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^ "Hardcore Gaming 101: Sakura Taisen".^ a b c d e f g h i "Kohei Tanaka profile".^ "EYCA-12666~7 | ONE PIECE STAMPEDE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb".^ "Grendizer U TV Anime Revealed for Debut in 2024".^ "Bushiroad, Sumzap, Drecom Unveil D_Cide Traumerei Project With Game, TV Anime".^ "New Kaiketsu Zorori Anime Reveals Cast, Theme Songs, April 5 Premiere".^ "New Sakura Wars Game Gets TV Anime in 2020".^ "Assassination Classroom Anime Cast Sings Opening Theme".^ "Full Metal Panic's Gatoh Writes Kyoto Animation's Hyoka".^ a b "Megumi Hayashibara Stars in Kaiketsu Zorori Trailer".^ a b "One Piece's Tanaka & Romancing SaGa's Itō Hold Joint Concert".Archived from the original on December 5, 2006. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "More Acen Guests".Kaiketsu Zorori: Mamoru ze! Kyouryuu no Tamago Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe! With Shiro Hamaguchi, Fuminori Iwasaki, Minoru Mauro, Kazuhiko SawaguchiĮpisode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Cherry Blossom One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori Sakura Wars: The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossomsĭemon Capital with Kazuhiko Sawaguchi and Keiji Iuchi Madō King Granzort: The Final Magical Battle " Makafushigi Adventure!", " Romantic Ageru yo" On July 4, he released his first solo album called Kokorone song 1st. On February 14, 2008, he opened an official website and announced his intention to work also as a singer in the future. His discussions with Toshio Okada and Hiroshi Yamamoto about anime, originally published in the hm3 voice acting magazine, have been republished in book form. He hosted the Dai Anime Hakurankai radio show on Tokai Radio together with the voice actress Konami Yoshida from April 1993 to September 1994. He also handled the composition of Diebuster, a sequel series of Gunbuster, and showed a peculiar arrangement to his own work 17 years ago.
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. 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. 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. Tanaka was a student at Berklee College of Music.
He has created numerous musical scores for anime television series, OVAs, films, video games and tokusatsu series including Gunbuster, Sakura Wars and One Piece. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine. Kohei Tanaka ( Japanese: 田中 公平, Hepburn: Tanaka Kōhei, born February 14, 1954) is a Japanese composer, arranger, conductor and singer-songwriter.