Kentaro Haneda dies of cancer at 58

Aw ... Saddening news indeed. His early 80s anime works and VGM compositions/arranges always had a special place in my heart. ;_;

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Originally Posted by eriol33

As a Haneken fanboy, I'm one of the saddest person in the earth today. I appreciate his works highly, even though he's still underappreciated and almost unknown to vgm community (only few people have listened his works I guess)

Hopefully more people will appreciate his ouvre more after his death.

Well, for one I don't think he's that under appreciated by VGM communities, even the non Japanese ones. His work for Wizardry is quite well known, if only for it's orchestral arranges, and his works as an arranger for Falcom are legendary.

Secondly, he was much more of an Anime music composer than a VGM one, when you look at the list of his works. His early 80's anime soundtracks have a cult status in Japan, and are well known by Anime music enthusiasts around the world. Here in France we were lucky to be exposed to his music at an early age since almost all of the 80s animes he composed music for were aired on TV. So yeah, his work got quite a wide exposition, when you think of it.

And again, he was already a living legend in Japan. His work won't be forgotten, don't worry. =)

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I didnt write the French page, but it is indeed using some stuff I translated and put up on my old site a few years back. Looking back, I wouldnt swear it's all that accurate. =s

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Symphony Sorcerian, Symphony Ys and a few minor others. Best Falcom orchestral renditions, in my opinion. He had that epic yet groovy touch that a few other anime composers from the 70ies/early 80ies have.

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