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My question is this: do any of you people I know not have any favourite music from anime, and/or composers? If so, post. If you aren't terribly articulate then, rejoice, for you can just post the music. Simple. That is, if you want to, of course. Fret not if you aren't me, for I am also not you. That aside, this post is kinda-sorta related: The Anime/Manga I Bought Today Was...
My first anime wasStar Ocean Ex .hack//SIGN. Yuki Kajiura. Some of you may know of her music from Heaven's Feel-up, Garden of Sinners, etc. Her stuff gets a bit too familiar than is good if you've seen one too many of her shows, but as it happens SIGN for me was her best work and both the bg music/vocals are so distinct it's hard not to recognise her music. From then on, music and anime have been as one in my mind, for music is the gateway to memories/nostalgia, if not thine soul. And, thus, I give thee, land of the twilight, under the moon / aura eviiiiiil / the world / Key of the Twilight
And this ending credits theme from the 5th Garden Sinners movie.
After that, I got into shounen anime, as many a teenage idiot. Naruto had some memorable tracks for sure, but it was a more obscure shounen that introduced me to another amazing composer, only this one has waaaaaaay more range than Kajiura: Taku Iwasaki, a man so cool he wears sunglasses indoors, apparently. His best work is probably Kenshin's OVA, or Now & Then, Here & There. But he's also done more bombastic things like TTGL and Jojo pt2. For me though, he will always be the Get Backers guy. Makube X / Awakening and Rage / Bloom
Next was Yoko Kanno. I can't remember which series I heard first, as she's done so much and oft raises the anime above itself, such as with Terror Resonance and that ferris wheel scene vocal track. Shite anime, great OST. Ghost in the Shell SAC had some of her best work but it was probably Bebop as she and Watanabe like working together. The music that stays with me, though, is Wolf's Rain. The 'Shiro' non-vocal track, mainly due to the death-filled OVA finale, but there were also numerous vocal tracks and this probably the best, tho the vocalist takes a lot of credit. Strangers / Shiro, Long Tail's / some other time (GITS SAC)
And then we come to the holy grail of anime music: Death Note. An OST fueled by macabre emptiness and depression (and guitar riffs), that made the series utterly riveting alongside its direction. I dare say it wouldn't be a 10/10 of mine, if not for the music. An 11/10 audio rating if there ever was. Some tracks were only used once, and just about every one outstanding. These tracks - and their titles - speak for themselves: Death Image / Horror / Toward the Climax
And, I nearly forgot Berserk and Kon's composer, Susumu Hirasawa: the man of surreal hell and dreams, made music. He's put out very little anime music yet always created 1 new piece for each Berserk anime. Chiyoko / Run / Guts
I'm too lazy to go through the rest of my history. In recent years though, it's been two composers: Sawano and Ushio. Sawano's music is pulse-pounding, cinema fare obv most famous for Attack Titan. I first came across him in Guilty Crown, which was a terrible anime that sounded a lot better than it was to watch. I really like this recent Gundam Hathaway work, tho, as there was more range than his usually rather limited scope (some 80's throwbacks. some techno-trance) that makes a lot of his music overly familiar. ESIRNUS (different song @2m20) / Tracer / Earth / CC... 12yl
Ushio is a newer, less known composer, and has become my current favu. His strength is in ambient music, such as in Silent Voice where his music was built around a deaf girl, but he's also done anime such as Devilman Crybaby which is the tonal opposite of that. Suffice to say, he has great range. Ryo track sounds like it should be in Hotline Miami. China / Secret, Green, Steps / Buddy, Ryo / Pathetique
...so, yeah. That's me done. Farewell~
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And this ending credits theme from the 5th Garden Sinners movie.
After that, I got into shounen anime, as many a teenage idiot. Naruto had some memorable tracks for sure, but it was a more obscure shounen that introduced me to another amazing composer, only this one has waaaaaaay more range than Kajiura: Taku Iwasaki, a man so cool he wears sunglasses indoors, apparently. His best work is probably Kenshin's OVA, or Now & Then, Here & There. But he's also done more bombastic things like TTGL and Jojo pt2. For me though, he will always be the Get Backers guy. Makube X / Awakening and Rage / Bloom
Next was Yoko Kanno. I can't remember which series I heard first, as she's done so much and oft raises the anime above itself, such as with Terror Resonance and that ferris wheel scene vocal track. Shite anime, great OST. Ghost in the Shell SAC had some of her best work but it was probably Bebop as she and Watanabe like working together. The music that stays with me, though, is Wolf's Rain. The 'Shiro' non-vocal track, mainly due to the death-filled OVA finale, but there were also numerous vocal tracks and this probably the best, tho the vocalist takes a lot of credit. Strangers / Shiro, Long Tail's / some other time (GITS SAC)
And then we come to the holy grail of anime music: Death Note. An OST fueled by macabre emptiness and depression (and guitar riffs), that made the series utterly riveting alongside its direction. I dare say it wouldn't be a 10/10 of mine, if not for the music. An 11/10 audio rating if there ever was. Some tracks were only used once, and just about every one outstanding. These tracks - and their titles - speak for themselves: Death Image / Horror / Toward the Climax
And, I nearly forgot Berserk and Kon's composer, Susumu Hirasawa: the man of surreal hell and dreams, made music. He's put out very little anime music yet always created 1 new piece for each Berserk anime. Chiyoko / Run / Guts
I'm too lazy to go through the rest of my history. In recent years though, it's been two composers: Sawano and Ushio. Sawano's music is pulse-pounding, cinema fare obv most famous for Attack Titan. I first came across him in Guilty Crown, which was a terrible anime that sounded a lot better than it was to watch. I really like this recent Gundam Hathaway work, tho, as there was more range than his usually rather limited scope (some 80's throwbacks. some techno-trance) that makes a lot of his music overly familiar. ESIRNUS (different song @2m20) / Tracer / Earth / CC... 12yl
Ushio is a newer, less known composer, and has become my current favu. His strength is in ambient music, such as in Silent Voice where his music was built around a deaf girl, but he's also done anime such as Devilman Crybaby which is the tonal opposite of that. Suffice to say, he has great range. Ryo track sounds like it should be in Hotline Miami. China / Secret, Green, Steps / Buddy, Ryo / Pathetique
...so, yeah. That's me done. Farewell~
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I like a fair bit of stuff by virtually every composer mentioned so far by others as well 
