is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many seminal anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Vision of Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for JPop artists, …

Yuki Kajiura ( ) is a Japanese composer who has provided the music for several popular anime series, including . hack//SIGN and Noir. She has also provided musical compositions for Aquarian Age, Gundam SEED and one of the Kimagure Orange Road movies. Among her live-action soundtracks is Boogiepop and Others, based on the Boogiepop novels.

Kenji Kawai, born April 23, 1957 in Shinagawa, Tokyo - Japanese composer, composes music for motion pictures, anime movies, videogames and televised programs. He has contributed to the musical scores of the Mamoru Oshii movies "Ghost in the Shell" and "Avalon", as well as Hideo Nakata's films "Ringu", "Ringu 2", "Dark Water" and "Kaidan".

Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守 "Fujisawa Mamoru"), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi is a composer and director responsible for over 100 soundtracks and conventional albums dating back to 1981. He is best-known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki, including the soundtracks to "Spirited Away" (2002), "Howl's Moving Castle" (2004), "Princess Mononoke" (1997), "My Neighbour Totoro" (1988), …

is a Japanese composer. His hometown is Tokyo, Japan. Iwasaki is generally known for his jazz-like score music.

is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesised scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series.

Motoi Sakuraba has composed music for various Japanese video games, anime series, and TV dramas as well as independent progressive rock albums.

is a Japanese music composer, music arranger, conductor, music orchestrator and pianist. He studied at the Tokyo College of Music. He is popularly known for his work on anime soundtracks. He became known to the west through work on 3x3 Eyes and Battle Angel, and more recently Samurai 7 and the worldwide hit InuYasha. He also arranged works for orchestra and piano on original soundtracks like "Kingdom Hearts" and "Kingdom Hearts II".

Bruce Faulconer is a composer and the primary author of the music featured in English dub of the popular anime Dragon Ball Z. He is the owner and founder of Faulconer Productions as well as CakeMix Recording. *(Copied from Faulconer Production Music and CakeMix Recording with permission) Faulconer’s music is routinely recorded at CakeMix Recording, including the music for hit shows “DragonBall Z” on the Cartoon Network, “Your New House” on the Discovery Channel, …

Michiru Oshima, is a Japanese composer who has worked on several titles. Her earlier works include composition for games on Super Famicom (Super NES in America) and the action/adventure game "Ico" for PlayStation 2. She is well known for her work on the "Godzilla" movies. She also assisted in composing the score for "Fullmetal Alchemist", a popular anime.

is a Japanese electropop-artist, known best in Western cultures for his work on several anime soundtracks, but who has had a long and varied career besides. In 1972, he enrolled at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College. From 1972 to 1978, he performed in his first band MANDRAKE, a progressive rock group influenced by King Crimson and Yes. In 1979 he formed a techno-pop band called P-Model, along with two former members of MANDRAKE. They released a string of albums through the 1980s, and in 1989, …

is a Japanese composer.

(his birth name is 椙山 浩一, which is pronounced the same) (born April 11, 1931) is a Japanese music composer, council member of JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers), and honorary chairman of the Japanese Backgammon Society. He is best known composing music for the Dragon Quest video game series from Enix (later Square Enix) and several Japanese TV shows such as Space Runaway Ideon, Cyborg 009, and Gatchaman.

born, is a Japanese music composer from Tokyo, Japan born in 1971. He worked in the Nihon Falcom Corporation as one of the members of Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.. During his time with Falcom, he has composed many music for Falcom games, most notably Brandish. Having known Makoto Shinkai as a coworker in minori he has composed music for Shinkai's works since "She and Her Cat". He is perhaps best known for creating the soundtracks for Shinkai's subsequent works, …

is a Japanese female singer-songwriter and composer, born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. She is credited simply as Hitomi for her vocals. She is noted for her involvement with the soundtrack of the "Last Exile" anime series, for which she composes as part of the group Dolce Triade (the other members are Maki Fujiwara and Yuki Yamamoto) in addition to performing the ending theme "Over The Sky".

Hajime Mizoguchi is a cellist and composer who was born April 23, 1960 in Tokyo, Japan. Mizoguchi started playing piano in 1963, at the age of 3, and the cello in 1971. From 1978 to 1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. While at school, he started playing the cello with Japanese pop-singers and working as a studio musician for radio, TV, films, and albums.

Shinkichi Mitsumune (born Oct. 8, 1963) is a Japanese composer who writes music primarily for anime.

is a Japanese video game and anime music composer, arranger and orchestrator. He has worked on titles such as Front Mission 3, Final Fantasy XII, Shenmue series and Magic Knight Rayearth.

is a Japanese composer. He worked on various anime and arranger of songs from various games in the "Final Fantasy" video game series.

is a Japanese composer. He has often worked with Capcom but is also involved in a lot of his own freelance composing work. He had a minor role in Onimusha 2 as an assistant sound engineer and programmer to Taro Iwashiro, the acclaimed music composer of that particular game but it was his work on Chaos Legion, a Capcom Gothic action-adventure third-person fighting game in a similar fashion with the Devil May Cry series released in 2002, …

Masamichi Amano (天野 正道 "Amano Masamichi"; Polish: Masamicz Amano; born January 26, 1957 in Akita, Japan) is a Japanese music composer, arranger and conductor. He studied at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and graduated in 1982. He obtained the Takeoka Prize. His orchestral works, considered to be some of the most epic, grandiose and romantic of recent times, include the musical scores of "Battle Royale", …

Yoko Ueno is a Japanese recording artist. She has performed in the bands, Oranges & Lemons, Vita Nova, Marsh-Mallow, and ZABADAK. She is also a notable musical composer, having written music for several anime series, most promeneint being .hack//Legend of the Twilight, Azumanga Daioh (where one of her bands, Oranges & Lemons, also performs both theme songs), and Brigadoon. As of late, she has taken to calling herself simply Yoko, …

is a Japanese classical composer who also composes for anime movies, TV series and OVAs as well. In the West, he is best known for his soundtrack compositions for Argento Soma and Hiroyuki Morioka's Seikai anime series

is a prolific Japanese composer from Hirosaki. He specializes in incidental music for media such as television and film. Active since the early 60s, he has been one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on "tokusatsu" and "anime" productions for children, as well as violent action films, "jidaigeki" and "dorama". His works are comparatively more common in Toei-related productions. As of 2006, he is still active.

was born on February 5, 1972 in Fukuoka, Japan. She is a Japanese composer. Kubota has also worked on vocal music composition and arrangement for anime theme songs. Two notable works would be and which managed to hit the chart positions in Japan at #25 and #18 respectively. Both are opening theme songs for the anime adaptation of ARIA.

was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger of popular anime and movies and video game music as well. His popular name was Haneken.

is a Japanese composer. Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002. His newest opera, "Jr. Butterfly" is a sequel of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly". He has also written the background music for anime, …

Naoki Satō is a Japanese composer and producer who has provided the music for several popular anime series. He was born on May 2 of 1970 and graduated in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo College of Music.

is a Japanese composer. His work includes the Studio Ghibli films "Whisper of the Heart" and "The Cat Returns".

is a Japanese composer. He has composed the soundtracks to several "Gamera" films as well as many anime series. He has also composed music for a few video games, the most notable of which is "Shadow of the Colossus" (see also: "Roar of the Earth").

Sumio Shiratori. Japanese composer. <br/> He is best known to the music composition for Tanoshii Muumin Ikka anime. Based on the books of Tove Jansson. <br/> He is the husband and Co-producer of Emiko Shiratori.

is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is a graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music's school of music. He is the son of trumpet player Yoshihiro Nakagawa, the elder brother of trombone player Eijiro Nakagawa and the nephew of clarinet player Takeshi Nakagawa and trombone player Atsushi Nakagawa. He is noted for composing the soundtracks for several anime series, including the Gorō Taniguchi-directed Sunrise productions "s-CRY-ed", …

(she also goes by the pseudonym,) born May 21st, is a Japanese singer and composer from Ibaraki prefecture in Japan. Ito is an accomplished musician, composing the soundtracks to many anime television shows, and is part of the bands, Oranges & Lemons and Heart of Air. She has composed the music for many anime series.