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Behind the anime
Music
Kouhei attended Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music , studying under Tomojirou Ikenouchi and other professors.
Kohei Tanaka has 78 listed credits as a composer. Kouhei is from Osaka, Japan. Their birth date is listed as February 14, 1954.
Production credits include music (53), theme song composition (11), and theme song arrangement (6).
Our catalog lists 78 credits, including ONE PIECE: Yume no Soccer Ou!, One Piece Special: The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy, and One Piece Special: Protect! The Last Great Performance.
Their hometown is listed as Osaka, Japan.
The person behind the work
Kouhei attended Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Music Faculty, Composition Department), studying under Tomojirou Ikenouchi and other professors. He worked for three consecutive years at Victor Music Industries after he graduated from the University. He attended Berklee College of Music for two years after he left Victor Music Industries.
After returning to Japan, Kouhei started his activities as a composer. Though Kouhei had been playing at the hotel at first, he was requested to compose an insert song for "Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX", a 1982 TV anime, and it became his first work as a composer.
Afterwards, he handled some more compositions of insert songs, this time for the Super Sentai series and he also did the composition of the background music for a TV anime, Konpora Kid, in 1985. Notably, the score for Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster made his name and talent very famous among anime fans, and is recognized as one of his most important works. He also handled the composition of Top wo Nerae 2!
Diebuster and showed a peculiar arrangement, which he added to his previous 17-year-old work. Another of his most important work is often said to be Yuusha-Ou GaoGaiGar, and the sequel following it. In 2002, he won the first Tokyo Anime Award for Best Music for his work on Overman King Gainer.
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