Kohei Tanaka (composer)

Kohei Tanaka (田中 公平) is a Japanese composer, arranger, conductor and singer-songwriter. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine. He has created numerous musical scores for anime television series, OVAs, films, video games and tokusatsu series including Gunbuster, Sakura Wars and One Piece.

Biography
Tanaka was a student at Berklee College of Music. While employed playing the piano in a hotel lounge, he was requested to arrange a song in Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX, a 1982 TV anime, and it became his first work as a composer. Afterwards, he produced some songs and arrangements for the Super Sentai series and his first work as a lead composer was for the television anime Konpora Kids in 1985.

Notably, the background music in Gunbuster made his name and talent very famous among anime fans and is recognized as one of his most important works. He also handled the composition of Diebuster, a sequel series of Gunbuster, and showed a peculiar arrangement to his own work 17 years ago.

He hosted the Dai Anime Hakurankai radio show on Tokai Radio together with the voice actress Konami Yoshida from April 1993 to September 1994. His discussions with Toshio Okada and Hiroshi Yamamoto about anime, originally published in the hm3 voice acting magazine, have been republished in book form.

On February 14, 2008, he opened an official website and announced his intention to work also as a singer in the future. On July 4, he released his first solo album called Kokorone song 1st.

Anime
=== <!-- NEED SOURCE | Anime || Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX || 1982 || Arranger of background music | Anime || Ai Shite Knight || 1983 || Image song | Anime || Kinnikuman || 1983 || Arranger of ending song, background music | Anime || Tongari Bōshi no Memoru || 1984 || Arranger of image song | Anime || Dragon Ball Z || 1989 || Image song | Anime || Chimpui || 1989 || | Anime || Manga Nippon Mukashibanashi || 1989 || Arranger of image song | Anime || Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water || 1990 || Image song | Anime || Fujiko Fujio A no Mumako || 1990 || | Anime || Happyaku Yachō Hyōri no Kewaishi || 1990 || | Anime || 21emon || 1991 || | Anime || Himitsu no Hanazono || 1991 || | Anime || Ashita e Free Kick || 1992 || image song | Anime || Fujiko Fujio A no Sasurai Kun || 1992 || | Anime || Brave Command Dagwon || 1996 || background music | Anime || Baby and Me || 1996 || singer | Anime || The King of Braves GaoGaiGar || 1997 || | Anime || Dai-Guard || 1999 || with Kenji Kawai | Anime || Super B-Daman || 1999 || | Anime || Betterman || 1999 || | Anime || Banner of the Stars II || 2001 || ending song | Anime || Gad Guard || 2003 || with Kazuhiko Sawaguchi | Anime || Animal Yokochō || 2005 || | Anime || Oh My Goddess! || 2005 || opening song | Anime || The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Final -Grand Glorious Gathering- || 2005 || | Anime || Oh My Goddess! || 2006 || opening song | Anime || Jojo's Bizarre Adventure || 2012 || opening song ||  | OVA || Dead Heat || 1987 || | OVA || Elf 17 || 1987 || | OVA || Dirty Pair || 1987 || | OVA || Namakemono ga Miteta || 1998 || arranger | OVA || Gunbuster || 1988 || | OVA || Assemble Insert || 1989 || | OVA || Project A-ko: Grey Side/Blue Side || 1989 || arranger of ending song, background music | OVA || Shin Mashin Eiyūden Wataru Mashinzanhen || 1990 || | OVA || Tengai Makyō Ziria Oborohen || 1990 || | OVA || Sengoku Bushō Retsuden Bakufū Dōji Hissatsuman || 1990 || arranger of opening and ending songs | OVA || Majū Senshi Luna Varugā || 1991 || singer | OVA || Ariel || 1991 || | OVA || Blazing Transfer Student || 1991 || | OVA || Bakumatsu Shōnen Seiki Takamaru || 1991 || | OVA || Kyūkyoku Chōjin R || 1991 || | OVA || Shin Chō Bakumatsu Shōnen Seiki Takamaru || 1992 || | OVA || Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh || 1992 || | OVA || Kōryū Densetsu Villgust || 1992 || | OVA || Licca-chan no Nichiyōbi || 1992 || | OVA || Licca-chan to Yamaneko Hoshi no Tabi || 1994 || | OVA || Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team || 1996 || | OVA || Sakura Wars: The Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms || 1997 || | OVA || The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Final || 2000 || | OVA || Sakura Taisen: Kanzaki Sumire Intai Kinen Sumire || 2002 || | OVA || Ranma ½: Akumu! Shunminkō || 2008 || |- --->  Films ===