is a Japanese

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and

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. She has provided the music for several

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series,

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and

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s. She is best known for composing the

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for ''

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'', as well as for co-composing the scores for ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Biography

Tachibana was born in

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

, in 1987. She began playing

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from an early age. Later, she learned other

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by joining music clubs at school, playing

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in junior high school and

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in high school. After school, she decided to devote herself to music, studying composition and arrangement diligently. In 2011, alongside

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, Tachibana made her debut as a composer in the television series ''HUNTER - Women After Reward Money''. Since then, she has been involved in many soundtrack works, several of which with composer Yuki Hayashi.

Works

Anime

Television dramas

Video games

References

External links

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Discography at VGMdb
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tachibana, Asami 1987 births 21st-century Japanese women musicians 21st-century Japanese composers 21st-century Japanese pianists Anime composers Living people Musicians from Kanagawa Prefecture Women television composers 21st-century women pianists