Kōhei Tanaka

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 Choushinsei Flashman, Gunbuster, Sakura Wars, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Betterman, and One Piece.

Biography

Tanaka was a student at Berklee College of Music. 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 Year Title Crew role Notes Source Doteraman Music Choushinsei Flashman Music Esper Mami Music Maps Music OVA The Three Musketeers Music –89 Lady!! series Music Also Hello! Lady Lynn –89 Gunbuster Music Patlabor Music OVAs –2000 Sakura Wars: The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms Music OVA –2003 The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Final Music Composer OVA Gate Keepers Music Desert Punk Music Sakura Taisen: Le Nouveau Paris Music OVA Diebuster Music OVA Buso Renkin Music Sakura Taisen: New York, New York Music OVA –08 Let's Go! Tamagotchi Music Tamagotchi: The Movie Music Rosario + Vampire series Music 2 seasons, with Shiro Hamaguchi Hayate the Combat Butler Composer, Arranger –11 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan series Music Demon Capital with Kazuhiko Sawaguchi and Keiji Iuchi Hyouka Music JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Theme song composition "JoJo (Sono Chi no Sadame)" Gaist Crusher Music with Takayuki Negishi Assassination Classroom Theme song arrangement The Laughing Salesman New Music Planet With Composer, Arranger Sakura Wars: The Animation Music Princess Connect Re:Dive Theme song arrangement Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori Music Back Arrow Music D_Cide Traumerei the Animation Music Grendizer U Music

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