was a Japanese
pianist
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,
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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and
arranger
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. He composed for popular
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
series,
movies
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
and
video games
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. His popular name was Haneken.
Biography
Haneda was born in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
, Japan. After graduating from the
Toho Gakuen School of Music
is a private music school in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.
History
Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Ichigaya (Tokyo) as the Music School for Children, and two years later moved to Sengawa (current address at Wakabacyo, Chofushi, Tokyo) and opened t ...
, he taught as a professor at the
Tokyo College of Music
is a private music school in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded as in Kanda, Tokyo, in 1907.
History
The college moved to Toshima in Tokyo in 1924 after the original campus was destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.
Some notable gradu ...
. He was best known as the composer of ''
Wizardry
''Wizardry'' is a series of role-playing video games, developed by Sir-Tech, that were highly influential in the evolution of modern role-playing video games. The original ''Wizardry'' was a significant influence on early console role-playing g ...
''—which was ported to
NES
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American ...
and
SNES
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console by Ascii at early 1990—, ''
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
is an anime television series from 1982. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles" during the first Human-alien war. It is the first part of two franchises: The ''Super D ...
'' series, ''
Barefoot Gen
is a Japanese historical manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives wi ...
'', ''Ys Symphony'', ''Symphony Sorcerian'' and ''
Genso Suikoden Ongaku-shu''.
He died of
liver cancer
Liver cancer (also known as hepatic cancer, primary hepatic cancer, or primary hepatic malignancy) is cancer that starts in the liver. Liver cancer can be primary (starts in liver) or secondary (meaning cancer which has spread from elsewhere to th ...
on June 2, 2007, at the age of 58.
Selected works
Anime soundtracks
*''The Adventure of Kohsuke Kindaichi'' (1977)
*''
Treasure Island
''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...
'' (1978)
*''
Space Warrior Baldios
is a 1980 Japanese super robot mecha anime series. A film with the same title was released on December 19, 1981.
Production
The anime television series was produced by Ashi Productions and Kokusai Eiga-sha with a feature film (with a strong ...
'' (1980)
*''
Natsu e no Tobira
is a Japanese manga series by Keiko Takemiya. It is an early example of a ''shōnen-ai'' manga. It was originally serialized in ''Hana to Yume'' in 1975, published by Hakusensha, and it was re-released in 2000 by Kodansha. An animated film ve ...
'' (1981)
*''
Manga Mito Kōmon
is a Japanese shōnen anime television series consisting of 46 episodes directed by Kazuyuki Okasako. Loosely based on real life events of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, it is considered as a sort of remake of the successful jidaigeki drama ''Mito Kō ...
'' (1981)
*''
Thunderbirds 2086
''Thunderbirds 2086'' is the English dubbed version of the Japanese anime series , loosely inspired by the original Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series '' Thunderbirds''. The English dub was produced by ITC Entertainment, the original produc ...
'' (Scientific Rescue Team Technovoyager) (1982)
*''
Space Cobra
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Buichi Terasawa. Set in the far future, the series tells the story of Cobra, who lives an adventurous life until his enemies begin to hunt him down. Cobra surgically alters his face a ...
'' (1982)
*''
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
is an anime television series from 1982. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles" during the first Human-alien war. It is the first part of two franchises: The ''Super D ...
'' (1982)
*''
Super Dimension Century Orguss
is an anime science fiction series. It inspired an Original Video Animation, OVA sequel series called ''Orguss 02''. ''Orguss'' was the second part of ''The Super Dimension (disambiguation), Super Dimension'' trilogy from Big West Advertising ...
'' (1983)
*''
Final Yamato
is a 1983 Japanese anime epic science fiction film and the fifth film (fourth theatrical) of the ''Space Battleship Yamato'' saga (known as '' Star Blazers'' in the United States). Its extended 70mm cut was the longest animated film in the wor ...
'' (film, 1983)
*''
Barefoot Gen
is a Japanese historical manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives wi ...
'' (film, 1983)
*''
Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature
is a Japanese anime film that premiered on the Nippon Television network on August 19, 1984. It was written by Osamu Tezuka as a critique of the Japanese government's approval of recombinant DNA research that year. The film was streamed by A ...
'' (TV movie, 1984)
*''
Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' (film, 1984)
*''
Sherlock Hound
is an anime television series produced by RAI and Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Based on the character Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, almost all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic dogs. The show featured regular appearances of ...
'' (1984)
*''
Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight'' (film, 1985)
*''
Onegai! Samia Don
is a Japanese anime that was broadcast from 2 April 1985 to 4 February 1986 with a total of 78 episodes produced. This anime is based on the 1902 novel ''Five Children and It'' by English author Edith Nesbit.
The anime differs from the novel ...
'' (1985)
* ''
Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet'' (TV movie, 1986)
*''
Metal Armor Dragonar
is a 48-episode mecha anime series, created by Nippon Sunrise (later renamed Sunrise during production) and aired from 1987 to 1988. Devised shortly after the release of ''Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ'', ''Dragonar'' was intended to be both a "sta ...
'' (1987, with
Toshiyuki Watanabe
Toshiyuki Watanabe (渡辺 俊幸 ''Watanabe Toshiyuki'') (born February 3, 1955, in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese musician and composer who has scored multiple films and anime. His most notable works are the Mothra trilogy in the 1990s and the awar ...
)
*''
Project A-ko 4: FINAL'' (OAV, 1989)
*''
Dear Brother
is a Japanese manga series by Riyoko Ikeda. It was adapted into an anime series that aired on the channel NHK-BS2 from July 14, 1991 to May 31, 1992.
The series originally started out as a manga in the early to mid-1970s. The story is a ...
'' (1991)
Game soundtracks
*''
Wizardry
''Wizardry'' is a series of role-playing video games, developed by Sir-Tech, that were highly influential in the evolution of modern role-playing video games. The original ''Wizardry'' was a significant influence on early console role-playing g ...
'' series (
Famicom
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American ...
and
Super Famicom
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Euro ...
ports)
*''
Suikoden
is a series of role-playing video games created by Yoshitaka Murayama. The games are loosely based on the classical Chinese novel ''Water Margin'', whose title is rendered as in Japanese. Each individual game centers on themes of politics, co ...
''
Live-action TV
*''
Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger
is Toei's twenty-seventh production of the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries, and the first series to use TV Asahi's current logo. It aired from February 16, 2003 to February 8, 2004, replacing ''Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger'' and was replaced by ''To ...
'' (2003)
External links
Kentarō Haneda HomepageKentarō Haneda at Soundtrackcollector.comHaneken CD Introduction PageDiscography of Kentarō Haneda at Raborak''Space Battleship Yamato'' CD Set Review and Information
1949 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Japanese composers
20th-century Japanese male musicians
Anime composers
Deaths from cancer in Japan
Deaths from liver cancer
Japanese film score composers
Japanese male film score composers
Japanese music arrangers
Musicians from Tokyo
Toho Gakuen School of Music alumni
Video game composers
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