Hirokazu Tanaka
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Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka (Japanese: 田中宏和 but usually credited in hiragana only, born December 13, 1957) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for creating or co-creating various video games by Nintendo. He is the composer of much the opening theme and ending theme songs used in the Pokémon anime, but he is also currently the president of Creatures, Inc.
Among the many game soundtracks he composed, the most well known include the music of Super Smash Bros., Metroid, EarthBound, Mario Bros., Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, Super Mario Land, Famicom Wars, Dr. Mario, Donkey Kong, Balloon Fight, Kid Icarus, Wrecking Crew, and Gyromite. In addition, he also was instrumental in developing the Game Boy Camera and the Game Boy Printer.
Bibliography of Pokémon Songs
Original series
- Aim to Be a Pokémon Master
- One Hundred Fifty-One
- Meowth's Song
- Fantasy in My Pocket
- Winter Vacation Fan Club
- Colorful Winter Vacation
- Pokémon Ondo
- Type: Wild
- The Rivals
- Riding on Lapras
- OK!
- Meowth's Party
- Exciting Pokémon Relay
- Exciting² Pokémon Relay
- Playism Declaration
- Christmas Eve
- Takeshi's Paradise
- To My Best Friend
- Face Forward Team Rocket!
- Ready Go!
- Pocket-ering Monster-ing
- White Dance
- Santa is Coming Soon!
- A New Oath
Advanced Generation series
- Advance Adventure
- Because the Sky is There
- Polka O Dolka
- Challenger!!
- Full of Summer!!
- Pokémon Symphonic Medley (with Kazumi Mitome)
- Pika Pika Massaichu
- Pokémon Counting Song
- Spurt!
Diamond and Pearl series
Best Wishes series
XY series
External links
- Article on Wikipedia
- Sporadic Vacuum, Tanaka's personal site (Japanese)
- Tanaka's Twitter page (Japanese)
- Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
- Hirokazu Tanaka @ HearJapan
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