Kentarō Haneda

Kentarō Haneda (羽田 健太郎, Haneda Kentarō, January 12, 1949 – June 2, 2007) was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger of popular anime and movies and video game music as well. His popular name was Haneken.

Biography

Haneda was born in Tokyo, Japan. He taught as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music. He graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He was best known as composer of Wizardry music which was ported to NES and SNES console by Ascii at early 1990, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross series, Barefoot Gen, Ys Symphony, Symphony Sorcerian and Genso Suikoden Ongaku-shu.

He died of liver cancer on June 2, 2007 at the age of 58.

Selected works

Anime soundtracks

• Treasure Island (Takarajima) (1978)
• Space Warrior Baldios (1980)
• Manga Mito Kōmon (1981)
• Thunderbirds 2086 (Scientific Rescue Team Technovoyager) (1982)
• Space Cobra (1982)
• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)
• Super Dimension Century Orguss (1983)
• Final Yamato (film, 1983)
• Barefoot Gen (film, 1983)
• God Mazinger (1984)
• Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (TV movie, 1984)
• Macross: Do You Remember Love? (film, 1984)
• Sherlock Hound (1984)
• Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (film, 1985)
• Onegai! Samia Don (1985)
• Metal Armor Dragonar (1987, with Toshiyuki Watanabe)
• Project A-ko 4: FINAL (OAV, 1989)
• Oniisama e... (1991)
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King (film, 2000)

Game soundtracks

• Wizardry series (Famicom and Super Famicom ports)
• Suikoden

Live-Action TV

• Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger (2003)

External links

• Kentarō Haneda Homepage
• Kentarō Haneda at Soundtrackcollector.com
• Adventurer's Inn, Wizardry Music Doujinshi Fansite
• Haneken CD Introduction Page
• Discography of Kentarō Haneda at Raborak
• Space Battleship Yamato CD Set Review and Information
• Pianist Kentaro Haneda dies of cancer at 58