Anime Music
COMPOSERS | MOVIES/SERIES | SOUNDTRACKS/CDs
Music for Japanese animations (anime) is not as different from "normal"
film music as someone might expect. The same way anime movies were
originally inspired by western animation (mainly Disney), anime music is
inspired by western music - but Japan, being so rich in history and
culture, didn't just copycat the western style, but developed the
original cartoon into many other genres. The same is true about scores
for these movies - you can find real musical jewels among them,
unfortunately overlooked by most of soundtrack listeners.
Nevertheless, anime scores do have many devoted listeners in the ranks
of anime fans - there are even more people interested in anime
soundtracks among anime fans than people interested in "common"
soundtracks among "common" movies fans. But only few of them are enough
"soundtrack-educated" to know the score composers by their names...
related information is very sparse on the internet, and only a few web
databases actually care about the authors of the music.... later on this
page are links to some sites that I find useful and interesting.
Purpose of this section is to create a database of composers and
released anime music that can help anyone to find some information about
their favorite soundtracks and composers.
Links
- Studio Neko-Han-Ten Anime/Manga CD Guide
- AniDisc: Anime CD Database
- Yet Another Anime CD Cyclopedia
- Soundtrack Collector
- Film Music Search (Reviews)