Evan Call

Evan Call (born June 29, 1988) is an American composer and arranger working in Japan. He has composed music for multiple anime series, such as Violet Evergarden, Muv-Luv Alternative and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Call is affiliated with the Japanese agency Miracle Bus and was previously a member of the musical group Elements Garden.

Biography Call was born in California, U.S., on June 29, 1988, and grew up in the city of Lincoln. As a teenager, Call was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and had to take a break from going to school. During that time, he learned to play bluegrass guitar from a local teacher. Call later made a friend in his hometown who taught him about Japanese anime and video games, which prompted him to start composing orchestral music. He joined the choir club when he entered high school. After graduating, Call enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in film scoring.

After graduating from college, he debated if he should pursue a career in film music in Hollywood. In the end, he decided to move to Japan on a tourist visa to work in the anime and game industry. Call would continue to compose soundtracks for other anime series and films such as Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. In 2025, Call won a Tokyo Anime Award in the Sound/Performance category, and was nominated for Best Score at the 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards for his work on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.

Call left Elements Garden on June 30, 2016, due to his contract expiring. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Japanese agency .

When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace With Junpei Fujita and Haruki Mori

Tokyo ESP

Symphogear GX With Junpei Fujita and Hitoshi Fujima

Dance with Devils With Junpei Fujita

Schwarzesmarken

Big Order

Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue With Junpei Fujita and Seima Iwahashi

2017 Chronos Ruler

Hakumei and Mikochi

Violet Evergarden

Midnight Occult Civil Servants

2020 Appare-Ranman!

Muv-Luv Alternative

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window

2022 Muv-Luv Alternative (season 2)

My Happy Marriage

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End 77 in the German Album Charts

2024 Sengoku Youko

My Happy Marriage (season 2)

Pokémon: Dragonite and the Special Delivery

Gundam: Next Universal Century

Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube

Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show

2026 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (season 2)

Anime films Year Title Notes 2014 Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace With Noriyasu Agematsu, Junpei Fujita, and Hitoshi Fujima 2016 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes the Movie: Milky Holmes' Counterattack With Seima Iwahashi 2020 Violet Evergarden: The Movie Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

Video games Year Title Notes 2014 Chaos Rings III Arrangement with Junpei Fujita and Hitoshi Fujima Shining Resonance With Junpei Fujita, Hitoshi Fujima, and Tomohiro Kita 2015 Chronos Ring With Yoko Shimomura and Kenji Ito

Television dramas Year Title Notes 2017 Star Concerto: Ore to Kimi no Idol Dō

Live-action films