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Kentarō Haneda

Kentarō Haneda

Japanese pianist, composer and arranger


Kentarō Haneda (羽田 健太郎, Haneda Kentarō, January 12, 1949 – June 2, 2007) was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger. He composed for popular anime series, movies and video games. His popular name was Haneken.

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Biography

Haneda was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, he taught as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music. He was best known as the composer of Wizardry—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

Game soundtracks

Live-action TV

Live-action movies


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