Great Anime Composers: Kan Sawada

Aside from Matsuo’s recent DRIFTERS, if there’s one Japanese composer that can truely write like Williams it has to be Kan Sawada. He has a clear sense of drama and an absolute melodic gift. I find the parallels to Mike Verta astounding: Both have Williams as their idol, both dropped out of college, both had a rough path to get the gigs, both can absolutely nail Williams and yet both are not big players despite their talent 🙁

For Dorameon he wrote some of the best Hollywoodesque music since 1995 with incredible cinematic moments. With Moonlight Mile he crafted perhaps the most "authentic" Hollywood SciFi score Japan has ever created. His scores for Yowamushi Pedal are also pretty much Mark Mancina on crack! And his drama scores are full of brilliant romantic moments.

I will never understand why so many Japanese composers like Matsuo, Hamaguchi, Hokoyama and Sawada that have inherited that golden Hollywood gene, are, despite their obvious film scoring abilities, almost never given the opportunity to show what they are made of.

But all pale compared to his work on Doraemon. For years on end he provided a stellar collage of Hollywood’s best moments and he still continues to do so. He has an historical drama this year so I hope he can get the chance to fire the guns. As the next Doraemon collection is quite a long wait ahead I hope for something special to happen. Let him score the next Gundam!!!!

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