? | Music | [16] | |
| 2002 | Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens | Music | [16] | |
| 2005 | Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love | Music | [16] | |
| 2010 | Resonance of Fate | Music | with Motoi Sakuraba | [23] |
| 2012 | Gravity Rush | Music | [24][25] | |
| 2017 | Gravity Rush 2 | Music | [26][27] | |
| 2018 | Princess Connect! Re:Dive | Music | with others | [28] |
| 2019 | One Piece: World Seeker | Music | [29] | |
| 2019 | Sakura Wars | Music | [30] |
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