is a Japanese guitarist and composer.

Life

He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by

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from the likes of

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, and later the work of

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and

Andy Partridge Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who founded the rock music, rock band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writi ...

. In 1986 he formed the band Tipographica, with

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Naruyoshi Kikuchi and

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pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

Akira Minakami. After four albums, the group disbanded in 1996. In the 90s he formed the instrumental trio MEATOPIA with

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of 4-D mode1 and

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& Osamu Matsumoto. They released one self-titled album under this band in 1993. After providing the soundtrack to ''

Gungrave is a 2002 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Red Entertainment (Sega in North America and Activision in Europe) for the PlayStation 2. ''Gungrave'' follows its main character through a variety of stages on a path of rev ...

'' for

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in 2002, the concept was subsequently developed into an

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series, also scored by Imahori. In addition to scoring the anime series, Imahori composed the music for ''Gungrave's'' 2004 video game sequel '' Gungrave: Overdose'', also for the PS2. He is perhaps best known in the US as the composer of several

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s, primarily ''

Trigun is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow. ''Trigun'' was first serialized in Tokuma Shoten's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Shōnen Captain'' from April 1995 to January 1997, when the magazine ceased ...

'', ''

'' and ''

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'', though he has also contributed tracks to ''

Texhnolyze ''Texhnolyze'' (stylized as ''TEXHNOLYZE'') is a Japanese experimental anime television series animated by Madhouse and directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, with screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka, with original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe and pr ...

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'', and '' Cowboy Bebop''. He has worked with

Yoshida Tatsuya (born 9 January 1961 in Kitakami, Iwate) is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios ...

of Ruins fame, and also with

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as a member of The Seatbelts.

References

External links

Tipographica homepage
(Japanese)

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Life

See also

References

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