Kohei Tanaka (田中公平, Tanaka Kohei) is a Japanese classical composer who has … Read Full Bio ↴Kohei Tanaka (田中公平, Tanaka Kohei) is a Japanese classical composer who has created numerous musical scores for famous anime series. Tanaka was born in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture in February 14, 1954. He is world-renowned for his hit soundtrack to the One Piece anime.
He has created sweeping orchestral works for a range of formats, from anime audio CDs to Japanese game soundtracks to classical concert music. He is recognized for his very particular style mixing elements of impressionist music with jazz, rock and 20th century harmonic techniques. Notable elements of his style are the use of Messiaen's limited transposition modes (in particular mode 2), polytonality, and the doubling of orchestral basses by an amplified guitar or electric bass, recorded at the same time as the other orchestral instruments.
He entered into Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Music faculty-Composition department) and studied under Tomojirô Ikenouchi and other professors. Tanaka worked for three years at Victor Music Industries after he had graduated. He went to study to Berklee College of Music for two years after he had left Victor. After had returned to Japan, Tanaka started the activity as composer.
Though he had playing at the hotel at first, he was requested to compose an inserted song of "Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX", a 1982 TV anime , and it became his first work as a composer. Afterwards, he handled some compositions of the inserted songs for the Super Sentai series and did the compositions of the background music for the first time for a TV anime Konpora Kid (コンポラキッド, Konpora Kiddo?) in 1985.
Notably, the Gunbuster's BGM made his name and talent very famous among anime fans and is recognized one of the his most important works. He also handled the composition of Diebuster, a sequel series of Gunbuster, and showed a peculiar symphonic arrangement to his own work 17 years ago.
His composition is especially known by the Hot strings of that. Another his most important work is often enumerated The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, a 1997 TV anime, and GaoGaiGar Final, 2000 OVA.
In 2002, he won the first Tokyo Anime Award for Best Music by the music of Overman King Gainer.
He has created sweeping orchestral works for a range of formats, from anime audio CDs to Japanese game soundtracks to classical concert music. He is recognized for his very particular style mixing elements of impressionist music with jazz, rock and 20th century harmonic techniques. Notable elements of his style are the use of Messiaen's limited transposition modes (in particular mode 2), polytonality, and the doubling of orchestral basses by an amplified guitar or electric bass, recorded at the same time as the other orchestral instruments.
He entered into Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Music faculty-Composition department) and studied under Tomojirô Ikenouchi and other professors. Tanaka worked for three years at Victor Music Industries after he had graduated. He went to study to Berklee College of Music for two years after he had left Victor. After had returned to Japan, Tanaka started the activity as composer.
Though he had playing at the hotel at first, he was requested to compose an inserted song of "Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX", a 1982 TV anime , and it became his first work as a composer. Afterwards, he handled some compositions of the inserted songs for the Super Sentai series and did the compositions of the background music for the first time for a TV anime Konpora Kid (コンポラキッド, Konpora Kiddo?) in 1985.
Notably, the Gunbuster's BGM made his name and talent very famous among anime fans and is recognized one of the his most important works. He also handled the composition of Diebuster, a sequel series of Gunbuster, and showed a peculiar symphonic arrangement to his own work 17 years ago.
His composition is especially known by the Hot strings of that. Another his most important work is often enumerated The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, a 1997 TV anime, and GaoGaiGar Final, 2000 OVA.
In 2002, he won the first Tokyo Anime Award for Best Music by the music of Overman King Gainer.
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The Wind That Shook the Earth
田中公平 Lyrics
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Leandro Oliveira
A red apple
Fell from the sky
Across the clouds
A gentle sun shines
On the ones we're waiting for
A red apple
A seed of hope
A beacon that shines
On me in the empty sky
Soaring once again without fear
The morning bird's song - never to be heard again
The line of burdened people goes on
They travel beyond, to the promised land
Thousands of minds surpassing their frail bodies
A dream of liberation
Don't say a word
Soaring; falling
Wherever you go, fly high
A red apple
Fell from the sky
Across the clouds
A gentle sun shines
On the ones we're waiting for
The smiles of parents - never to be seen again
A dog accompanies the people who keep on walking
They travel beyond, to the serene land
Thousands of minds surpassing their frail bodies
Disaster is far away
Don't say a word
Soaring; falling
Wherever you go, fly high
A red apple
Fell from the sky
Across the clouds
A gentle sun shines
On the ones we're waiting for
A gentle sun shines
On you
Gizmo
This series is CRIMINALLY underrated. Seriously, if it got more publicity I'm sure people would love it.
ichigo11234
quality would have dropped and prob wont been as good exclusive are good mainly due to how big of a budget they get, in this case because the dev company is sony
FF18Cloud
AeonzAgaze well, the game is technically made by a Sony owned game studio, so, K don't know how you'd get around that kind of exclusivity O-o
(I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Japan studio is a Sony owned 1st party studio)
AeonzAgaze
Well thats mostly sonys fault for having it on vita first , the re-releasing it to only be on playstation. Exclusivity KILL'S great games like this.
MasterArvocado
Thank god it was loved "enough" to get a sequel.
Platinum Trainer
I just beat the game and oh my god... That final boss, that ENDING! This game was just amazing and I haven't even done everything yet. Please, let there be a Gravity Rush 3! I love this game <3
Alexandre o Enorme
Four years ...
alfredo konuma
Platinum Trainer i hope that the third game the protagonist is the son of Kat and Syd
AeonzAgaze
as far as im concerned , they're story isn't over till they're dead.....and spoiler alert.....they're not lol....and money talks , if this game does really well he's probably more inclined to make a 3rd game rather than make something new
jsh020
keiichiro toyama did say a gravity rush 3 is possible but he wont do it anytime soon and would rather wait for new tech to come around to justify bringing it back. Hes currently looking to make a new action adventure IP instead and even if 3 came back its basically guaranteed to be a soft reboot since kat, raven, and syd's story is over and concluded.
http://gematsu.com/2017/01/gravity-rush-2-director-talks-raven-dlc-series-future-next-title