Shirō Sagisu

is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer. With a career spanning over 40 years (beginning in the late 1970s), he is best known for his works as a record producer for acts including various choir members Mike Wyzgowski, Misia, Satoshi Tomiie, and Ken Hirai. Sagisu has also worked as a film composer for several anime and films, being well known for his collaborations with Gainax, especially in the soundtrack of Hideaki Anno's series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Sagisu's career in music started in 1977, when he became one of the members of jazz fusion band T-Square. He made three albums with the group before becoming a full-time composer and writer in 1979. By 1997, he had composed over 2,000 songs, advertising jingles and TV and movie pieces. Sagisu won the Tokyo Anime Award for "Best Music" in 2010 for Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. Sagisu arranged a rendition of the Japanese national anthem, "Kimigayo", performed at the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony by Misia.

Discography Solo Year Title Notes 1979 EYES With Somethin' Special 1980 Pole Position 2 With Somethin' Special 1994 Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale Orchestral arrangement of 11 tracks from the game Final Fantasy VICo-arranged with Tsuneyoshi Saito 1999 Shiro's Songbook 2000 Shiro's Songbook 2 2001 Tribute to Cool! Shiro's Songbook 2.5 5.1 Gospel Songbook 2002 Shiro's Songbook "Remixes and More" 2003 Shiro's Songbook Selection London Freedom Choir 2005 Shiro's Songbook Ver 7.0 2013 Shiro's Songbook Xpressions 2017 Shiro's Songbook The Hidden Wonder of Music 2018 Shiro's Ani-Songbook 2022 Shiro’s Songbook 11 2022 Shiro's Songbook Bleach Bankai!

T-Square Year Title 1978 Lucky Summer Lady Midnight Lover 1979 Make Me A Star

Works Anime TV series Year Title 1984 Attacker You! 1987 Kimagure Orange Road 1990 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water 1995 Neon Genesis Evangelion 1998 His and Her Circumstances 2002 Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi 2004 Bleach 2007 Skull Man 2012 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 2013 Magi: The Kingdom of Magic 2014 Black Bullet 2016 Berserk 2018 SSSS.Gridman 2021 SSSS.Dynazenon 2022 Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

Films and original video animations Year Title Notes 1985 Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko Megazone 23 Part I 1986 Ai City 1987 Megazone 23 Part II Battle Royal High School 1988 I Want to Return to That Day 1991 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water – The Motion Picture 1992 Macross II Ushio & Tora Composer for the first six episodes 1996 Garzey's Wing 1997 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth The End of Evangelion 2006 Bleach: Memories of Nobody 2007 Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion 2008 Bleach: Fade to Black 2009 Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance 2010 Bleach: Hell Verse 2012 Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2014 until You come to me. Japan Animator Expo's short 2015 On a Gloomy Night Japan Animator Expo's short Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen Japan Animator Expo's short 2021 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2023 Gridman Universe

Theatrical films Year Title 2001 Musa 2004 Casshern 2006 The Restless 2015 Attack on Titan 2016 Shin Godzilla 2020 Wotakoi 2022 Shin Ultraman 2023 An Endless Sunday

Television dramas Year Title 2002 Love Quotient 2010 Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu 2025

Video games Year Title TBA Project GAMM

Songwriting credits 1980s

+ List of songs arranged for other artists, showing year released and album name Year Title Artist(s) Album/Single 1981 "Sentimental Journey"Iyo Matsumoto Sentimental Journey "Hitokakera no Natsu", "Time Capsule", "Yakan Hikou", "Scramble no Koutsuuten" Sentimental Iyo 1982 "Love me Tender", "Nijiiro no Fantasy"Iyo Matsumoto Love me Tender "TV no Kuni kara Kira Kira", "Pata Pata" TV no Kuni kara Kira Kira "Otona Janaino", "Koi wa Ban Ban" Otona Janaino "Dakishimetai", "Kiss In The Dream" Dakishimetai "Majokko Seventeen", "Pandora no Yume", "Frio no Natsu", "Nageki no Nightingale", "Tasogare no Poem" Only Seventeen "Crystal Love", "Born to be a star", Hideki Saijo Crystal Love "Ano Koro ni Mou Ichido", "Ai no Bracelet" Yu Hayami Ano Koro ni Mou Ichido Orphans no Namida 2016 " Nagi Yanagi Meimoku no Kanata 2017 "Who will know – furusato", "Tensions – welcome to the stage", "Who will know – snedronningen" Yoko Takahashi Welcome to the stage! 2018 "Come sweet death, second impact", "The Image of black me", "Dilemmatic triangle opera AYANAMI Version" Megumi Hayashibara Fifty-Fifty "Amazing Life" Misia Life is going on and on 2019 "Lifetime with..." May'n Yell 2020 "Kagayaki no Etude" Sumire Morohoshi Tsumuji Kaze 2022 "Wish" Mika Nakashima Wish 2023 "What If?" Yoko Takahashi Evangelion Eternally "The End", "Seiza" Junna Dear