Chumei Watanabe

Chumei Watanabe (渡辺), born Michiaki Watanabe (渡辺), (August 19, 1925 – June 23, 2022) was a Japanese film score and television score composer. He worked on various tokusatsu shows and mecha anime.

Personal life
His son, Toshiyuki Watanabe, is a musician and composer, who also has scored films and anime series and his granddaughter Mako Watanabe is part of the idol duo Namakopuri where she goes under the stage name, Mako Principal.

He died on June 23, 2022, at the age of 96.

Awards
For his work on anime, Watanabe received an Award of Merit at the 8th Tokyo Anime Awards and an Animation Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Japan Movie Critics Awards.