is a Japanese

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and

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. He has provided the music for several

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series, as well as television dramas and

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s. His works include the scores for '' Attack on Titan: The Final Season'' and '' 86''—with the latter winning the 8th Anime Trending Awards in the category Best Soundtrack. He was represented by the music production company Legendoor from 2015 to 2017.

Biography

Yamamoto was born in

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, in 1987. His musician career started in 2015, with him writing songs for other artists. In 2017, alongside Hiroyuki Sawano, Yamamoto made his debut as a composer in the anime '' Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga'', the sequel of the popular series ''

Blue Exorcist is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Kato. The story revolves around Rin Okumura, a teenager who discovers he and his twin brother Yukio are the sons of Satan, born from a human woman, and he is the i ...

''. Since then, he has been involved in many soundtrack works, several of which with composer Hiroyuki Sawano. In February 2022, Yamamoto and Sawano were awarded at the Anime Trending Awards for their role on the soundtrack of the anime '' 86''. On June 17, 2022, it was announced that Kohta Yamamoto would attend an

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l concert event for the concluding season of ''

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as ...

''. The event will be held on November 13, at Tokyo's Tachikawa Stage Garden, with performances of Yamamoto's tracks from the ''Attack on Titans score.

Works

Anime

Television dramas

Video games

Other involvements

References

External links

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Discography at VGMdb
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamamoto, Kohta 1987 births 21st-century Japanese male musicians 21st-century Japanese composers Anime composers Living people Musicians from Tokyo Male television composers